Praying At The Speed Of Love

Mallorie Vaudoise’s Neapolitan ancestors migrated to the US at great sacrifice to build a firm foundation for future generations. Mallorie grew up knowing life is not about being a consumer; it’s about being a steward for the next generation. She talked about ancestors beyond our bloodlines and how to venerate them and receive their blessings. In perfect synchronicity, Janet realized her desire to be “home” in the Hudson River Valley is the call of her Huguenot ancestors who came to America in 1624! Mallorie Vaudoise has a spectacular array of spiritual credentials. She is a witch of Italian Catholic descent and apprenticed to the world-renowned Italian folk musician and shaman Alessandra Belloni. In addition, Mallorie is an initiated Olorisha priestess in Lucimi and a Quimbandeira com licenca in Brazilian Quimbanda. Mallorie writes a wildly popular blog, Italian Folk Magic, and just published Honoring your Ancestors. Join our community and get your free gift at janetconner.com/14.

Christine was nurtured by her Scottish Fae mother and grandmother who knew the land as “sovereign queen.” Perfect grounding for Dr Page’s life’s work helping women remember we are made in the image of the Great Mother. She talked about how our wombs mirror the waxing and waning of the moon, culminating in the dark moon when we are most powerful. And she gave us a 3-day ritual to embrace that dragon power. Now you know why the patriarchy has to kill the dragon! Dr Christine Page received her medical degree from the University of London and practiced allopathic and complementary medicine for 40 years. When she developed breast cancer, she recognized it as a wake up call from her soul teaching her to put herself first. She listened deeply, healed, and wrote The Healing Power of the Sacred Woman to help all women embody their true female gifts. Join our community and get your free gift at janetconner.com/13.

There are conversations, and then there are conversations. This intimate conversation with Rabbi Tirzah Firestone, author of Wounds into Wisdom, drops into a whole new place—a holy and sacred place. A place where everyone is holy. Everyone is sacred. There is no “other.” A place where there are no concentration camps. No traumatized children. No ancestral pain passed on and on and on. As she chants and prays, we are welcomed under her prayer shawl. Learn more and get your free gifts at http://janetconner.com/10.  

This week's conversation is a bit different, a bit radical. There is power in praying together. As we pray as one heart, we create a drumbeat of love that flows around the world. They Are All Our Children is a radical love prayer practice created with the sacred intention to close the migrant detention camps and free the children. Today, we are all the mothers and fathers of thousands of children held in internment camps. Please join me in this alchemical prayer of radical love and forgiveness to transmute the consciousness that creates, perpetuates, and profits from this political system of separation and fear. Visit https://janetconner.com/children/ and pray with us. 

There were more than two women in this conversation. Maeve, aka Mary Magdalen, was not only in the room, she took over. Elizabeth Cunningham spent twenty years following the directives of that voice to write The Maeve Chronicles. Join us for wild stories, hair-raising biblical quotations, and spontaneous goddess songs. But in the end, the conversation landed where Magdalen and Jesus wanted it to: asking us to close the concentration camps by praying for those who persecute us. Talk about real prayer! For more information about Elizabeth Cunningham and to find your free gifts, visit the show notes page at https://janetconner.com/11.

From lying in the grass on her grandfather’s Italian home-farm, to tying Lakota tobacco prayer ties, to creating a chant for Ho’oponopono, to lying under the Solstice sun, Celeste Yacoboni shares her love for prayer from the many deep chambers in her heart. How does her prayer story end? She realizes prayer has become love. This gorgeous conversation will evoke your own prayer memories and it may well cause you to fall in love with prayer. As part of her personal path to explore prayer, Celeste Yacoboni became an ordained Minister of Walking Prayer by the Center for Sacred Studies. In 2012 she was awakened with a question, “How do you pray?”, knew she was being given a vision of a book, and answered “yes” not knowing where that vision would lead. Visit http://howdoyoupray.com/ and her upcoming project, thevoiceofthefeminine.com. Visit https://janetconner.com/9 to get your free gifts!

How were you taught to pray? How have your prayers evolved? How are you redefining prayer? These are the questions that sparked this juicy, funny, slightly erotic conversation between a magician and a prayer artist. It opens with Briana’s 4 insights into magic, shifts to “praying down hard” at her Nana’s Baptist knees, carries us into the foundational prayer of the Yes-No breath, and emerges on the other side with a whole new magical definition of prayer. Briana Saussy is a vibrant spiritual counselor and ritualist dedicated to the restoration and remembering of the whole array of sacred arts. She has a wide background in world religions, folk magic, divination, storytelling, philosophy, mathematics, ancient Greek and Sanskrit. She brings it all together in her groundbreaking book, Making Magic. Visit the show notes page at https://janetconner.com/8 for your free gift and more!

