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We (Sofia and Ardhan Swatridge my partner), are a land-based business, growing aromatic plants and producing distillations of five varieties of perfumed roses, oregano, helichrysum and lavender, as well as essential oils of lavender and oregano. We use biological and natural methods both on the land and how we live. All our high-frequency products are shown on our website (https://satya-vita.net/products/), explaining the different uses which include skin care, health and well-being, wedding gifts and confetti, house-hold and culinary. We also produce olives and olive oil and sometimes have surplus vegetables and fruits in season. Hopefully fresh eggs before long too...
I chose the name for the business as Satya-Vita, which means truth-life, Satya coming from the ancient Sanskrit language. However, neither of us ever envisaged how poignant this name would be, given the world's situation now and our stance as 'truthers'.
We have years of experience and a storehouse of knowledge and therapy trainings between us. I can particularly help others with adrenal burn out, mystery illness, psycho-spiritual, individual / ancestral / complex trauma and dietary/anti-microbial issues. My research has gone deep into how to take our healing back into our own hands. As a guardian of this sacred land these last twelve years, it has taught me so much, helped me to come back to more regulation and embodiment, especially when connecting so intensely with the roses and fragrance, and the ferocious spines... for three to four months each year.
In the distilling of the plants, which is an alchemic and truly magical process, we are extracting and preserving the soul of the plant material, in concentrated liquid form. The culmination of my own life journey has a parallel, as it has been about searching for this inner essence within myself, something that is much easier to do, when immersed in such a stunning and natural environment, surrounded by my beloved dogs, cicadas and fire flies. Just as Theresa d'Avila says 'It is foolish to think that we will enter heaven without entering into ourselves'.
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AZIENDA AGRICOLA SATYA-VITA di Sofia Livingstone |
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My mission as a wounded healer and 'trauma-informed midwife' has always been to help others see how they can be gardeners of their own soul, how with inner and outer resources, they can re-invent themselves over and over. Because of my own lived experience and 'dark nights of the soul', spiritual emergency periods, I know that our greatest wounds, these sacred obstacles can and do become the golden treasure and healing medicine, we can offer first to ourself and then to this broken world.
For this reason, we offer tailor made stays for respite and re-charging of batteries, as well as private use of the different facilities such as the group room or caravans/kitchen/pool area, which even has it's own parking. Volunteers and Trusted House-sitter guests who have stayed here many times in the past, always leave more grounded and rested, more connected to the intimate territory of their soul. Olive tree essence is for exhaustion and our land somehow offers incredible healing to all who come.
We have a beautiful, secluded olive farm immersed in nature and you can see all the sacred spaces we have on this land, by checking out the photos section of our website (https://satya-vita.net/photos/). We have a group room with adjacent large kitchen and eating areas that has been used for different gathering and small groups, a talking circle, sauna and there is a wonderful walk in the adjacent, totally private woodland. There are options for about eight to ten people to stay in the two yurts, two caravans and hexagonal pergola.
Given our love of dogs and the wonderfully private land we have, that is totally fenced, we are used to occasionally looking after other people's dogs. As such, we are considering planning to offer dog sitting for people we trust.
We have been in a more contemplative and quiet period these last three years in particular, given the insanity of the world, choosing to do inner shadow and healing work to move away from the matrix, as well as completing many of the land projects we had on our list. From September I'm doing the final edit of my biography to be published in 2024 (https://satya-vita.net/writings/), which has been a huge undertaking and something that hopefully will support others, as they transform their own unresolved trauma into soul power.
This quiet time, has been an important opportunity to self care and distill what it is we are both passionate about offering and at the same time, to discern and build healthy, co-creative community, with other resonant souls who have a shared calling. I would add here as well, those who refuse to wear a mask of any kind and who are truly dedicated to make a stand for freedom and our inalienable human rights.
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Living On The Inside Out
...where less means more
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sofia@21-dc.com |
www.satya-vita.net
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