2022 s.E.V.A. classes
The School of Environmental and Vocational Arts is a private, nonprofit educational center situated on fifty acres of land in the heart of the Catskill Mountains of New York State. Our campus is set among beautiful natural forests, herb gardens, waterfalls and wildflower meadows. SEVA honors a relationship of integrity with our environment and offers a wide array of programs and workshops that cultivate wholeness and well-being. Our workshops this year are in Complementary Healing Therapies, Art and Creativity, the teachings of Indigenous American Traditions, as well as classes in Meditation and Yoga, and Vegetarian Cooking.
SEVA follows New York State regulations for Covid. We are able to reopen our campus for classes this season. However, if New York State re-institutes restrictions and we must close, we will happily refund any registration fees.
SEVA is a drug-free, alcohol-free, nonsmoking campus that offers classes to all regardless of race, color,
gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, age, or disabilities.
For more information about any of the classes,
email sevaprograms@gmail.com or call 607-538-1130.
You can register and pay for any of the classes at the bottom of this page.
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Tuesday, 7:30–9pm EDT ~ $20
Learn how to take herbs, their appropriate safety, dosage, and frequency. We will also discuss the traditional uses of the herbs.
Arielle Hayat is a clinical herbalist with 3 years of intensive training from Arbor Vitae School of Traditional Herbalism in New York City. She has worked as an herbalist for six years of clinical work, in addition to completing a 2½ year herbal apprenticeship focusing on the Six Steps of Healing of the Wise Woman Tradition under mentor Lata Kennedy.
Arielle’s education in natural plant medicine focuses on the world’s most profound natural healing traditions. She believes that the remedy for virtually any ailment and health complaint is within our grasp amongst the natural world.
You will be sent the Zoom link once we receive notice of your payment.
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Saturday, 1–4pm EDT ~ $22-$44 ~ SEVA Auditorium
Do you remember your magic? Since the dawn of time, women have cultivated a sacred relationship to the elements. From plants, we learn to heal and connect deeper with Spirit.
Together we will restore our feelings of protection and confidence and experience ourselves as passionate beings of beauty. Sabrina will teach us to connect with the medicine of a certain plant, because they are here to guide us on a path of healing.
Are you ready to cultivate a spiritual relationship with plants to amplify your creativity and prosperity? Please bring your journal, pen, tea, and intention.
Sessions are 90 minutes.
Sabrina Vedete Elmaliah, M.A., is the Founder of Sacred Lotus Yoni Steam, an herbal wellness modality. A published writer, Sabrina shares the benefits of ancient women's medicine traditions, dance, and nature therapy.
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Saturday, 2:30–5pm EDT ~ $40 ~ SEVA Auditorium
Vibrations emanating from Singing Bowls have a soothing effect on the body/mind/soul of receptive organisms. People, dogs, cats, plants, and more resonate and react to the beautiful tones that can be produced by striking or circling various sized bowls. Ken will give an introduction to the background of Tibetan bowls, followed by a demonstration on how to use them for relaxation and invoking one’s own natural healing systems.
Ken will demonstrate many ways to apply the bowls on or around the body, with and without water – with a musical demonstration using chimes, gongs, and bowls to align the body’s energy meridians.
Ken Langlieb, Ph.D., is a psychologist, musician and naturalist. Ken has taught more than fifty psychology classes for eight colleges and worked as a therapist for seven hospitals. Dr. Langlieb has been in private practice since 1993, specializing in natural treatments for Anxiety and Stress.He has a background in Massage (Swedish/Japanese/Intuitive) and Body-Centered Psychotherapy.
Ken is naturally intuitive, senses energy, and has a love of anything musical. He composes all kinds of music using keyboards and acoustic instruments. Ken has a summer home in Franklin, NY, which is a nature preserve for animals, plants and life both visible and invisible.
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Tuesday, 6:30–8:30pm ~ $20
The Boy Scouts motto “Be Prepared” reminds us to be ready for daily survival as well as difficult life challenges. Like the Boy Scouts, the time to learn survival techniques is before we need them. We usually think of physical preparedness as having a week’s worth of food and water for emergencies. Sometimes when we watch the news we worry about the future.
Mental Preparedness means being ready for anything that is presented in our lives. What if you could actually be empowered by any challenge? This workshop will look at ways that well-known people, and people with difficult challenges, viewed their situations, stood up and never gave up—which allowed them to get through impossible situations. The power of awareness, words, faith, hope, and self-care provide new ways to embrace any situation. Leave the workshop with new techniques, new skills… and sharpen what you already know, feeling energized and recharged with a bag of mental tools.
Renée Barchitta, BA [Sociology], MPA, is a former STOP-DWI Coordinator and Educator and a student of the Lessons of Life and The Course In Miracles.
For more information, contact Renée at (607) 326-4169.
You will be sent the Zoom link once we receive notice of your payment.
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Friday, 7pm to Sunday, 2pm ~ $75 Room & Board per day or $150 for the Weekend
The eternal question of “Who am I?” has been pondered and meditated upon throughout humanity’s existence. Let’s explore together and find the answer to this age-old question.
Through meditation, self-inquiry, singing, chanting, and similar spiritual practices, together we will look deeply into ourselves and find our true Self. All are welcome to participate – from beginners to experienced meditators.
