Why Lionheart began…
by Laura Fine, co-founder

I wanted answers to all the BIG questions

My soul was questing. My mind did not understand what it was questing for, but there was an inner drive constantly pushing me. I wanted answers to all the BIG questions, like, what is the purpose of my life? Why am I here? What am I supposed to be doing? I knew that I wanted it to be something GOOD and something FUN! I just didn’t know what that was. I wanted to understand all the mysteries. I wanted to be psychic. I knew there was magic in the world and life and existence beyond what I could see or understand. I wanted answers. I wanted to experience aliveness in my body. I wanted to achieve the greatest heights of my aliveness, spirituality, creativity, and psychic potential.

This quest that began in my early twenties, brought me to a Polarity therapist where I experienced a kundalini awakening that changed my life direction. I already happily enjoyed a career in the theatre arts working as a professional director and acting teaching, but this inner drive led me to sessions in healing, astrology readings, numerology, channelers, mystics, transpersonal psychology,  spiritual practices and teachers, vision quests, meditation, yoga, tai chi, churches, temples, retreats, etc. etc. etc. I studied Polarity Therapy, Feldenkrais, Trager, Reiki, Alexander technique, yoga, Tai Chi, Chi Gong, Continuum and more. I spent four years in training and graduated from the Barbara Brennan School of Healing, studied Kabalistic Healing with the Society of Souls for two years and helped found the School for Enlightenment and Healing where I taught for five years.

Remarkable results seemed to happen

During this time of exploration, learning and study my passion for healing and thrill for the powerful results of working with the chakra energy system captivated a good deal of my focus and attention. Remarkable results seemed to happen with little effort. With my background as a former theatre director and from my experiences through such a variety of training in the field of energy healing I began to be invited teach workshops on my own. As these workshops were well received, there was a naturally unfolding demand for more training from the students. With my background in directing and stage management and my administrative experience through teaching I found myself in a position to begin to offer a more structured program.

I had the desire to provide a solid core essence and foundation for the principles upon which energy healing emerges. I wanted the training to be accessible and affordable and yet deeply affective for physical, emotional and spiritual health. I wanted it to be grounded in universal truth with high integrity in such spiritual principles as humbleness, gratitude, forgiveness, compassion, respect, purity, innocence and love. I wanted to make it practical so that graduates could not only leave the program having achieved an inner-personal awakening and healing transformation but also have the option to create a professional energy healing practice and build a career out of this invaluable service if so desired.

Heart centered yet based in physical grounded reality

I modeled the curriculum structure of Lionheart in such a way that people could fly in for a weekend from out of state if necessary and still be able to keep their day job. It was important to me to make it affordable to the middle class householder. I wanted to keep the class size intimate, ranging between 15 and 25 per class. I hired teachers whose approach is heart centered yet based in physical grounded reality and spirituality. I set the curriculum so that it could unfold at the students own pace and while in the program they have opportunities to be part of a community of like-minded friends for support while applying their inner work to their outer life, the REAL test of change.  I wanted the approach to be highly experiential and inter-active, inter-relational and hands-on so that people would leave with a greater sense of their own body/mind power. I wanted it to be stimulating, challenging and FUN!

Lionheart is now ten years old. Did it work? The student testimonials speak for themselves.

Laura Fine
Co-Founder, Instructor & Academic Director of Lionheart Institute