The Mothership: An Audio Collection from the Village

The Mothership is an audio experience that weaves conversation, poetry, guided meditations, music, movement and motivation in an effort to bring “the Village” together for present and future mothers everywhere.

Jeana and I are excited to announce the highly anticipated release of The Mothership: An Audio Collection from the Village — VOLUME II starting this Monday, November 11.

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Months in the making, Volume II marks a new chapter!

Once again, The Mothership sets out to explore themes of relationships, fertility, birth, postpartum, aquarian parenting, intuition, isolation, creativity, sacredness, mystery and more…

We are dedicated to gathering the practical and mystical applications to live, love and parent with more intention, creativity, inspiration and ease.

We remain committed to our goal to capture candid conversations, to be in community, and to encourage creativity within you, and with you.

Our intention with The Mothership is to feature a roster of inspiring women whose work we admire and turn to for guidance. These women are artists, yogis, poets, mystics and experts in their fields.

As always, we hope you find a new “favorite voice” here, that you build these women into your network and that you return to their work when you want to take a class, receive a healing, purchase art, and inspire a friend.

The Mothership: An Audio Collection from the Village — VOLUME II will be released as a full-length album / audio-magazine / not-a-podcast-podcast on December 16 on Apple podcast.

You can now listen to the entire Volume I album here on Substack.

Meet the Creators

About Amy Keller

Amy Keller (a.k.a Gaia & baby Niko’s mom) is the creator, producer, editor and contributing writer of The Mothership. Her passion for motherhood came through building relationships with women who continued to pursue their desires as artists and entrepreneurs while raising small children. Her devotion to esoteric and mystery school teachings combined with her love of storytelling has been the motivation behind her work. Most days Amy can be found creating in the kitchen, singing with her children and sending voice notes back and forth with friends. Her credits include Co-Creating & Publishing Amber, a limited-run newspaper meets workbook, and the women’s marketing community and course, Mega Magnetic Storytelling. She lends her past experience as a NYC Fashion & Beauty Publicist for brands such as, Ralph Lauren and L'Oreal, to her current client & creative work.

@missamykeller

About Jeana Donovan

Jeana Donovan (a.k.a Isaiah’s mom) is the creator, producer, editor and contributing writer of The Mothership. Her passion for motherhood and restoring the forgotten “village” came shortly after becoming pregnant and discovering the holier, more sacred approaches to birth that seemed to have fallen through the cracks of modern maternity. Her love of collaborating with artists and bringing ideas/stories to life has been a driving force to her work. Her credits include a voiceover in a U2 video, artwork featured on Times Square, and several recorded conversations with her husband, Remington, in their weekly podcast The Mystical Artists.

@jeana__donovan

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About Lauren Fleishman

Lauren is a screenplay writer, entrepreneur, story educator and mother from Texas based in Bali. Her writing themes are focused on exploring sexuality, spirituality, death and transformation. She is currently developing her television show Lust + Found for Netflix and teaching a private online course called UNLEASHED, allowing you to identify and transmute your own personal story into art. To connect with Lauren follow her on IG @Lafleish or visit her website www.laurenafleishman.com

 

Credits

Created and Produced by Amy Keller and Jeana Donovan

Edited by Jeana Donovan and Amy Keller

Music Contribution by Jeana Donovan and Casey Sullivan

Cover design by Jeana Donovan

 

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A Conversation with Isabel Barreto, Amy Keller and Jeana Donovan

Isabel’s commitment to her practice will inspire you. How she’s kept it up will confront you. In her conversation with me and Jeana you’ll hear her dispel the myths of conscious and gentle parenting, why she believes in Meditation for Mamas, how a 40-day personal experiment changed her and her children’s lives, as well as the value in setting strong boundaries, owning your energy and being the leader… whether you want to or not.

Like a great leader, she shares the tools to begin your own daily practice while holding you accountable.

