Luca Basto

My Journey

Since childhood, I felt that my path would not be a conventional one.

My childhood was spent among street markets alongside my parents. Surrounded by people, emotions, difficulties, and the endless nuances of human nature, I learned very early to observe expressions, listen to silence, and perceive what is often left unspoken.

Over time, I felt the need to step away from an ordinary life in search of deeper answers.

I left Sardinia as a street artist, dancing and playing the guitar, allowing travel to become my teacher. I lived intense experiences, moments of great freedom, but also profound challenges, learning to trust life and Nature.

I crossed countries, deserts, mountains, and silence. I travelled through Morocco, Mauritania, Senegal, Syria, Jordan, Spain, and Portugal. Some places taught me simplicity, others survival, and others the meaning of solitude.

For long periods, I chose to live immersed in Nature, exploring fasting, silence, deep listening to the body, and paths of inner purification. I experienced moments of extreme simplicity, learning how little human beings truly need when they rediscover an authentic dialogue with themselves and with the world around them.

Over time, I observed something simple yet powerful: our organism possesses a profound wisdom. A force often forgotten, which can emerge when we truly learn to listen to our body, mind, and spirit.

For more than thirty years, I have studied, observed, and explored the relationship between Nature, health, movement, energy, and inner healing.

I do not consider myself a master, nor someone who holds absolute truths. I see myself rather as a seeker of life — someone who has chosen to learn through the direct observation of Nature, the human body, and lived experience.

The Art of Self-Healing was born from this very journey.

From the sincere desire to share a vision of health and life that does not arise from fear, but from trust in the profound intelligence that lives within each one of us.

Since 2016, I have been travelling across West Africa together with my partner, Francesca Senes, developing an increasingly deep connection with Senegal — a land that, over time, has become for us a place of the heart and vision.

It was here that one of the most important dreams of our lives began to take shape: The Oasis of the Little Warriors of Light.

A project born from a simple yet profound question:

What kind of future can we create if we do not first learn to protect the light within children?

Today, we work together to bring this mission to life, with the sincere desire to explore new educational possibilities in one of the most authentic and vibrant places on Earth: Africa, in Senegal.

We believe that, in order to give hope to the future, we must first offer hope, listening, and opportunities for growth to children through healthy, natural, and deeply human environments — spaces capable of protecting what is most precious within every human being: their innate light.

The Oasis of the Little Warriors of Light was born as a place of learning rooted in the freedom of the child.

A space where every child can grow through freely experiencing the arts of living: movement, music, craftsmanship, nature, listening, creativity, relationships, caring for the Earth, and caring for oneself.

Literally: an Oasis.

A place that offers much, yet imposes nothing.

A place where mentors do not teach from above, but live and share their art alongside the children, allowing natural curiosity to guide learning.

An environment of protection, welcome, and freedom — created to nourish trust, belonging, and wonder.

A place where every child can feel welcomed, respected, and free to become who they truly are.

Because we believe that education does not mean filling a human being with information, but rather protecting and nurturing the light that already lives within them.

Francesca Senes