{"id":2149,"date":"2026-09-28T01:35:33","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T01:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/raphaellenormandin.com\/?page_id=2149"},"modified":"2026-09-28T03:16:40","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T03:16:40","slug":"the-lioness-initiation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/raphaellenormandin.com\/en\/the-lioness-initiation\/","title":{"rendered":"THE LIONESS INITIATION"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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THE LIONESS INITIATION<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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21 days back into your body and your power<\/strong><\/p>

For the mama who can run a house, a business and six group chats at once\u2026<\/em><\/p>

and can’t remember the last time she felt turned on by her own life.<\/em><\/p>

Your inner lioness isn’t gone. She’s napping.<\/p>

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3 live calls \u00b7 a private Telegram circle \u00b7 daily voice drops from me<\/p>

Emotional release, primal play, breath and sound.<\/p>

Investment: $44<\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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There’s a big difference between a woman who holds it all together with a clenched butthole\u2026 and a woman who’s plugged into her pulse.<\/em><\/p>

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People look at your life and feel a little jealous.<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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You know it.<\/strong><\/p>

The kids. The work. The woman who handles everything and still remembers the dentist appointments.<\/p>

And still, somewhere quiet, there’s that thought.
\u2026is this really it?<\/em><\/p>

Someone reaches for you and your body says “not now” before you’ve even decided.<\/p>

You can’t remember the last time you wanted something just for you.<\/p>

Pleasure became one more thing on the to-do list. Somewhere at the bottom of the pile.<\/p>

And you feel shame about that thought. Because your life is objectively beautiful. Who are you to want more?<\/p>

You’re not broken.
You’re not ungrateful.
You’re not asking for too much.<\/p>

Can I tell you what’s actually going on?<\/em><\/p>

Your body has been on duty for years. Carrying, feeding, holding, soothing, deciding.<\/p>

And the wild part of you, the one who used to laugh too loud, want too much and take up space, got neatly folded and put away.<\/p>

She doesn’t need another mindset shift or another book about attachment.<\/p>

She needs to growl. To push. To cry it all out. To be ridiculous for a minute.<\/p>

To feel something all the way through.<\/p>

That’s what we do here.<\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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The Lioness Method\u2122\n<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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My 8-year-old son came up with this name.<\/em><\/p>

I asked him how he experiences me as his mother.
“The Lioness Method, mom.”<\/em><\/p>

A mother lion doesn’t teach her cubs to hunt by explaining it.<\/p>

She brings them into the field to play.<\/p>

(And she will absolutely fuck you up if you mess with her cubs.)<\/p>

That’s how I work.
I don’t explain your body to you. I bring you into it.<\/p>

So what does that actually look like?<\/strong><\/p>

You shake until your body stops performing.<\/p>

You growl. Like, really growl.<\/p>

Everyone laughs the first time.<\/p>

Then something moves.<\/p>

You make the sound you’ve been swallowing since your first baby.<\/p>

You get on all fours and move like nobody ever taught you how to move.<\/p>

You cry if crying comes. You laugh if laughing comes. Usually both.<\/p>

Then we slow down. We breathe. We talk about what just happened and what you want to bring home with you.<\/p>

Emotional release and primal play, held with love, humor and zero judgment.<\/p>

It’s like yoga. But not.<\/p>

Not to fix you.<\/p>

To remind you that you never needed fixing.<\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Hi, I'm Rapha\u00eblle<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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At 3 years old, I’d drop to all fours in public and roar like Simba. My mom wanted to disappear. I didn’t stop.<\/p>

Then I grew up and forgot her.<\/p>

In my teens, I was drinking and sleeping with men I didn’t know, feeling almost nothing.
Real estate agent at 20. Top 3% at 22. Multiple six figures. Still feeling almost nothing.<\/p>

Then I became a mother, and my pussy went quiet. For three years.
Therapy twice a week. Every book. It helped. It didn’t bring her back.<\/p>

August 2021.<\/strong> A four-day online retreat. I booked the only sacred space a real estate agent knows: a hotel conference room. With wi-fi.<\/p>

Day one, the teacher guided us into self-pleasure. Glass walls everywhere. So I slid under the conference table, in my corporate dress, heart pounding like a teenager about to get caught.<\/p>

I am alive. I am alive. I am ALIVE.<\/em><\/p>

That afternoon, I built my first altar in the basement of my real estate office. Then I cried for four days.<\/p>

(Relax. No tables for you in this initiation.)<\/em><\/p>

What happened in that basement became the Lioness Method.<\/p>

Since then, I’ve studied relationships with Jordan Gray, Tony Robbins, Lisa A. Romano, Rising Woman and Alison Armstrong, eros and embodiment with Demetra Gray, Perri Chase and Jaiya & Ian, and got certified in Ecstatic Leadership with Anahita Ahura.<\/p>

5+ years, multiple six figures, and one body that never lies.<\/p>

Today I’m a homeschooling mama of two, somatic coach, forest school founder and recovering extremely competent woman.<\/p>

Women keep asking me how I hold it all and still seem so alive.<\/p>

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How the 21 days work<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Week 1 \u00b7 Wake her up<\/strong>
We get you out of your head and back into your skin. Shaking, breath, sound. Mostly we find out how loud you’re actually allowed to be.<\/p>

