Teacher Mentors & Guests
Who Lovingly Tend The Community, Guided with ONE HEART
The Fragrance of JOY is a living community shaped by shared practice, listening, and relationship. It’s a place to gather—not to strive or achieve, but to arrive more fully into life as it is. Rooted in contemplative wisdom and everyday experience, we meet with warmth and honesty in a rhythm of presence that unfolds over time. This is not a program to complete. It is a path walked in companionship.
Siddhi Ma & Nichola Johnson
Teacher Mentors
Siddhi and Nichola lovingly tend the heart of the Fragrance of JOY community. Siddhi serves as the primary practice guide, holding space with depth, steadiness, and devotion to embodied presence. Nichola, founder of Shared Wisdom, offers spiritual mentorship and interfaith grounding, shaped by decades of contemplative study and service. Together, they steward a living field of practice rooted in relationship, compassion, and trust.
Siddhi Ma
"After surrendering oneself into the hands of existence,
there is nothing left to be done." ~Osho
Siddhi is a profoundly gifted intuitive with the rare ability to perceive beyond the physical, attuning to the subtle messages and energetic imbalances within the body. Her work bridges science and spirit—listening to the silent communication of the body’s organs and systems, and interpreting their call for alignment and care.
With decades of study and teaching across multiple healing traditions, Siddhi has cultivated a comprehensive and integrative approach that honors both ancient wisdom and modern understanding. Drawing from a diverse range of modalities, she designs personalized at-home practices that empower clients to reconnect with their inner intelligence.
Through her compassionate guidance, clients learn to listen deeply—to recognize the body not as separate from the self, but as a sacred partner in their journey toward wholeness and well-being.
Contributing Teachers & Guests
Lydia Hwang
Within The Fragrance of JOY One Heart community, Lydia leads workshops blending sound and color for wellbeing and healing, and co-leads the Monday Maitri Meditation. Her work is rooted in over two decades of vibrational healing, shaped by training with sound masters Fabien Maman and Wolfgang Dienert.
Integrating gongs, chimes, monochords, tuning forks, color essences, and silk, Lydia creates contemplative spaces that support release, balance, and harmony of body, mind, and soul. Deeply attuned to the natural world, she is also an herbalist specializing in flower essences and continues her spiritual studies in Celtic mysticism. Lydia brings a quiet joy, integrity, and beauty to her offerings, inviting healing through presence, vibration, and compassionate care.
Lorna Vander Ploeg
Lorna is a contemplative guide, meditation teacher, and facilitator whose work weaves together Eastern and Western mystical traditions, somatic awareness, and subtle energetic intelligence. Drawing from decades of lived practice and study—including yogic and Buddhist meditation and intuitive inquiry—she invites embodied presence where insight is not only understood, but lived.
Her approach centers heart-based wisdom alongside nervous-system coherence, supporting a grounded and deeply aligned relationship with life. Lorna gently accompanies individuals as they reconnect with the fullness of their own divine nature through awareness, compassion, and embodied inquiry.
Clia Tierney
Clia is a yoga and meditation teacher, Ayurvedic health counselor, and life coach devoted to the art of attunement. Drawing from her lived experience as a mother, partner, and lifelong educator, she guides others from the noise of modern life toward a state of deep nourishment and balance.
By weaving together Ayurvedic wisdom, transformational coaching, and yogic practices, Clia supports individuals in cultivating clarity, connection, and embodied presence. Her work is a gentle invitation to listen more closely to inner wisdom and live with authenticity, compassion, and care.
Nilgün Aksoy
Nilgün Aksoy is a Turkish singer and teacher of traditional Anatolian vocal music. Born and raised in Istanbul, she later studied Turkish Music at Codarts Rotterdam Conservatory and completed years of private study with ethnomusicologist and bağlama master Talip Özkan.
She currently co-leads the School of Anatolian Music in Hamburg with her husband, where she teaches and preserves the living traditions of Anatolian sound and song.
The power of sound and the voice is experienced as one sits with Nilgün. Her presence, humility, and depth of musical lineage embody our respect for sound as a healing force. This shared commitment has led us to Nilgün, and we look forward to upcoming opportunities to include her in our sangha and on retreat.
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