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Shunyamurti is the founder and research director of the Sat Yoga Institute, headquartered in Costa Rica. The institute's mission is to accelerate the transformation of human consciousness and contribute to the spiritual and cultural renaissance that is fermenting now on our planet. Shunyamurti was inspired to lead such an effort as a result of his own inner work that has led to attunement with the ultimate source of consciousness.
Shunyamurti's spiritual path has been wide-ranging and profound. It has included many years of Yogic training, in diverse forms of Yoga, including five years of intensive practice of classical Ashtanga Yoga followed by ten years spent in a formal Raja Yoga monastic order, and many more years of meditative practice in diverse spiritual traditions. He has also deeply studied and then practiced numerous other transformational disciplines, from shamanism and subtle energy work to various schools of psychology, psychotherapy, hypnotherapy, bodywork, dreamwork, and psychoanalysis.
In 2001, Shunyamurti received another vision, to build an "ark" to survive the cataclysms of a world in chaos. SYI was designed to be an advanced spiritual school and ultimately a self-sustaining creative eco-community that could serve as a transitional medium to bring humans from the present state of ego-consciousness to the next state, that of full Self-realization and reintegration with the Cosmic Intelligence. He foresaw that Costa Rica would become a major center of the new global culture of peace. Thus was the Sat Yoga Institute & Community conceived. |
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 Radha obtained her Bachelor´s degree in International Studies at the School of International Training at Vermont and earned her Master´s degree in Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the University of New York. She began her career as a specialist in rural development thanks to her passion for the improvement of humanity, and the simplicity and harmony she discovered in rural traditions. In 1996 she commenced her formal studies with the teacher and psychoanalyst Shunyamurti. After several years of deep studying, disciplined service, and an authentic dedication, she is now the first Atmanologist (Sat Yoga spiritual guide and analyst) trained by Shunyamurti. She functions now as co-director of the Sat Yoga Institute, teacher of spiritual studies, and culinary instructor in international and vegetarian gourmet cuisine. She is in the process of publishing her first gourmet cookbook, combining vegetarian, alkaline, raw, and vegan diets, with traditional Costa Rican food; she is also dedicated to develop and express her talent and potential for devotional singing.
Radha is one of the most creative and popular vegetarian chefs in Costa Rica. She is the founder of Radha's Kitchen, a cooking school that is part of the family of Sat Yoga transformational enterprises, and the official caterer for Sat Yoga gatherings and formal events. We plan to build a Radha's Kitchen Restaurant in the eco-village. |
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 Tamara was born in San José, Costa Rica, and spent part of her childhood in Turrialba where her father worked for CATIE (Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza). She also resided for several years abroad in France and Sweden, while she completed her last years of high school. She studied biology at UCR followed by Tourism at CUC (Colegio Universitario de Cartago) where she graduated in 1981. She completed her career with a bachelor in tourism marketing at Webber College, Florida.
She had the opportunity to work for a global network organization dedicated to student and youth tourism in the travel agency OTEC during the first years of her career. After that, she founded with her partner Ana Margarita Forero, a travel agency called Horizontes, which was dedicated to promote ecotourism and became the leading agency of Costa Rica. In the following 25 years Tamara participated actively in the tourism field where she served as an executive and committee board member of several associations of the tourism sector (ACOPROT, CANATUR, CANAECO, EXPOTUR); she was also the director of the EDUCATUR foundation for tourism education. During these years, she participated in many occasions as a conference speaker in several national and international forums on topics of ecotourism, sustainable tourism, as well as Costa Rica´s marketing as an ecofriendly destination.
She also actively contributed in the environmental field, participating in several fund raising and nature conservancy projects, environmental education as well as representing Costa Rica in different national and international events. She was an active member for several years in the assembly MARVIVA (for ocean protection) and INBIO (Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad). She has been awarded several prizes by several organizations including the Tourism institute, the Tourism Journalist Association, the El Financiero Newspaper and the Rainforest Alliance for her efforts in the promotion of Costa Rica as a tourism destination and environmental practices needed for sustainable tourism development.
In May 2008, she sold her company to be fully dedicated to the project of spiritual transformation, through formal studies at the Sat Yoga Institute, focusing all her efforts to ego transcendence and attainment of liberation. She is actively involved in helping create a spiritual retreat center and ashram, as well as an eco-village in the valley of río Savegre, near San Isidro del General. Her greatest purpose is to contribute to raise the level of consciousness of our society so we can live in a world of peace, love, and in total harmony with nature. |
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 T ogether, Jagdish and Marjiva founded Costa Rica Entomological Supply in 1983, Latin America's first commercial butterfly farm and in 1990, The Butterfly Farm, the first live-butterfly exhibit in the region. Natives of the United States and Portugal respectively, Jagdish arrived to Costa Rica straight out of college as a Peace Corps volunteer while Marjiva came to complete her master's thesis in International Development. In the succeeding 27 years their businesses have flourished and served as inspiration for many entomologically-minded entrepreneurs. Their story is an INCAE Business School case study whereby an impossible vision as measured by all the traditional means (cash flow, available capital, knowledge, market, existing legislation, etc.) was nutured over decades into a reality that came to employ hundreds of Costa Rican families and generate significant foreign revenues for the country. In 2008 CRES was recognized by the Harvard Business School as a leading example of social enterprise in Latin America.
Having devoted the early part of their careers understanding the scientific and commercial realm of butterflies, today they are focused on embodying its metaphysical and symbolic teaching, understandings that have been understood for thousands of years but all but forgotten today. |
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 Sat is a founding member of the Sat Yoga Spiritual Association. He began his studies as a business student in 2005, but soon was called to the path of spiritual monasticism and community development, in service of a higher consciousness, with the intention to help heal our world from its current fallen conditions.
Sat is an active karma yogi with great motivation to contribute to the wellbeing of our planet and the sattvic expression of our sacred Oneness. A few of his main karma yoga interests are: ongoing research on sustainable, altenative and traditional water systems, natural building (earthbags!), alternative/sustainable solutions in general, website management, discipleship and leadership, and in general, a truthful commitment of ceaseless service to the community (Sangha). |
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