The Aligned Union Sanctuary
For Couples Ready To Heal, Rewire, And Rise Together
A SACRED THRESHOLD FOR COUPLES READY TO BEGIN AGAIN, ALIGNED AND FREE
VESARA is not therapy.
It’s not a vacation.
It’s a sacred initiation into the next chapter of your love.
This is for couples ready to remember the truth of their union
through body, breath, and unshakable safety.
Where devotion meets discernment.
Where power meets peace.
Where you don’t just fix your relationship –
You transfigure it.
Welcome to VESARA – The Aligned Union Sanctuary.
A sanctuary for sacred partnership.
A refuge for couples who love each other deeply…
but feel lost inside the pain.
A place to remember that intimacy is a path, and you are not broken.
This is not couples therapy. This is nervous system rebirth.
This is not communication skills. This is soul-level repair.
This is not one-size-fits-all. This is the altar of your specific union.
In these immersive, high-touch retreats, you will be held, guided, and resourced to face the truths your relationship has been carrying
and finally experience what real, regulated love feels like in the body.
WHY MOST LOVE FAILS – AND WHERE REAL REPAIR BEGINS
So many couples reach for love
with hearts full of devotion
but bodies full of unseen codes and secrets that run the show.
You know you care for each other.
You know you’ve tried.
But you keep hitting the same wall.
Not because you’re broken.
Because you’ve never had a sanctuary safe enough, slow enough, sacred enough to meet the truth of your bond.
Most relationships are running on empty – emotionally, erotically, spiritually.
Not because you’re lazy or numb or too much.
But because no one ever taught you how to repair at the body-codes level.
How to restore trust in the body.
How to rise as a couple from the ground of real safety.
This is why VESARA exists.
A sacred space for the ache that modern love was never equipped to hold.
A place to begin again.
With your breath.
With your body.
With the contract your nervous system made
long before you ever said “I do.”
WHAT MAKES THIS SANCTUARY DIFFERENT AND WHY THE WORK LASTS
This isn’t just a couples retreat.
It’s a sacred container for the deepest transformation your relationship has ever known.
Nervous system-rooted intimacy work Threshold-based somatic repair Developmental trauma-informed guidance Identity and lineage deconditioning Erotic and emotional reconnection Sacred partnership visioning Quiet, discreet, high-touch, high-honor facilitation
We don’t work at the surface.
We work with the earliest patterns that shaped your relational blueprint.
That means:
• Body-code contracts you didn’t know you signed
• Lineage imprints that’s lived in your cells
• Nonverbal survival structures that still run your love life
• Identity shifts that no longer fit who you’re becoming
Available in 2 and 5 day formats and held at a Private, Secure, Safe Sanctuary Space in Da Nang, Vietnam. Deluxe Luxury One-Bedroom Suite Included!
Can’t come in person? All retreats are also available on Zoom Video Conferencing right from the safety of your own home.
💠 SIGNATURE OFFERING
The Regulated and Resourced Relationship Experience
Your relationship doesn’t need more tools.
It needs a new nervous system.
This is our core essence retreat, where couples are guided through a full somatic recalibration – from dysregulation, shutdown, and trauma looping… into safety, presence, erotic trust, and deep co-regulation.
You’ll walk away with:
• A foundation that makes your relationship sustainable, not just survivable
• The start of a newly rewritten relational nervous system
• Fresh patterns of safety, attunement, and repair
• Breakthroughs in intimacy, communication, and connection
🌀 SANCTUARY PATHWAYS: RETREATS FOR EVERY THRESHOLD
Each theme is built on the foundation of the Regulated and Resourced Relationship Experience, but tailored to your specific lived reality.
Crisis
Make It or Break It
For couples deciding whether to stay or part, this retreat offers clarity, healing, and a nervous system-rooted path forward, whichever direction is right. We hold both outcomes with sacred neutrality, while guiding you toward the most aligned next step.
Rupture and Repair
For couples recovering from a major betrayal, dark night of the soul, shutdown, or prolonged rupture. Focused on somatic repair, relational safety, and reweaving trust. You’ll rebuild the invisible threads that make safety possible, even after everything feels lost.
After the Affair
A sacred threshold for couples navigating infidelity – offering trauma-informed repair, body-based trust rebuilding, and reclamation of what remains. Together, we tend to what shattered, name what still lives, and meet the truth with tenderness.
