With the help of our Wellness experts, you’ll easily find the natural products you’re looking for to take charge of your own health, beauty and well-being. None of our beauty products are petroleum or synthetic based, many are locally sourced, and all are cruelty free. Our selection of bulk herbs, teas and spices is the largest in Atlanta, including more than 300 different herbs — all at prices other stores can’t beat. And we carry a complete range of minerals, supplements, and packaged teas, plus candles, incense and books.
Hi, my name is Rahn Stevens and I have been the Wellness department (formerly the Herb department) manager since January of 2000.I previously owned my own mom and pop health food store in Stone Mountain called Health N Happiness, which I closed in 1999.
Our Wellness department (it’s yours too!) has always been located in the same part of the store but has gone through several physical changes in an effort to evolve with the need for greater convenience and ease for you, the customer, and for us as well. We sometimes hear from various customers about how we are “always” changing things around. That is an overstatement but we do make changes when one of us realizes that it makes more sense to relocate a particular product or subset of products for greater visibility and/or greater ease of ordering and restocking.
In our last reset we inherited most of the General Merchandise department, which includes Incense, Candles, and Books. The other 6,000 items we carry are divided into Health and Beauty Care (HBC); Packaged Herbs (any supplement that is purely herbal or is derived from whole food, so food-based); Vitamins and Minerals, which are not whole food based; and last but not least, Bulk Herbs. We presently offer over three hundred herbs and spices from all over the world in their raw and dried form. According to our major supplier we buy more herbs and spices from them than any other store in the country. Our bulk section allows you to bag your own selection with whatever quantity you want and you are charged by the ounce.
Sevananda’s literal meaning is Service is Bliss and has evolved to The Joy of Service. We do what ever we can in order for you to purchase exactly what you want and need. Our assistance usually comes in the form of showing you where you can find what you’re looking for. Some of you actually don’t know all that you need so you tell us about your symptoms hoping that we can match the supplement with the symptoms. That, however, is a slippery slope because the FDA frowns upon people in our position who do this or make claims about how a particular supplement heals this or that. The FDA calls this Practicing Medicine without a License. Believe it or not, people have been either warned or arrested for doing this. This gives you some insight into why we may seemingly skirt around giving a direct answer to a direct question and instead show you the many reference books we have and internet access so you can come to your own conclusions. We REALLY are not being rude or evasive.
We do not want people to perpetuate the Quick Fix syndrome that so many in our medicated society believe in. Health and Illness both take effort. Our wellness is dependent upon a combination of related aspects. Food choices, rest, water intake as well as the kind of water, exercise, mental, emotional and spiritual choices, as well as supplements are a much more holistically correct way for greater control over the outcomes. We are not the Jetsons.
With sickness care becoming more expensive, more and more people are looking for a more natural alternative that is less expensive as well. We invite and welcome anyone who is interested in becoming or maintaining a healthy and therefore happy state of being. Everyone can shop and anyone can join.
Words of Wellness
By: Doug Keller
Welcome to our brand new website! We’re very excited about the opportunity to connect with everyone via these new monthly department blogs and here’s our first one, written by Doug Keller, better known as our herb-wrangler. Doug’s been here over three years and you can find him most evenings helping people with a smile.
Hello September! We can finally start to see the end of this very hot summer approaching, and your children are back in school. You bought them some clothes and school supplies such as pens, pencils, and paper in preparation for the new school year. You have them outfitted on the outside. What you might not have thought about though is have you outfitted them on the inside?
At Sevananda’s Wellness department we have many items available to help your child through this school year. To start out their day, how about a green supplement? We have one called Greens Today Children’s Formula. It is full of phytonutrient-rich superfoods such as Spirulina. It also provides digestive enzymes to help break down foods, and probiotics which may help the immune system. Seeing how your child will be around lots of other children (and their germs) helping their immune system stay strong can only be a good thing.
On the physical fitness level we carry Minami MorEPA’s chewable vitamin. They taste yummy and they may help with healthy brain function, which is good for study time. Speaking of studying, we also carry other products that may help with focus and attention. We have Solaray’s Focus for Children, Planetary’s Calm Child, and Buried Treasure’s Added Attention. All of these products are formulated to help your child stay focused and help calm them in stressful times. Going back to school certainly qualifies for that, as well as the day-to-day stresses of being a child in today’s busy world. All of these products that I’ve mentioned are on sale for the month of September.
Besides these products, Sevananda has a complete line of vitamins and supplements for your whole family. Come on in and take a look around, you might find something you’ve never noticed before. We have a very knowledgeable staff that is more than happy to help you find what you’re looking for. We hope to see you soon!
*Please be advised that the staff of Sevananda can do no diagnosing or prescribing for existing medical conditions*
