Mind Body Medicine

Change Your Life • Manage Stress • Create Optimum Health
Enhance Well-Being • Prevent Health Problems • Increase Self-Awareness

Offering a safe, nurturing container for your personal growth and healing.

Dates and Prices

In this transformative group, we combine research-backed healing therapies to help you navigate life’s changes, manage stress, and enhance your overall well-being. This intimate and supportive setting invites you to explore and transform the physical, mental, emotional, social, and spiritual dimensions of your life.

Our Offering

An 8 week immersive container with:

A conscious and deeply supported practice

Online, concise lessons and practices that weave science with spirituality

Weekly Online Lesson and Meditation

Weekly group in person checkins

Prerecorded and in person somatic and sound meditations to support integration

A private messaging group

Options for 1:1 integration support and coaching with the facilitators

Yes Please!

What Participants Say:

A heightened sense of well-being and engagement in life
Decreased depression and anxiety
Fewer physical symptoms and more energy
Enhanced coping skills for managing pain, chronic illness, and stress
Greater self-awareness and positive perceptions

Week 1: Opening Group

Objective: Introduce the group, establish safety, and explore self-awareness through creative expression.
Activities:

Welcome, introductions, and group agreements
Grounding meditation & breath awareness
Initial self-exploration drawing exercise
Discussion on stress and the mind-body connection
Reflection
Home Practice Suggestions
Closing Meditation

Week 2: Biofeedback & Autogenic Training

Objective: Learn how to regulate the nervous system through biofeedback and self-hypnosis.
Activities:

Check-in and mindful breathing
Biofeedback: Tuning into body signals & stress responses
Autogenic Training (self-hypnosis) for deep relaxation
Reflection
Home Practice Suggestions
Closing Meditation

Week 3: Meditation & Movement Practices

Objective: build an understanding and experience meditation as central to mind-body medicine and self-care. Introduce expressive meditation techniques.
Activities:

Opening meditation and check-in
Meditation Overview: Covering types of meditation (concentrative, mindfulness, expressive), benefits, and real-life applications.
Experiential Practice: Drumming, Shaking and Dancing: Engaging the body to release stuck energy and cultivate awareness.
Reflection
Home Practice Suggestions
Closing Meditation

Week 4: Guided Imagery & Visualization for Healing

Objective: Introduce imagery as a tool for healing, relaxation, and transformation.
Activities:

Check-in & breathwork
Introduction to guided imagery & physiological effects
Experiential practice: Safe place & wise guide visualization
Exploring personal imagery for healing
Reflection
Home Practice Suggestions
Closing Meditation

Week 5: Emotions, Stress, and the Body

Objective: Develop emotional awareness and resilience through self-compassion practices.
Activities:

Check-in & centering exercise
Discussion: The connection between emotions, stress, and physical health
Mindful inquiry: Identifying where emotions are stored in the body
Somatic practice: Somatic Movement
Guided visualization on emotional release
Creative expression: drawing to process emotions
Reflection
Home Practice Suggestions
Closing Meditation

Week 6: Breath and Movement

Objective: Deepen understanding of how breath works in the body and its connection to movement.
Activities:

Opening meditation and check-in
The Physiology & Awareness of Breathing
Group Sharing: Reflection on breathing experience
Experiential: Chaotic Breathing Exercise
Reflection
Home Practice Suggestions
Closing Meditation

Week 7: Connection

Objective: Explore the role of connection in healing, self-awareness, and emotional well-being.
Activities:

Opening meditation and check-in
Connection in Mind-Body Medicine

Understanding spiritual connection beyond religion
The role of meaning and purpose in healing
The impact of gratitude, compassion, and forgiveness

Meditation: Compassion (Tonglen)
Reflection
Home Practice Suggestions
Closing Meditation

Week 8: Closing Ceremony

Objective: Reflect on personal growth, celebrate progress, and integrate mind-body tools.
Activities:

Opening meditation and check-in
Experiential: Creative Expression
Reflection
The Role of Ceremony & Ritual in Transition
Closing Ceremony
Reflection
Home Practice Suggestions
Closing Meditation
Evaluations: Opportunity for feedback on the group experience

Final Notes:

Each session integrates mindfulness, sound, breathwork and somatic practices.
Confidentiality and mutual respect are foundational.

