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I dunno. I mean, don't some martial arts dojos at least somewhat depend on a lot helpfulness/volunteering of its members?
For example, when I was taking Aikido, a standard thing we'd do when we finished was that all of us would clean up the mat, for example. Also several of us did various other things around the dojo. And I don't think any of us thought of it in terms of "saving our souls".
So I'd say that particular obstacle isn't as much of a problem, we'd just need to set up the right sort of social standards/expectations for it. There may potentially be other barriers, however.
Most of that is done to foster a sense of community or to instill humility and discipline, not for its value as labor. The vast majority of the productive labor that goes into running most dojos is performed by instructors and senior students.
This applies to churches too, of course; shared labor is very good at building a sense of community, and church organizers know that. It also has applications to the donating time/donating money dichotomy that pops up periodically in the threads here on charitable donation.
Fair enough, although overall I got the impression that it was a combination of both. But, even so, even if it's mostly just a "instill humility and discipline" thing, it still was possible to set up standards where we'd do that sort of thing. So to the extent that these sorts of things really do depend on volunteer labor, it should be possible to arrange.
Heck, given that the goal is to have that sort of sense of community, one could explicitly state that as a reason to get people to join in on the work.