The Meaning of Lionheart
Lionheart isn’t just a title—it’s a call to action
To truly heal from chronic unhealthy patterns and painful past occurrences we must be courageous.
Courage is strength. It’s the bravery to face discomfort, to overcome your challenges and to trust in your ability to heal. With a lion’s heart, you can take control of your health, find peace in the process, and emerge stronger on the other side.
We must follow our heart's calling. This means embracing the challenges that come with taking our health into our own hands.
At Lionheart Integrative Therapies, we believe in empowering you to make informed, intentional choices about your well-being.
Being heart-led is about aligning your inner truth with your actions. It’s about listening to your body, feeling your emotions in your body and being with a deep connection between your mind, body and soul. When you lead with your heart, you create a path toward balance, stability, and vitality.
At Lionheart, we’re here to support you in this journey, helping you align with your true self and unlock your full potential.
We encourage you to be yourself and honour all that you are and not who you were told you were to be!
If this is calling you then it's time to align (literally your spine) and shine in your full potential!
Molly and Jesse 🧡🌀
Soul Movement
Unifying Body And Soul
The heart is the home for the soul. Through the heart, the soul is present and able to express itself. The heart’s electromagnetic field is powerful. ❤️⚡️
A soul connection we are born with. We lose it when we are off path, not living our truth. Life can get heavy, and that’s when it’s time to let go and trust life’s flow. 🍃
Is it time to embrace your raw essence? Are you ready to BE the human you came here to be? Calling forward FREEDOM.
Through soul movement immerse yourself into a playing field of self-love and connection. Experience more energy, love, and joy.
The 3 steps of soul movement
Channel your soul - Welcome the essence of you. Listen inwards and deepen your relationship with your breath and body.🌀
Movement - Move from the will of the soul and feel the richness of life within you.
- Move through tension
- Shake out stress
- Leave frustration on the floor
…Then rise with strength and regenerate into something new.🔥
Let go - Through the breath, you let go. You can’t hold onto everything. That’s why you laugh, cry, move, and breathe. It’s easiest to let go when you feel safe and relaxed. No need to carry what no longer serves you.
Imagine you’re a bear - Four paws on the Earth, feeling connected and steady. Ready to change direction anytime. You are safe to be yourself. 🐻
Being barefoot, your feet are sensors and your brain's tool. Strengthen and activate your foot made of 33 joints and 4 layers of muscle. Oh! 26 bones too.
Now that you’ve imagined you’re a bear, who is ready to take on anything; be grateful that you don’t have to take on anything. Instead, you can dance.
We are all unique and strong…
Did you know your movement has a sound and every time you touch the ground you make an impact?
Your body is a powerful vessel generating chi (energy). ⚡️ Your bodies electromagnetic field is harmonized by the Earth’s frequency. 🌏🐾
When you breathe in universal life-force you;
Strengthen your chi
Harmonise your body
Increase vitality
Your soul has a message for the world. 🔥
A child dances joyously and moves playfully. Their dance may seem out of control, but they’re being free.
Your inner child wants you to be free.
Be raw, be real, be you.
Molly Rose.
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Beginner’s Mind
by Karina Chapman
The beginner's mind, I believe, is more open and receptive to forging new frontiers, adventures, and learning opportunities. A large, bold perspective must take place—a trust and surrender mentality. Here is a poem which I found a lovely start to the concept:
"The Beauty of the Beginner's Mind"
The beginner's mind is less likely to assume how something is going to be.
The beginner's mind is less likely to judge something or someone as it does not have a story yet.
The beginner's mind is less likely to label something as good or bad; it is what it is.
The beginner's mind is not trying to get to the end as it is not sure where that is.
The beginner's mind is without habits.
The beginner's mind is less likely to have knee-jerk reactions.
The beginner's mind is content to explore possibilities.
The beginner's mind is less anxious as it hasn't catapulted itself into the future.
By author Gabrielle Harris from her book, "The Language of Yin."
Time and Power
If you wish to practice the beginner's mind, it is better to give yourself time each day, each week, each month. Fifteen minutes of your day is only 1/100th of your entire day; spend it on a walk or a short meditation. Perhaps you find a block of solid time more effective, a week, perhaps two or even one month with free time or empty space time.