Weekly Course Overview

I'll Be There

The Path

Mind Body Medicine Groups

The Mind-Body Skills Group provides a safe and supportive space to explore evidence-based techniques for reducing stress, enhancing self-awareness, and building resilience. Through developing practices such as meditation, guided imagery, breathwork, expressive arts, and gentle movement, participants cultivate a deeper connection between mind and body. Over eight weeks, this group offers tools to navigate life’s challenges, strengthen emotional well-being, and foster inner peace all within a nurturing community of like-minded individuals.

Mind, Body, Soul Connection Groups

This group is a sacred container for individuals seeking to integrate the profound lessons, insights, and healing with plant allies. Over eight weeks, we use somatic practices, guided meditations, reflective journaling, and group connection to foster deep healing and connection. With a focus on grounding and embodiment, this group offers tools to help you process and anchor your practice into your daily reality, empowering you to live with greater alignment, presence, and purpose.

Advanced Groups

The Inner Child Healing Group is an immersive eight-week journey to reconnect with and heal the younger parts of yourself in need of deep healing and connection. Through guided visualizations, somatic practices, sound therapy, and creative play, you will bring love, understanding, and reprogramming to past wounds and limiting beliefs. This group offers a nurturing environment where you can reclaim your authenticity, dissolve old patterns, and step into greater self-worth, joy, and emotional freedom. This is for those you have completed a Mind, Body, Soul Connection Group.

“In all the meetings - Kelly and April both shared energy of love and compassion and I left feeling supported and refueled with their love and the love shared within the group.”

Your Facilitators

Kelly Lee

Hi, I’m Kelly. I create spaces where people can slow down, reconnect, and remember the wisdom that lives within them. Through sound healing, somatic guided meditation, and practices that support the nervous system, I help others feel safe enough to soften and supported enough to heal.

I hold a Bachelor’s in Therapeutic Recreation and have trained in sound therapy, Chinese Medicine principles, and holistic approaches to mind-body integration. My work weaves science with intuition, structure with flow, and stillness with sound.

Whether I’m guiding a teen group, leading a community sound journey, or offering practices for presence and regulation, my intention is the same. I am here to support a return to wholeness and help you reconnect with your breath, your body, and your inner rhythm.

Schedule 1:1 time with Kelly here

April LeBlanc

Hi, I’m April, and I’m deeply passionate about guiding others on their healing journey to reconnect with themselves through the wisdom of the earth, holistic practices, and mindful self-discovery. My own journey has been one of transformation, from experiencing the weight of chronic stress and burnout to finding healing and balance through yoga, acupuncture, sound, movement, and connection.

As a Holistic Nurse Coach with 22 years of experience working with children, teens, and families facing chronic health challenges, I understand the importance of nurturing both the body and spirit. I’ve trained in Mind Body Medicine and Integrative Lifestyle Medicine, and I’ve learned that true healing happens when we integrate the mind, body, and soul.

I believe that nature holds a deep wisdom, and I incorporate this into my practice by working with therapy animals, herbs, and the rhythms of the natural world. Whether I’m skiing through snow, hiking up mountains with campers, or growing plants, I find that the earth offers us the space to reconnect with our most authentic selves.

I’m here to support you on your journey of self-discovery and healing, helping you embrace your true power and live in alignment with your soul. Together, we’ll explore a combination of traditional and alternative practices that honor your unique journey and empower you to thrive.

