Sari Brown
The Holy Broken Heart
An emotive, meditative Motown-indie-folk epic that unfolds a journey to broken wholeness in three chapters. The songs of The Holy Broken Heart are designed to create space for exploring and embracing the paradoxes of healing. The CD includes meditation prompts to accompany each song and a lyrics book.
Healing Practices
We suggest these questions to accompany each song as you listen in meditative stillness, or dance it out as you explore them through your body.
What’s Your Name – If your soul-essence had a name, what would it be?
Prodigal Bird – What would you do if you were a bird?
TMJ – What does your inner child need right now?
The Worst of These – Why were you born as you and not someone else?
Promised Land – How do you still carry “home” with you?
What Are People For? – What is the landscape of your heart?
Ordinary Visionary – Where does hope live in your body?
Love Shakes – What does pain teach you?
Hard Things – How do you show up in conflict?
Condemned to Hope – What if you stopped trying so hard?
I Listen to That – What is your inner voice saying?
Brand New Town – What do you need to let go of?
No Love Song – When have you felt the divine in human connection?
The Stars – What happens when you embrace aloneness?
The River – What does it feel like to hold yourself with deep love?
Sing Along: Lyrics and Chords
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Sari Brown is a priestess of song who curates dreams, facilitates rituals, and cultivates beauty in the fertile gaps between cultures. She has lived as an anthropologist and activist in South America and as a musician and pastor in Michigan, and she is in equals parts a child of Motown, mystical chants and Andean folkloric dance. Using textured soundscapes and vulnerable storytelling, her songs create holding spaces for healing, self-awareness and practices of abundant life.
Sari's new album, "The Holy Broken Heart," comes after a decade-long hiatus from the music business, and it explores the shape of healing journeys and our capacity to embrace the mysteries, paradoxes and incompleteness of healing. She has released two albums previously, For What is the Journey (2004) and The Color Suite (2009), and is a long-time member of Earthwork Music, a Michigan-based record label collective of artists, changemakers and healers supporting social and environmental justice.
Book an event
Sari facilitates a variety of events and experiences drawing on her work as a musician and spiritual leader. You can contact her using the form below to learn more or book her for one of the following:
Concerts—beyond simple performances, Sari’s concerts are community-focused spaces customized for each audience to create a healing, supportive, transformative experience. They can include sharing stories, meditation, movement, and other practices of connection to self, other, the earth, and the divine. Video sample: “What’s Your Name?”
Workshops & Speaking—Sari facilitates workshops based on various embodied practices of aliveness, such as: meditation classes, guided movement, healing circles, earth-based spiritual practices, and exercises to activate creative power and intuition. She also speaks on these topics for religious services or other events, drawing on roots in Christian and other mystical traditions, and striving to respect diverse religious and/or non-religious perspectives. Video sample: Talk and healing circle
Ritual facilitation—Rituals promote healing, strength, affirmation, and new insight. There is immense power in ritualizing singificant moments from birth to death, beginnings to endings of relationships, rites of passage to retirement. Sari provides sensitive, creative support in these pivotal moments as an experienced facilitator in commons rituals like weddings and funerals, as well as less common ones like death anniversaries and blessings for creative endeavors.
