Although there are a lot of different tasks, the essence of our work is simple: Everyone is Holy Company, every place is Holy Ground, and every act is Sacred Practice.

Practically speaking, that means licking a stamp, cleaning, washing dishes, arranging and organizing the storage room, making sandwiches, and packing harm reduction kits, are as genuinely important as passing , out sandwiches and talking to people. Really. There is a subtle power that enhances the effectiveness of all our work if we stay focused, with simple mindfulness and sincerity in every task.

We invite you to experience this process for yourself by working as we do, focused on the work at hand. Don't gossip and chat with others who are volunteering but concentrate on the work at hand in silence when there are no kids present or concentrate on the kids when they are present. Be totally present, leave your other world behind. Offer a quick blessing of lovingkindness as you make sandwiches to each person who will eat them. These sandwiches will feed real people and provide nourishment. When packing harm reduction kits do the same remembering that you are saving lives of the one's who will receive them. Offer the same silent blessing to people as they enter for they are Christ in our midst.

River discusses plans for the upcoming street services in Hemlock Alley with Thom an intern serving Temenos.

Whatever your duties here, please do them impeccably, and with respect. Please be punctual and reliable, for when you are !ate you are stealing other people's time and the work suffers.

This whole place is about "Life as a Sacred Practice". We invite you to discover the same joy, peace, and magic from this Yoga as we have. Please keep lines of communication between us wide open if you have any difficulty understanding or practicing this point of view. Our effectiveness rises or falls on the integrity and humility of each of us.