Christine Stevens
Wednesday, September 13, 2023
Gather again with your vibrant community and continue your journey with your teacher and mentor Christine to elevate your Native American-style flute-playing skills as you more deeply embody your soul ’s calling and the sacred he aling properties of this ancient and magical instrument — for yourself and others.
Your Personal Invitation From Christine Stevens
Dear soul players of the Native American-style flute,
I couldn’t be more thrilled about this new course, which I’ve created just for you as the graduates of The Healing Flute: 7 Spiritual Lodges to Cultivate Self-Love With the Native American-Style Flute.
It’s been such a blessing to work (and play!) with you.
I honor the magic of how the flute found you and how you found me and The Shift Network. We were meant to meet.
At the conclusion of our course, as master craftsman and flute maker Guillermo Martinez guided you through our Ceremony Lodge, I felt a strong desire to continue the growth we’ve shared together. It felt like a true soul calling.
It’s rare to gather such a dedicated spiritual community of flute players from all over the world. I was so inspired by your comments and how you all supported and encouraged each other through the Facebook community sharing.
I loved seeing the photos of your flute altars and of you playing in nature in powerfully healing ways.
As I listened to many of you play and share, I was reawakened time and again to what a truly beautiful path Native American-style flute playing is as a healing method for ourselves, our families, our communities, and the planet — healing work that’s so necessary in our world today.
There’s so much more I’d like to teach you! Fortunately, a map of sessions for this new course came through me quickly in a download. I trust that download, and I’m also open to your needs and desires.
I want to continue serving you both in your self-growth and healing and help you further develop your flute skills — all of which deepens your spiritual practice.
As an experienced Native American-style flute player, I invite you to continue with me in a more in-depth musical healing journey of self-care and skill-development.
The design of this advanced course allows you more time to practice the techniques I’ve discovered during my two decades of playing the Native American-style flute — for refugees, meditation, sound healing, self-healing, nature-honoring, and ceremony.
This new program will be a next-level initiation into your personal healing and musical path — two things that are naturally intertwined.
Since the seven sessions of this new course will be two hours each, instead of the 90 minutes we had in the previous course, I’ll have more time to coach each participant as we listen to each other play. You’ll also have the time and attention to ask detailed questions that can help you develop into a more skilled and soulful player.
One of the sessions I’ve designed will focus on taking an inventory of your gifts, and then using these gifts in your improvisational playing, which can further develop your composition skills.
You’ll learn more healing songs and I’ll share with you how to lead a flute prayer in a ceremony of healing — infusing your flute with personal prayers and the prayers of others.
Will you join me in continuing to send beautiful music out into the world — to clear and heal the wound of separation from Spirit... the Great Mystery?
I know from experience that the more you play, the more your soul’s desire for creative expression is ignited. So let’s light that flame and move forward together!
All my relations,
Christine
A Message From The Shift Network
When Christine started her journey of preparing to teach the course you just completed — The Healing Flute: 7 Spiritual Lodges to Cultivate Self-Love With the Native American-Style Flute — she did not intend to offer an advanced program.
However, when Christine told us what a special group formed in your course, what a supportive community you became, and how deeply you inspired her, she felt a strong calling to continue working and playing with you.
So she’s waiting with open arms to welcome you back and guide you on a more in-depth path to master your flute playing skills...
... and empower you with even more potent tools to hold this instrument in a sacred way and benefit from its elevated healing and spiritual qualities.
Will you take this rare opportunity to increase your musicality and, at the same time, receive the teachings you need to support your creativity and personal illumination?
Perhaps even more importantly, are you ready to bring more joy and nourishment into your life, which the Native American-style flute is poised to offer you?
In the 2-hour sessions — 30-minutes longer than in your previous course — Christine will offer individual coaching as you play for each other. You’ll also have more time to ask your pressing questions.
During this profound, practical, and inspiring course, you’ll:
- Experience masterclass teachings each week with Christine as she coaches participants live during the sessions
- Learn to play more ceremonial healing songs
- Take your flute playing to the next level by learning 6 new embellishments, specifically when and how to use them, and their sacred meaning for healing
- Develop mastery in phrasing, pausing, and playing to a beat
- Explore your own personal soul retrieval through the flute
- Step into the technique of transmission, experiencing how what’s in your heart alters your sound
- Learn to use music and the flute to honor and integrate the ecstatic moments of your life
- Spend time with Guillermo Martinez in a more in-depth teaching and experience with ceremonial playing
- Continue to practice intention and breathing to create a warm, clear focused tone
- Free more of your creative spirit as a tool to connect to the sacred
- And much more(see the module descriptions below for all the glorious details)...
