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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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:08):
Hi, I'm Lizzie and I'm Nikki.
Have you ever felt that yourlife was missing purpose, joy or
deep connection?
Welcome to the Modern ZenCollective Podcast, where we
embrace holistic living for ajoyful, purpose-driven life.
In today's episode, we will besharing one of the practices we

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use to help us release, receive,come back into alignment and
connect with the divinity withinand all around us.
We hope you enjoy it andcontinue to join us weekly on
the Modern Zen CollectivePodcast, elevating your mind and
spirit.
And now today's practice theWelcome beautiful souls and

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happy 8-8, also known as theLion's Gate Portal.
Thank you for sitting in silencewith me in the beginning.
For just a moment, I was calledto do some Reiki and so I just
decided to sit with it and leavethe recording on, so I hope you

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can feel this cleansing,healing energy that I'm sending
you today.
This is one of the most potentenergetic days of the year for
manifestation, for spiritualalignment and for heart-centered

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expansion.
Maybe that's why I felt calledto do some Reiki when we started
recording.
I'm so excited to guide youthrough a special activation
practice today on the Modern ZenCollective Podcast.
So what exactly is Lionsgate?

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The Lionsgate portal is acosmic alignment that occurs
every year between late July andAugust 12th, with its peak on
8-8.
During this time, the Earth,the star Sirius, often called
our spiritual sun, and the sunin Leo all align.

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It's a time of heightened lightenergy, heart chakra activation
and accelerated manifestation.
Think of it like an energeticopening, a doorway through which
your intentions, desires andspiritual growth can move more
quickly and clearly.
So I chose today's practice tobe a part of our 30-day

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manifestation challenge, becausethis is a day to be bold.
It's a day to claim your truth.
A day to be bold, it's a day toclaim your truth and it's a day
to let your voice and vision beheard loud and clear.
And so why not bring thisenergy of 8-8 into our 30-day

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manifestation challenge,whatever month we choose to
offer it, whatever month wechoose 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 beadding in some lion's breath.

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I'm really excited to do somelion's breath pranayama with you
today, and it's a yogicbreathing technique that I
learned during my yoga teachertraining and it's really fun
actually, and it helps clearstagnant energy and really
activate your power center.
It's bold, it's expressive andheart opening, just like the Leo

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energy, and so I'm going toguide you through three rounds
just here to start.
So I'd like to have you comeinto a comfortable seated
position, if that feels good toyou or if you're really feeling
it, get down on your hands andknees, kind of like in cat-cow
for yoga, and just take a momenthere to settle in whatever

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position you choose to be in catcow for yoga and just take a
moment here to settle inwhatever position you choose to
be in.
And how it's going to go isyou're going to take a deep
inhale through your nose and asyou exhale, you're going to open
your mouth nice and wide, stickyour tongue out.
Stick out your tongue and makea lion's roar or a strong ha

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sound.
So it sounds like this.
That's what mine sounds like.
Yours might sound different.
So we're going to do threerounds together.
So go ahead and get comfortable.
We're going to dig in deep andnow inhale deeply through your

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nose and now exhale, tongue out,strong lion's roar, strong ha
sound, nice.
Another round Inhale deeplythrough your nose, exhale it all

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out, tongue out, lion's roarand now one more round.
Inhale deeply and now exhalewith your lion's breath and now
shake out any energy.
If you feel like you need toRoll out those shoulders, wiggle
that body, shake it all out andlet your breath move throughout
your whole body.
You're clearing your path foryour intentions to be fully

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expressed, so just let it all go.
So now let's settle in.
Now that your energy is clearand open, let's drop into a
brief activation to align yourvision with the power of today,

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the power of today, the power of8-8.
So go ahead and close your eyes, if you haven't already, and
let's place one hand on ourhearts and the other on our
bellies and now begin to breathegently.
Breathe in through the nose andout through the mouth With each

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breath.
Feel yourself centered in thismoment, supported by the earth
beneath you and lit up by thecosmic energy above you.
Now imagine a golden portalopening above your head.

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This is the Lion's Gate, adirect channel to higher wisdom,
soul level clarity and divinesupport.
Visualize this golden lightpouring down through your crown

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into your third eye, your throat, your heart, and let that
golden energy land in your heartcenter.
See it glowing brightly andradiating with the frequency of
your deepest desires.

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Now call in one intention that'son your heart right now.
Not a should, but a soul truth.
What do you know?
You are ready to call in, sayit silently or out loud.
I am ready to receive.

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I am ready to receive.
Breathe into it.
Let the energy of thatintention expand through your

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whole being, let it ripple intothe field around you.
You don't have to know how it'scoming, you only have to be
open.

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Now, take a deep breath intoyour heart, hold it at the top
and exhale slowly and repeatafter me.
I am a powerful co-creator.
I am aligned with the frequencyof abundance, love and truth.

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I trust in divine timing.
I am open to receive.
Thank you for sharing thisactivation with me.

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Allow yourself to slowly comeback into your body, into your
breath, and notice how you'refeeling.

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Whenever you're ready, you canslowly open your eyes and come
back to this practice anytimeyou need a reminder of your
power or a resa in your energy.
And if you're participating inthe 30-day manifestation
challenge on the Modern ZenCollective app, let this be a
turning point, a day where yousay yes to your vision fully,

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unapologetically and with openarms.
So we'll see you guys insidethe app and right back here next
week for more.
Thanks so much.
Have a great day.
Thank you for watching.