The Financial Fracture
For couples unraveling under financial crisis or power struggles around money. Rewiring scarcity cycles and resourcing safety at the root. We help your nervous systems uncouple money from threat so love and abundance can co-exist again.
Eros
Eros Awakening
For couples craving deeper sexual intimacy and erotic reconnection. Clears shame, restores trust, and reawakens the body’s natural rhythm of desire. This is the sanctuary where your longing becomes safe again and desire becomes devotion.
From Head to Heart
For high-achieving, overthinking couples who’ve lost touch with the body. This retreat restores somatic intimacy and liberates erotic connection. You’ll finally remember what it feels like to be met, not through logic, but through breath, touch, and presence.
Admire and Adore
For couples whose erotic fire has dulled, but the love remains. Rebuilds polarity, cherishing, and erotic magnetism from the body up. We reignite the sacred spark that reminds you why you chose each other in the first place.
Eros After the Abyss
For couples who have been sexually shut down, separated, or disconnected due to trauma, collapse, or long periods of numbness. This retreat offers a sacred return to the body and to each other, where the embers of intimacy are gently stirred back to life through safety, presence, and devotion.
Life Shifts
And Baby Makes Three (or Four)
Support for new parents navigating identity shifts, attachment wounds, and intimacy loss postpartum. Re-centers the couple as the foundation. This retreat helps you grieve what’s changed, re-root in each other, and parent from a place of connection, not depletion.
The Empty Nest Threshold
For long-term couples feeling the void after children leave. A chance to rediscover each other and create a new chapter. You’ll meet again as lovers, not just co-parents, and write the next version of your union from soul.
The Midlife Marriage Makeover
A soul recalibration for couples at midlife who want to fall in love again, not by going back, but by moving forward with depth and truth. We honor the grief and gold of everything you’ve lived and help you build what’s next from what’s real.
Lineage & Trauma Healing
High-Powered, Elite & Discreet
Elite, Discreet Relational Support
For high-profile, celebrity or ultra private couples seeking transformation without public exposure. 1:1 immersive, confidential, white-glove experience. This is an invitation-only retreat designed with total privacy, nuance, and protection of your world.
The Intergenerational Cyclebreaker Couple
For couples carrying heavy ancestral wounds. This retreat is about breaking cycles together and becoming the first generation to love differently. You’ll learn how to stand at the edge of your lineage with love in one hand and a boundary in the other.
The Developmental Deep Dive
For couples who sense childhood trauma patterns at play. We go deep into implicit memory, preverbal repair, and nervous system-level transformation. This is where the oldest pain meets the newest possibility and the body finally learns something new.
The Family Rupture
For couples destabilized by conflict with extended family or generational wounds. Focuses on boundary repair and reclaiming couple sovereignty. We bring your nervous systems home to each other so your bond is no longer outsourced to external dynamics.
The Mirror and The Mask
For couples caught in narcissistic wounding and codependent loops. Gently dissolves survival roles and brings the relationship back to sovereign love. We dismantle the protections that once kept you safe so love can finally feel safe instead.
Sacred Union
Partnership as Path
For spiritual seekers who feel their relationship is part of their awakening. A sacred space to align union with dharma, devotion, and truth. We tend to your relationship as a living altar where love and liberation walk hand in hand.
Medicine Work Integration
For couples integrating plant medicine, psychedelic journeys, or spiritual awakenings. Nervous system support for staying grounded and connected. This is where mystical experience becomes embodied truth so you can integrate together, not apart.
Join the Sanctuary from Anywhere in the World
Our ongoing learning space – monthly somatic intimacy classes, down-to-earth training, real-time community support, and couples practice labs.
For couples post-retreat, or those not yet ready for immersive work, this membership keeps the work alive in daily life.
Think of it as your relationship’s ongoing practice of sacred and embodied connection.
✨ WHICH SANCTUARY EXPERIENCE WILL SET YOUR LOVE FREE?
You might be wondering…’which experience is the right one for us?’ We’ve got just the right things to help you discover the answer.
Take the quiz to discover which relational threshold your body is most ready to cross.
This isn’t about “getting it right.”
It’s about remembering what’s true.
Let your breath guide you.
Let your body lead.
Let your love tell the truth.
- Choose the response that resonates most in your body.
- Tally how many answers correspond with each number.
- Your highest number points to the Sanctuary Category that’s most aligned for you now.
- Scroll down for the result descriptions and next steps.
