
Many people have been asking what the Purgative Way has to do with healing. In this talk, James Finley parallels the early stages of healing with this Christian Mystical term that is often misidentified with "purgatory" in the literal sense.
This video provides teaching by James Finley on the song Where to Start
This video provides teaching by James Finley on the song Where to Start
This video provides teaching by James Finley on the song Move Slowly
This video provides teaching by James Finley on the song Waiting to Be Met
Explore vulnerability when someone steps from behind the curtain and is seen; a Rome pilgrimage and a father mother sister brother song illustrate longing to be met.
This video provides teaching from James Finley on the song Encountering the Inner Child
The Illuminative Way is an illustration of the "dark night of the soul" - where a person comes to realize that there is something untouchable and bright in the hurting places.
This video provides teaching by James Finley on the song So Far to Go
Navigate from suffering toward transformation by embracing patience and courage while trusting a path not of your own making, between two worlds, seeking closure.
This video provides teaching by James Finley on the song Do Not Perpetuate Violence
This video provides teaching by James Finley on the song I Believe You
Confront the punitive inner voice and the vulnerable inner child. Affirm your worth and discover the unbearably beautiful self through intimate connection as you walk with God toward your nature.
This video provides teaching by James Finley on the song The Hurting Places
This video provides teaching by James Finley on the song Sustained in All Things
This video provides teaching by James Finley on the song There is a Peace
This video provides teaching by James Finley on the song Every Breath is Grace
This video provides teaching by James Finley on the song In Your Most Childlike Hour
This question came from a number of folks wondering if the Sanctuary album is for those who haven't suffered trauma.
For many of us, our trauma has so defined our identity, it scares us to think of who we might be without it.
In this video, James Finley gently recommends ways to sit with the music as a group or alone.
Further recommendations and practices for moving out of a place of inertia.
Veteran songwriter Alana Levandoski and Clinical Psychologist, Merton Scholar and beloved teacher James Finley have made an album of chant, composition and spoken word that explores the HEALING PATH.
This 15 video course follows the album with tender, insightful teaching from James Finley in interview with Alana.
What you get:
- 12 professionally filmed videos of helpful teaching and guidelines to use Sanctuary in group facilitation, or alone.
- listening access to each song associated with the video
- 3 Bonus videos answering questions and giving further guidelines for how to sit with the material.