Learn to play the Native American-style flute for self-healing, kindness, compassion, and self-love — to quickly shift your energy, calm your nervous system, release difficult emotions, and enter a state of inner reflection and soul connection, furthering your spiritual path for optimal wellbeing of your body, mind, and emotions.
Enter into seven healing lodges, sacred ceremonial spaces in the Native American tradition where you can safely journey inward with the support of your community.
What if your greatest spiritual and emotional ally could be a musical instrument?
You may think, Well, that would be amazing, but I don’t play an instrument or have any musical talent.
According to board-certified music therapist, author, and speaker Christine Stevens, however, anyone can learn the Native American-style flute. It’s one of the most accessible and fulfilling instruments to learn, because it’s crafted in the five notes of the pentatonic scale…
… and no matter how you combine them, it’s impossible to make a mistake.
Christine studied for 12 years with the Lakota Nation and was adopted into a family in the making of a relative ceremony, so she has the unique ability and permission to teach the Native American-style flute — an ancient, powerful, and grounding source of healing — and honor the tradition that gave it life.
By playing her flutes in war zones and disaster areas and accompanying meditation services at the Agape International Spiritual Center, Christine uses the flute as a healing gift all over the world.
She calls it an instrument of the soul — a tool for cathartic inner work and one of the most immediate ways to shift your energy toward upliftment — because it helps you tap into and process emotions that you might not even know you’re experiencing.
Join Christine — one of The Shift Network’s most beloved faculty — in a brand-new 7-week live video course, in which you’ll take a deeply healing journey into the infinite possibilities hidden in the wisdom of this ancient instrument…
… used for millennia to move stuck emotions and bring relaxation, liberation, and a sense of connectedness. As you’ll discover, playing the flute just for yourself is a profound vehicle for self-healing, self-care, and soul nurturing.
Whether you’re new to the Native American flute or have been playing for a while, you’ll learn how to play as a healing practice to alleviate what ails you.
It’s not about tapping into your musical genius. Instead, Christine will guide you to discover, as you play, what challenges in your life need attention.
If you’re feeling burned out, overwhelmed, or isolated…
… if you’re struggling with a health crisis, working with trauma, or grieving the loss of a loved one….
… you’ll have ample opportunity to practice directing every note you play to that part of you that needs attention. And you will feel the relief it offers.
One of the most unique aspects of this course is the poetic and tradition-honoring structure and flow as the seven weeks progress.
In each session, you’ll enter into a “lodge,” a prominent term in the Native American tradition that represents an often ceremonial and always sacred space to journey inward with the support of your community around you.
Through the various lodges, you’ll learn a variety of flute-playing techniques, and how to use them for personal healing. You’ll build your own medicine bag of tools — including songs — for times when you need them the most, while also practicing preventive medicine by playing music simply for yourself.
And don’t worry if you’ve never touched (or even seen) a Native American-style flute. Christine is generously offering an extra pre-course session, where you’ll learn four of the most important fundamentals of flute-playing…
… including how to hold the flute, the basic pentatonic scale in solar and lunar (major and minor) modes, dancing scales (turning scales into melody), breathing techniques to support your tone, and tonguing and slurring notes to express different emotional states.
And much more…
The Native American-style flute, especially played improvisationally, can be a potent ally for you on your personal path to transformation — enabling you to become more grounded and achieve greater joy and peace.
It puts you in a calm state so you can engage in the inner reflection necessary to understand what kind of healing you need — and then focus the intention for your music to evoke greater wellbeing.
Christine will illustrate how the flute can be at the center of your self-care practices, because it helps you slow down and move out of the distractions of everyday life into a focused mind and heart.
With it, you can release suffering and come into harmony with yourself and the world around you.
During this course, you’ll learn to play healing songs Christine will teach you — and you’ll also discover how to improvise on the flute with emotion, enabling you to slow down, connect with yourself and nature, and release what’s no longer serving you.
In addition, Christine has invited to the course a very special guest teacher, Guillermo Martinez — master craftsman, flute maker, and founder of Quetzalcoatl Music.
