Christine Stevens
Elevate your drum practice to a sacred art and step into your role as a rhythmical sound keeper and guide.
Learn how to vary and embellish your rhythms, clear energy through specific drum patterns, and integrate other instruments into your playing — to create powerful musical experiences, for yourself and others.
Are you ready to evolve the sacred rhythms you’ve learned into a personal spiritual practice — and perhaps share their transformative power with others?
As a recent graduate of Christine Stevens’ 7-week course, you’ve already embarked on a journey into the sacred language of the drum…
… exploring foundational rhythms from around the world to facilitate emotional alchemy, personal growth, and deep healing — while creating music that pulses from your soul.
We’ve heard your desire to take these rhythms further — to make them your own with nuance and personal flair. Many of you want to bring your drum into community settings… to guide circles that uplift, energize, and restore.
You may also feel called to weave drumming into your spiritual life or blend in other instruments that expand your sound and presence.
We’ve heard you — and we’re thrilled to offer a unique opportunity to continue this rhythmic path with Christine.
She’s created a brand-new, advanced 4-week live video course, exclusively for you as a student of Sacred Language of the Drum — to deepen your connection with your instrument, broaden your expressive range, and step fully into your power as a rhythmic healer and leader.
You’ll revisit several core rhythms from the previous course and dive into many new ones — learning how to vary, embellish, layer, and infuse them with your own signature. You’ll discover how each beat can carry meaning, move energy, and ground your intention.
Christine will guide you through specific rhythmic techniques for clearing stagnant or negative energy — shifting the “field” of a space to support energetic coherence and a unified purpose.
She’ll show you how to incorporate complementary instruments — your voice, flutes, and rattles — to create more expansive and multidimensional soundscapes.
You’ll explore ways to lead and jam with others in drum circle sessions with presence and purpose — holding space, guiding transitions, and embodying the responsibility of leadership through rhythm.
Christine will also teach you the art of the taqsim — the improvisational moment before the first beat — where you set the tone, gather the energy, and invite others into the space.
As you work with these new practices, you’ll come to understand what Christine calls the “Secrets of the Groove” — the subtle dynamics that make a rhythm come alive…
These are the keys to integration — of your music, your journey, and your spiritual path.
During this advanced drumming course for Christine’s graduates, you’ll:
- Expand and personalize your rhythmic vocabulary by learning how to vary and evolve your rhythms
- Discover 3 essential tools for rhythm embellishment
- Experience drum ceremonies that clear your personal energy or shift the energy of a space with “sonic smudging”
- Practice imbuing your rhythm patterns with your own creative ideas to align with your intention
- Experience call and response — the drum’s language of soulful communication
- Learn a universal 3-beat drum pattern — the African bell or Moroccan 3 — common in many world rhythms
- Integrate voice, flute, rattle, or other instruments for a more layered, symphonic sound
- Practice the art of taqsim — the improvisational opening that anchors intention and invokes sacred presence
- Develop your capacity to create group rhythmic experiences — including how to start, sustain, and end grooves with others
- Harness the vibrational power of the drum to amplify your spiritual evolution
- Cultivate leadership skills that extend beyond drumming — empowering you to embody rhythm as a way of being, sharing, and serving
- And much more...
Whether you’re deepening your personal practice or stepping forward to share rhythm with others, this enlivening course invites you to elevate your drumming as a personal art, a spiritual tool, and a dynamic force for transformation.
You’ll emerge with greater confidence, clarity, and creative freedom — and a renewed connection to rhythm, purpose, and soulful expression.
What You’ll Discover in These 4 Weeks
In this 4-week transformational course, Christine will guide you through the skills and you’ll need to bring more nuance to your rhythms, clear energetic blocks through intentional drumming, guide group experiences, and incorporate complementary instruments — to support healing for yourself and in community.
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.
Weekly Sessions on 2025-06-18 11:00:00 am
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 transform your drumming into a sacred craft, mastering rhythm variation, energy-clearing drum patterns, circle leadership — and blending instruments to create profound musical journeys.
