Meet the Loving Awareness Summer Camp team…
Alexander Perry
Kirtan Wallah/ Board Member of Loving Awareness Collective Inc.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.
Alice Raymond-Morse
Art Director/ Board Member of Loving Awareness Collective Inc.
Alice Raymond-Morse is an artist, violinist, and bhakti yoga practitioner whose work weaves together music, mindfulness, and service. She brings a devotional spirit to her violin playing in kirtan, offering sound as a pathway to connection and presence. Deeply inspired by the teachings of Thich Nhat Hanh, Alice integrates mindfulness into both her creative and spiritual life, emphasizing compassion, accessibility, and community care.
Committed to seva, Alice is passionate about creating and organizing welcoming, inclusive spaces where people of all backgrounds can gather, practice, and feel a sense of belonging. Her love of nature finds expression in her work as a gardener, reflecting her reverence for growth, patience, and the rhythms of the earth. As an artist, she explores intuitive and mindfulness based practices, and will be leading an art experience during the retreat that invites participants into creative presence, self discovery and joy.
Alice serves as the Art Director for the Loving Awareness Collective, where she helps design and shape offerings that blend beauty, intention, and heart-centered practice. Through her music, art, and service, she seeks to cultivate spaces of ease, connection, and loving awareness. aliceraymondmorse.com
Luisa Wall
Luisa is a kirtan wallah, photographer, and devoted practitioner on the path of bhakti, known for her radiant energy and unmistakable presence of shakti. A devoted follower of Neem Karoli Baba, she lives and serves from a place of divine love, embodying the spirit of loving awareness in all that she does, whether behind the lens or immersed in chant. Her photography is not merely an art form but a form of darshan--capturing moments of truth, devotion, and connection with a rare sensitivity. In kirtan spaces, her joyful spirit and wholehearted participation uplift and unify communities, creating an atmosphere where hearts naturally open. She approaches every space with humility, devotion, and a readiness to serve, reflecting the essence of seva in action. As a board member of the Loving Awareness Collective, Luisa plays an active role in nurturing and expanding a community rooted in compassion, presence, and spiritual practice. Guided by her devotion and fueled by her boundless energy, she continues to offer herself in service—bringing light, joy, and sacred intention to every path she walks. https://www.luisamatalucciphotography.com
Photographer / Board Member of Loving Awareness Collective Inc. 
Danta Dass
Pranic Healer / Board Member of Loving Awareness Collective Inc.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.
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
Vasu Jon Seskevich
Jon Vasu Seskevich a retired Registered Nurse is a pioneering health professional in holistic healing, mind-body approaches and palliative care. He helped create Duke University Hospital's Stress Management Consult Team in 1989. In his clinical practice, he participated in NIH funded Mantra Meditation research and also had more than 40,000 hospital inpatient consults and taught hundreds of classes with staff. These skills and tools began and were nurtured by his ongoing friendship and mentorship with Ram Dass from 1975-2019.
His ongoing friendship and mentorship with Ram Dass encouraged his nursing education, worked on a number of projects together including traveling to India and Kainchi in 2004 with a small group.
In a letter Ram Dass wrote: “I hope this will serve you Jon, and I really encourage you to keep going with the beautiful things you're doing... In love, Ram Dass”
“Jon Seskevich is clearly reflecting in his life's work the essence of the teachings that I was sharing with the class he took with me. That (18-month) class, which happened only once in these many years, has served to deepen for all of us our commitment to living spirit and to service to others. I am proud to have been part of it, and happy to have had Jon in the class. I consider him a true guru-brother.”
Bibi Lorenzetti
Originally from Italy, Bibi has been teaching for over 10 years and is both an RYT Certified Yoga Instructor and an Authorized Ashtanga Yoga Teacher. Having completed the Advanced A Series under the guidance of Paramaguru R. Sharath Jois, she received his blessing to teach in 2014, at the KPJAYI (Ashtanga Yoga Research Institute) in Mysore, India, where she has spent time, studying and assisting yearly, since 2010. Bibi is also a dedicated student and certified teacher of the Vedic chanting tradition as taught by Shantala Sriramaiah, of Veda Studies.
The Shala Yoga House in NYC was her teaching home before opening her own studio in Newburgh; she’s brought Ashtanga Yoga to Wanderlust Festivals, Wanderlust TV, teacher trainings in Europe, North and Central America.
Bibi believes in the profound intelligence and many benefits of the classical practices of Yoga. Her teaching is rooted in her own disciplined and dedicated practice; her classes guide you to use asana as a tool for deep inner growth, threading breath and movement to cultivate body awareness, steadiness of mind, and a healthy, ease-filled life. Bibi is forever grateful to her teachers and mentors, Kristin Leigh, Barbara Verocchi and Eddie Stern, for how they shaped her experience of yoga and continue to guide her through the ever evolving process.
Bibi has privately taught many high-profile entertainers including Madonna. She intends to share the transformative and healing practice of Yoga with you through accessible, intelligent, and adaptable instruction. https://newburghyogashala.com/
Michael Warren
Michael has been leading kirtan since 2016, offering devotional music as a space for connection, reflection, shared presence, and joy. His approach is shaped by a sincere personal practice and years of exploration across a range of spiritual traditions.
A multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter, Michael weaves together influences from folk, rock, alternative, and pop music into a sound that feels both accessible and heartfelt. His approach to kirtan is less about performance and more about creating an environment where participants can drop in, open up, and look more deeply within themselves.
He leads regular kirtan, sound immersions, and yoga classes throughout New York’s Capital Region, guided by a deep respect for the many paths that lead us back to seeing the Truth of who we are.
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.
“Love all, serve all, feed all”
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/
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