Any volunteer help with preparing and serving food and cleaning up is appreciated. All donations beyond room and board to SEVA Foundation are gratefully welcome.
Al Levy, PhD, LCSW, is a certified modern and transpersonal psychoanalyst and psychotherapist in Westport, Connecticut. He specializes in the treatment of mental and emotional disorders of all forms and works with individuals, couples, families, and groups. He has shared meditation techniques since 1974. Al is internationally known for his work in stress reduction, deep relaxation, and meditation. Roseanne Italiano Levy has practiced meditation and self-inquiry since 1975. Roseanne has shared meditation techniques since 1984.
For more information and to register, contact Roseanne and Al at at (203) 451-5558.
This class is also offered September 2–4, 2022.
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Tuesday, 7:30–9pm EDT ~ $20
Join us for a conversation and workshop on how to stock your first aid cabinet with herbal remedies. Learn which herbs are helpful for in-the-moment relief from cold and flu symptoms, digestive issues, insomnia, pain relief, anxiety, open cuts or wounds, allergy symptoms and more!
Arielle Hayat is a clinical herbalist with 3 years of intensive training from Arbor Vitae School of Traditional Herbalism in New York City. She has worked as an herbalist for six years of clinical work, in addition to completing a 2½ year herbal apprenticeship focusing on the Six Steps of Healing of the Wise Woman Tradition under mentor Lata Kennedy.
Arielle’s education in natural plant medicine focuses on the world’s most profound natural healing traditions. She believes that the remedy for virtually any ailment and health complaint is within our grasp amongst the natural world.
You will be sent the Zoom link once we receive notice of your payment.
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Saturday, 1:30–3pm ~ Fee: $30 ~ SEVA Auditorium
Everyone can learn to read the map etched on the palms of their hands. The lines and signs are not there by chance and, when decoded, can lead to great insights and understandings about one’s personality, strengths, and intrinsic challenges. This is not predictive palmistry; it is Hand Analysis.
Come with an open hand and an open mind, and. in 90 minutes you’ll learn how much can be revealed by deciphering what is “hidden“ in plain sight.
Barbara Ellen has been using Hand Analysis for the past 20 years in her counseling practice to help her clients understand their inherited traits and natural gifts. She studied and trained with masters in the field, including Richard Unger, founder of the International Institute of Hand Analysis; Baeth Davis, the “Palm Pilot for the Soul of Your Business”; and Ghanshyam Birlu, Vedic Palmist and founder of the Palmistry Center in Westmont, Quebec.
For more information, contact Barbara at 845-684-5061.
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Saturday, 1–5pm ~ $30 ~ SEVA Campus
Join Marguerite at the SEVA campus for another radical plant identification walk and talk on plant medicine and Nature elementals. Leave with tools to model for your community. Collaboration, gifting and inclusivity is good medicine. At the day’s completion, we’ll join around the fire to honor the sacred, and take part in creating instructions for healing grids, for home hearth, garden, and community by applying plants, trees, and stone medicine.
Marguerite Uhlmann-Bower, R.N. and Clinical Eco Herbalist, is co-founder of Plant Pioneers, a human-plant relations movement. As an eco-radical forager, her focus is on reading the sacred landscape. It is here she’ll respectfully link hands-on traditional ecological knowledge with elements of science, mind, and the unified field in the realm of plants and trees.
For more information, email 3moonsisters@gmail.com or call 607-437-1218.
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Friday, 7pm to Sunday, 2pm ~ $75 Room & Board per day or $150 for the Weekend
The eternal question of “Who am I?” has been pondered and meditated upon throughout humanity’s existence. Let’s explore together and find the answer to this age-old question.
Through meditation, self-inquiry, singing, chanting, and similar spiritual practices, together we will look deeply into ourselves and find our true Self. All are welcome to participate – from beginners to experienced meditators.
Any volunteer help with preparing and serving food and cleaning up is appreciated. All donations beyond room and board to SEVA Foundation are gratefully welcome.
Al Levy, PhD, LCSW, is a certified modern and transpersonal psychoanalyst and psychotherapist in Westport, Connecticut. He specializes in the treatment of mental and emotional disorders of all forms and works with individuals, couples, families, and groups. He has shared meditation techniques since 1974. Al is internationally known for his work in stress reduction, deep relaxation, and meditation. Roseanne Italiano Levy has practiced meditation and self-inquiry since 1975. Roseanne has shared meditation techniques since 1984.
For more information and to register, contact Roseanne and Al at at (203) 451-5558.
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Saturday, 2:30–5pm EDT ~ $40 ~ SEVA Auditorium
Flowing Qi, like flowing rivers, will clean and purify. QiGong benefits health, vitality & happiness. It may reduce pain, fatigue and apathy, and increase joy, strength and health. Learn about balancing your energy, synchronizing your body clock, listening to and trusting yourself. QiGong is movements, breath, diet and emotional awareness. Qi, our life force, wants to flow freely. QiGong turns blocked energy into flowing energy.
Ken Langlieb, Ph.D. [Counseling], is a naturalist, musician, and empath: He is naturally intuitive, senses energy, and has a love of anything musical. Ken has a summer home in Franklin, NY, which is a nature preserve for animals, plants and life both visible and invisible.
*Traditional Chinese Medicine
Seva Foundation, 365 Seva Lane, South Kortright, NY 13842
