1 A big warm WELCOME TO OUR 14th YEAR of SANTOSA YOGA CAMP! Santosa (pronounced SAMTOSHA) = happy acceptance of whatever arises, just as it is. OUR 2019 THEME : NEW PARADIGMS FOR SHARING ANCIENT WISDOM pure joy of it, and we hope you will be WELCOME HOME, nourished and delighted by the WELCOME HOME to YOURSELF, connections you make at this special WELCOME to this CIRCLE OF camp. BELONGING - You are WELCOME HERE! SITE AGREEMENT… You’ve arrived at the Mother of all Yoga Camps! JAI MAA! Please appreciate that by purchasing tickets for this camp you are From wherever you have travelled and who bound by the site agreement which asks ever you are: thank you so very much for you to keep the site and yourselves totally being here – every person present makes this free from alcohol and drugs so that we camp special and unique. This is the can maintain a space of clearly conscious sixteenth camp…We’ve been offering these kindness for everyone. You are asked to camps since 2005 (there were two in 2010 clear up after yourselves (and your kids!), and 2011), and we are very glad you are to keep your pitches beautiful, and to chip here with us now for the thirteenth year in as necessary with all daily tasks needed anniversary … to keep the site functioning, and everybody safe. Please show up ON TIME This brochure gives you all you need to for your assigned karma yoga make choices about what to attend. The opportunities. map shows you were to find everything, schedule pages set out what’s happening, and DAILY TREATS section tells you our ABOUT WATER AND FIRE… key activities around which the camp revolves. All the standpipes around the site deliver mains water: safe for drinking and Please bear in mind that the schedule is an washing. evolving entity (aren’t we all?) and there are likely to be spontaneous additions, Please use the established delights and shifts as the camp unfolds, so community fire pits and do not break do be sure to attend the morning meeting ground for new fires. to check in with the latest news! Every teacher on the schedule is here for the 2 WE DEEPLY APPRECIATE OUR MOON SISTERS AWESOME SPA FACILITIES… Menstruating women and girls – please There is plentiful hot water up at the put towels, tampons and nappies in the showers, for showering and bathing. bins provided and not down the loos The fires are lit early in the morning, so because they don’t compost very well there is plenty of hot water to go around. (even eco-friendly ones). We also have a lovely sauna staffed by Alternatively, you are welcome to offer our dedicated and devoted Spa Facilities your moon blood to nourish the trees of Team. They are on hand to help you the meadow. Many women find their ENJOY this delightful aspect of the camp! moon blood skips into step with the other sisters in the field – so don’t be PLEASE use only surprised if this happens to you. Community supplies of eco-friendly BIODEGRADABLE SOAP, Natracare pads are available for all who SHAMPOO and CONDITIONER in need them – you will find them in the our showers and at the sinks –available to composting loos that have the disposal buy up at the Spa facilities. bins in. ABOUT MEALS … DELICIOUS! LEAVE ABSOLUTELY NO TRACE … We all eat together, delicious sattvic (pure) vegetarian food prepared in our There is a composting box near fabulous karma yoga kitchen with a most the loos, on the way to the car park. special cook: Her Very Divine Loveliness, Please compost any organic matter. Please DIDI MOON and her team. Be sure to sort other items and bring them home bring your own cutlery, bowls, plates. and with you to recycle. Leave nothing behind wash them up and put them back in your when you depart. tents. PLEASE APPRECIATE THIS ABOUT WEE and POO and LOOS BEAUTEOUS and MOON BLOOD… HEALING FIELD Wild wees are fine – MEADOW We appreciate you offering your liquid gold to the grass and hedges. This is Keep our camp especially handy for children in very urgent need of a pee. clear and clean – We have many beautiful composting take your recycling toilets near the car park under the ash HOME with you… trees. Please put a handful of sawdust over your poo when you finish. Please “there is no accompany small children (up to age six) into the toilets and make sure the toilets waste, only mis- are clean when you leave. placed resources…” 3 4 with your kids what appeals and bring LOVELY NOTES FOR them along! PRECIOUS • please check with the leaders of CHILDREN AND the kids’ activities about what is age