Module 1: Playing Variations on Rhythms for Creativity, Proficiency & Soul Expression (2025-06-18 11:00:00 am)
Christine will guide you on how to embellish and play variations on any basic rhythm, infusing them with your personal energy to elevate the musicality of the beat.
Work with a trance rhythm from Egypt — Ayub — widely played across the Middle East.
Learning to vary and embellish drum patterns is a powerful way to add spice to your beats and make them uniquely your own.
The practice of shifting between basic rhythms and your variations — sometimes by as little as one beat — nourishes your cognitive function in subtle but meaningful ways.
All drums are welcome — from buffalo drums, djembes, frame drum, and more.
This week, you’ll:
- Learn to play variations within the Ayub rhythm pattern — enhancing your playing with just one beat
- Discover 3 essential tools for rhythm embellishment — substitution, fills, and rolls
- Practice infusing your rhythm patterns with your own creative ideas to align with your intention
- Build proficiency in the sacred language of the drum, developing your personal “penmanship” of creativity
Module 2: Clearing Negative Energy With Rhythm & Rumble (2025-06-25 11:00:00 am)
Many ceremonies begin with smudging or clearing space to create a sacred container for practice. One of the drum’s greatest gifts is its vibrational energy, which amplifies intention and becomes a powerful tool to shift mood and cleanse space.
Explore this through a traditional rhythm — Soliwulen from Guinea — taught with permission from Monette Marino via the Tam Tam Mandigue School of Mamade Keita.
Clear your self-judgment about not being musical, clearing a space, or even your own energy in both a traditional rhythm and the “rumble” fast beat. Explore the breath of drum sound with soft brushing techniques, which help release fear, doubt, worry, and mental clutter.
Whether the negative energy arises from within your body, mind, spirit, or the world around us, these tools can help clear space for your most creative and joyful drumming.
In this class, you’ll:
- Learn a traditional rhythm from Guinea for clearing negative energy
- Explore a drum ceremony to clear your personal energy or a space with sonic smudge
- Harness the vibrational energy of the drum as a powerful amplifier of your spiritual intention
- Build confidence by integrating drum patterns and rolls into your playing
Module 3: The Art of Taqsim - Combining Drums With Flutes, Rattles, Voice & More to Orchestrate Your Rhythms (2025-07-09 11:00:00 am)
The drum and voice are our most primal instruments, and we all carry a heartbeat and the strings of our vocal cords.
When you combine voice, flute, or other instruments with your own drumbeat, you awaken a whole world of orchestrated intention.
Explore how to speak, sing, and orchestrate rhythms of fluency — moving from the heartbeat pulse to the universal three-beat pattern heard in many world rhythms. From the African bell to the Moroccan three, you can create a polyrhythm of three over four that’s simple, infectious, and energizing.
According to Angeles Arian’s Four Fold Way, the medicine wheel of percussion includes four sounds — the drum in the south, rattles in the east, bones in the west, and bell in the north.
Dive into this next-level drumming experience and discover the many ways you can create beautiful rhythms and rhythmize beauty.
During this module, you’ll:
- Learn a universal 3-beat drum pattern — the African bell or Moroccan three — common in many world rhythms
- Explore the sonic universe of found sound rattles, made from natural materials — playing wet and dry sounds
- Bring together the complementary connection of rhythm and melody with orchestrated grooves
- Experience the Taqsim — an improvisational introduction to a rhythm
Module 4: Secrets of the Groove - Integrating Rhythms in Your Life & Community (2025-07-16 11:00:00 am)
How do you bring the practice of rhythm mantra patterns, shadow drumming, grounding in the heartbeat, and the vibrant energy of samba into your everyday life?
What does it mean to use your drum not just as an instrument, but as a meditation tool and a bridge of communication with those you love?
Learn specific rhythmic patterns and understand their purpose in supporting your spiritual growth. Mastering a beat inspires your own creative expression on the drum, helping you to listen deeply to yourself and confidently repeat rhythms.
Practice the fundamental technique of leading a beat, including how to start and stop a groove — enabling you to share your rhythm with friends, family, community, or intimate one-on-one settings.
Christine defines the drum circle as a collective container for self-expression. Awaken to your own inner rhythm and a place to build rhythmic confidence. Bring rhythm into your life in the drum circle way — expressing yourself within a shared groove.
