Addiction & Recovery Ministry
Helping others through the isolation and darkness of addiction
NA Meetings
Narcotics Anonymous meets in the parish house forum room at 119 North Duke St. every Tuesday and Thursday evening from 7:00 - 8:00 PM. All are welcome to attend!
Tuesdays in September 15, 22 & 29 | 5:30 - 6:45 PM
Led by Sarah Shelton, Urban Well Yoga Studio Coordinator, and
The Reverend Stacey Carpenter, Associate Rector at Saint James
The Practice of Recovery: Yoga, the 12 Steps and a Path for All is a three-week series exploring recovery, healing, and embodied practice in everyday life. This series is rooted in the wisdom of the 12 Steps, something that the co-founders of Alcoholics Anonymous believed everyone could benefit from.
Recovery is not limited to one experience or one path. Many of us are recovering from something—alcohol or substance use, codependency, grief, stress, burnout, perfectionism, anxiety, illness, major life transitions, old patterns, or the places where we have felt disconnected from ourselves, others, our bodies, or a sense of meaning.
Through gentle yoga, reflection, breath, and conversation, this series offers a welcoming space to explore what it means to pause, listen inward, and take the next step toward wholeness.
Each week will focus on a different movement through the 12 Steps:
Week 1: Honesty, Hope, and Surrender
Week 2: Looking Within, Awareness, and Letting Go
Week 3: Healing, Connection, and Continuing the Journey
Participants are welcome to attend one class or the full series. Each class can stand on its own, though attending all three will offer a fuller experience as we move through the steps together.
No prior yoga experience, faith affiliation, or recovery background is required. This series is donation-based and open to all. For more information, Click here to email Sarah Shelton
Through the 12 steps of NA/AA/AL-ANON, we have learned to deal with our disease. We believe this:
SUPPORT GROUPS
SMART Recovery (behavior modification focused)
Dharma Recovery (Buddhist based 12 step)
Celebrate Recovery (Christian based 12 step)
Al-Anon (12 step meetings for family members/loved ones)
DETOXIFICATION (Lancaster, PA area)
White Deer Run Support Center (866) 769-6822
PA Adult & Teen Challenge (844) 888-8085
GENERAL INFO (Lancaster, PA area)
Lancaster County Drug & Alcohol Commission 717-299-8023
- We admitted that we were powerless over our addiction (or our addicts), and that our lives had become unmanageable.
- We came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
- We made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
- We made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
- We admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
- We were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
- We humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
- We made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
- We made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
- We continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
- We sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
- Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to addicts, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
We encourage you to keep an open mind during this mass. Let the words, the prayers, and the music speak to you. If you would like special prayers during communion, please go to the rear of the church where ministers will pray with you and for you.
