Alternatives
Central to Ashram has been a search for alternatives:
- Alternative ways of living
- Alternative work
- Alternative worship
- Alternative theology
Many of these are dealt with elsewhere on this site. Alternative ways of living have included community houses and also looser community arrangements covered by the term 'walking distance communities'.
Alternative work includes both organised projects such as the Ashram Community Service Project in Birmingham (until early 1997), Ashram Community Volunteers, fair trading ventures - such as 'New Roots' in Sheffield, as well as many individual actions.
Alternative theology and alternative worhip are to be found all over Ashram, but in particulary in Community Worship.
One aspect of our alternative lifestyle has been food - which led us to publish an Ashram Cookbook. Many but not all members are vegetarian, and food at all Ashram events is vegetarian.