Background

Ji Hyang Padma serves as the Director of Spirituality and Education programs at Wellesley College. She also teaches this year at Omega Institute, Esalen Institute, Kripalu Institute and UCLA. She has trained intensively in Zen for nineteen years, including fifteen years as a nun in the Korean Zen tradition. She has also served as Abbot of Cambridge Zen Center and as a teacher of meditation and physical education at Boston University and Harvard-Radcliffe United Ministry.

As a member of Wellesley College's Religious and Spiritual Life Team, she provides formal meditation practice, pastoral support and leadership to the college community around spiritual and ethical issues.

Ji Hyang Padma especially loves working with clients intuitively, to help them access their own inners resources; this is the direction of Natural Wisdom