🦁 LEO SEASON WORKSHOP: UNLEASH YOUR INNER LION









🦁 LEO SEASON WORKSHOP: UNLEASH YOUR INNER LION
🦁 LEO SEASON WORKSHOP: UNLEASH YOUR INNER LION
A 3-Part Journey with Breathwork, Fire Ritual, and a 7-Day Intention Candle
Live Dates:
Friday, August 1 @ 2PM CT –New Month Invocation + Shadow Alchemy Breathwork 🌞
Monday, August 11 @ 2PM CT –Expansion + Fire Ritual 🔥
Location: Online via Zoom
Recordings available through September 2025
This three-part Leo Season journey is an invitation to connect to your inner Sun—the steady, radiant light within you—and to let it shine more fully into your life. Rooted in the heart of summer, this experience supports you in remembering the truth of who you are through ritual, breathwork, and fire. Together, we’ll nourish the parts of you ready to be seen, expressed, and expanded.
✨ WHAT’S INCLUDED
7-DAY LADY + THE LION INTENTION CANDLE + RITUAL INSTRUCTIONS 🕯️
This custom Lady + the Lion candle was created especially for our workshop. It was designed to calibrate your frequency with Leo season, so light it with the Leo New Moon—or anytime you want to connect with Leo season vibes. Receive a guided at-home ritual to root your intention, connect to the fire of midsummer, and move with the fierce rhythm of Leo.
Free U.S. shipping. International orders: email assistant@smudged.co for a quote.
LIVE 90-MINUTE SESSION ON 8.1
Theme: Unleash Your Inner Lion 🌞
We gather live on August 1st to open a new month, a new page, and a new energetic cycle. This multi-layered experience weaves together shadow exploration and a release of heaviness and outdated patterning held in the subtle body and subconscious mind. Through a guided breathwork journey, we’ll release what’s no longer aligned, clear energetic residue from the past, and activate your Solar Plexus—your power center. Together, we’ll move stagnancy, remember what’s true, and make room for the version of you that’s ready to lead.
LIVE 60-MINUTE FIRE RITUAL ON 8.11
Theme: Embody the Flame 🔥
We return for a fire ritual and expansion circle to help you embody your Leo Season energy—rooted in Zoroastrian tradition and Neelou’s own ancestral lineage—to honor the sacred fire as a force of purification, clarity, and embodied truth.
Optional 1:1 Clarity Session with Neelou – $88
A 30-minute personalized session for deeper support, energetic insight, or intention refinement. Neelou’s 1:1 calendar is closed to anyone outside of her Mastermind at this time, but she’s opened up limited spaces for participants of this offering only.
✨ WHO THIS IS FOR
Leo is ruled by the Sun—the center of our cosmos—just as your heart is the center of your truth. This journey is for anyone ready to reconnect with that inner radiance.
For those ready to:
• Reclaim your radiance—releasing patterns of invisibility, perfectionism, or people-pleasing
• Deepen your self-worth and anchor into your power center
• Express yourself with more confidence, joy, and creative freedom
• Embody authentic leadership—magnetic, rooted, and real
• Open your heart to love, connection, and creative expression
• Let go of fear, comparison, and comfort in invisibility
• Align with your truth—and let yourself be fully seen
Whether your light feels dim or blazing, this season invites you to remember who you are—and to let it shine.
🧘🏽♀️ ABOUT YOUR FACILITATOR
Neelou Malekpour is a renowned breathwork facilitator and a Leo who has guided thousands in reclaiming their energy, confidence, and inner peace. Drawing from sacred rituals taught by her grandmother, she specializes in helping individuals transform their relationship with their own energy through breathwork, meditation, and practical boundary-setting techniques. Her powerful yet accessible approach empowers participants to live a more grounded, vibrant, and balanced life.
Neelou is also the author of The Art of Sacred Smoke and has collaborated with leading wellness brands such as YogaWorks, Soho House, Alo Yoga, and Herbivore Botanicals. She lives in Austin, Texas, with Palo Santo, her rescue pup, and her partner, Katya. Explore press features here.
