About Joni Christine Fraser
After teaching yoga and meditation for 20 years, Joni earned her Master’s degree in Somatic Counseling Psychology (2017, Naropa University; Boulder, CO) with dual concentrations in Body Psychology and Dance/Movement Therapy. She has worked as a psychotherapist for people struggling with addictions, unresolved trauma, and relationship challenges.
Now, Joni is on a mission in supporting people creating deeper trust in their relationships and embodying more Love. This is done by overcoming the obstacles that distract, close off, or make Love and trust feel distant.
Joni is a certified “Yoga of Intimacy” Teacher in which she combines her long-time teachings of body-based practices with the depth of Sacred Intimacy work for truly remarkable results. She loves working with individuals, couples, and leading groups.
Togetherness & Body Integrity
My life purpose is to be of service to others by being a mirror. With Love, I reflect back to you what you most need to look at. This is very kind and caring. This can also be challenging and even frustrating for clients, at times. However, this is the growth edge; it can be incredibly powerful and freeing... you always have options with how you relate to the reflections.
The most important aspect of our work together is that I always invite you back to yourself: back into your body, into your own pace, into your own connection with God, into your own natural healing ability, into your own ability to discern.
Curiosity Leads To Compassion
Through staying curious, together we find the areas in which you are navigating with outdated and limiting patterns, storylines, pain, and ways of relating that are no longer serving you.
By staying curious, we can find space to be compassionate with all that arises.
From this space, a sense of equanimity can be found. And equanimity leads to true freedom for you to use discernment for powerful transformation.
Client Results
My Journey
Having struggled with receiving love and fluctuating between acceptance or rejection of others based on fear, I faced many challenges in relationships throughout my life.
Often, I felt that my life was like a coin: one side of the coin was ‘too much’ for others and the other side of the coin was ‘not enough’.
Either way, the story I told myself (and clung to) was that I was not worthy of love. This story created a void in my life, one that I was constantly trying to fill...
The Shift
Therapy, self-development work, and spiritual practices helped me become aware of the ingrained patterns that closed me off from Love. The cultivation of long-term, intimate relationships with others helped me to address the concern on whether I was loved or not.
In coming to know myself more and more as Love itself, rather than seeking love - I started exploring the somatic and energetic techniques of the “Yoga of Intimacy”, both alone and with others.
I was able to stretch and re-train my nervous system to allow Love to flow more fully throughout my body-mind. This was not only healing for myself, but also, as I have been told, a tremendous gift for those I’ve practiced with.
Then came the time of letting go of all practices…
Through purifying old patterns and surrendering into the natural flow of Love within me...
I am able to live more fully as my true self and share the Love that comes through me appropriately with others. By doing so, I naturally encourage others to do the same.
There is no strategizing with Love.
Love will always make its way, no matter how much we plan, hope, or will for something specific to happen. Moment~to~moment~to~moment, we always have the ability to choose how we want to show up in our own lives, as well as how we relate with others - we always have the option to course correct if something is not in alignment. In choice, there is true freedom.