This is time that's going slow, the ability to do less, not be bothered by a distraction or thought. In the free time you need not to be anyone else but yourself. The gift of time gives you power to investigate a decision or way forward. Power over your own decisions gives you more satisfaction. Here is a quick story from my life about beginner's mind:
The scene is this, the rabbit in "Alice in Wonderland." "I’m late, I’m late for a very important date." The rabbit in the headlights was me! I have said in my mind, "I have no time; I haven't got time." The phrase can and has gotten stuck in a repeating looping fashion. The words form an emotion inside which can affect a long breath to change it to a shortened breath; the emotion forms a bodily reaction of stiffness in the muscles of my neck. One hopefully needs to realize here, the Beginner's Mind is to the rescue; it is an escape route.
So now mostly I have learned how to press the brake or stop button on my thought. I visualize Gandalf in "The Lord of the Rings." He says to me, "A wizard is never late, nor is he early; he arrives precisely when he means to. Karina, you arrive exactly when you mean to. All is well, and your timing is perfect." I made some of the quote up, of course, the meaning has to stick inside your mind to be effective. The more resistance you impose on yourself, the longer you will be limited by your own impression or story, you tell the self, of your limiting factors.
The grandest power you have over yourself is the ability to change your mind.
- Karina Chapman
4 Steps To Follow Your Unique Path
If you were to do anything in the world, what would you do? Well, there is actually a step-by-step process that helps you achieve that very thing. It takes thoughtfulness, trust, dedication, and patience, and maybe meditation helps too. (It does!). Life definitely tests you, like “do you really want this?”
“Whatever holds us back is a big part of the journey of becoming who we really are.”
Here are some valuable keys to follow to manifest your best life:
1. Create a physical space in your life to relax in (not your bed or your couch!).
2. Meditate. Practice being in that relaxing space (5 minutes a day is a great start).
3. Think and visualize your highest aspiration.
4. Breathe in the feeling of living your highest aspiration.
So anyway, life says “Do you really want this?" We say YES. So life gives us a challenge that offers an opportunity to step forward to that high aspiration. Sometimes it doesn’t feel all sweet right away. Often we give it a go and feel the emotion shame for not doing it right, not doing enough and therefore assume we are not good enough. That’s one of the unfortunate things that may happen when you follow your high aspirations.
One of the positive things is that you overcome feelings of shame and you rise to your power. The shame is often from a long time ago when we were younger and felt embarrassed about something. The body holds onto things but we can let them go.
I remember in high school, the day I stepped up to a big bully who was my "best friend". After being belittled for 4 years my heart couldn't take another day not enjoying going to school. I wrote her a letter and was never friends with her again.
I rose to power that day and I remember the feeling so well. The wounded teenager version of me popped up many times these last few years. She wanted to be heard and seen. So I cried with her and felt the shame, guilt, and fear that she had experienced and that moment was healing.
Whatever holds us back is a big part of the journey of becoming who we really are. Choose your own pace and learn about yourself. Take breaks. Break through the untrue shackles of fear.
You, my friend, have a unique message to share with the world. So take a moment to ask yourself, “What do I really want to do in this world?”. And then realize you have the strength within you to get there. We all do.
Love Molly Rose
The Therapeutic Use of Sound
What is sound & vibrational therapy?
Sound and vibrational therapy has been utilized for centuries by a multitude of cultures as a healing modality.
Sound works on a subtle level with very real effects on the mind and body.
Research shows sound therapy can reduce stress, inflammation and calm the nervous system.
It is not uncommon for individuals to experience; deep states of relaxation, altered states of consciousness, or a renewed outlook on life.
Sound therapy can be utilized to help with physical, mental, or energetic problems.
Blood testing before and after a Gong Bath.
How sound affects us.
Sound is a continuum of vibrational frequencies that through resonance can move matter.
This includes the human heart, nervous system, and cells.
When used correctly, sound can activate the parasympathetic nervous system, the opposite of the flight or fight system.