✨ PRICING & DETAILS
Advanced Access – $133
Available to the first 10 people or through Friday, July 18
General Admission – $165
Available through Wednesday, July 24 — New Moon in Leo
Last Call – $188
Available beginning July 25
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Optional Add-On: 1:1 Clarity Session with Neelou – $88
A 30-minute personalized session for deeper support, energetic insight, or intention refinement
(Only available to participants in this offering)
Candle ships free in the U.S.
International orders: email assistant@smudged.co for a shipping quote BEFORE purchasing
Very limited spaces available
Recordings available through September 2025
PLEASE BE ON TIME • BRING WATER, JOURNAL + PEN
Best Practices:
Please keep your meals light and don’t arrive with a full belly - you won’t feel comfortable breathing if you’re full. Bring water, and something to cover your eyes with.
Also, please give yourself a little space after this session. It's best not to have to rush, drive, or be around a lot of people in the hours following each workshop. I suggest you take it easy for the remainder of the day (if possible!). Drink LOTS of water after your session to facilitate release.
No cancellations. Recordings will be provided through September 2025.
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING:
I took Neelou’s group breathwork session on Saturday; because I’d been working through some difficult family situations that lead to significant stress and sleeplessness. Talking about the past and present problems wasn’t easy. However, I had heard that breathwork was a way to work though issues subconsciously.
-Tammy S.
During the session I saw painful moments from my childhood and young adult life flash before my eyes and subsequently shatter. This was important to me because those moments were among many that lead up to my current stressors. This experience was followed by a period of complete relaxation. For the remainder of the day I felt at ease. I also slept well for the first night in weeks. I would highly recommend Neelou‘s breathwork sessions to anyone considering the practice.
-Sam A.
I’m v. skeptical of spiritual things but I love breathwork with Neelou. A friend gifted me a session and it was transformative. I felt some big shifts in my body and my mind. -AnonymousThis was an actual phsyical release. Very surprised to feel so many sensations in my body and have such peace in my brain. Highly recommend.
-Luis B.
Even though the group session was remote I still found it extremely personal. Neelou offered guidance and feedback the whole time. Everything from the music selection to her energy was incredibly soothing.
-Anonymous
Neelou guided my boyfriend and me through a breathwork session during a painful moment of transition in our lives. She prepped us thoroughly for the experience and I felt fully supported and embraced by her empathy, intuition and care. Sharing any sort of space with Neelou (even via zoom!) is a dream.
-Cheryl W.
I have not heard or done breathwork until Neelou introduced it to me. My experience was nothing short of amazing! I have to admit I was bit nervous to try it because I’ve heard that everyone will have a different experience depending on what you are currently holding on to consciously and subconsciously. I was so relaxed during the work, I felt as if my body was floating, a sense of peace and calm skimmed through my body. I came out of it with increased mental awareness and clarity, which lasted about week. If you’ve never done breathwork give it a go.
-Shereen M.
The breathwork was my first experience of that kind and I still find it hard to put into words. With Neelou's guidance, I was able to tap into some super buried emotions. That release was the most powerful thing I have ever felt. I cried then I laughed and smiled and glowed all day long after. It was so amazing that I gifted it to a friend.
-Mel H.
I have practiced breathwork with Neelou a handful of times, in both individual and group settings. I have come away from each session feeling invigorated and reenergized while also very grounded and relaxed. It has been a key component in my physical, mental and spiritual well-being. It is quite euphoric and I have experienced clarity both during and after each practice. The work itself is a bit difficult to describe but I learned many years ago to “trust the process” and I’m so glad that I did with respect to breathwork.
-JR R.
Neelou, thank you for sharing your light with me and for this powerful breath work session. It was absolute medicine for me and releasing in the most beautiful ways! You were an amazing guide and I felt so completely seen and held. A beautiful gift to myself. GIFT THIS TO YOURSELF!!! YOU DESERVE IT! YES, YOU!!-D.S.I find these sessions to be transformative and therapeutic, Neelou has such a calming energy and leads with grace and ease. I have done private and group sessions, both were amazing experiences that I highly recommend.
-Zia S.