This quiz is here to help you reclaim the threshold your body is most longing to cross - whether it’s around safety, sex, legacy, power, or partnership.
Your body knows the way. This just helps it speak more clearly.
When you think about your relationship right now, what’s the deepest ache?
- We love each other but we can’t seem to stop the pain cycles
- We feel stuck in old family, trauma, or identity patterns that keep resurfacing
- Our intimacy is shut down or dry and we long to reignite it
- We’ve lost ourselves in everything we’ve built. We want to reconnect as powerful equals
- We’re actually doing pretty well. We want to build something even more meaningful and visionary together
Which statement feels most true about your nervous system in a relationship?
- I’m easily activated, shut down, or caught in loops of fear and anxiety
- I carry old grief, generational wounds, or cultural layers that feel hard to voice
- I’ve experienced sexual trauma or deep disconnection that’s hard to name
- I often sacrifice parts of myself or over-function in partnership
- I feel safe enough. But I want more soul, depth, and resonance
What do you most crave from a sanctuary experience?
- A safe space to repair what’s been broken and truly see each other again
- A healing immersion to work with trauma, grief, or ancestral pain
- A place to reclaim our sensuality, erotic connection, and desire
- A container to realign our power, passion, and purpose
- A sacred space to expand what’s already beautiful into something visionary
Which pattern do you recognize most?
- We fight, flee, freeze, or fawn when we’re triggered
- We repeat wounds from our families or cultural storylines
- We haven’t been able to touch each other fully, sexually or emotionally
- We’ve outgrown the version of our relationship that was based on survival or roles
- We’ve done a lot of work. Now we’re ready to rise into a new relational legacy
If your body could ask for one thing right now, what would it be?
- Safety. Peace. Regulation
- Honoring. Witness. Emotional truth
- Pleasure. Touch. Erotic fire
- Freedom. Power. Self-expression
- Soul. Expansion. Vision
(Count your answers and match your highest score below. If two or more categories are close — beautiful. Follow the one below that lights your body up most.)
If you chose mostly 1s, scroll to Nervous System Repair & Relational Safety
If you chose mostly 2s, your match is Trauma & Lineage Repair
If you chose mostly 3s, your match is Eros & Erotic Reconnection
If you chose mostly 4s, your match is Power, Purpose & Partnership
If you chose mostly 5s, your match is Sacred Union & Expansion
You’re craving a sanctuary where your body can finally exhale.
Where repair isn’t just talked about — it’s lived, practiced, and felt.
You want to love without ricochet.
You want your nervous system to feel like home.
You’ve likely been stuck in trauma bonding cycles, or walking on eggshells, or just tired from how much effort it takes to stay connected.
This is about healing the body contract underneath your dynamic, not just changing your communication.
Inside this category, you might explore
• The Regulated and Resourced Relationship Experience
• Rupture and Repair
• Make It or Break It
• After the Affair
You carry more than just your own stories.
You’ve inherited patterns, protections, and grief that have shaped your relationship, and your identity.
You’re ready to tend to what’s been carried in silence for generations.
This sanctuary is for couples navigating deep trauma work, identity shifts, or grief.
It’s about breaking the cycles that no longer serve — and honoring the wisdom that wants to live on.
Inside this category, you might explore
• The Intergenerational Cyclebreaker Couple
• The Developmental Deep Dive
• The Family Rupture
• The Mirror and The Mask
You’ve been in the desert - emotionally or sexually - and you’re ready to come back to each other.
You’re not just craving sex.
You’re craving presence, play, aliveness, and embodied desire.
This sanctuary is about more than technique.
It’s about trust, attunement, and reawakening the erotic blueprint between you.
Whether you’re healing sexual trauma, navigating desire discrepancies, or reigniting a flame that never fully went out — this is your threshold.
Inside this category, you might explore
• Eros Awakening
• From Head to Heart
• Admire and Adoration
• Eros After the Abyss
You’re high-functioning, high-capacity, and probably running a lot.
You love each other - but you’re tired of being ships passing in the night, business partners without spark, or emotional containers for everyone but yourselves.
You’re ready to realign not just your relationship - but your power, mission, and purpose.
This sanctuary is for visionary couples who want to grow together, lead together, and love from a place of mutual brilliance.
Inside this category, you might explore
• The Midlife Marriage Makeover
• The Financial Fracture
• The Empty Nest Threshold
• And Baby Makes Three (or Four)
You’ve already done deep healing.