On a personal note... we loved the way she described our children as the living breathing patterns of our own subconscious.

 

About Isabel Barreto

Isabel Barreto is a movement, breathwork and meditation teacher, a folk herbalist, and intuitive earth medicine woman. Isabel has been applying the technology of Kundalini yoga and meditation through practice in her life for over 20 years. When she gave birth to her first child in 2013, she began to utilize the powerful techniques of breathwork, movement, mantra and meditation as tools for energy management, to curb anxiety, to stay connected to herself and develop a strong inner anchor - she found her practice instrumental to motherhood. Isabel teaches workshops, works one-on-one with clients, and leads a seasonal 40-day movement, breathwork, meditation experience container that aligns with the rhythm of the lunar and earth cycles. Isabel can be found @meditationformamas and mamoonliving.com.

 Credits

Created and Produced by Amy Keller and Jeana Donovan

Edited by Jeana Donovan and Amy Keller

Music Contribution by Jeana Donovan

Cover design by Jeana Donovan

Above excerpt by Amy Keller

 

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About Valerie Patroni

Val Patroni is a community based midwife, who has been in service to Mothers and families, offering authentic and traditional care, throughout New England, the Tri-State area and now central Florida for 15 years. She is humbled to sit at the feet of Life-Givers and safeguard the highest ceremony of all beings, the Ceremony of Birth. Val delights in braiding together her ancestral inheritance, with her years of lived wisdom and connection to ceremony, to reflect the uniqueness of each woman who chooses her care. She is the mother of her Womban Tribe, wife to her soulmate and a forever student, continuing to refine her path in Midwifing ones, into their truest and freest selves.

Work with Valerie

 

Credits:

Created and Produced by Amy Keller and Jeana Donovan

Music contribution by Casey Sullivan and Jeana Donovan

Cover design by Jeana Donovan

 

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Wildflowers” lyrics

You belong among the wildflowers
You belong in a boat out at sea
Sail away, kill off the hours
You belong somewhere you feel free

Run away, find you a lover
Go away somewhere all bright and new
I have seen no other
Who compares with you

You belong among the wildflowers
You belong in a boat out at sea
You belong with your love on your arm
You belong somewhere you feel free

Run away, go find a lover
Run away, let your heart be your guide
You deserve deepest of cover
You belong in that home by and by

You belong among the wildflowers
You belong somewhere close to me
Far away from your trouble and worry
You belong somewhere you feel free
You belong somewhere you feel free

Songwriters: Thomas Earl Petty

 

About Claire Boutelle Pius

Claire Boutelle Pius is a new mama, born in Ohio and currently living in Los Angeles with her husband and son. 

A lover of music, art, analog and design, Claire carries a reverence for beauty and aesthetics that is embodied in everything she does. Her work in bespoke lighting design and mid-century modern furniture has offered her a daily source of inspiration and joy.  

Claire plays bass, ukulele, and sings. She has shared the stage as a member of Honey Child, an all-female ‘heroine folk’ chamber-pop choir, and loves to make music and collaborate with fellow artists and friends.

@claireboutelle

 

Credits

“Wildflowers” cover by Claire Boutelle Pius

Created and Produced by Amy Keller and Jeana Donovan

Music contribution by Casey Sullivan and Jeana Donovan

Cover design by Jeana Donovan

 

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This is a conversation between new friends and neighbors.

The only in-person interview recorded, Rahel came to Jeana's home on a weeknight and they had the luxury to sit and talk together. Jeana wanted to pick her brain about books she’s reading, her philosophies on parenting, and how she completely transformed her life from a former costume designer living in Los Angeles to a health advocate, herbalist, homeschooling mama and Vermont farmer.

 

Resources as mentioned:

The Work of John Taylor Gatto

Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers by Gordon Neufeld and Gabor Maté MD

 

About Rahel Afiley

Rahel is a homeschooling mama of two spirited children. She is also a health advocate, herbalist, nutritionist and a Buteyko breathing coach. Rahel's passion for researching health led her to leave her career as a costume designer in Hollywood and pursue a career in holistic healing. When she is not taking clients, Rahel spends her time milking cows, farming and getting involved in community activities with her children.