You’re sure to walk away from the seven weeks with lifelong tools for liberation, playfulness, and joy as you continue to develop your skills as a flute player and illuminate your healing path.
Christine contributes to Native American organizations, and is participating with The Shift Network in offering scholarships for this course to 10 Native students and donating a percentage of the proceeds to these three important Native American groups:
How This Course Is Different
In this 7-week transformational program, Christine will guide you through the fundamental skills and competencies you’ll need to learn to play the Native American-style flute as a tool for self-healing, self-care, and self-love, to connect with yourself and nature, release difficult emotions, and further your path toward physical, mental, and emotional wellbeing.
You’ll connect with Christine and experience her teachings through livestreaming video via any connected device. This connection is easy to use and will enhance the impact of Christine’s transmissions. Can’t make it live? After each class, you can stream the video and audio recordings to enjoy anytime and anywhere at your convenience.
This course will feature LIVE teachings, interactive sessions, experiential practices, and Q&A with Christine. Each session will build harmoniously upon the previous ones, so you’ll develop a complete holistic understanding of the practices, tools, and principles you’ll need to learn to play the Native American-style flute for emotional release and self-healing — to quickly shift your energy, calm your nervous system, and enter a state of inner reflection and soul connection.
The word lodge holds many meanings. The English definition is “shelter,” while the Native American tradition refers to structures that house sacred gatherings. When you enter a lodge, you leave the outside world behind and focus on inner realms.
You’ll experience the gifts of technique and how to make learning part of personal healing. Christine will show you how to play the two different modes of scales — major and minor — and how to use them for personal healing, which is very empowering.
Playing the Native American-style can help you undo negative messages you carry about your personal creative expression and Christine will explain the brain science behind the neural network of enlightenment.
Learn flute-playing techniques and healing applications with a reflective and personal approach in which the flute is a metaphor for the human instrument.
Discover the healing gifts of each technique Christine shares, including:
Discover song medicine as a tool for your personal healing.
We return to songs time and again in times of need because they restore us. When we play songs on the flute, Christine says, we embody the lyrics with our mind, while expressing the wordless melodies.
Begin building your medicine bag of tools — songs — for times when you need them the most…
… while also practicing preventive medicine by playing music simply for yourself.
In this session, you’ll:
How can you heal what’s hurting? How can you maintain your wholeness as a well-tuned instrument?
Sometimes, we can be our own worst critics. Playing music from a place of patience, intention, and inner support is a self-compassion, self-care practice. You may already have healed some of your challenges — mind, body, and spirit — using sound and music.
Start shifting your energy toward wound repair. Christine will demonstrate in real time ways of playing the flute for a variety of issues that you and your co-participants are facing.
Practice “earthing” — playing with your bare feet on the ground — first through imagery and then as an actual practice.
As you learn how to play the Native American-style flute to access your inner guidance and soul wisdom for your own healing, you’re likely to notice emotions coming through that you weren’t aware of or didn’t expect.
As R. Carlos Nakai says, “You must play with emotions. Always have the flute available when you need it.”
In this module, you’ll:
We all face social restrictions and taboos around sadness and processing loss, which can make us uncomfortable with our own — or other people’s — visceral expressions of grief and other shadow emotions.
When Christine’s father was making his transition, she was guided to create a grief flute. She decorated the flute and wrote his name and things she loved about him on it. As she played it daily during his journey with hospice, she honored all the emotions of loss, anger, denial, sadness, and gratitude. When the process was complete, she released the flute to the fire.
Through this process, Christine discovered how to modulate her emotions and avoid the overwhelming rush of grief that can bring us to our knees. She felt fully present for her father’s transition in a beautiful way as she tended her soul needs through playing the flute.
Christine won’t ask you to create a grief flute during this course. In this session, though, she’ll guide you to work with emotions through your flute-playing.
You’ll:
The origin story of the Native American flute is one of love. In fact, it’s known as the courting flute.
How can you cultivate greater self-love, self-compassion, and joy? How can you access the wisdom of heart-centered consciousness and use it to play the flute from your heart? What happens when you play the flute for just you, as the most divine gift you can offer yourself?
