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The Fragrance of JOY Community Offerings
Community, Family, Shared Curiosity, Willingness, Laughter, Inquiry.....
Saturday Morning Women's Sangha
Join a global community of women who meet weekly online and annually in person to share wisdom. Gathering regularly in community creates a foundation from which you can deepen your own personal spiritual journey.
My colleague, Siddhi, and I lead the Saturday Morning Women's Sangha. Our community has a strong heartbeat. We explore what it means to embrace the Divine Source and to live from a place of Consciousness, compassion and creativity.
The Saturday Women Sangha meets at 7:45 - 8:45 am PT in our Soul Zoom Room. We welcome newcomers, part-timers, and regulars. Our time together includes a combination of meditation, yoga, mudras, discourse and sharing. All women, any age, are welcome.
Here’s an example of our session:
15 minutes - Optional Check-in (7:45-8 am)
15 minutes - Spiritual Discourse
15 minutes - Gentle Movement, Breath Work, Mudra
15 minutes - Mantra
Occasional breakout rooms, deeper discussion
Annual Ladies In-Person Retreat
Once each year we gather in person to share the journey of spirit and to laugh in real time. We invite you to join us from wherever you live.
Next In-person Retreat: August 15-17, 2025.
Ananda Village, Nevada City, California
Please email interest: sharedwisdom425@gmail.comnonprofit Shared Wisdom.
Deep Listening Circle
Our Deep Listening Circle continues….such deep healing and sharing.
A circle for safe sharing of your life story,
the transitions, the pain and the joys.
Join other women to hold the shadows of life.
You will cultivate your Deep Listening capacity by joining in.
Drop in and please share this circle with friends.
Every Wednesday Noon-1pm PT on ZOOM
Password IF NEEDED: LISTEN
1 ON 1 LIFE MENTORING
Schedule a session with Nichola to explore how we might work together. Through our mentoring sessions, I will listen actively to your stories and offer insights, guidance, and practices to support your life journey.
Though I am not a licensed therapist, my pastoral education and experiences as a spiritual and life mentor, have prepared me to support individuals and families in crisis and transitions.
Each of us is moving continually through stages and transitions of body, mind and spirit. It can be helpful to have a guide, a companion, a teacher to illuminate the path. You and I will create space to explore where you have been and where you are headed.
I will support you in your spiritual discernment, real-time life adjustments and fear busting. We can explore your growing edge and steps for living fully in this unprecedented time in history.
CONSCIOUS ELDERING CIRCLE
As mature spiritual seekers we have the opportunity and responsibility to step into the role of 'Elder' in our family, our community and in the wider global collective.
The Fragrance of JOY Alliance has called together a circle of women to support and inspire one another to live into this possibility. Conscious Eldering is three-pronged. We commit to cleaning up our own vrittis or tendencies which are no longer serving us, to stepping into our wisdom as we serve others and finally a dedication to environmental consciousness and sustainability.
As Elders we hold a wealth of wisdom and life experience, which can be invaluable for younger generations and the community at large. Embracing the role of an Elder means actively seeking opportunities to share this wisdom in everyday life.
Coming together in a circle of women to support and inspire one another in this journey can provide a nurturing and empowering environment for personal and collective growth. By supporting each other, sharing experiences, and celebrating the joys and challenges of conscious eldering, the impact of this movement can be amplified.
'Eldering', an embodying of wisdom, compassion, and a commitment to the greater good. If you wish to learn more about this Elder circle, please email.
RESOURCES
ASPIRA SOUND
Lydia has been practicing vibrational healing using color and sound since 2004 through private sessions, group sound baths, retreats and workshops. She studied with sound masters Fabien Maman and Wolfgang Dienert. In her private practice she channels divine energies using gong chimes tuned to specific frequencies, monochords with healing overtones and tuning forks for releasing, balancing and harmonizing. Color essences and color silks are also used as part of the vibrational healing. After years of practicing Aura_soma, she created Color Soul Reading. In keeping with her passion for nature's healing, she is also an herbalist deeply attuned to the vibrations of plants, specializing in flower essences. As a passionate dog lover, she uses her gifts to help dogs with anxieties, pain and suffering as well as offering death transitions as a dog doula. Contact: https://www.aspirasound.com/
Every Monday Morning 7:30am-8am PT ZOOM
It is a time of displacement of physical space, heart space and safe space for many around
the globe. Countless are children. There is a dis-ease among our communities
Those of us able to offer prayers, ♥️, and intention for healing and Peace in our world
MUST DO SO.
We invite you to join us Monday mornings 7:30-8:ooam PT for a Maitri Meditation;
the Buddhist practice of Loving-Kindness. This practice invokes our capacity to hold open
our hearts in the midst of loss, fear and uncertainty. Please invite your friends.
All are welcome🙏
WEEKLY MAITRI MONDAY MORNING MEDITATION
We have decided to begin 2025 with a move from our whatsapp “DAILY RUMI “to "A YEAR WITH THE TAO TE CHING". There are 81 verses or teachings contained within the Tao Te Ching. Similar to Rumi, with poetic verses, it also contains philosophical observations underlying the order of the universe. The Tao takes on the unseen, all-pervasive force which governs the universe. The passages explore the task of staying in alignment with the natural flow of the cosmos, remain in harmony with nature and the Tao while embracing simplicity, humility and selflessness.
We would love this practice to be interactive as well. Based on 1+ verse/teaching each week, it would be lovely to offer our own interpretations and reflections. Please enJoY this new direction and practice.
Siddhi Ma
Siddhi Ma's journey from a seeker to a spiritual guide is a testament to her dedication, resilience, and passion for personal development and spiritual growth. Born as a curious soul, Siddhi's quest for knowledge and self-discovery began at the tender age of 17 when she embarked on a search for a therapist. This initial step led her from her first psychotherapy session to encountering her first Indian teacher, Osho.
A YEAR WITH THE TAO TE CHING
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