Timothy Frantzich invites us to traipse the marshes of Minnesota with his child-self until we feel our own hearts open. Then walk with him as he discovers the “theology of addition,” until it’s all prayer, especially singing together. Carin shares her personal definition of prayer—a fresh idea you have not heard before, then carries us into the healing “practice of unbroken sound.” This is a truly magical conversation about the mystical music of prayer. Visit https://janetconner.com/7 to learn more and to get your free gifts! About Sofia: “Sofia” is Timothy Frantzich, Carin Vagle, and Dean Magraw. They collaborated with Dr. Neil Douglas-Klotz to record Sofia The Beatitudes in the original Aramaic, creating chants that bypass the mind and drop straight into the heart. Sofia will be performing with Janet Conner at the first Speed of Love prayer concert at Unity of Minneapolis on June 12.

This conversation transcends the word “conversation.” It is more of a mystical journey marrying the ancient past and the present. We travel to southern Italy with Alessandra Belloni, get lost with her, stumble upon Our Lady of Freedom in Benevento, hear the caretaker’s call to pray for freedom, and begin to chant. This is so no longer a podcast. This is living prayer. Living devotion. Living sacred chant. Alessandra Belloni is a world-renowned percussionist, singer, choreographer, and creator of I Giullari di Piazza, an Italian music and dance theatre company devoted to performing and teaching the ancient devotional music and rituals of the Black Madonna—traditions that have been kept alive for millennia in Southern Italy and are just now being introduced to the world through Alessandra’s mystical thriller, Healing Journeys with the Black Madonna. Visit https://janetconner.com/6 to download two free gifts!

How does one become a kahu—keeper of the ancient Hawaiian Shamanic ways? Lahela Johnson shares her amazing childhood talking to plants, ocean, mountains, and animal spirits. Even as a young child she sensed she had a kuleana—responsibility. One day, her kumu—teacher—asked her to be initiated as a kahu. Lahela protested, “but I’m not qualified!” Kumu Karen responded with the single most important truth we all need to hear. About our guest: Kahu Lāhela Johnson is a mystical treasure. She co-created five “The Goddess Forgives” Ho‛oponopono prayer intensives with Janet Conner, bringing the alchemical power of forgiveness to heal hearts across time to hundreds of people around the world. At home on O’ahu, Lāhela conducts traditional blessings and ceremonies to bring more light and love into people’s homes, businesses and lives. For additional show notes, transcript, and your free gifts visit http://janetconner.com/5

After thousands of years of prayer formulated by the patriarchal religions, the divine feminine is asking us to change the way we pray and repair our broken world. Not by transcending the body—that’s the old patriarchal way. She’s inviting us to embrace and embody Her. She is here. She is alive. And Mirabai Starr brings Her shining and singing in and through each one of us! View the Show Notes and get your free gift at https://janetconner.com/4

The Conversation Welcome to an intimate conversation about the evolution of a mystical life. Meghan Don’s story begins at 3 lying in a bush paddock on a farm in New Zealand, moves to dancing at 19 in the sacred waters of the Yamuna River where Krishna and Rahda cavorted, all the way to a vision of Yeshua and Mary Magdalene dancing in joy on Easter morning.   The Person Meghan Don is an evolutionary mystic, author of The New Divine Feminine, founder of The Sanctuary of Sophia, feminine mentor, and death & dying guide. Her work incorporates mystical prayer, meditation, sacred chant and dance, Jungian wisdom, and Tree of Life mysteries, bringing ancient wisdom into accessible, contemporary form. She has taught at Omega Institute, Esalen Institute, and Interfaith Training Institutes. She is co-teaching Praying with and as Mary Magdalene prayer intensive.

How does a girl go from praying The Book of Common Prayer in an Anglican cathedral in York England to a woman who hears the call of the sacred land of Hawaii? In this conversation with Emma Kupu Mitchell, we get to witness a soul falling in love with sound and its healing powers. And then we get to experience those powers through the practice of humming. More about our guest: Emma Kupu Mitchell has so many mystical talents, Janet christened her a “Soul Essence Alignment Artist.” Her arts include Plant Medicine, Depth Numerology, Elemental Astrology, Sound Healing, and more. In addition to creating all the sacred anointing oils for Janet’s prayer intensives, she is co-teaching The Moon and Me in 2019. Emma also co-created the “Awakened Woman Self Care” podcast.  To learn more about Emma visit her website at https://www.emmakupumitchell.com/  

Janet went to bed a writer and woke a prayer artist. And everything changed. Who should be the first guest on Praying at the Speed of Love? Janet came up with a list. That is until she startled awake one night: The first guest has to be me! In episode 1, she tells the story of going to bed a writer and waking up a prayer artist, and how those two words changed everything. She shares her the patriarchal definitions of prayer and her new definitions. Then, she asks the same questions she’s going to ask all her guests: How did you pray as a kid, how do you pray now, and how did you get from there to here? Listen as she goes from saying the Rosary on her knees at 7 to dropping all spirituality at 19, to waking up 39, pregnant, and desperate for a spiritual life. Her best story? The three-year-old who asked, “Where’s God the Mother?” It’s a party, so come get your gift bag, too! Visit her website at http://www.janetconner.com/podcast to discover more!