Hosts & Spirit
Your Hosts
Sat Sarbat
Sat Sarbat has always been a lover of nature. She learned very early to appreciate and respect all lives.
She encountered Kundalini Yoga in 1999 after an intense, adventurous, full, rich, and challenging phase of life. The teachings opened a door for her, and she committed generously, without hesitation and reservation, to this new path. She studied with devotion all that was available: Sat Nam Rasayan, Numerology, Yoga for Children, and Conscious Pregnancy.
Later, and over the years, driven by the desire to gain tools for every possible need and request, Sat Sarbat has kept exploring and seeking certification in several other techniques for self-development (among others: Gurdjieff’s Movements, Grief Recovery, Hellinger’s family constellations, P. Levine’s Somatic Experiencing and Healing Trauma, James French’s Trust Technique, and hypnotherapy at the Cornwall School of Hypnotherapy).
However, she never forgot the simplicity of nature to which she always longed. Her dream was to settle in nature, which became true in 2022 at the Oasis of Being.
Sat Sarbat can touch by making spiritual teachings accessible and resonating in one’s life. She exudes an unconditional love that allows masks to dissolve with grace.
With the help of a healing and quiet environment, she hopes to keep serving all those who wish to discover themselves, upgrade the quality of their lives through increased awareness, and overcome their self-sabotaging patterns.
Satmukh
Yoga & nature are pillars in Satmukh’s life. Settling down in the Oasis of Being allowed Satmukh to reconnect. Even a simple thing, such as being in touch with the seasons, was impossible while traveling in different climate zones and hemispheres.
Living in the mountains was an old dream. It has required Satmukh to learn new skills and to be confronted in unknown ways, realizing how community is necessary in such an environment.
A healthy lifestyle is more accessible, with regular walks, cycling and skiing in the mountains, local food, gardening, chopping wood, Ishnaan in natural cold water, contemplation of nature, and meditation in the silence of the mountains…
In his twenties, Satmukh traveled the world to search for Permaculture. This journey started in Australia in 1998, where permaculture was born, and continued in Europe until 2003. Satmukh was deeply inspired by this holistic view of nature and human activities to disturb the least natural order while honouring our different needs.
After 2003, deeply inspired by the teachings of Kundalini Yoga and Sat Nam Rasayan, Satmukh has traveled worldwide for over 15 years to share them and instil a sense of community and service. Today, he teaches online and mainly in Europe face-to-face. In 2012, he and Sat Sarbat founded the Ajai Alai Awakening school.
Satmukh is also passionate about Tantric numerology, children’s development, and how to teach Kundalini Yoga to children, as well as Somatic Movements & restorative yoga for trauma. Agni, the fire, has always had a central place in his teachings of transformation and discernment. He also studied Gurdjieff’s Sacred Dances and Sufism and Felicitas Godman’s Shamanic Ritual Postures.
Joy
Life at the Oasis of Being would not be the same without Joy.
She brings sweetness and laughter. She friendly and happily follows those who go for a walk.
We met Joy in the summer of 2021 when she was one year old and brought to a kennel after her owner went to prison. She is a faithful and gentle little dog whose goal is to be with us as much as possible, often just sleeping in Satmukh’s lap while he works (Satmukh’s is more comfortable than Sat Sarbat’s, and she discovered that quickly!)
Our Spirit
Oasis : a small fertile or green area in a desert region, usually having a spring or well OR something serving as a refuge, relief, or pleasant change from what is usual, annoying, and difficult.
Our Goals
- Promoting a simple, respectful, & healthy lifestyle,
- Recognizing the sacredness in nature by listening & contemplating,
- Offering a place to be & to reconnect to our deepest nature,
- Being a place where people feel welcome and are accepted for who they are,
- Developing Aquarian communities rooted in conscious individuals & excellence.
Hukam, Our Inspiration!
Hukam is a guidance taken from the Holy Book called Siri Guru Granth Sahib. This book gathers the wisdom in form of poetry of Sufi, Muslim, Hindu and Sikh masters and gurus. We asked for guidance in 2022 while we were meditating on the direction to give to our project. This Hukam (message) is from Guru Ram Das, the fourth Guru of the Sikh tradition.
“Nanak has found peace, meditating on the Divine, O my soul; the Divine is the Destroyer of all pain. ||1||
Blessed, blessed is that tongue, O my soul, which sings the Glorious Praises of the Divine God. Sublime and splendid are those ears, O my soul, which listen to the Kirtan of the Divine’s Praises.
Sublime, pure and pious is that head, O my soul, which falls at the Guru’s Feet. Nanak is a sacrifice to that Guru, O my soul; the Guru has placed the Name of the Divine, Har, Har, in my mind. ||2||
Blessed and approved are those eyes, O my soul, which gaze upon the Holy True Guru. Sacred and sanctified are those hands, O my soul, which write the Praises of the Divine, Har, Har.
I worship continually the feet of that humble being, O my soul, who walks on the Path of Dharma – the intuitive path of faithfulness. Nanak is a sacrifice to those, O my soul, who hear of the Divine, and believe in the Divine’s Name. ||3||
The earth, the underworld, and the Akaashic ethers, O my soul, all meditate on the Name of the Divine, Har, Har. Wind, water and fire, O my soul, continually sing the Praises of the Divine, Har, Har, Har.
The woods, the meadows and the whole world, O my soul, chant with their mouths the Divine’s Name, and meditate on the Divine.
O Nanak, one who, as Gurmukh, focuses his consciousness on the Divine’s devotional worship – O my soul, he is robed in honour in the Court of the Divine.” ||4||
