Practice: Lion's Gate Portal Activation

The cosmos opens its most powerful doorway today, and we're here to guide you through it. The Lion's Gate Portal represents a rare celestial alignment where Earth, the spiritual sun Sirius, and our Sun in Leo create an energetic gateway for accelerated manifestation and heart-centered expansion.

We begin with an unexpected moment of Reiki healing that set the tone for this entire session, followed by the bold and transformative practice of lion's breath pranayama. This ancient yogic breathing technique clears stagnant energy while activating your personal power center, preparing you for the deep visualization work that follows. Through guided meditation, you'll experience golden light pouring through your crown chakra, activating your third eye, throat, and heart centers as you connect with your deepest soul truths.

The practice culminates in a powerful manifestation activation where you'll claim your intentions with the full support of cosmic timing. Whether you're joining us on the actual 8-8 portal date or carrying this energy forward into your own manifestation journey, this session offers practical tools for spiritual alignment and conscious co-creation. We explore how divine timing works with our personal intentions, creating space for miracles to unfold naturally and abundantly.

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Chapters

• 0:00 Welcome and Opening Energy Work
• 2:21 Understanding the Lion's Gate Portal
• 4:15 Lion's Breath Pranayama Practice
• 6:49 Golden Portal Visualization
• 10:20 Manifestation Activation and Closing

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:08

Hi, I'm Lizzie and I'm Nikki. Have you ever felt that your life was missing purpose, joy or deep connection? Welcome to the Modern Zen Collective Podcast, where we embrace holistic living for a joyful, purpose-driven life. In today's episode, we will be sharing one of the practices we use to help us release, receive, come back into alignment and connect with the divinity within and all around us. We hope you enjoy it and continue to join us weekly on the Modern Zen Collective Podcast, elevating your mind and spirit. And now today's practice the Welcome beautiful souls and happy 8-8, also known as the Lion's Gate Portal.

Speaker 1: 1:45

Thank you for sitting in silence with me in the beginning. For just a moment, I was called to do some Reiki and so I just decided to sit with it and leave the recording on, so I hope you can feel this cleansing, healing energy that I'm sending you today. This is one of the most potent energetic days of the year for manifestation, for spiritual alignment and for heart-centered expansion. Maybe that's why I felt called to do some Reiki when we started recording. I'm so excited to guide you through a special activation practice today on the Modern Zen Collective Podcast. So what exactly is Lionsgate? The Lionsgate portal is a cosmic alignment that occurs every year between late July and August 12th, with its peak on 8-8. During this time, the Earth, the star Sirius, often called our spiritual sun, and the sun in Leo all align. It's a time of heightened light energy, heart chakra activation and accelerated manifestation. Think of it like an energetic opening, a doorway through which your intentions, desires and spiritual growth can move more quickly and clearly. So I chose today's practice to be a part of our 30-day manifestation challenge, because this is a day to be bold. It's a day to claim your truth. A day to be bold, it's a day to claim your truth and it's a day to let your voice and vision be heard loud and clear. And so why not bring this energy of 8-8 into our 30-day manifestation challenge, whatever month we choose to offer it, whatever month we choose to do it, because this energy can be carried with us, we can tap back in and if you're listening on 8-8, get ready. This will be good. So we are also going to be adding in some lion's breath.

Speaker 1: 4:15

I'm really excited to do some lion's breath pranayama with you today, and it's a yogic breathing technique that I learned during my yoga teacher training and it's really fun actually, and it helps clear stagnant energy and really activate your power center. It's bold, it's expressive and heart opening, just like the Leo energy, and so I'm going to guide you through three rounds just here to start. So I'd like to have you come into a comfortable seated position, if that feels good to you or if you're really feeling it, get down on your hands and knees, kind of like in cat-cow for yoga, and just take a moment here to settle in whatever position you choose to be in cat cow for yoga and just take a moment here to settle in whatever position you choose to be in. And how it's going to go is you're going to take a deep inhale through your nose and as you exhale, you're going to open your mouth nice and wide, stick your tongue out. Stick out your tongue and make a lion's roar or a strong ha sound. So it sounds like this. That's what mine sounds like. Yours might sound different. So we're going to do three rounds together.

Speaker 1: 5:39

So go ahead and get comfortable. We're going to dig in deep and now inhale deeply through your nose and now exhale, tongue out, strong lion's roar, strong ha sound, nice. Another round Inhale deeply through your nose, exhale it all out, tongue out, lion's roar and now one more round. Inhale deeply and now exhale with your lion's breath and now shake out any energy. If you feel like you need to Roll out those shoulders, wiggle that body, shake it all out and let your breath move throughout your whole body. You're clearing your path for your intentions to be fully expressed, so just let it all go. So now let's settle in.

Speaker 1: 6:49

Now that your energy is clear and open, let's drop into a brief activation to align your vision with the power of today, the power of today, the power of 8-8. So go ahead and close your eyes, if you haven't already, and let's place one hand on our hearts and the other on our bellies and now begin to breathe gently. Breathe in through the nose and out through the mouth With each breath. Feel yourself centered in this moment, supported by the earth beneath you and lit up by the cosmic energy above you. Now imagine a golden portal opening above your head. This is the Lion's Gate, a direct channel to higher wisdom, soul level clarity and divine support. Visualize this golden light pouring down through your crown into your third eye, your throat, your heart, and let that golden energy land in your heart center. See it glowing brightly and radiating with the frequency of your deepest desires.

Speaker 1: 8:58

Now call in one intention that's on your heart right now. Not a should, but a soul truth. What do you know? You are ready to call in, say it silently or out loud. I am ready to receive. I am ready to receive. Breathe into it. Let the energy of that intention expand through your whole being, let it ripple into the field around you. You don't have to know how it's coming, you only have to be open.

Speaker 1: 10:20

Now, take a deep breath into your heart, hold it at the top and exhale slowly and repeat after me. I am a powerful co-creator. I am aligned with the frequency of abundance, love and truth. I trust in divine timing. I am open to receive. Thank you for sharing this activation with me. Allow yourself to slowly come back into your body, into your breath, and notice how you're feeling. Whenever you're ready, you can slowly open your eyes and come back to this practice anytime you need a reminder of your power or a resa in your energy. And if you're participating in the 30-day manifestation challenge on the Modern Zen Collective app, let this be a turning point, a day where you say yes to your vision fully, unapologetically and with open arms. So we'll see you guys inside the app and right back here next week for more. Thanks so much. Have a great day. Thank you for watching.