This occurs through slowing down the respiratory rate, and heart rate and entraining the brain waves into a relaxed state.
““Sound will be the medicine of the future” ”
The calming of the mind and body produced by sound creates homeostasis and can improve both physiological and psychological functioning.
Every part of the human body is in a constant state of vibration. The term “Sound health” refers too normally healthy resonance in our body.
The aim of sound therapy is to bring a person back into harmonious ressonance.
Multi instrumental group sound meditation.
The Integrative Approach
Integrative therapy is an approach crafted for health-conscious individuals grappling with persistent health issues. It’s for those weary of symptomatic treatments. For the ones ready to address the root cause(s) of their pain(s).
An integrative approach caters to those seeking a deeper understanding of themselves. The person is treated as a whole with physical, emotional, energetic, and environmental factors considered.
All elements of a person’s life are connected and cumulatively create a harmonious state of health. Any imbalance that is creating disharmony will impact all other areas of a person’s life.
For example, if a particular relationship or consumption of a certain food is creating dis-ease in a person’s mind and body, they will carry this imbalance with them impacting all other areas of their life. Similar to a spider’s web losing its natural form when one area of the web is pulled out of alignment.
Amid our modern lifestyles, finding time for self-reflection becomes challenging. An Integrative Therapist facilitates this self connection on a physical, emotional, and energetic level. Once reconnected to their whole self, individuals often recognize the areas of imbalance in their lives. Then they can address the cause of their pain at its core.
The therapeutic modalities employed by an Integrative Therapist range from Eastern and Western Medicine. This combining of treatment methods is a cornerstone of an integrative approach.
For example, an Integrative Physiotherapist may employ manual therapy, breathing therapy and sound therapy within a treatment to assist the person in releasing physical and emotional tension. A Yoga Therapist may incorporate internal martial arts practices such as Qi Gong & Tai Chi into their session to enable the person to feel more connected and aware of their physical and energetic body, deepening their yoga practice.
The embodiment of integration is used not only in healthcare but in art, music, and food to create masterpieces. By drawing on the wisdom gained from the past and combining it with discoveries of the present we create recipes for success.
“For every thousand hacking at the branches of the problem, there is one striking at the root”
Finding Inner Harmony
“Many humans spend a lot of time in their yang state and wonder why they are feeling tired, too busy, and stressed.”
If you’re ever feeling out of balance in life it may be nice to consider the principles of yin and yang.
You’ve probably seen the yin yang symbol – A circle of half black and half white.
Inside the black area is a small circle of white and inside the white area is a small circle of black.
What this explains is that with light comes dark and with dark comes light.
If everything has an opposite then yin and yang summarize it perfectly.
Yin refers to a flowy feminine energy, represented by water and associated with the moon.
Yang refers to a fiery masculine energy, represented by fire and associated with the sun.
Pigeon Posture
Image: a modified version of pigeon posture a commonly adopted Yin pose taught in Yoga.
Yin – Moon, cold/cool, water, nighttime, state of being, resting.
Yang – Sun, warm/hot, fire, daytime, a state of doing, action.
There is both feminine and masculine energy within all of us. Both are essential in our daily life.
Many humans spend a lot of time in their yang state and wonder why they are feeling tired, too busy, and stressed.
Too much fire not enough water.
Too much heat not enough cool.
Too much go not enough pause.
Examples of Yin:
Choosing not to set the alarm and waking up a bit later than usual one morning because you want to rest and recover today.
Take a cool shower instead of a hot one because you're already feeling hot today.
Examples of Yang:
Waking up to the sunrise, doing your morning exercise practice, getting energized for the day.
Have a warm/hot shower because you're ready to settle down for the rest of the day.
You can see that yin and yang work together in the previous sentence: You have a hot (yang) shower to settle down for the day (yin).
So what about you?
Are you feeling yin or yang lately?
Where can you gather more yin or perhaps where do you need more yang?
We feel awesome when we are balancing our yin and yang.
Take a moment to pause and feel where you need more balance in your life.
If this is difficult for you I welcome you to reach out for support.
Love and gratitude,
Molly Rose.