What You ’ll Discover in These Seven Weeks
In this 7-week transformational course, Christine Stevens will guide you through the fundamental skills and competencies you’ll need to successfully improve your musicality with the Native American-style flute-playing and deepen your experience of the sacred healing properties of this ancient and magical instrument.
Join the Livestream — or Stream Later to Watch at Your Convenience
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.
Course Sessions Wednesdays at 1:00pm Pacific
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 elevate your Native American-style flute-playing skills as you more deeply embody the sacred healing properties of this ancient and magical instrument — for yourself and others.
Module 1: Decorating the Moccasins With Embellishments (September 13)
In this opening session, you’ll learn how to honor a musical moment with decoration.
You’ll advance your playing skills by practicing fluttering and tonguing, and learning when to use each within a phrase.
You’ll explore staccato by repeating one, two, or three notes as a technique to activate energy. Christine will guide you in the sacred power of grace notes — single, double, and wide intervals — to bring more ease and flow to your playing.
Christine will teach you the song “Deep Into the Earth I Go,” adding embellishments and bending notes to include your own emotional expression.
Module 2: The Melody of Nature & Lessons From Hummingbird Medicine, Dolphin & Loon (September 20)
Everybody loves trills! In this module, you’ll practice trills to invoke hummingbird medicine — the energy of the Thunder Being Nation.
You’ll explore both the hurried movement and the art of holding still, which helps you dive into the nectar of life.
You’ll work with the technique of overtone notes, which imitate the bird’s song. You’ll learn to play for dolphin medicine, kissing your flute to invoke playfulness.
And, you’ll call eagle medicine into your life with the “Spotted Eagle Song.” Christine has asked your friend Guillermo Martinez to join for a portion of this session so you can once again experience his masterful teachings.
Module 3: Using Your Gifts for Improvisation & Composition (September 27)
Here’s where you’ll take an inventory of your gifts. You’ll discover what you do best and how to emphasize your unique skills in your playing.
Christine will guide you through the universal design of healing music in two parts.
You’ll also practice an advanced form of dancing scales and explore the art of composition — how medicine songs are born.
Module 4: I Am All of This & More — Soul Retrieval for Healing Through Song (October 4)
In this profound class, you’ll experience soul retrieval with your flute — bringing back into your life what’s missing or wounded, using the four directions of the medicine wheel of life.
You’ll work with a personal affirmation or a mantra of any sacred tradition to create a song. Christine will teach you the “Spirit Calling Song” in the Lakota tradition, in which you ask a question about any aspect of your secret life and allow your flute to answer.
Module 5: Sonic Intuition — Finding the Purpose of Your Playing Through Sacred Lineage (October 11)
You’ll explore the role of the flute in your life, and its sacred lineage — to soothe, heal, and bring enjoyment, personal expression, and narrative to your life and your song.
Using this song, you’ll listen to the cry of your soul to practice the art of transmission.
You’ll also practice playing for the healing of others as you use your breathing to capture the energy you wish to express through your flute.
Module 6: The Rhythm of Life — Playing With the Polarity of Rhythm & Silence (October 18)
In this class, you’ll explore the healing power of resting in music and in life.
You’ll practice playing with the feeling of busy movement in the flute to a structured rhythm... and then finding stillness in less rhythmical playing.
You’ll be asked to consider where you’re moving in rhythm in life, and where you’re resting and finding stillness — and discover which one you need most.
Module 7: Playing the Flute for Integration — In to Great! (November 1)
In this final module, you’ll create a closing ceremony together — recalling a magic moment from your life and playing it on the flute to more effectively and actively absorb beauty.
Integration is the practice of remembering and owning all that you learn, change, and grow — and making it your own. You’ll learn the song “Good Where We’ve Been,” a Plains Indian coming-and-going song.
The Advanced Healing Flute Bonus Offering
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.
Ocean Energy Medicine for Self-Healing
Play-Along Backtrack From Christine Stevens
You can’t help but enjoy playing along to this track featuring the sea kelp rattle, water sounds, and gentle, swaying drum beat in an ocean rhythm. Together they invoke the healing energy of primordial sound, going with the flow, the buoyancy of salty waves, and the sweet release of letting go as the sun sets on the Pacific Ocean. This is particularly exciting because Christine has never before offered this particular kind of backtrack!
Animal Medicine for Self-Healing
Play-Along Backtrack From Christine Stevens
This 12 minute track supports you with the three sounds of creation, the trilogy, as taught by Guillermo Martinez, with a drum beat and a sacred rattle to support your improvisation and healing intention. Feel the medicine of the gentle deer as played in the rattle. Feel the medicine and strength of the elk captured in the drum beat. Use this play-along track when you want to experience strength, travel into other realms, and feel the grounded energy of the Earth. This is a brand-new kind of backtrack for you, as Christine’s continuing student!
