Testimonials

What people
are saying.

“I am so grateful for how deeply nourishing a 45-minute video session with Jones feels during these uncertain times. Even over the internet, which can potentially feel distant and impersonal, Jones knowingly tunes in to my field, co-creating spaciousness for discovery and healing through words and biodynamic connection. Each session, she offers grounding and calming exercises for the body that I frequently use as supportive tools in the days following our conversation..”

— Client, Greater Portland

“I have the blessed opportunity to receive craniosacral work with Jones Franzel about every two months. Whoa. As someone who’s gotten a lot of bodywork, I mostly want a practitioner who can hold some big space, infuse love into the work and help me get to the places I can’t quite get to on my own.

Jones’ ability for depth, for helping me to understand my life in new ways and the shifts I experience on the table often blow my mind while reseting my system. Grateful to have her as part of my team and want to let folks know she practices right here in Portland. Highly recommend her work.” 

— S.H., Rhode Island

“Whether we're working in person or mediated over the internet, Jones manages to reflect back all of my best qualities -- including the ones I've never been able to witness. When connecting with Jones and her craniosacral healing, I am safely supported and held. It's incredible to me that in her presence, the field of acceptance only continues to grow. I appreciate Jones and her ability to always meet me with compassion and grace.”

— Client, Portland

“Embodied writing is an invitation to write from the heart of your own lived experience. It is writing from the inside out, a bold exploration of the interior world as a pathway to deeper connections and clarity of purpose in our outer lives…Thoughtful prompts to both move and reflect offer new avenues to approach writing practice that can bring honesty and liveliness into your work. Take this class if you have longed to pay closer attention to your daily life or ever wondered if you could write about it. “

— L.M.

“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. When we work together we are not emptying bottles and applying solutions, we don’t chase the question away, we don’t smother it with possibilities, though Jones is no stranger to precise practical application. Jones listens and watches and gently hands the question back to me. She says: it is yours and I am here, what do you see, what sound do you hear, where does it sit, what do you wish? The work becomes a collaboration, because of this gentleness, because of imagination, because of capacity, call it intelligence, call it love. The question is fundamental:  how has consciousness chosen to manifest itself and what is the responsibility – to myself, to others, living and not. I always thank Jones at the end of a session for taking the journey with me, for keeping the road safe – she will humbly say, it is you – yet, I would not have travelled in that way without her, without her love and ever expanding permission – a profound permission to be – to inhabit the imaginal as it is expressed in bones.”

— M.H., Craniosacral Practitioner