You feel safe, solid, and deeply devoted to each other.
Now you want more.
Not from lack - from longing.
You want to co-create something extraordinary from your love.
This sanctuary is for couples who are ready to expand what’s beautiful into what’s legendary.
You’re not fixing. You’re devoting
Inside this category, you might explore
• Sacred Union
• Medicine Work Integration
• Elite, Discreet Relational Support
• Partnership as Path
🕊 Ready to Cross the Threshold?
If your body stirred while reading any of these…
If your partnership feels like it’s standing at a door that’s asking to be walked through…
Come tell me what’s true.
🤍 TESTIMONIALS
“We didn’t just save our relationship. We built a new one—one we never even imagined could exist.”
— J and C, 5-Day Sanctuary Experience
“This wasn’t therapy. It was resurrection.”
— N and M, Partnership as Path Retreat
"She is a tour de force when it comes to literally dissolving the root cause of your disconnection, in love, sex, and intimacy... Her wisdom, compassion, and sheer depth of knowing the inside terrain are not common. We are enjoying the soulmate love we always knew we were destined to have. The best investment we ever made."
Jim & Jennifer
“We hardly ever fight anymore. We’re able to discuss our feelings and any issues that come up in a way that is constructive, supportive, and creative. We’ve grown more as individuals and in our relationship than we ever thought possible.”
Nathan & Daria
"My husband and I started working with Joanna as the communication between us was not good and we struggled with challenges of daily life, and my pain issues. Joanna set us on a new path with her gentle nature and very knowledgeable interventions. She made us feel safe and comfortable, therefore we were able to open up and share more of ourselves. Joanna offers excellent support and great guidance on how to improve yourself and deepen your relationships and she is genuine and experienced as well on spirituality. Through this work, my relationship with my husband has deeply improved. He has become more open minded and accepting of me, others, daily life in general, and much more able to share in groups. I attribute this to the level of comfort there is in working with Joanna. My husband George and I highly recommend Joanna to others because she is very experienced, knowledgeable, gentle, effective, caring and spiritually inspiring. We think that others will greatly benefit from working with her because she not only listens, but is an active part of the work which is holistic and fresh (not just talking around challenges)."
Alicia & George
"Dear Joanna, It would be impossible to express how profoundly transformative our experience with you was. You took us far beyond mere repair to new depths of joy and intimacy in our relationship. Your unique blend of widely divergent disciplines and perspectives, combined with your very natural warmth and insightfulness created a safe, healing and productive space for us. As we go through the many chapters of our life together, we’ll continue to think of you with great fondness and gratitude. Lots of Love."
E & J
"Joanna is one of the most insightful, wise women I know. She can see patterns clearly and is great at helping one map their way to creating the life they want. Rigorous honesty, deep compassion and honest self appraisal are qualities Joanna possesses. I truly appreciate the growth work we’ve done together."
Kassandra Child
"Joanna is gifted. She is present. She listens. She hears my words. She has a knack for choosing which words to follow, and together we follow where they lead. And the trauma process has it’s positive transformative way with me."
David Levingston
"I can give rave reviews about working with Joanna Intara. She touches into the sacred with the same depth that she tracks your story and then delivers you out the other side. I love this woman! First Class Lady."
Caroline Muir
"In a nutshell, we ♥ Joanna and can’t recommend her enough! We got married, our best friends got divorced and agreed it was critical to make time and space for building strength in our relationship and prevent what we saw happening with our friends from happening to us. After we started working with Joanna, it wasn’t very long before she had shown us an even deeper level our relationship that we didn’t even know was there. It was ultimately, very empowering and very rewarding. She drew us toward our most intimate fears, and then gave us a safe place to confront them. She was graceful at addressing each of us as individuals and us as a couple. Joanna gave us insights and tools that allowed us to work at that level with her and on our own. We are so happy to have taken the time to invest in our relationship and we feel so lucky to have had Joanna as our mentor and guide. Every day we utilize the skills that she taught us. We feel very strong, happy and fulfilled in our relationship because of our time with Joanna."
