Explore Group Programs
created for you
I have created a dynamic selection of session and programs to help support you with your healing process. Whether you’re looking for an mindfulness class or a workshop to help you manage your life, stress, anxiety, depression or illness, there are options for you.
🌿 Healing After the Hurt
Grief, Guilt, and the Journey Back to Yourself
A one-time Spring Healing Circle for women navigating the emotional weight of Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, and the unspoken pressures that build into summer.
Mondays at 5 PM EST | starting May 19 for 5 weeks
Virtual • 75 min • $350 CAD • small confidential healing circle
A supportive Healing Circle for adult daughters of emotionally immature parents navigating seasonal family pressures.
✨ Somatic & mindfulness practices to ground you
✨ Confidential support with compassionate peers
Learn More About the Program → here
✨ You don’t have to keep abandoning yourself to stay connected to your parent.
You’re allowed to take up space.
You’re allowed to heal. ✨
📣 Please share this with someone who may need this kind of support. 💌
✨ No prior group experience necessary ✨
🌳 Mindful Renewal: MBSR for Women
Cultivate Presence, Reduce Stress, and Build Resilience
A one-time Fall 8-Week Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction program exclusively for women.
Date/time TBD EST | Fall 2025
Virtual | 75-minute sessions | $650 CAD flat fee | Closed women’s cohort
Why Women-Only?
This MBSR series offers a safe, supportive sister-circle to explore stress reduction, mindful living, and somatic awareness—tailored to the unique pressures women face.
✨ What to Expect
• 8 weekly, live sessions via Zoom
• Guided mindfulness practices (body scan, sitting meditation, gentle movement, etc.)
• Didactic teaching on stress physiology and mindful communication
• Small, closed cohort to foster trust and deep connection
• Home practice support with recordings, handouts, and weekly check-ins
🌼 Who This Is For
This program is designed for women who:
✔️ Are experiencing chronic stress, burnout, or overwhelm
✔️ Wish to deepen their mindfulness practice with somatic awareness
✔️ Want to build resilience and emotional regulation skills
✔️ Would benefit from a women’s space to share, reflect, and learn
🌙 You’ll Leave With
• Practical tools to interrupt stress in daily life
• Greater clarity, calm, and embodied presence
• A compassionate community of women holding parallel journeys
• Ongoing home practice resources to sustain your growth
📅 Details & Registration
TBD at TBD PM EST
Start: TBD
End: TBD
Virtual | 2-hour sessions
$650 CAD flat fee
Small, women-only cohort (applications reviewed for fit)
[Learn More & Register →](/fall-mbsr-for-women)
Please share this with a woman you care about who you think could benefit from this support. 💗
👥 Facilitated by Lynne Protain MACP, CPP, ELI-MP, PCC, RP
Professional Certified Coach | Registered Psychotherapist | Certified MBSR Instructor
Lynne specializes in trauma-informed, compassionate, somatic and mindfulness-based therapy for women navigating burnout, trauma, chronic illness, menopause and emotionally complex family relationships. 🌾
📣 Please share this with someone who may need this kind of support. 💌
✨ No prior group experience necessary ✨
Cost: $250Cdn
(no experience necessary)
Heart-Centred Mindfulness
5 weeks starting Thurs Feb 23
from 7pm - 8:30pmEST
Heart Centred mindfulness can help you to soften your body, open your heart and reconnect with a strong sense of peace and ease.
Heart-centered practices have also been shown to increase positive emotions such as love, joy, gratitude, contentment and hope.
I will guide you in a heart-centered practice and a journaling reflection about your experience to help you imagine how you might integrate this practice into your life.
Please share this with a woman you care about who you think could benefit from this support. 💗
Lynne is a Mental Wellness & Mindfulness Coach & a Registered Psychotherapist. She works with one-on-one clients and various organizations including the University of Toronto and the Toronto District School Board to provide mental health support. She also works with women who are dealing with trauma, anxiety, depression, chronic illness and high levels of stress.
Cost:
(no experience necessary)
Introduction to Mindfulness
Free weekly Mindfulness sessions
(STARTING BACK SOON)
Weekly free Mindfulness sessions.
Join me on Wednesdays at
12 noon EST for a free live Mindfulness session.
Join me for this calming 30-minute mindfulness session.
Together we will practice mindfulness, breath-work and gentle movement techniques.
This is a great way to pause and give yourself the gift of self-care.You will feel more calm, grounded and peaceful.
All you need is a comfy quiet place to sit!
Choose the dates you would like to attend and feel free to invite someone you care about to register :)
Once you are registered you will receive the link to attend shortly afterwards.
I look forward to seeing you!
**No experience is necessary**
Please share this with a woman you care about who you think could benefit from this support. 💗
Lynne is a Mental Wellness & Mindfulness Coach & a Registered Psychotherapist. She works for one-on-one clients and various organizations including the University of Toronto and the Toronto District School Board to provide mental health support. She also works with women who are dealing with trauma, anxiety, depression, chronic illness and high levels of stress.
It’s powerful stuff!
Cost: $0
(no experience necessary)Weekly free Mindfulness sessions.
Join me on Thursdays at
12 noon EST for a free live Mindfulness session.
This 30-minute practice introduces you to Mindfulness and supports you with starting your own Mindfulness practice so you can learn how it can help you.
