Support for living fully in the bodies we have.

Is it possible to live well in our bodies, even when we feel both overwhelmed and under-resourced? 

Being a tender-hearted person can be…a lot right now. Whether you live with a chronic condition or feel worn by the world, I invite you to connect with resources, tools, and support that help you live fully in the body you have.

Tools for tending your nervous system and awakening creativity.

Hi, I’m Johanna.

I developed this practice to help folks like you navigate greater health and creativity without platitudes or simple fixes. By training, I’m a biodynamic craniosacral therapist, a teacher, a writer, and an audio producer. I’m also someone who knows autoimmune disease from the inside out.

I create spaces where we can listen to what our bodies are actually saying in order to inhabit ourselves more fully. I believe in abundant permission, reverence, and the vitality of creativity. Learn more.

  • “There truly are no words that come close to expressing my gratitude for your infinite love, exquisite skill, and generosity in these offerings to all of us… As a group we are swimming in the sweetness of your invitation to come alive together.” - B.E.

  • “I did not believe it possible to feel intimate, connected, and present on Zoom until I sat in groups with Johanna Franzel. There is something alchemical in the way she brings us into our bodies, into our here and now, into words that then magically flow from us… Whatever she offers, sign me up.” - Sue Young, Falmouth

  • “I’ve never worked with anyone like Jones. For 30 years I’ve been looking for a practitioner to meet me in these realms. Jones does. Jones is host to an extremely rare quality: she allows the question to arrive – whatever it is, how bright, how hidden, how painful. ” — M.H., Portland

  • “I have worked with Jones for years and I can feel myself incrementally getting in closer and closer to what is actually happening now in my body as it changes moment to moment..She has ushered me through a few rebellious tantruming months. She is real. She is brilliant. She is grace.” — S.Y., Falmouth

  • “A space full of support, permission, courage, and care where we could all show up just as we were in each moment. What an extraordinary gift! … The themes you used to move us through this course feel like guides for moving through life. I want to take the course again right now!” - E.A.

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From the Blog

From the Blog
Fledging.
Fledging.

On chickens, growing kids, and this truth: Fledging is essential to flight. If we are alive and growing, we will bust out of the earlier versions of our life, we will grow our capacity and our range. It’s as true for our kids as it is for ourselves.

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Gathering in awe.
Gathering in awe.

We tend to coalesce in groups and sub groups, political groups, affiliations, parent groups. When was the last time you you came together with strangers because wonder and beauty and cosmic amazement compelled you to do so?

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A shift by degrees
A shift by degrees

Growing up around boats, I developed an early appreciation for how even the smallest, most undetectable shift can change an entire trajectory. Years later, I discovered surprising echoes in the nervous system: small changes can set your course to a different land entirely.

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