About Joni Christine

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.

Joni has been an Embodiment and Intimacy coach for over 6 years and is a certified “Yoga of Intimacy” Teacher - She loves working with couples, individuals, and leading groups to support people in connecting more deeply with Love and living in more alignment with Nature’s principals.

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 is incredibly powerful and freeing.

The most important aspect of our work together is that I always invite you back to yourself: back into your body, into your pace, into your wisdom, into your own healing ability, into your own power.

Curiosity Leads To Compassion

Through staying curious, together we find the areas in which you are stuck in old patterns, old storylines, old pain, and old ways of relating.

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 and transformation.

Client Results

"I would say the most valuable and number one impact of working with Joni has been the awareness...

of how shame and blame played a role in my life, on my relationships, and learning to let go of judgment has been my greatest gift! Learning to let go of blame and take responsibility for my words and actions has released me from the internal prison I lived in for so long. I would say learning what it means to embody love has also offered so much space inside my body … to understand that our emotions live within us and through movement and sound offers that ability to transmute and transform from the inside ut! I would also share the observation and awareness of the stories that our minds create. Learning that I am not those stories and that they really are not true is a gift that has set me free!”

"What I love most about Joni’s teaching style is the experience of being heard and held…

So different than traditional therapy, she teaches with a sense of guidance and offers real life tools that are easy to apply in our day-to-day lives… whenever I leave Joni, I feel light on my feet and with a sense of well-being and hope, knowing that baby steps are wins and learning to celebrate the small shifts that I make in my daily life! It’s all so digestible and nourishing… Learning how to truly be present and live more fully in the here and now helps me release the past and embrace the beauty that lives within. Also, Joni is very generous with her time and energy... she offers her own insights and experience in a way that creates a very intimate and safe container which allows true vulnerability to blossom 💕”

"Joni expertly neutralizes behaviors and perspectives I feel negatively about...

and shows how even things that no longer serve me did have a purpose in my life and that they deserve love and attention. She shows how everything points to something that can be loved. This way of seeing things completely dissolves any blame and shame I might put on myself and is an excellent antidote to my perfectionism and black and white thinking."

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 strong 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, and 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 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. And by doing so, I naturally encourage others to do the same.

I believe that 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 this choice is true freedom.

Professional Studies & Certifications Include:

Alison Armstrong, PAX Programs (2022-2024)
Dr. Stan Tatkin,Trauma Solutions (12 hrs; 2023-2024)
Aislinn Walton, (2018-2024)
Londin Angel Winters and Justin Patrick Pierce, “Yoga of Intimacy” Teacher Training (2016-2024)
Cass Phelps, The Gift Process (100 hours, 2023)
Bari Tessler, The Art of Money Mentorship Program (24 hours, 2023)
Yogarupa Rod Stryker, Empowering the Heart training, (32 hours; 2020)
Naropa University, Master’s Degree in Somatic Counseling Psychology with a dual concentration in Dance/Movement Therapy and Body Psychotherapy (2017)
Carolyn Elliot, Existential Kink (2018-2020)
David Burns, Business Monk offerings (2017-2019)
Seven Cedars, Colorado Addictions Counselor trainings (42 hours; 2016-2017)
David Deida, Boulder Workshop & Florida Intensive (55 hours, 2016-2017)
Dr. Suhas Kshirsagar of Ayurvedic Healing Institute, Vedic Counseling Level 1 (2017)
Denver Inner City Parish, Gang Intervention and Education Training (2017)
Noeticus Counseling Center and Training Institute with Ryan Kennedy, Motivational Interviewing (15 hours; 2016)
LivingWorks, Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (16 hours; 2014)
MatrixWorks with Mukara Meredith, Enlightened Feminine Leadership Training (36 hours; 2014)
Naropa University, Yoga Teacher Training (1,100 hours; 2011)
Naropa University, Bachelor's degree with a double concentration in Traditional Eastern Arts & Somatic Psychology (2011)
Prevention Alliance, Student Internship Program, (85 hours; 1999)
Over 20 years of yoga and meditation study, practice, and trainings (William Prottengeier, Laura Allard, Ramanand Patel, Nataraja Kallio, Sree Devi Bringi & more)
Over 20 years of Earth-based energy & Shamanic training
15 years of dance study

More Client Results

"One pivotal call was dealing with my history of body shaming.

Joni gave me the space and encouraged me to find "more, more, more" of my body's expression of this topic. I was so completely in my body that through roaring, crying, and exasperated stomping, I was able to find some clarity and forgiveness towards myself for the years of abuse I subjected to my body. I was able to love her (my body) and feel free of the chains of the slave self that were always looming in my mind. To this day, I have much better peace and love with my body and her unique and beautiful characteristics."

"Joni is so warm and open

She guides with love and compassion and she has amazing tools and insights to share. Her laughter and humorous examples make my heart open to the lessons.”

"Joni is pure light.

She is so accepting and kind - I can be very honest and vulnerable in sharing my darkness & challenges. She does not judge.”