Week 2 \u00b7 Let her roar<\/strong>
Anger, power, taking up space. The stuff good girls were told to swallow. We give it somewhere to go.<\/p>

Week 3 \u00b7 Let her play<\/strong>
Desire, pleasure, asking for what you want. Out loud. Without apologizing first.<\/p>

Each live call (2 hours on Zoom)<\/strong>
45 to 60 min of practice \u00b7 60 min to land, share and integrate
Recordings of everything, in case a kid wakes up mid-roar.<\/p>

Between calls \u00b7 on Telegram <\/strong><\/p>

A private Telegram group with daily voice drops from me and a reflection prompt. Share by voice or writing if you feel like it. Lurk if you don’t.<\/p>

What you’ll need<\/strong>
A room with a door. A blanket or a mat. Comfy clothes. Permission to make noise.<\/p>

What won’t happen<\/strong>
No nudity. No touching. Nobody forces you to share.
You can pause, watch or skip anything, anytime, no explanation needed. Camera on or off, your choice.<\/p>

Who’ll be there<\/strong>
A small circle of mamas who are also figuring out how to be loud again.<\/p>

This isn’t therapy. It’s play, with depth.<\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Side effects may include<\/h1>

You ask for the massage. Out loud. Without listing all the reasons you deserve it.<\/p>

You say no, and you don’t send a follow-up text apologizing for it.<\/p>

You order the cheesecake, the XXL latte, the night out with the girls, the oral sex.<\/p>

Without negotiating with yourself first.<\/p>

Yes please. Thank you very much. Mmmmhhmmmm.<\/p>

You catch yourself mid-“it’s fine, I should be grateful”<\/em>\u2026 and go, actually, no. It’s not fine.<\/p>

Your kid melts down in the grocery store and, for once, you don’t melt down with them. You stay.<\/p>

You feel a flicker of want. For your partner, for a nap, for that project you shelved. And you don’t talk yourself out of it.<\/p>

You laugh from your belly. Loud. In public.<\/p>

Not because you became someone else.
Because you stopped swallowing yourself.<\/p>

All levels welcome. Your body will only open what is ready to be opened.<\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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What women say<\/h2>

(and one real estate client)<\/em><\/p>

“Even though we were doing really dark work and going to places where I felt extremely resistant to go, Rapha\u00eblle brought fun and lightheartedness to the process. She made it really easy to go there.”<\/em>
\u00b7 Nadine, 1:1 work during our Ecstatic Leadership certification<\/p>

“I sweated all night, and that never happens to me. My body is already releasing. I woke up dehydrated, wtf. I feel hungover, but I didn’t drink.”<\/em>
\u00b7 M\u00e9lanie, 1:1 client<\/p>

“Monday was really hard. So much anger and impatience, emotions coming up to the surface. Tuesday, softer. And since Wednesday, I feel really good. I accept the less pleasant emotions instead of burying them. The hypervigilance is almost gone. I’m relearning to do everything in the present moment, even the dishes I always rushed through.”<\/em>
\u00b7 \u00c9brielle, women’s circle<\/p>

“We’re brave women jumping without a parachute, and you are the net that catches us gently, without constraining us, safe even when the container gets uncomfortable.”<\/em>
\u00b7 Jos\u00e9e, women’s circle<\/p>

“Since Sunday, I’m less hypervigilant.”<\/em>
\u00b7 Weena, women’s circle<\/p>

“Don’t let her softness and patience fool you. She is not afraid to defend what matters when it counts.”<\/em>
\u00b7 Real estate client<\/p>

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This is for you if:<\/h3>

You look like you’re thriving, but inside you feel a bit numb, bored or weirdly disconnected from your own life.<\/p>

You love your kids fiercely, and you miss the woman you were before them. Both are true.<\/p>

Your relationship feels more like a logistics meeting than a love story.<\/p>

You’ve been the strong one for so long that the part of you who wants to be held, seen and softened never gets airtime.<\/p>

You want your kids to grow up with a mom who’s deeply rooted and wildly alive, not one who sacrificed herself to keep everyone comfortable.<\/p>

You’re a little scared of growling on a Zoom call. And a little excited.<\/p>

This isn’t for you if:<\/h3>

You want to lie on a mat while someone plays a sound bowl over you. We move. We get loud.<\/p>

You’re looking for talk therapy. This is body first. And if you’re in crisis right now, please reach out to a mental health professional before joining.<\/p>

You want explicit erotic practice. That lives in other containers.\u00a0<\/p>

If your body is buzzing reading this, you’re in the right room.<\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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No one else is coming.
This is between you and you.<\/p>

You know that moment at the end of a long day when you finally take your bra off?
That exhale. That oh, there I am.<\/em>
That’s what we’re doing here. Like a mic drop. For you.<\/p>

Your inner lioness is done napping.<\/p>

If your body is a yes, she already knows.<\/p>

THE LIONESS INITIATION<\/strong>
21 days back into your body and your power<\/p>

3 live calls \u00b7 a private Telegram circle \u00b7 daily voice drops<\/p>

Investment: $44<\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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