As we settled in Innsbruck, we started looking for ways to connect with the community around us. Over a breakfast conversation, an idea came from a relative - why doesn't Sam try teaching yoga at a friend's living room and we figure a way to make it fair for everyone.
Sam started teaching Yoga in the living room of a friend. Everyone seem to have enjoyed the classes and we continued brainstorming for a few weeks about how we could make Sam's Yoga classes worth the time and effort without having to pay for his classes and making it commercial. We slowly settled with this arrangement - people who attend the classes can do one of the three things: 1) They could either give food (vegetables, soups, grains, fruits, and everything edible) or 2) Help us out for a reasonable time in exchange for the classes they attended with a skill that they have, or 3)make a voluntary anonymous donation in a box that was opened only after every few months. No one tracked or monitored who is giving how much and what. It was simply an arrangement everyone thought was reasonable. It was a lot of fun and pleasure to do this. It gave us a way to connect with friends and community, share the skills we have, and find a new source for our food supplies. Along with the vegetables we were getting from the farmer, and the food we were getting in exchange for Sam's Yoga classes, our need to buy groceries from supermarkets reduced significantly.
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