THEIR BLESSED appropriate for your child – many are happy to get along with activities whilst PARENTS you go and enjoy a yoga class or workshop, but this is more likely to happen if the activity is right for your child “…for the one who says they tire of their child… there are no • let your child and the workshop flowers!” leader KNOW WHERE YOU ARE at all times HOW TO HAVE OODLES OF FUN • this is a friendly camp so loads of AT SANTOSA YOGA CAMP… people find they get together and can share child care and have their kids be Crucial notes for parents and kids – playmates – then the kids really enjoy you will find the KIDS / TWEENS themselves and TEENS schedule right at the back of this brochure … • wild-weeing into hedges is fine, so long as you don’t piss on someone’s We’d love for you to have a marvellous tent … and fantastic time at our wonderful camp. The camp was set up in 2005 by two • please keep our toilets mothers (Uma Dinsmore-Tuli and beautiful: accompany small children (up Amanda Brown) who wanted to enjoy a to age 6 / 7) into toilets to ensure all goes yoga camp where we could bring our down the hole, sawdust on top. It helps if children along, and know that they would parents are positive about benefits of have plenty of great stuff to do, in the composting loos – this as an opportunity context of a fully conscious and yogic for eco-education! inspired community… over the years we’ve learnt a few things, so here are tips: • NO KIDS in the sauna • we do not operate a crèche: • complimentary hot chocolate your children are your responsibility at all around 1900 in the chai tent for the times. Many of our workshops are family children who are going to listen to stories friendly, especially our Nature – so remember your mug! Connection programme, and the Bhakti and Nidra sessions, and all the song and dance sessions, so do please check with WE ARE ALL ONE BIG FAMILY the workshop leader if you’ d like to ON SITE attend with your child/ren and you could find yourself enjoying activities together! so we mind out for everyone’s kids as if they’re our own! • the GANESHA kids’ tent is a It takes a village to raise a child… fabulous resource, so come and make yourselves at home, so that your kids can enjoy coming to this lovely tent. PLEASE BE SURE TO READ OUR “SAFE SANTOSA STATEMENT” • the Kid’s Captain ELENA has a on the next page brilliant team of volunteer helpers offering lots of activities (see timetable) so choose 5 but making sure they are aware of safety SAFE SANTOSA – issues and ensuring they know where to OUR SAFE SPACE find you: for essential information about bringing children to the camp and how STATEMENT: this works best, please see Keeping our Camp a safe and http://www.santosayogacamp.co.uk/faq/ welcoming Circle of Belonging and click on ‘Kids’. Please everyone do read these Rights: All camp members have the notes, so we can work together right to feel safe, to feel listened to and to safeguard the well-being of all respected. … this is a space of mutual trust, respect and honesty. Santosa is a place of All camp members have a right to flourish acceptance, where everyone can thrive within the camp community, to stay and grow. People flourish here! Let us all healthy within the camp, to feel free to look out for each other. express their identity, individuality and their personal boundaries. We have developed these guidelines to support us all in maintaining the special What if I have an issue with any experience of freedom, trust and of this? If you feel concerned, have a collective responsibility that we can all feeling that doesn’t sit right on your share for the well-being and flourishing of conscience, you feel unsafe, you are every being at this camp. struggling or just need to voice something, please come in the first Responsibilities: instance and speak confidentially to Uma, All camp members have the responsibility Theo, Jess, Angie and Elena our (‘Safe to do what they can to safeguard children, Santosa team’) young people, and vulnerable people. Firstly the team member will hear you, talk to All camp members have the responsibility you to ensure they have understood you, and to behave in a way which is respectful of ask you what action, if any, you feel needs diversity, and is not intentionally or taking. They will then consult with other team unintentionally offensive or members if appropriate, decide whether your concern should be taken further at this stage, discriminatory. and refer on if necessary.