8/8 Lions Gate
There’s a teaching in Shambhala Buddhism called The Lion’s Roar. It’s not a metaphor for “finding your voice.” It’s not a soft chant of empowerment. Just imagine a lion roaring in your face…
…The force of air blasting your skin, the deafening sound rattling your bones…
In that moment, you don’t have time to negotiate with your fears. You are present. Raw. Awake. That’s the Lion’s Roar.
Most of us spend the day running—from our insecurities, our feelings of inadequacy, our fears.It’s a breathless retreat: avoiding, deflecting, rationalizing, and busying ourselves to death.
The Lion’s Roar is when you turn around, face these ghosts, and with the force of your clarity shatter them into oblivion.
Every August, when the Sirius constellation aligns with Earth and the Sun, the phrase “Lions Gate Portal” floods spiritual media with talk of “light codes” and “manifestation.”
And yes—I will be downloading the light language.
And yes—I will be manifesting.
But I want to take us a little bit further, because the Lions Gate is both far more celestially sophisticated and far more spiritually critical .
Sirius, the brightest star in our sky, has been revered for millennia as a transmitter of higher intelligence.
In ancient Egypt, its heliacal rising marked the flooding of the Nile—symbolizing renewal, fertility, and life-force. But beyond the agricultural symbolism, there are deeper threads. Compelling evidence suggests that the Egyptian, Sumerian, and Dogon civilizations were seeded by beings from the Sirius star system. (See The Sirius Mystery for a deep dive: link).
The Egyptians had an intimate relationship with feline energy—enter the Sphinx, Bastet, Sekhmet. Though channeled texts describe Sirians as blue beings (not big cats) the Syrians have been dedicated to earth’s leonic sovereingty. Over the last 5,000 years, Sirians are said to have been on missions to repair Giza, re-tune Stonehenge, retrieve the lost Azurites, clean up the cloned identities clogging our energetic grids, and increase virtical alignment.
It’s this vertical alignment that grips me most right now.
In spiritual anatomy, vertical alignment refers to the conscious coherence of the body's central axis—the subtle column that connects the base of the spine (root) to the crown of the head (and beyond).
It is not merely a physical posture. It is the energetic integration of your lower (earth-bound) and upper (cosmic) polarities, stabilized through the central channel (called the Sushumna Nadi in yogic science).
When you are in vertical you are no longer fragmented, scattered, or leaking energy. When Your entire system—body, mind, and energy—becomes internally coherent. That’s called integrity.
This time requires fierce integrity. It requires the heart of the Lion.
The Lion’s Roar is the fearless expression of wakefulness.
In Kundalini yoga, if you really want to get a bit freaky, you can get a spiritual name. If that speaks to you, I encourage you to pursue it while the woman who was trained to do this work is still alive. I never thought I would get a spiritual name. And yet, here I am—bearing one. But that’s a story for another time (wink).
What’s relevant is that when you receive a spiritual name, it comes with a surname: Kaur if you are a woman, Singh if you are a man. Both mean Lion’s Roar. It’s a declaration In Kundalini Yoga, the Lion’s Roar is unapologetic expression of your human and divine right to exist. An affirmative stamp on the exaltation of your spirit and the royalty inherent in your human being.
I don’t subscribe to the narrative that humanity is inherently destructive, nor do I have patience for the lazy ideology that paints humanity as Earth’s greatest mistake. It’s just not true. Rhetoric that paints humanity as a shameful planetary curse, and asks us daily to apologize for existing, is a profound misunderstanding of our potential. If humanity were to truly inhabit its innate nobility, we would see no more exploitation of Earth’s resources, nor misuse of human creativity, talent and genius.
There is a statue of Buddha that I saw at the Yoga: The Art of Transformation exhibit at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco in 2013.
The statue featured Buddha seated in meditation, one hand resting in his lap, the other reaching down to touch the Earth.
This gesture is known as the Bhumisparsha Mudra—the “earth-touching” mudra—the gesture of claiming one’s entitlement to be enlightened.
It wasn’t a plea. It was a sovereign act of integrity: a being fully claiming their place in the order of existence.
This is the visceral conviction with which I want to approach this Lions Gate.
So much of modern spirituality revolves around shadow work, around not avoiding your discomfort. And while there is value in that, I have to ask:
When are we going to stop avoiding our greatness?
When are we going to stop sidestepping the sheer radiance of our own clarity?
When are we going to stop negotiating with our insecurities
And stop postponing our presence?
This Lions Gate I’m offering a complimentary class:
Friday, August 8, 2025 | 8:00am Pacific.
Together we will train to:
walk like a lion,
roar like a lion.
live like a lion.