Follow her work here @haellanhealth

 

Credits:

Created and produced by Amy Keller and Jeana Donovan

Edited by Jeana Donovan and Amy Keller

Music contribution by Casey Sullivan

Cover design by Jeana Donovan

 

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Akal shares a simple breath practice you can do anywhere & anytime, to bring you back to your intuition.

About Akal Khalsa:

Akal is a Registered Nurse and childbirth educator with over 20 years experience. Her passion is working with women preparing to conceive, pregnant women and women and newborns after the birth. She teaches kundalini yoga, prenatal yoga and mama and me yoga.  Akal incorporates the yogic teachings in all she does and connects with families with humor, love and compassion.

DM for appointments @akal_khalsa  

Credits:

Created and produced by Amy Keller and Jeana Donovan

Edited by Jeana Donovan and Amy Keller

Music contribution by Casey Sullivan and Jeana Donovan

Sound mixing by Casey Sullivan

Cover design by Jeana Donovan

 

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Emma Johnston's approach to life (and mothering) is totally and utterly rebellious. She projects from the razor’s edge — between sharp (her honesty) and soft (her grace). A paradox you will find in her replies to nearly every question we asked her in this conversation. Expect to be surprised by how she runs her business, creates her family, and executes with unwavering self-trust.

Expect to be surprised by how she runs her business, creates her family, and executes with unwavering self-trust.

About Emma Johnston:

Mother of five beautiful children and stepmother to her partner’s teenage son, Phoenix, Emma Johnston is also the Co-Founder of The Reconnected and Reconnected Being — a modern, innovative approach to parenting that bridges intuition and neuroscience to connect you with what really matters in your daily life with your kids. Her mastery in Rebirthing Breathwork and Kundalini Yoga, along with her introduction to connected play methods for children by business partner, Eleanor, are the foundations for Reconnected Parenting. The program and community that Emma and Eleanor have created is now infamous for dispelling the myth that “good parenting” is always calm parenting.

Follow her @newearth.mama

Explore @the_reconnected @reconnected_being

 

Credits:

Created and produced by Amy Keller and Jeana Donovan

Edited by Jeana Donovan and Amy Keller

Cover design by Jeana Donovan

 

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Credits:

Audio courtesy of Joshua Turek @joshuaturek and Emma Johnston @newearth.mama

“Adi Shakti” excerpt by Pritam Siri

Created and produced by Amy Keller and Jeana Donovan

Edited by Jeana Donovan and Amy Keller

Sound re-mixing by Casey Sullivan and Jeana Donovan

Cover design by Jeana Donovan

 

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About Amy Keller

Amy Keller a.k.a Gaia & baby Niko’s mom is the creator, producer, editor and contributing writer of The Mothership. Her passion for motherhood came through building relationships with women who continued to pursue their desires as artists and entrepreneurs while raising small children. Her devotion to esoteric and mystery school teachings combined with her love of storytelling has been the motivation behind her work. Most days Amy can be found creating in the kitchen, singing with her children and sending voice notes back and forth with friends. Her credits include Co-Creating & Publishing Amber, a limited-run newspaper meets workbook, and the women’s marketing community and course, Mega Magnetic Storytelling. She lends her past experience as a NYC Fashion & Beauty Publicist for brands such as, Ralph Lauren and L'Oreal, to her current client & creative work.

@missamykeller

 

Credits:

Written and Performed by Amy Keller

Created and produced by Amy Keller and Jeana Donovan

Edited by Jeana Donovan and Amy Keller

Musical Contribution by Casey Sullivan and Jeana Donovan

Sound mixing by Casey Sullivan

Cover design by Jeana Donovan

 

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