About
Meet The Foundress
Joni Fornelli is an occupational therapist and song carrier centering relational healing with the land and creating a beloving culture. She offers expression through songs, movement, and art, supporting body and soul aligning with the Spirit of Life. Exploring our lives through story-sharing and reflection brings our diversity and wisdom together, moving toward right relations. Seeking guidance from the natural world, tending our relationship with all of life brings us into loving presence and balance.
Joni engages in and shares Nia movement practice which combines mind, body, emotions, and spirit realms with dance. She loves soul expression through collage and paper mache as well as other mixed medium art. Joni plays mountain dulcimer and 5 string viola in a Scandinavian folk music group and loves to sing with friends and attend singing retreats.
Joni loves to offer massage with songs. She believes this experience is nurturing and grounding in these times. Blending sound and movement calms our nervous systems, helping us regulate and process our emotions for well being.
Vision
At The Lavender House, Joni appreciates listening to the natural world and her wisdom therein, creating a haven of support to be humankind. She believes blending our unique gifts together weaves meaningful harmony and joy in how we live and thrive together.
Inspiration
At The Lavender House, we pride ourselves on being more than a wellness center. Our peaceful and serene atmosphere creates a safe haven for all those who enter. We are a personal growth facility that offers a variety of services designed to help you become the best version of yourself. We welcome inclusivity and invite everyone to embrace their authentic selves in our space. We do not permit the use of drugs or alcohol on the premises to ensure a safe and respectful environment for all.
Community
Our desire for the Lavender House is to provide a safe place to be vulnerable and grow from experience that nourishes and renews your soul embodied. With expression through art, music and movement deep parts of you are seen, heard and given the opportunity to grow. Tending to our wholeness individually and together helps us align our integrity, compassion and good stewardship of life. Our way of life needs to turn toward living in balance and relationship with the natural world. The Lavender House offers an oasis to renew your balance and tend to all of who you are, caring for yourself and our community.
Mission
Living in our world in ways we all thrive begins within. Reconnecting with the wisdom of the natural world and being reclaimed by the earth turns us toward right relationships with all of life. Listening and living in balance turns us toward healing ways together. Cultivating our wholeness as a community shifts our perspective, tending our relationships with the land, all beings and humankind. When we create loving relationships and imagine the world we want to live in, we create a map and are able to see our steps on the journey.
Vision
Partners and Resources
Coalition to Dismantle the Doctrine of Discovery
Joni became involved with the Coalition to Dismantle the Doctrine of Discovery dismantlediscovery.org where she learned of the Kanza People whose traditional lands she lives on.
Recognizing the need for repair with the Kanza people, and changing the legal and cultural systems which continue to harm Indigenous peoples today, income at the Lavender House is shared with the Coalition to Dismantle the Doctrine of Discovery for this organization's amazing work moving toward right relations. The goal for dismantling the doctrine of discovery is adopting the United Nations Declaration for the Rights of Indigenous People. (UN DRIP)
The Kanza Heritage Society
At The Lavender House, we strive to be allies and partners to the indigenous community. One of our key focuses is to honor the relationship with the original people of Kansas, the Kaw [Kanza] Nation. Moving toward right relations, proceeds from our services are paid as real rent to the Kanza Heritage Society, ensuring the Kaw nation's cultural preservation efforts are cared for now and in the future. Joni invites you to join her, building a repair community in Kansas, acknowledging the people who's land we inhabit.
Learn more about the Kanza at sacredredrock.com