HeartMath Institute has demonstrated the power of coherence between the brain and the heart. In this session, Christine will guide you in the Golden Breathwork techniques developed by Aaron Gannon (which are included in the bonus material for this course) to make space in the energy centers of your body and bring it into your playing.
You’ll discover your own personal anthem, a song that’s sung in the heart and brought into your life, creating the song that’s yours to carry. To play that song just for yourself is an immense gift to cherish!
In this module, you’ll:
Why are you here? What’s the greatest vision you hold for your life?
Music holds the keys to your intuition — information you can’t access through thought or rumination.
You’ll enter into a process of question and answer with the inner guidance of your soul through playing the flute. Without using words, you’ll learn to listen to the tonal quality of energy in your playing, to discover your life purpose.
Christine will share the five steps mapped in the Life Visioning Process by Rev. Michael Bernard Beckwith, founder of the Agape International Spiritual Center…
… to help you listen to your highest truth and clear obstacles that prevent you from being your fullest awakened self.
In this session, you’ll:
In First Nations cultures, the notion of Beauty Way is practiced in community ceremonies that are guided by the rhythms of nature, the seasons, moon cycles, naming celebrations, and special occasions.
Some people say that they’re “cracked open by beauty.” When this happens, tears become medicine rather than an expression of sadness.
You’ll be joined by guest teacher, master craftsman, and flute maker Guillermo Martinez, founder of Quetzalcoatl Music. He’ll show you how to call in the directions and smudge the space around you. He’ll also use a pow wow drum he made to create space for you to share your prayers — with the flute — as part of the ceremony.
You’re invited to bring something personal to the community altar, smudge at home, and dress to honor the ceremony.
You’ll learn how to create personal ceremonies for your life, family, and nature as you continue to walk with the Native American Flute as a healing ally and tool of prayer.
In this final module, you’ll:
In addition to Christine’s transformative 7-week online course, you’ll receive this special bonus offering to complement the course and take your understanding and practice to an even deeper level.
This video featuring crystal bowls, drums, and flutes contains glorious sweeping views of nature, and was designed to help you relax into harmony in two immersive healing sound baths. The first, with Christine Stevens on Native American-style flutes, was recorded at the Sacred Sound of the Soul in Sedona, Arizona. The second was filmed live in the healing arts tipi at the foot of the Grand Tetons in Jackson Hole, Wyoming with Christine and Daniela Botur, a healing arts and crystal singing bowl practitioner.
Register by June 24 to claim this bonus before it expires.
Join Christine Stevens and K’lea Andreas — a somatic experiencing practitioner, dance therapist, and founder of Zenti Healing Center in Victor, Idaho — for a teaching session in which they discuss methods for choosing singing bowls (Tibetan and crystal) and flutes that create harmony and healing. They then offer a healing sound bath using the Native American-style flute, crystal, and Tibetan singing bowls, rattles, and drums. Before you begin, set your intention and rest in the awareness of your breath.
Register by July 6 to claim this bonus before it expires.
In this highly instructive hour-long class with Christine and Aaron Gannon, Golden Breathwork facilitator and founder of Earth Sky Schedule, you’ll learn two powerful breath techniques to help you enter the doorway of your self-healing nervous system. Christine interviews Aaron about the spirit and science of breathwork and the physiology that supports playing the flute and for self-healing. They’ll illustrate how to practice diaphragmatic breathing for five minutes to clear stagnant energy and stuck emotions that block clear tone and breath in your playing. Aaron also guides a practice using the monochord, an instrument with over 30 strings, to support direct access to your parasympathetic nervous system.
In this enticing package, you’ll bathe in the wisdom, knowledge, and music of two master flute players — Guillermo Martinez, founder of Quetzalcoatl Music, and “the First Lady of the Native American Flute,” Mary Youngblood. Guillermo is a Native American-style flute maker and player. Mary is a 2-time Grammy-winning flute player and composer. These heartfully curated sessions focus on the Native American-style flute as a tool of healing. You’ll explore the “Three Sounds of Creation” and how to develop a healing style of playing.