P & P
"If your marriage or relationship is in trouble, RUN, do not walk toward the one-of-a king marriage and relationship healing work with Joanna. We tried so many other things, normal therapy, meditation, law of attraction, online coaching programs and classes, and while we loved each other, we seriously considered ending our marriage. We’ve never met anyone like Joanna who does this work; she is a tour de force when it comes to literally dissolving the root cause of your disconnection, in love, sex and intimacy, and even though we are both highly intelligent, there are realms of the unseen and unspoken that Joanna has access to that BLEW us away and accelerated our healing, dramatically! Thank God we found her when we did. Her wisdom, compassion and sheer depth of knowing the inside terrain are not common, and she actually made it fun and playful. We are enjoying the sweetness of the soul mate love we always knew we were destined to have, and it’s sustainable at long last. The best investment we ever made for our lives!"
Jim & Jennifer
🕊️ HELD IN THE HANDS OF A MASTER GUIDE
Meet Joanna Intara, Somatic Intimacy Alchemist™
Joanna Intara is a globally sought-after Somatic Intimacy Alchemist™ with over 35 years of experience.
Her work weaves nervous system repair, threshold transformation, generational healing, and sacred union activation.
She is known for guiding visionary couples through soul-level transformation using embodied somatic intimacy as the path.
With 30+ years and over 38,000 hours guiding trauma-informed relational repair, Joanna is a master of somatic intimacy work.
Known for helping high-functioning couples soften, open, and rebuild from the body up, her work is rooted in safety, sacred truth, and deep nervous system science.
You won’t be coached.
You’ll be deeply guided.
Through thresholds most people don’t even know how to name.
📍 WHERE SANCTUARIES ARE HELD
We currently host sanctuaries in:
• Da Nang, Vietnam (luxury riverfront suites at the Milea’ Vinpearl Riverfront Hotel)
Available in 2 and 5 day formats and held at a Private, Secure, Safe Sanctuary Space in Da Nang, Vietnam. Deluxe Luxury One-Bedroom Suite Included!
Can’t come in person? All retreats are also available on Zoom Video Conferencing right from the safety and privacy of your own home.
Additional locations for 5 day experiences available by request. Luxury/Wellness retreat center partnerships available. Enquire HERE.
📩 CONTACT / BOOKING
🌿 READY TO EXPLORE IF THIS IS YOUR SANCTUARY?
This is sacred work.
We only take on those we can serve at the deepest level.
This work is not mass produced.
It is handcrafted, attuned, and intentionally held – for the truth your love is carrying.
If you’re feeling the call…
→ Fill out the short application form below
→ Joanna will personally review and respond within 48 hours
→ If aligned, you’ll be invited to a 45-minute connection call
This is not just another program.
It’s the sanctuary your love has been waiting for.
A space to begin again.
To finally feel what it’s like to be safe in love.
We can’t wait to hear from you. Reach out below.
Book Your Sacred Sanctuary Call & Apply HERE
What Colleagues Say
“Joanna Intara is a passionate, fiery woman, who in her search for deep healing has unlocked a clear path to true love, source energy, sacred sexuality, and soul-centered partnership.
Her compassion, integrity, and skillful precision help you soften your defenses and let go of unnecessary resistance. Her empathy is well-earned and supports you to feel that you have an ally in your experience of intimacy with yourself and your partner.”
Alison Greene-Barton
Psycho-Spiritual Therapist
Praise for This Work
"Joanna is one in a million. Joanna Intara has a depth of perception of humans that is rare. She is likewise committed and skillful in helping people become free of their karmas so they might express more fully their innate creativity, beyond the confines of trauma and limitation. She is one in a million.”
Stuart Sovatsky
"She is a trustable visionary to help us all see the places in which we have built boundaries to love. Rumi tells us it is not our job to seek for love but to seek the boundaries we have built against it. Joanna Intara is a magical paradox. Her deeply compassionate gaze and thoughtful loving attention could easily fool you into thinking that her loving maternal presence lacks sharp cutting spiritual insight – and a fierce determination to take men, women, and couples through the darkest and most terrifying aspects of themselves and their love relationships. As in all great leaders, it is within this paradox that her true brilliance is revealed. Warmly and generously creating a space of loving trust, yet never holding back when it comes to staring right into the scariest places and saying “yes, bring it” – she is a trustable visionary to help us all see the places in which we have built boundaries to love."
Wendy K. Yalom
"I trust her and her considerable skills implicitly. She is a gift to those of us who seek a fuller life. I trust her and her considerable skills implicitly. If you have the opportunity to work with her, do so. You will not regret your decision."
Rick Geggie
"Joanna is one of the most insightful, wise women I know.