It’s powerful stuff!
Cost: $0
(no experience necessary)
Mindfulness for Stressed Out Women
COMING SOON!
Are you struggling with anxiety and overwhelm? Feeling disconnected? We all have some undercurrent of fear running through daily life. The stories we tell ourselves determine how we limit ourselves and if we heal. This program will help you understand yourself better.
Who this course is for:
Women who feel plagued by stress, fear or anxiety, struggling with finding calm and peace, feeling disconnected, longing to live their truth and experience freedom.
What you’ll learn:
How to meet challenges with courage, wisdom and self-compassion, understand why trying to avoid stress, fear and anxiety does not work, see how your anxiety and stress leads to compulsive behaviours, make more conscious choices in pressured situations.
You will learn valuable mindfulness skills to help you manage those difficult emotions and thoughts. You will lean into your reliable inner resources of safety, strength and connection. Drawing on these resources, you can stay present when stress arises and meet the situation bravely, wisely, with interest and care. You learn to respond, rather than react.
Build your resilience and presence which are important for operating in the world we now live in
Mindfulness strategies for relaxation, calm, improved sleep and peace. Find calm while you discover this safe space with other soul-sisters, reconnecting with your mind, body and spirit.
Experience a larger, more empowered and joyful way of being in the world.
Cost: $350Cdn for 5-week workshop via zoom.
Discounted Intro pricing until Mar 10 - $250Cdn
(no experience necessary)
Self-Compassion for Women Program
COMING SOON!
Are you a woman who struggles with self-criticism and judgement? Would you like to improve the way you deal with difficult emotions? Would you like to reduce your anxiety and stress?
Who this course is for:
Women who would like to learn how to comfort, soothe and motivate themselves with gentle encouragement when they suffer, fail, or feel inadequate.
This is also helpful for those who struggle with a strong inner critic or perfectionism, women who care for others and would like to model self-compassion with those they care for through their own practice.
What you’ll learn:
Together we will develop self-kindness and ease as we learn how to connect to ourselves with self-compassion and gentle support.
You will learn mindful self-compassionate tools to help you manage your life, reduce the impact of stress on you while you improve your relationship with yourself and your relationship with others.
Instead of judging and criticizing yourself for inadequacies or shortcomings, self-compassion means you show yourself kindness and understanding.
Together we will walk the path to accepting yourself, building your inner strength and thriving!
Community & Space:
We will come together in a safe, supportive space with other women who understand and relate to what you are going through.
What is included in the program:
The program includes talks, experiential exercises, mindfulness practices, group discussions and home practices.
Please share this with a woman you care about who you think could benefit from this support. 💗
Lynne is a Registered Pscyhotherapist, a Mental Wellness Coach and teaches Mindfulness,. She works for one-on-one clients and various organizations including the University of Toronto and the Toronto District School Board to provide mental health support. She also works with women who are coping with trauma, chronic illness, chronic pain and dysfunctional family systems.
Cost: $250Cdn
(no experience necessary)
I invite you to join me for a morning of healing & supportive community.
This workshop addresses current neuroscience research related to understand and reduce chronic pain. You will learn breath-work, gentle movement and mindfulness meditation practices to reduce pain and cope more effectively with any remaining pain.
This workshop offers a new understanding of chronic pain and techniques to integrate pain management into your daily life.
Cost: $TBD
mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR)
Date & time to be determined.
This 8-week psycho-educational group program helps to develop your capacity for greater calm and teaches you practical skills to manage stress.
The majority of MBSR program participants report lasting decreases in psychological and physical symptoms which are exacerbated by chronic stress. Research has demonstrated improved behavioural outcomes including better sleep, lower blood pressure, and fewer worries.
You will learn to develop a different relationship to stress resulting from chronic physical and psychological conditions.
Cost: $TBD
Building Better Boundaries for Women Program
COMING SOON!
Are you tired of saying yes when you want to say no?
Do you regularly sacrifice your needs for others?
Are you feeling fear, guilt, or resentment in your relationships?
you struggling with anxiety and overwhelm? Feeling disconnected? We all have some undercurrent of fear running through daily life. The stories we tell ourselves determine how we limit ourselves and if we heal. This program will help you understand yourself better.
Who this course is for:
Women who would like to better manage their boundaries and relationships with partners, family, friends or co-workers.
If you feel anxiety, stress or fear around relationships and communication with others.
What you’ll learn:
You will learn how to effectively set personal limits with the people in your life.
You will learn to start creating clear & healthy boundaries and communicate those boundaries with calm & confidence.
Overcome feelings of guilt and fear when you stand up for yourself.
Reduce your stress, increase self-esteem & confidence
Learn how to deal with difficult, toxic or stressful people with courage, wisdom and self-compassion.
Gain support from an expert while building strength from a warm, supportive group
You will also learn valuable mindfulness skills to help you manage difficult emotions and thoughts as yo lean into strength as you learn to respond, rather than react.
Mindfulness strategies for relaxation, calm, improved sleep and peace. Find calm while you discover this safe space with other soul-sisters, reconnecting with your mind, body and spirit.
Welcome to a more confident, empowered and joyful you.
Cost: TBD-weekly workshop
(no experience necessary)