— Sara Benveniste: “I Love Christine’s Passion and Enthusiasm”
— Julie Lusk: “Christine Really Poured Her Heart and Soul Out Into All of Us”
I fell in love with expressing my sounds with my Native American flute with Christine’s gift of making flute playing fun, easy, and flowing from our hearts. I play my flute regularly and it fills me with joy and bliss. This transformation to play a love instrument is assisting me in living heaven on Earth here!
— Mary Mazur, Dearborn, Michigan
I felt a great collective connection, and it was touching how Christine brought in the spirituality and tradition of the instrument. Her playing is magical!
— Brook Dunn, El Cerrito, California
Christine’s joyful and open heart made an impact on how I approach learning to play the Native American flute. Each week we began with honoring the gifts of the trees that are sharing their voices with us. It’s an intimate, sacred connection between our heart, our spiritual nature, and the natural world we’re all part of.
— Rosemary Collins Berlin, Miami, Florida
I absolutely loved Christine and everything she offered in this course! She is a great teacher but also present, responding to questions and openly sharing her wisdom and experiences. Well done!
— Gina, Campton Hills, Illinois
Christine’s teaching is magical. This course is a heart opener and for me weaves perfectly with my spiritual practices. Now as the course ends, I will take what I have learned and spend time integrating it into my life and moving forward.
— Ellie, Santa Monica, California
The Healing Flute offers some of the most transformational online teachings available, within a thriving global community of learning and practice.
Join fellow students and practitioners to support and inspire each other as you integrate the teachings and practices Christine Stevens will share in this powerful course.
You’ll join an international community on the leading edge of manifesting a world grounded in the principles of cooperation, harmony, and reverence for all of life.
Experience a unique opportunity to be mentored by and learn from speaker, author, and music therapist Christine Stevens — from the comfort of your own home. Each class session includes a livestreaming video option and will teach you how to play the Native American-style flute for self-healing, self-care, and self-love — to quickly shift your energy, calm your nervous system, release difficult emotions, and enter a state of inner reflection and soul connection. Course sessions are on Tuesdays at 1:00pm Pacific.
After each class, the video will be available for you to stream in a high-quality format. You’ll never have to worry about missing a session, and you can watch anytime and anywhere at your convenience.
After each class, the audio will be available for you to stream. You’ll never have to worry about missing a session, and you can listen anytime and anywhere at your convenience.
You’ll also receive the entire class transcription after each session is completed. You can then review, print, and highlight the most important insights and practices you were given.
With live class attendance, there will be a 30-minute optional interactive practice session directly following each class. You’ll be placed in an intimate group with several other participants on the Zoom call to interact, share, and do additional practices to help you further integrate the weekly lessons. Practice sessions are available for live attendance only and are not recorded for playback. If you’re unable to attend the calls live, the Facebook online community group allows you to connect with each other and find alternative times to interact.
Between class sessions, you’ll have the option of completing related exercises, practicing new tools, and answering questions to accelerate your learning and integrate each week’s lesson.
Our exclusive Facebook online community is the perfect place to continue your discovery process after each class. Here, you can continue the discussion about your course materials and interact with your fellow students to take your exploration to an even deeper level.
We feel honored that Christine Stevens has chosen to partner with The Shift Network to offer this exclusive LIVE online course. This is a unique opportunity to interact directly with the speaker, author, and music therapist whose powerful insights and pioneering work are helping us heal and awaken ourselves and our world.
If you’re serious about learning to play the Native American-style flute as a self-healing tool that helps you enter a state of inner reflection and soul connection to further your path toward physical, mental, and emotional wellbeing, then you owe it to yourself, your loved ones, and our world to take this one-of-a-kind course.
If you’re ready to take the next step in your own evolution, click the register button below to reserve your space now.
Your satisfaction is 100% guaranteed! If you don’t absolutely LOVE The Healing Flute — or don’t feel that it meets your needs — please submit your refund request form on or before July 25, 2023 and we’ll happily issue qualifying customers a refund.
— Mickey Hart, Grammy award-winning drummer for the Grateful Dead, and author of Drumming at the Edge of Magic
Christine Stevens’ work is truly brilliant. I love how she teaches drumming rhythms. The power of her work is reflected in the brightness of her spirit.
