You have been the girl who didn't yet know her power.
The one who gave everything and called it love.
The one who raged quietly in rooms where raging wasn't allowed.
The one standing at a threshold right now, not quite sure what she's becoming next.This is not fragmentation. This is the original design.Your hormones are not your enemy, they are a language. One that speaks in fog and fire, in tenderness and grief, in the sudden tears that arrive without explanation. Learning to listen to that language, rather than silence it, is some of the most important work a woman can do.

Every season of womanhood asks something different of the body. Every transition — first blood, first loss, pregnancy, motherhood, perimenopause, the quiet unravelling of midlife — leaves a mark in the tissue, not just the memory.
You were never meant to move through any of it alone.

Wherever you are in life,
that's where we begin.

Wherever you are in life, that's where we begin.

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Personalised somatic support for women navigating change at any life stage.

Gentle, trauma-aware support for young women learning to live in their bodies.

Embodied support for the transformation of becoming,
before, during & after birth.

Embodied practices for the changes your body is moving through — with you, not against you.

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Embodied Recovery Support

Perhaps food has taken up more of your life than anyone realizes.What to eat.
What not to eat.
How much.
How little.The calculations never seem to end.Maybe you've spent years trying to appear normal while carrying a battle that quietly follows you everywhere.You tell yourself you'll do better tomorrow.
Tomorrow you'll stop obsessing.
Tomorrow you'll be less afraid.
Tomorrow you'll finally feel at peace.But tomorrow comes, and somehow you're still here — exhausted by the same thoughts, the same rules, the same fear.

The people around you may see someone strong, capable, and successful.They don't see the negotiations happening in your mind before every meal.
The guilt that lingers long after.The loneliness of carrying something that feels impossible to explain. And perhaps the hardest part is wondering whether this is simply how life will always be.It doesn't have to be.
Recovery is possible.Not because you'll finally find the right diet, enough discipline, or more willpower.But because healing begins when we stop waging war against ourselves and start listening to what our struggles have been trying to protect, express, and communicate all along.

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About Eat, Breathe, Thrive.

Eat Breathe Thrive is an evidence-based group programme designed to support people struggling with disordered eating, body image concerns, and the exhausting cycle of being at war with themselves.Blending mindfulness, gentle movement, psychoeducation, and peer support, the programme offers a different approach to recovery — one that goes beyond willpower, diets, or trying harder.Together, we explore the underlying patterns that keep us stuck, while building practical skills for emotional resilience, self-compassion, and a more peaceful relationship with food and body.Many people arrive feeling exhausted by the constant mental noise.

The calculating.
The guilt.
The self-criticism.
The feeling that life has become smaller because so much energy is spent managing food, weight, exercise, or appearance.Recovery is possible.Not because you learn to control yourself more. But because you begin learning how to trust yourself again.As a certified Eat Breathe Thrive practitioner, I offer workshops and group experiences that create a safe, supportive space for healing, connection, and lasting change.You don't have to do this alone.

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There is a particular kind of nourishment that only comes from being in a room full of women who are not pretending.
Women who are laughing, breathing, wobbling in warrior pose, crying a little without knowing why.This is what practice looks like at Lionsgrace. Movement is not punishment. It never was. It is the oldest language the body knows — the way it processes what words can't, releases what the mind holds too tightly, and remembers, with every breath, that being alive can actually feel good.
And community — real community, the kind that holds you without asking you to be more or less than you are — does something that no amount of solo work ever quite reaches. It reminds you that you are not too much. That your presence matters. That joy, shared, is a different kind of joy entirely.

And The retreats exist because some things need more than an hour.They need mornings without urgency. Meals eaten slowly. Movement that has nowhere to be. The particular kind of conversation that only happens when women are away from their ordinary lives and finally, briefly, belong only to themselves.

Movement is the oldest language
the body knows

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I created Lionsgrace because I've walked this path: from disordered eating to recovery, from fighting my body to befriending it, from feeling like a stranger in my own skin to discovering home was here all along.
This is trauma-informed yoga and embodied practice for anyone healing their relationship with their body. Through gentle movement, breathwork, and somatic awareness, we create space for reconnection, safety, and coming home to yourself.Lionsgrace isn't about being fearless.
It's about having the heart of a lion when you need courage, and the grace to begin again when you stumble.It's about staying present with what's real: messy, tender, beautiful, and sometimes painful.
Your body isn't broken. Your relationship with it just needs gentle tending, lion-hearted courage, and graceful patience with the process.

Your invitation
is always here

If something here resonated with you, that's enough.
Whether you're ready to begin or just exploring what's possible, I'm here to answer your questions and hold space for wherever you are in your journey.

Shannon Turner
Yoga therapist & Eat, Breathe, Thrive Practitioner

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Maybe you've spent years believing your body is a problem to solve.
That healing lives somewhere on the other side of more control.There is a voice that measures everything.
Every bite. Every ingredient. Every moment of pleasure that arrived without permission. Every reflection caught in passing glass, studied, judged, never quite right.It speaks in the language of not yet, not enough, not this — and it promises that if you just get it right, follow the rules more precisely, compensate a little more carefully, purify a little more completely — you will finally be allowed to rest.
But the finish line keeps moving.
It always keeps moving.The voice has many faces. Sometimes it speaks through restriction. Sometimes through rigid rules about what is pure, what is safe, what a "healthy" person would never touch. Sometimes through a cycle that begins in numbness and ends in shame so heavy you carry it alone, in secret, for years.

And sometimes it lives in the mirror, in the way you pause, and look, and fight with what you find there. The reflection that is never neutral. Never just a body. Always evidence of something you haven't fixed yet.But underneath all of it — the controlling, the compensating, the performing of wellness, the silent war with your own reflection — is the same unbearable thing: the belief that your body, as it is, is not okay.Embodied recovery is the practice of laying down your weapons.
Not because the fear disappears.Not because the voice goes quiet overnight.But because some part of you — even now, even underneath all of it — is exhausted from the fighting.
Exhausted from calculating.
Exhausted from the secret.
Exhausted from meeting your own eyes in the mirror and feeling only war.

Yoga and mindful movement to settle what's been braced.

Tools to understand and respond to your body's cues.

Grounding, safety, and stability, at your pace.

Evidence-based recovery tools woven into lived experience.

Emotional regulation through breath and presence.

From someone who has walked this path.

the person beside you

About Shannon

I'm someone who has walked a long, complicated road with my own body — and came out the other side with 15 years of yoga teaching, trauma-sensitive training, and a deep belief that it is never too late to come home to yourself."I sit beside you. Not across from you. Offering tools for felt safety, emotional regulation, and embodied healing that complement therapy."My work is grounded in presence, honesty, and the understanding that the courage this takes is real. I've lived the complexity of recovery. I know what it feels like to be at war with your body for so long you forget there was ever peace. I also know what it feels like to find your way back.

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