Joanna is one of the most insightful, wise women I know. She can see patterns clearly and is great at helping one map their way to creating the life they want. Rigorous honesty, deep compassion and honest self appraisal are qualities Joanna possesses. I truly appreciate the growth work we’ve done together."
Joanna is one of the most insightful, wise women I know. She can see patterns clearly and is great at helping one map their way to creating the life they want. Rigorous honesty, deep compassion and honest self appraisal are qualities Joanna possesses. I truly appreciate the growth work we’ve done together."
Kassie Welch
"Joanna has such a gift for showing us how to listen to the voice within. Joanna has such a gift for showing us how to listen to the voice within, how to see with a new perspective, and most importantly she encourages us to accept and love ourselves for who we are — just as we are. I feel so blessed to be a part of this journey of waking women. She encourages us to accept and love ourselves for who we are — just as we are."
L. P
"What an invaluable investment of my time and energy! Joanna provides a safe, sacred space for incredible transformations to occur, and what’s more, she offers steady, unwavering support, topics, and ruminations that encourage the awakening process to continue… I wish such an experience for all women on the planet. What an invaluable investment of my time and energy."
Julia Francis
"Thank you for the remarkable and transformational journey we've been on - you really have a gift...! I just want to thank you for the remarkable and transformational journey we've been on - you really have a gift. When I think about talking to someone on grief, it's not just about someone who knows the five steps of grief, but someone, a great therapist, who really walks with you right in the middle of it. Thank you for the remarkable and transformational journey we've been on - you really have a gift..."
Lindsey
"Thank you Joanna for being so loving and for always being there for me. I have known and worked with Joanna Intara for many years. She is one of the most brilliant people that I know and I trust her explicitly. There is something incredibly unique about this wonderful woman in the way she looks at life and the way she works with others. Her insights are absolute gold and have helped me to change my life for the better. Everyone I have recommended to Joanna over the years has been greatly helped and, now, sing her praises just like me. It feels great to have someone so intelligent and intuitive in my life to turn to when I need guidance. - For my sake and for those I love. Thank you Joanna for being so loving and for always being there for me."
Laura de Leon
"Joanna is highly trained and intuitive. Joanna is highly trained and intuitive. She understands her own humanity and divinity, and is thereby able to help others explore and find their connections to each. Joanna is very grounded and personalizes all of her interactions. Her powerful wisdom and messages are delivered through a gentle approach that makes others feel safe and supported. She is as ready to do the work as you are."
Jayme Cellitioci
"Joanna is a first class therapist!
She is compassionate, kind, caring and an amazing person ! Joanna is a first class therapist and I encourage anyone looking to change your life for the better to contact her for help!"
She is compassionate, kind, caring and an amazing person ! Joanna is a first class therapist and I encourage anyone looking to change your life for the better to contact her for help!"
John Barragan
"Joanna has an astute knack for quickly and intuitively getting to the heart of one’s spiritual and emotional ailments. I have gained an incredibly potent and liberating tool in my quest for mental stability. Joanna has an astute knack for quickly and intuitively getting to the heart of one’s spiritual and emotional ailments and bringing those who work with her to a place of awareness and self-acceptance, thus setting the stage for positive change and transformation. I would highly recommend her as a guide if you are interested in making these kinds of changes in your life and – more importantly – in your perspective towards life!"
R. S.
"I wholeheartedly recommend Joanna Intara to anyone seeking lasting healing and a better quality of life. I have referred many clients to her in the past and they have all reported being deeply satisfied with the results they have enjoyed in working with Joanna. I wholeheartedly recommend Joanna Intara to anyone seeking lasting healing and a better quality of life. She embodies a highly evolved empathic ability and the dedication that she brings to her work."
Jeff Wright
"She embodies inspiring presence which was an invitation to my mind, body, and spirit. Joanna embodies a consistent positive, inspiring presence which was an invitation to my mind, body, and spirit. It is always a gift to meet another ‘soul traveler’ with the same commitment to everyone’s highest and best. She goes beyond the ‘foo foo’ spirituality that most people reach, and is purposeful in supporting others’ awakening. The gift she offers, “Awakened Courage Mini Course” contains a compelling outline for practice for developing spiritual self awareness. These techniques are arriving at a time where the paradigm-shift, human condition, and need for true guidance and leadership are being experienced on all continents – and all of humanity is awakening to the need for actualization, karmic repair, and personal responsibility. Joanna Intara offers an enlightened path conversation that will guide her clients and fellow practitioners in taking responsibility for the spiritual self – along with the self that exists only in the physical world. Congratulations, Joanna, on a fine contribution to the spiritual realm: speaking for the soul is a noble and necessary endeavor."
