Posts by Janet Conner
Episode 6: Alessandra Belloni and the Black Madonna
This conversation transcends the word “conversation.”
Read MoreCherish your body through Original Prayer
My body is more than a temple for the divine, my body is divine.
This is beyond an idea. This is a living sensation. A deep body knowing. You can’t learn that your body is holy, you feel it. And you feel it in your body. So how do you get there?
It’s my birthday—and the gift is for you!
I want to do something on my birthday that applauds my soul for making the outrageous choice to come into this world. So the gift is for you!
Read MoreEpisode 5: Kahu Lāhela Johnson
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.
Read More1st and only Original Prayer Weekend Retreat
Just as I am redefining prayer, it looks like I’m also redefining retreat. The Original Prayer Weekend Retreat is unlike any you have experienced.
Read MoreMary Magdalene’s mystical sacrament of anointing
The sacrament of anointing is all about the wholeness of love. It’s a prayer practice that floods your visible body with invisible love. It brings The Mystic, The Imaginal into the physical in a real, tangible, transformative way.
Read MoreEpisode 4: Mirabai Starr
Mirabai Starr and the Wild Mercy of the Divine Feminine
Read MoreThe Mary Magdalene we were never supposed to meet
Who was Mary Magdalene? This question has simmered below the surface for two thousand years. This is not a Mary Magdalene we were ever supposed to meet.
Read MoreWhat would happen if you were unleashed?
There is a vital connection between creativity and mysticism. To make art is to make love with the sacred.
Read MoreEpisode 3: Meghan Don
Meghan Don meets Mary Magdalene
Read MoreThe Sabian Symbol for the new Lunar Year is…
New Year’s Eve (that’s lunar new year’s eve) was Thursday. The first day of the new lunar year was Friday. And Saturday was a lovely day to rest and digest and integrate this birth.
And it was quite the birth, wasn’t it!
Read MoreThe surprising relationship between the Moon and your health
The more aware you become of your body moving in rhythm with the natural phases of the Moon, the more elegantly you can move with, and align with, life.
Read MoreEpisode 2: Emma Kupu Mitchell
From praying in a cathedral in England to communing with sacred land in Hawaii, Emma shares her prayer journey.
Read MoreYour natal chart Moon holds the answers to 3 questions
You know that phrase: When the student is ready, the teacher will come.
Read MorePraying at the Speed of Love is BORN!
Praying at the Speed of Love Podcast is born! My first guest is….me. Because I have to tell you the stories behind this show and behind prayer artist.
Read MoreEpisode 1: Janet Conner, My Prayer Podcast Story
The Story Behind Praying at the Speed of Love
Read MoreHow you can grow younger in the second half of life
When Susan Matyas sent an email inviting me to speak at her “The Ageless Woman” summit, I started laughing.
Not at her. Or at her summit. But at this crazy synchronicity.
Read MoreA call to transfiguration on this sacred 333 day
Do you know what today is? March 3, 2019. Our solar year is a 3 (2 + 1 + 9 = 12 which reduces to 3). Today is a 3-3-3 day. A triple 3.
Read MoreFirst—maybe only—invitation to Ho’oponopono for Mother Earth
After 4 deep personal experiences with Ho‘oponopono, we are turning our love and prayers toward our shared mother, our One Mother, Mother Earth.
Read MoreWhat is prayer?
What is prayer? Have you ever asked yourself this question?
I never did.
Prayer was simply what we did as a child.
No one sat me down and talked about what prayer is or who we’re praying to or why. It was just assumed. It was in the air.
And I didn’t question it.
Read MoreWhat happens when we pray…together?
When I first heard the words, “prayer artist” in the night, I didn’t have a clue what it meant or where it would take me. And it scared me.
Read MoreA personal letter on healing from Kahu Lāhela on Ho’oponopono
When Kahu Lāhela and I created the first Ho’oponopono prayer intensive, we couldn’t see the beautiful future. But we knew with all our hearts that this prayer is alive and leading the way.
Read MoreCan Ho’oponopono heal your body?
2013 was a strange year. How could one year be filled with so much sorrow–and so much grace and possibility.
Read MoreThis is what happens when you say YES
When I clearly heard “prayer artist” in the night 11 months ago, I had a choice. Even in the dark in the middle of the night, I knew I had a choice. But here’s the problem:
My body voted one way. My heart another.
The Romance is 10 years old and it just got better
My first book, Writing Down Your Soul came out ten years ago on January 1, 2009. Eleven days later I gave my first public talk at Wings Bookstore in St Petersburg Florida. I had taught a live course on deep soul writer at First Unity in St Pete a few months prior, so I had quite a…
Read MoreA Winter Solstice Prayer
Last Sunday I spoke about how sacred December is for me. Every year, December ushers something in, something I’m not expecting or requesting. It has happened so often that I am certain that Something else guides each of my new beginnings. Something Sacred. Something Wise. Something most Holy. My job is simply to prepare.Prepare and…
Read MoreTune into December’s Voice with your body
You don’t have to strip your holidays down as radically as I do. To find what’s right for you, tune into your body. If you’lre not excited about something, turn to your gut and see if you really want to do it or if it’s more of an obligation.
Read MoreThe Speed of Love
Things are moving so very quickly aren’t they? Everyone is talking about how things are changing in their lives and changing at a speed they’ve never encountered before. It does seem that the time ofconsidering change,contemplating change,incrementally moving in a new direction–that time has ended. Although no one knows exactly why or when. It just seems to have…
Read MoreAre you ready to hear the Love Song of your life?
This year is turning out to be full of mystical surprises, isn’t it. And with each surprise we find ourselves travelling roads in The Mystic we have not walked before. Roads most of us didn’t even know were there. That is certainly happening for me. And I love it, even though I don’t often understand…
Read MoreThe Beloved is Singing a Love Song to Your Body
There is a current of love-energy that flows between Earth below and Sun above. The central channel of your spine is the riverbed. The streaming is as delicate and powerful as the tingling touch of lovers.The Radiance Sutras Dear deep soul explorer, Our bodies respond to the movements of the planets and stars whether we…
Read MoreWhen the Soul Starts Singing Love Songs
Last week, I told you the story of how love found me lying on the floor in savasana in yoga. (If you haven’t read it, January 14 sets the stage for today’s Part 2. I have a feeling this is the opening chapter of a love epic.) There is one paragraph in that Notes from the Field…
Read MoreHow are you going to come alive in 2018?
I drive two hours every Thursday to attend a devotional yoga practice that activates the divine feminine. Even I think it’s a crazy commitment, but Kali Natha Yoga is an essential element in my mystical life. Last Thursday, the beauty and wonder of this yoga opened me to a cosmic experience. I’d like to share…
Read MoreMy son went to prison–and I learned to pray
The mystical practices of soul writing and Intention Mandala were birthed in trauma. As I began Soul Vows, there was no trauma in sight. Would I finally get to write a book without pain? Trauma, as you’ve probably discovered, can be a divine invitation. Not one you want, of course, but a divine invitation nonetheless. That’s…
Read MoreAm I the Mikey of the mystical life? (Are you?)
Thomas Merton said, “It is not we who choose to awaken ourselves, but God who chooses to awaken us.” In that case, our only option is to say yes. I confess, I’m getting pretty good at this game of yes! When Writing Down Your Soul came out, I didn’t see any particular pattern. I was grateful to have…
Read MoreMeet the Owl
Welcome from Janet The owl on the cover of Writing Down Your Soul and My Soul Pages is not an accident. It is not an accident that it is an animal and an owl in particular. This owl is so much more than just an owl. This cover is a sweet divine mystery. Let me…
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