Alexander Perry

Alex Perry leads kirtan inspired by the teachings of Neem Karoli Baba and Ram Dass, and has shared music and mantra in a variety of heart-centered devotional communities. His sound healing with crystal singing bowls has been offered in workshops, retreats, and clinical settings, and his work in stress management brings mindfulness into everyday life. Alex is a Certified Addiction Registered Nurse and a board member of the Loving Awareness Collective, passionate about creating low-barrier, inclusive spaces for community and devotion.

He loves sharing the joy of kirtan and the wisdom of his teachers and soaking in the beauty of the natural world. At this retreat, Alex will be offering kirtan as a practice of connection and remembrance.

Founder & Kirtan Wallah

Alice Raymond-Morse

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Co-Founder / Art Director

 Board Member of Loving Awareness Collective Inc. / Photographer

Luisa Wall

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Without our talented kitchen crew, there would be no summer camp. Many thanks to Shivani, Vikas, Willy, Manish and Danta Dass for preparing and serving delicious and nourishing meals. Thank you for the love and care you share with us all through your food.

Board Member of Loving Awareness Collective Inc./ Pranic Healer and facilitator

Danta Dass

Danta Dass is a Bhakti yogi devoted to the path of loving awareness, rooted in the teachings of Ram Dass and Neem Karoli Baba. His intention is to synthesize diverse spiritual practices into a unified experience of the heart—where devotion, service, and remembrance become one. His path includes the disciplines of Arhatic Yoga and Pranic Healing, through which he has cultivated sensitivity to energy, purification, and inner stillness. These practices are held within a broader devotion to mantra, meditation, and the direct experience of Divine presence in everyday life.

Danta Dass has served in a variety of spiritual and community roles. He is a board member of the Loving Awareness Collective and contributes to the Service Committee of the American Pranic Healers Association. His previous service includes leadership of the LGBTQ+ Satsang at the Love Serve Remember Foundation, Meditation instruction through Parastudy and advisory support for the Smile Together India Foundation.

His life is guided by Seva—selfless service—as a living expression of devotion. Whether through spiritual community, daily work, or simple acts of kindness, he practices returning to the recognition that all aspects of experience are held within the same love.

Vasu Jon Seskevich

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Lisa Rubchinsky

Lisa Rubchinsky is a devotional chanter, composer, yoga practitioner, and student of yoga philosophy and the bhakti path. Her pillars of practice are integrity, truth, and deep listening. Kirtan crossed her path nearly 20 years ago, which felt like a REunion, and she has experienced deep healing through it since.

Lisa wrote her first melody in front of the piano at age 12, but didn’t feel the call to learn the technical side of the instrument. Instead she used her voice to sing her way through the challenges of adolescence behind a closed bedroom door. This small foundation laid the ground for picking up a harmonium and writing mantra melodies that laid dormant on her heart decades later. Most of her initial chanting was done quietly at home, but now she spends as much time as possible diving into the cave of her heart through community Kirtan. Her Kirtan is infused with depth, soul, and a pure love for the divine names. A devotee of Neem Karoli Baba, she humbly offers this practice at his feet.

Kirtan is music for awakening the heart, and a return to the ultimate truth. It is a call and response style community chanting experience and the heartbeat of the Bhakti Yoga tradition, the yoga of love, service, and devotion. It uses ancient mantras and divine names to create sacred sound vibrations that invoke the infinite well within us. The result is peace, joy, tranquility, and connection. https://www.lisarubchinsky.com/‍ ‍

“Love all, serve all, feed all”

Noah Hoffeld

Noah Hoffeld is a musician and meditation teacher known for his soulful cello playing and his deep commitment to Ram Dass’s teachings. He first met Ram Dass on a “Heart to Heart” call, and a decade later, from 2016 until Ram Dass’s passing, he studied with him in person. During a retreat at Ram Dass’s home, Noah met and played with world-renowned chant singer Krishna Das, which led to his becoming an ongoing member of Krishna Das’s band.

A Juilliard graduate, Noah has performed with artists such as Pete Seeger and Natalie Merchant, and appears on Grammy-winning and Billboard #1 albums. His work also includes film contributions such as The Skeleton Twins (starring Kristen Wiig and Bill Hader), as well as collaborative projects including Bodhiheart and Genoa Strings (with Genevieve Walker of Krishna Das’s band). His work as a producer includes Anubhav by Nina Rao and his own album of songs Mobile Home, coproduced with Mark Plati (Bowie, Prince, etc).

Wishing to pay it forward, Noah shares the heart-centered wisdom of his mentor Ram Dass with groups and individuals, along with the practices that help us to live in loving awareness. He is the author of the upcoming book, Living the Teachings of Ram Dass.

@noahhoffeld. livingthepath.com

Michael Warren

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