Samasati started with four people passionate about creating a spiritual oasis — an environmentally protected area, a loving, friendly haven where people of all origins and walks of life could come to rest, rejuvenate, and reestablish a healthy connection with nature. The vision started to become reality in December 1994, when 270 acres of the Caribbean rainforest heartland were purchased.The four founders of Samasati and of its parent company Zorba el Budha S.A originate from Italy and Argentina. Their combined visionary acumen; administrative, marketing and construction skills; depth of experience in yoga, holistic therapies and meditation’s practices; and intense desire to create an energy-filled, protected place for solace and reconnection created a formidable team – a group of people fervently committed to seeing the project to completion.

Samasati quickly became an organism, as opposed to an organization. It started as an idea, a “project,” and from the very beginning Samasati took on a life of its own. It became a living entity growing at its own pace, defining its own rules and creating its own very unique character. We, the initiators, builders, owners and promoters of this wonderful creation, found ourselves as instruments of a power greater than our own capabilities, tools of what wanted to manifest in this remote piece of Caribbean rainforest.