Schedule 1:1 time with April by texting or emailing. $60/hour Leblancacw@gmail.com

1 (208) 340-7104

Abby Stimpson

Hi, I’m Abby. I’m deeply passionate about walking alongside others on their healing journeys and helping them reconnect with themselves through the rhythms of the earth's cycles, holistic practices, and the gentle unfolding of mindful self-discovery.

My own path has been anything but Linear. It’s been shaped by deep loss in grieving the deaths of family members due to addiction and suicide, by the unraveling of my foundational beliefs, by intense health challenges, and by a near death experience that cracked me wide open… and ultimately brought me back to life. For many years, I gave my power away in the name of “keeping the peace”. But as I found my way back to my voice, my body, and my truth, I came home to myself and it changed everything.

That transformation is what led me to this work, and it is one of my greatest honors to now hold sacred, supportive space for others to do the same. I’ve spent over a decade working as an educator and dance instructor, and I’m endlessly inspired by the children I’ve had the joy of learning from. I love weaving movement, music, and playful creativity into experiences that feel grounding, meaningful, and alive with connection.

Throughout my healing, I’ve explored many holistic modalities, not as fleeting trends, but as vital tools that helped me rebuild from the inside out. Yoga, bodywork, sweat lodges, ancestral healing ceremonies, sound bathing, embodied movement, and community advocacy have all become part of the tapestry I weave into my own personal practice. My work blends both ancient wisdom and modern practices to support your unique journey back to wholeness.

Whether we’re dancing, breathing, grieving, laughing, or resting in stillness, my hope is to walk beside you as you remember who you are, reclaim your voice, and step into your soul’s rhythm. This work lights me up. Supporting others as they find their truth and reconnect with their inner and outer worlds is one of my greatest joys.

Let’s walk this journey together rooted and empowered by the rhythms of connection.

Schedule 1:1 time with Abby by emailing: AbbyStimpson@rhythmsofconnection.org

“It’s put me in touch with parts of myself that were always there, but I kept pushing down. It’s created a safe container for me to explore and accept myself more fully. It’s connected me more to the Divine and the beauty of this world. Most incredulously, it’s brought me back to myself and helped me remember my power and delight with life that had nearly been completely snuffed out of me. I feel so much more confident and sure of myself than I have in decades, perhaps ever. It’s opened me up to so much joy and love and realness.”

FAQs

What is a Mind Body Medicine Group?

A Mind-Body Medicine Skills Group offers a safe and supportive space where you can explore research-based techniques to navigate life’s changes, manage stress, and support healing. These groups are intentionally small—typically 5-8 participants—fostering deep connection and meaningful sharing. We meet for 8 weeks, gathering for 2 hours each week at the same day and time. This structure allows you to learn and practice powerful mind-body skills while integrating them into your daily life, all with the guidance and support of the group.

What skills are taught in a Mind-Body Medicine Group?

These groups are hands-on and experiential. You will learn and practice a variety of mind-body tools, including:

Meditation
Sound Therapy
Guided Imagery
Autogenic Training (self-hypnosis)
Breathwork
Movement
Journaling
Drawing
And more—all within a nurturing group environment.

What if I already practice skills like meditation or imagery? Will a group still help me?

Absolutely! Even if you have experience with meditation, imagery, or other practices, the group can deepen your understanding and expand your toolkit. The combination of learning new techniques, revisiting familiar ones, and experiencing the support of the group often enhances existing practices. You will also cultivate greater awareness in daily life, improving your ability to manage emotional, physical, and psychological challenges and stress.

Who joins a Mind-Body Medicine Group?

Anyone can benefit! Our groups bring together adults of all ages and backgrounds, united by a shared desire for growth and healing. Participants may be looking to:

Reduce stress
Improve coping skills
Ease physical or emotional pain
Enhance immune function
Manage anxiety or depression
Navigate life transitions

Whether your goal is stress relief, personal growth, or building resilience, these groups offer something valuable for everyone.

What are the key differences between a Mind-Body Medicine Group and a Mind Body Soul Connection?

The differences lie in their focus, tools, and target audience. Here's a breakdown: