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Mind Body Sound is a collective of skilled practitioners blending ancient wisdom, modern neuroscience, and the creative arts to create transformative experiences for healing and connection. Rooted in the understanding that the mind, body, and nervous system are deeply intertwined, our offerings are designed to calm the mind, restore balance in the body, and invite deep presence to elevate the spirit. Sound is at the heart of our work—music as medicine, vibration as regulation, rhythm as a bridge to healing. From immersive sound baths to guided meditation, from nervous system support to creative expression, we offer spaces where stress melts away, resilience grows, and the spirit can realign. Whether you seek rest, inspiration, or deeper connection, we welcome you into this collective journey of restoration and renewal.

We are the Mind Body Sound Collective

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Founder
Erica Skone-Rees is the Founder of Mind Body Sound Collective, a community devoted to creating immersive experiences that blend mindfulness, music, and nervous system regulation. She is a certified mindfulness and meditation teacher, integrative health coach, and Safe & Sound Protocol practitioner with extensive experience leading workshops, retreats, and empowerment groups centered around cultivating mind-body balance.
Drawing from a rich tapestry of ancient traditions, science-based practices, and her own profound healing journey, Erica illuminates pathways to self-discovery, resilience, and inner harmony. Her teaching style weaves creativity, music, and play into every offering—creating a joyful and grounded environment where participants can reconnect with curiosity, presence, and the wisdom of their own bodies.
Connect with Erica for 1:1 coaching & mentorship.

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Tracy Chocholousek, LMFT is a holistic and expressive arts psychotherapist, healer, and creatrix who has worked with plant medicine and aromatherapy for over 15 years. She is passionate about weaving customized creative practices into her integrative therapy practice. She believes the human spirit is oriented toward wholeness and connection and she seeks to foster a sense of resiliency, hope and self-empowerment in her clients and loved ones.

She has a diverse background in somatic modalities, spiritual traditions, energy practices, and the creative arts. Tracy’s greatest joy is in leading groups, circles and rituals for healing, incorporating creative practices in mindfulness, somatics, nature based healing, and self-regulation skills.

Michele Lomax is an employment and civil rights attorney, mindfulness teacher, and founder of Practice Mindfully, a coaching and wellness platform for busy professionals. Drawing from her experience in both BigLaw and public-interest practice, she helps legal and corporate teams cultivate clarity, resilience, collaboration, and emotional intelligence in high-stress environments. Her work bridges science and self-care—showing how mindfulness and preventative well-being strategies enhance focus, collaboration, and organizational performance.

Bryce Mulholland is a composer and instrumentalist who explores the intersection of sound, stillness, and healing. His work bridges meditative soundscapes with live performance, inviting listeners into states of restoration and presence.
From the banks of the Ganges in Rishikesh to the sun-drenched shores of California, Bryce weaves a genre-defying tapestry of global influences. For over 15 years, he has brought his music to life across the Bay Area—resonating through vineyards, forest clearings, intimate city dives, and coastal gatherings alike.
Listen to his latest work here: Earthtone.

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Shannon Hopkins is a practitioner in the healing arts of shamanic guidance, intuitive healing, and energy work. She focuses on opening to the unseen realms, honing intuition, and facilitating a deeper relationship with yourself. She leads rituals, ceremonies, rights of passage and women’s moon circles for all life transitions including birth, death, seasonal shifts, and life changes and celebrations. She has practiced for over 20 years in the Bay Area in person and online. She lives in Walnut Creek with her husband and two sons.

Explore her offerings at www.blessingways.com

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Amirah is a strategic advisor, consultant, facilitator and speaker for companies, executives and talent on the rise supporting them in building sales, leading teams and creating careers that allow them to get to their highest level.
She brings 20+ years of executive experience leading teams at Citibank, Trulia, Zillow, NerdWallet and Opendoor. She is also an entrepreneur and led her own company The Home Dispatch and currently the founder and CEO of Grow Scale & Develop. Amirah believes in the power of authentic leadership and embracing the diversity we have as our ultimate superpower to bring to the world.

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Mariko Drew, LAc, MSTCM, MA is passionate about providing whole person care, weaving the art and science of Classical Chinese medicine with evidence-based medical research. She is licensed in acupuncture and traditional herbology with a focus on sports medicine, women’s health, digestive disorders, and pain management. Her goal is making the wisdom of this ancient medicine accessible to everyone, supporting deeper transformation.
She was first influenced by the ancient art form as a child within her Japanese American family through shiatsu, cupping, and traditional foods. Later she studied Chen Taiqi and began growing her own medicinal herbs, experimenting with medicine making and food as medicine.
Mariko is a San Francisco native and the daughter of artists and activists. She has studied Afro-Latin dance and music for over 20 years and loves dancing in San Francisco’s Carnaval with her group Fogo na Roupa.

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Alan is a certified mindfulness teacher, a sixth-degree black belt in aikido and senior instructor at Two Rock Dojo in his hometown of Petaluma. He works with individuals and groups in a variety of settings (schools, organizations, residential treatment centers), helping people be resourceful and resilient; articulate and embody their vision and goals, and engage in their lives with a sense of confidence, embodied presence and grace. In addition to his private mentoring and consulting work, Alan works with the North Coast School of Leadership, TEL (Transformative Educational Leadership), Stanford University’s Challenge Success program, and other organizations providing support for leaders and their teams.
Alan is a recently retired public/independent school principal and administrator. During his career in education, he incorporated best practices from fields of organizational leadership, martial arts and mindfulness to positively impact school-wide culture, academic success, systemic change, collaboration and well-being. Alan holds a doctorate degree in education and has collaborated with other educators & organizations to bring mindfulness, social emotional learning, restorative practices and equity to the groups he has served.