What Graduates of The Healing Flute Are Saying...
“The knowledge I’ve gained from starting this course is immeasurable.”
The knowledge I’ve gained from starting this course is immeasurable. The learnings and self-discovery have been truly insightful and progressive on my own journey. I’m feeling very blessed to have found the flute and this course. I’m amazed at just how enlightening playing the flute has been; it is going to be a wonderful instrument to add to my sound journeying.
— Shirley Whangarei, Northland, New Zealand
“I am grateful to Christine for her dedication to music as a tool for self-transformation.”
I developed a stronger connection to the flute and the value of sound for transformation. The medicine songs were simple to learn but profound in their impact. Given that I am not a musician, these songs provided a gateway for composing my own melodies with the reminder that it is important to connect not only to my deeper self but to the outer world. I am grateful to Christine for her dedication to music as a tool for self-transformation and to The Shift Network for recognizing the value of sound.
— Linda, Tatla Lake, Canada
“The entrainment of breath with sound and how it affected my emotions was powerful.”
This course taught me to play the flute intuitively, instead of being shackled to reading music. The entrainment of breath with sound and how it affected my emotions was powerful. I felt quiet and in tune with myself, as if I had done a few rounds of yogic breathing and meditation. I had been seeking an instrument where I couldn’t go wrong. I found it. I am not afraid anymore.
— Erin, Tulum, Mexico
“I was amazed at how easy and fast it was to learn to play songs on the flute, and how the flute can connect me to an inner knowing.”
This course went deep into my heart, it was more than just learning to play. It helped me support my brother when he was ill until his last breath. It helped me find strength and comfort within. I was amazed at how easy and fast it was to learn to play songs on the flute, and how the flute can connect me to an inner knowing.
— Michal Shimoni, Israel
“So many beautiful life lessons and insights.”
This really was a self-healing journey. Christine Stevens takes you by the hand and makes you feel comfortable and very welcome! This course really touched my heart. So many beautiful life lessons and insights.
— Gerrie, Silvolde, Netherlands
Join the Global Community
Advanced Healing Flute offers some of the most advanced and 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 program.
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.
Here’s What You’ll Receive
Seven Two-Hour Class Sessions With Christine Stevens
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 guide you to master your Native American-style flute-playing skills as you work with the sacred healing properties of this ancient and magical instrument, for yourself and others. Course Sessions Wednesdays at 1:00pm Pacific.
Seven Video Recordings of Class Sessions
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.
Seven Audio Recordings of Class Sessions
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.
Seven Transcripts of Class Sessions
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.
Seven 30-Minute Interactive Group Practice Sessions
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 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.
Interactive Exercises and Questions for Each Lesson
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.
Online Community
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.
The Advanced Healing Flute Bonus Offering
- Ocean Energy Medicine for Self-Healing
Play-Along Backtrack From Christine Stevens - Animal Medicine for Self-Healing
Play-Along Backtrack From Christine Stevens
An Unprecedented Opportunity to Join the Online Course, Advanced Healing Flute
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 a 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 mastering your Native American-style flute-playing skills and truly embodying the sacred healing properties of this ancient and magical instrument, then you owe it to yourself, your loved ones, and our world to take this one-of-a-kind program.
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!
Your satisfaction is 100% guaranteed! If you don’t absolutely LOVE The Advanced Healing Flute — or don’t feel that it meets your needs — please submit your refund request form on or before September 27, 2023 and we’ll happily issue qualifying customers a refund.
More Praise for Christine Stevens ...
“Christine guides groups to the secret world of the rhythmic arts.”
— Mickey Hart, Grammy award-winning drummer for the Grateful Dead, and author of Drumming at the Edge of Magic
“The power of her work is reflected in the brightness of her spirit.”
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
“She is an instrument of global peace on the planet.”
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.”
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
“With deep wisdom and connection, Christine Stevens is a master of the heart and healing rhythm.”
— Master Mingtong Gu, Qigong master, speaker, healer, and founder of The Chi Center
“Christine can show you how music and drumming can become part of your daily routine for spirituality and health.”
— Joan Borysenko, PhD, author of Minding the Body, Mending the Mind
“Christine Stevens can introduce you to the magic, fun, and healing power of drumming. I recommend it.”
— Dr. Andrew Weil, author of Healthy Aging
About Christine Stevens
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, andThe 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.
Frequently Asked Questions
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 on Facebook 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 training?
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 September 27, 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 support@theshiftnetwork.com and we’ll be happy to help! (No refund requests accepted after the above date or with scholarship awards.)
Q: How can I reach Customer Support?
A: Please visit our Customer Support Center, where you should be able to find the answer to your question or the solution to your problem. And if you can’t, you can submit an online request form and we’ll get right back to you.