— Sandra Ingerman, author of 12 books, including The Book of Ceremony
Christine’s work is anointed with the kiss of heaven’s inspiration, celebration, and joy. She is an instrument of global peace on the planet.
— Michael B. Beckwith, author of Spiritual Liberation and founder of Agape International Spiritual Center
Christine Stevens is a magical sage of sound healing. She is a “bridger of worlds” with a deep sense of what matters most. She brings healing home for the Soul.
— Dr. Sue Morter, founder of the Morter Institute for BioEnergetics and author of The Energy Codes
— Master Mingtong Gu, Qigong master, speaker, healer, and founder of The Chi Center
— Joan Borysenko, PhD, author of Minding the Body, Mending the Mind
— Dr. Andrew Weil, author of Healthy Aging
Christine Stevens is an internationally acclaimed speaker, author, drummer, and music therapist, with master’s degrees in both social work and music therapy. She is the host of Global Rhythm Sangha, and the founder of UpBeat Drum Circles, which brings drumming and sound healing to organizations and events dedicated to uplifting humanity.
Christine, who has worked with Fortune 500 companies, survivors of disasters, and refugee women, serves as a Musical Ambassador of Peace. She led the first drum circle training for peace in northern Iraq and toured Japan with a music medicine approach to the Native American-style flute.
Through Remo, the world’s largest drum company, Christine co-created the HealthRHYTHMS research-based drumming protocol used in medical centers and wellness centers worldwide. She is the author of Music Medicine, The Healing Drum Learning Program, The Art and Heart of Drum Circles, and The Nature Sutras. Her popular drumming CDs include Reviving Rhythms, Drumming Up Spirit, and Drumming Up Diva.
As an advocate of music and wellness, her media appearances include NBC, KTLA Los Angeles, Living Better TV, and Discovery Health. Her work has been featured in Fitness magazine, Spirituality & Health, Body & Soul, First for Women magazine, Yogi Times, and Natural Beauty and Health.
Q: What’s a virtual course?
A: It’s a great way to engage live and pre-recorded teachings and each other from the comfort of your home! All you need is a computer, mobile device, or telephone. If there’s more than one person in your household taking the course, you’ll each need your own connection. We use Zoom video conferencing to make it just like an in-person event, where you can ask questions and deepen your exploration of the course themes.
There’s no additional charge for connecting to Zoom with your computer or mobile device. Please note that dialing Zoom from your telephone is a toll call; your telephone service provider will charge you according to your existing long-distance calling plan. International access numbers are available.
“I’ve never seen a course so well put together ever...”
I had never participated before in an online course. The packaging, presentation, inclusion, and Facebook postings created a wonderful, safe cocoon within which to participate. I’ve never seen a course so well put together ever — not in all the years of taking college classes — and I had my doubts about doing an online course. The wealth of organization and ease of learning materials and support made this fun as well.
— Claudia F., Medford, Massachusetts
Can I still benefit from the course if I miss the live classes?
A: Absolutely! You can stream the recordings and download the transcripts of all course sessions, so you never need to worry about missing live calls. You can also engage with the full community and leaders in our private online community group.
Q: Can you tell me about the private online community group?
A: We’ll have a private online community group for all course participants that will support you in making connections with others, sharing insights, engaging in discussions, and completing homework assignments that can supplement your transformational journey. You’ll have the ability to share your experiences, projects, and growth throughout the course.
Q: Are there scholarships available for this course?
A: Yes, we always make a certain percentage of spaces available for partial scholarships, for those who otherwise would not be able to enroll at the regular rate. If you’d like to apply for a scholarship, please review our guidelines, which include a link to our online application form.
Q: What’s your refund policy?
A: Your satisfaction with The Shift Network and this course is our highest priority! We offer a satisfaction guarantee so that you can sample the course risk-free. The deadline to receive a full refund is July 25, 2023. To request a refund, please click on this refund request form and submit your request. Qualifying refunds will be processed within five business days and an email confirming the refund will be sent. However, we’d love to have a chance to address and resolve your concerns first. If there’s something we can assist you with, please email us at [email protected] and we’ll be happy to help! (No refund requests accepted after the above date or with scholarship awards.)
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