There seems to be a confusion regarding the number and location of MISA owned buildings in Costinesti at least to the outsiders, so here's a little explanation.
There are the following buildings and territories owned and used by MISA in the sumertime that I know of:
the commandament - consisting of one smaller one storied building, a large flat type building (the large 7 storied one with the colored windows at night) called Rai (Heaven) in MISA folclore and a small courtyard all within the same court. This has a multi colored fence around it, you can't miss it.
the so called Shakti vila or the vila of the invited girls (Vila invitatelor in Romanian)- that is on the corner of the street and has a large metal fence surrounding it. This has if I remember correctly 4 stories in total. There is also a courtyard, though not large. In the courtyard there is a summer kitchen where there are also big boxes of tomatoes, potatoes, and other vegetables stored for the use of the girls staying there. There is a stove, electric sandwich maker cutlery available.
Right next to the Shakti vila there is another building that is called Lotus. There is a metal fence between the two buildings although there shouldn't be in my opinion seeing that they both are owned by the same people. But of course the good old MISA mentality makes it's appearance: the two have to be separated because the shakti vila is only for the special shakti's that get invited there, not for the stupid idiots who work from dusk till dawn to run the camp. Nooo. Oh no.
Here is the place where the karma yogis that help run the camp stay. Free of course. You can't miss it it has big solar panels on top. Their purpose is to make warm water for the people who live there. In reality this means about 30 minutes of warm water per day. It's way not enough, many people stay there.
This was also the location of the Indra mantra initiations in 2008 and where the so called Ayurveda medical helpcenter operated also in 2008. About last year I have no idea.
Next to the Lotus vila there is a house owned by someone else, but next to this one (as if you were going toward the see from the corner where the shakti vila is) is yet another MISA owned land. This has a let's say wooden building on it. It's like a small shed. But this land has a different purpose. It is mostly empty but there are some posts and some lines on it. The purpose of this place is to hand the washed clothes of the karma yogis and the shaktis from the shakti vila. The shaktis also have such a contraption in the courtyard of the vila but this is manly used by the staff (karma yogis) for the hanging of especially the bed sheets used in the living areas. If your a karma yogi and you wash your clothes in cold water (as I said warm water in the karma yogi's living area is limited) and by hand (unlike the shaktis from the wila who have a washing service they can give their clothes to for wasdh and thei recieve it back all nice and clean) you can ask for the key of the gate at the guard of the comandament enterance and hang your clothes there to dry.
Diagonally from the shalti vila (the corner of the opposite street) there is a smaller land with nothing on it, not even a fence, that is also owned by MISA as far as I know, because they park their cars there and sometimes there is a karma yogi posted there to watch those cars. This is not for sure though.
The big yellow tent as I like to call it. In MISA folklore it is called the surrounded terrain.
And finally the place where they hold the so called spirals.
Now I don't know about you but to buy all these lands mainly in the center of an expensive holiday spot in Romania where especially the land is expensive and then build these buildings you have to have money. And of course if the construction was done with karma yoga then it's even more dispicable. The current number 2 in MISA Mihai Stoian is renting out rooms in waht he calls the yoga hotel in Costinesti. Now considering that the Romanians consider MISA a cult and it has a pretty bad reputation all around Romania, I don't care how much they are liked (or at least they say that they are liked) in the places they hold their camps (Herculane and Costinesti) I don't think that a MISA independent businessman goes on and builds a hotel especially for the yogis. He would go out of business wery soon, no matter how much the MISA oficials claim that they have over 40000 students worldwide, they can't gather more than 5000 of them in the summertime and that's only for one day at the time of the so called hiatus spiral, and certainly not for the duration of the whole camp (in the begining of the camp all the participants, including the staff, can be fitted into one large room, at the end of the camp the situation is similar, but then they keep them in the tent even if it's the end of August and it's begining to be cold, this is the thanks for their loyalty) and certainly not for the whole summer season on the seashore, that would be required to run a hotel with profit or at least with 0 expense. But of course from this we can conclude that Mr. Stoian is renting out the rooms in the ashram. Ashram that was probably built with karma yoga (aka for free) and for the yogis to live there, not for the personal profit of one Mr. Stoian. And they say that they don't use illegal workforce and that they are a non-profit organization. Not to mention super spiritual people who are not attached to money or any worldly goods, and they TEACH other people this philosophy.
Meals are also included in the ashrams cantina, food that is made by karma yogis and food that is not available to the rest of the participants of the camp, not even for money.
The anouncement on the NATHA site
And part two of the camp that does not have the yoga hotel announcement in it, but I'm a little doubtfull that they didn't keep that part. It's probably secret (with outh on the bible that you will not reveale where you will stay during the camp)
They should put up a big sign on the Rai ashram saying Mihai's yoga hotel.
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