Penina Polokoff
"I love this woman! First Class Lady! I can give rave reviews about working with Joanna. She touches into the sacred with the same depth that she tracks your story and then delivers you out the other side. I love this woman! First Class Lady…!"
Caroline Muir
"I want to thank Joanna from the bottom of my heart. I want to thank Joanna from the bottom of my heart: her work and her fierce compassion coupled with gentleness and a huge heart have made me more of who I am and who I am becoming."
Madeleine Wober
"I wholeheartedly recommend Joanna and am so grateful for the presence that she’s had in my personal journey. I have felt safe with Joanna, I feel held, I feel seen; and in delving into deep transformational work, those are some of the qualities that I look for in a space-holder and a practitioner, in someone to be on that journey with me. I wholeheartedly recommend Joanna and am so grateful for the presence that she’s had in my personal journey and that she will have in your journey as well."
Lara Sodergren
"She is astute and can sense what other people are thinking and feeling. I follow Joanna on Instagram and fb and I know her personally for more then a decade. I love her work and always wanted to leave her feedback. Joanna is very effective psychotherapist who is able to express herself, and tell you her own life journey. She is astute and can sense what other people are thinking and feeling. She shows warmth and acceptance, empathy and love. Her work is unique, deep, open , and she is the best!"
Geraldina Zim
"I owe a lot of true happiness to Joanna. I have been going to Joanna on and off for 12 years. She has gotten me through so many tough times in my life. Bad relationships, deaths, family drama. She has really given me the tools to cope with the rollercoaster called life. I feel so much more grounded and I am truly happy in my life. I owe a lot of that true happiness to Joanna for keeping me focused on my dreams and knowing I can make them happen. It’s not an easy road by any means, but if you are willing to put in the work, she’ll be there to guide you."
Brenda Long
"I was so impressed with her ability, and I really believe she has a special gift. All of us face times of pain in our lives, and if you’re facing that now and especially if it’s been an ongoing issue, consider taking her Cycle Breaker program – you will find that you come out of it a different person and you’ll be able to rebuild a happy, joyful and energy-filled life. I highly recommend Joanna – she’s the real deal!"
Janis Pettit
"I am amazed at the changes within myself. Joanna, Once again I am thinking of you with a grateful heart. I am amazed at the changes within myself that I have experienced through my own process of introspection and work. I could never have taken this journey without you by my side – as a guide, witness, mirror to my struggle and hope. Thank you for your gentleness, your patience. I continue to wonder at the gift of myself which you supported me to find over the last several years. This deeper connection with my soul, my spirit, has led me to a wonderful relationship and a future marriage–what a joy! I am grateful that you never ceased to care for me nor challenge me to find, and create, the life my heart desires. I feel very blessed to have the skills, the patience and the openness that has grown from my time with you. Namaste."
Jenny Girard Malley
"She is soft spoken, beautiful and quite inviting. In being guided through difficult waters with Joanna, I have gratitude for the fact that she has restored my confidence in being who I really am. After being encouraged to address issues of burnout, my solution was to join her group and community for women. One aspect of being part of a Joanna’s group is validating the fact that we need not travel alone: the power to inspect your innermost feelings, while giving those feelings a voice creates a moment to feel like someone has your back. Joanna is generous about everyone having their say, and is subtle in moving things along. The gift that she has for attending and nurturing the feminine aspect of humanity is soft spoken, beautiful and quite inviting. I began to reconnect to my true self and I now use my voice to ask for support with my responsibilities, which allows me the opportunity to refill my vessel, and offset burnout."
Joyce Burks-Fitzhugh
"You are a potent healer and a brilliant spiritual guide. In 2007 an intuitive told me that in 2 years I would meet a woman who would be worth her weight in gold. She was 3 years off. You’ve helped me unearth the dangerously dehydrated baby-gasping sprouts of my own spiritual compass. For me in this life, that is priceless. Thank you for so gracefully handling and seeing the intensity, crises, fragility, and drama for what it really was. Now, I have loads of work, financial uncertainty, and trial and error as I design a non-conformist life according to my own terms and priorities – while actively working to reveal what value I can give to others. Not to mention combating my ego along the way. I’m scared shitless, so I’m on the right path. You are a potent healer and a brilliant spiritual guide. The breadth and depth of your wisdom, the size of your heart, and the creativity in your flexible toolbox are a fierce combination. You’ve opened my consciousness to universal principles and ancient teachings that I was oblivious to or didn’t know to apply. I feel so blessed. Thank God there is no turning back now."
Jordan Queior
"If she has come to your life, you must ready for something, simply listen to her words in your heart.
It’s amazing how Grace brought Joanna and me together; connecting so deeply and without even having met me once in person, by simply looking at my picture and birth-date she gave me deep, concise and helpful guidance. 'I'm letting go of all the layers that are false. ' This is so much in sync with what I was already doing, without knowing why. And then, realizing I was not doing anything at all! Since then, I've been watching and letting go of resistances in all forms is easier. During the 2016 Satsang season with Mooji, there were instances where I could feel these words of her guiding me. With Mooji showering his Grace and love every moment and Joanna’s love, this time has been absolutely flowing for me, where it could have been painful for someone else. Her loving-ness, openness, and genuine will to assist are pure and immense. Just like Masters like Mooji or Osho say, listen to the words not by mind but in your heart, I resonate with that. If she has come to your life, you must ready for something, simply listen to her words in your heart."
It’s amazing how Grace brought Joanna and me together; connecting so deeply and without even having met me once in person, by simply looking at my picture and birth-date she gave me deep, concise and helpful guidance. 'I'm letting go of all the layers that are false. ' This is so much in sync with what I was already doing, without knowing why. And then, realizing I was not doing anything at all! Since then, I've been watching and letting go of resistances in all forms is easier. During the 2016 Satsang season with Mooji, there were instances where I could feel these words of her guiding me. With Mooji showering his Grace and love every moment and Joanna’s love, this time has been absolutely flowing for me, where it could have been painful for someone else. Her loving-ness, openness, and genuine will to assist are pure and immense. Just like Masters like Mooji or Osho say, listen to the words not by mind but in your heart, I resonate with that. If she has come to your life, you must ready for something, simply listen to her words in your heart."
Shivani Gala
"I find her to be a very rare, extraordinary healer in her emotional depth and insight!
Joanna is one of the most kind, transparent, warm and ferocious women I've had the privilege to know. Her character, warmth, and passion for emotional wellness and integrity are head and shoulders above most, especially in the vast field of therapists and healers. She possesses a unique and deeply held trust and capacity with herself, to the degree that you can feel yourself in the presence of a woman who has done the very deep work of full integration. As a survivor myself of severe trauma and abuse, I know, and deeply revere, healers who hold the much needed capacity to support the intensity and velocity of our unhealed parts. Joanna is one who not only holds this capacity, but she immediately offers a magnanimous wisdom that precedes her in everything she does. I find her to be a very rare, extraordinary healer in her emotional depth and insight, and I consider myself blessed beyond measure to have come to know and love her and her incredible gifts."
Joanna is one of the most kind, transparent, warm and ferocious women I've had the privilege to know. Her character, warmth, and passion for emotional wellness and integrity are head and shoulders above most, especially in the vast field of therapists and healers. She possesses a unique and deeply held trust and capacity with herself, to the degree that you can feel yourself in the presence of a woman who has done the very deep work of full integration. As a survivor myself of severe trauma and abuse, I know, and deeply revere, healers who hold the much needed capacity to support the intensity and velocity of our unhealed parts. Joanna is one who not only holds this capacity, but she immediately offers a magnanimous wisdom that precedes her in everything she does. I find her to be a very rare, extraordinary healer in her emotional depth and insight, and I consider myself blessed beyond measure to have come to know and love her and her incredible gifts."
Lori Santo
"She’s intuitive, knows how pinpoint where the issues are, and is so supportive along the way. I’ve known Joanna for over five years. We initially met in passing through similar friend circles, but then I started following both her website and FaceBook page after learning we had some things in common. As we became friends and I really got to know her, I was always struck by how much she listened, empathized, and took a true interest. Not only in me, but to everyone around her. Although Joanna hasn’t been my personal therapist, she has offered me tremendous insight in very personal matters. She’s intuitive, knows how pinpoint where the issues are, and is so supportive along the way. I truly value her friendship."
Cassia Crall