You will:
- Learn how to signal a group to start and stop together
- Experience call and response — the drum’s language of heartfelt communication
- Discover how to ground your group in the heartbeat, creating a unified pulse
- Practice and share your own personalized percussion prescription
SPECIAL BONUS OFFER
When you register by 2025-06-09 12:00:00 am , you’ll receive special bonus offerings designed to complement Christine’s transformative 4-module course — and deepen your understanding and practice even further.
Sound Healing Meditation Audio With Frame Drum & Alchemy Crystal Bowls
Audio Meditation With Christine Stevens and Michele McNiff
Experience this never-before-released audio meditation with Christine playing a 22-inch frame drum toning with vocal toning, accompanied by a gorgeous collection of Alchemy Crystal Singing Bowls. She then moves into a gentle trance rhythm to encourage entrainment of breath and grounding. This recording was produced at Ben Winship studios and also features Michele McNiff, a holistic nurse, coach, and founder of Blue Heron Holistic.
The Continuing Relevance of Sound Work in a Post-Covid World
Video Interview With Joshua Leeds From The Shift Network 2020 Sound Healing Summit, Hosted by Alec Sims
We’re living in revolutionary times as new paradigms emerge. For artists, this is a vital and inspiring time to develop and bring soundwork into the process of rebuilding cultures. Like all art, music and sound healing must adapt to an uncertain post-Covid world. Join Joshua Leeds, music producer, sound researcher, and educator, in a discussion about sound medicine in these precarious times. You’ll learn potent post-Covid soundwork techniques emerging from 15 current research studies by the National Institutes of Health. You’ll also discover how the practice of soundwork in a post-Covid, unbalanced world requires imaginative thinking, purposeful education, and new technologies for effective music and sound therapy frequencies.
Plus... you’ll receive these bonuses too!
50% Off "How to Play Drums for Healing"
Discount Coupon for a New Online Course With Christine Stevens
Enjoy Christine’s new 5-module video course on playing drums in a healing style. She features the four drums she recommends the most — the ocean drum, frame drum, buffalo drum, and djembe — each associated with different healing elements. Christine provides tips on drum playing, how to add singing bowls or kalimba, ways to include your voice, and the keys to holding silence. This bonus includes demonstration recordings from workshop participants designed as backtracks for you to play along.
The Three Keys to Drumming for Healing
Video Teaching With Christine Stevens From The Shift Network 2023 Sound Healing Workshop
Join Christine in a powerful practice that uses drumming and body percussion to connect to your own healing rhythm. She highlights important scientific studies that demonstrate the impact of drumming on the mind, body, and spirit. She also reveals three keys to creating and practicing healing rhythms based upon ancient shamanic cultures and modern science.
What People Are Saying About Christine Stevens…
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.
Author of 13 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.
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.
Founder of the Morter Institute for BioEnergetics and author of The Energy Codes
Grammy award-winning drummer for the Grateful Dead and author of Drumming at the Edge of Magic
Author of Healthy Aging
Join the Global Community
Sacred Pulse of the Drum 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 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
Four 90-Minute 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 take your drum practice beyond technique and into a sacred art to become a trusted keeper of spiritual sound as you learn to enhance your rhythms, clear energy with intentional beats, lead drum circles, and weave other instruments into your performance for deep, impactful experiences. Course sessions are on2025-06-18 11:00:00 am
Four 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.
Four 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.
Four 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.
Four 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 you further integrate the weekly lessons. Practice sessions are not recorded for playback; if you’re unable to attend the live sessions, 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.
An Unprecedented Opportunity to Join the Online Course, Sacred Pulse of the Drum
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 stepping further into the sacred power of drumming by learning to embellish rhythms, release energy through specific patterns, lead vibrant circles, and integrate diverse instruments to craft transformative musical moments, 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 Sacred Pulse of the Drum — or don’t feel that it meets your needs — please submit your refund request form on or before June 25, 2025 and we’ll happily issue qualifying customers a refund.
More Praise for Christine Stevens
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.
Author of 13 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.
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.
Founder of the Morter Institute for BioEnergetics and author of The Energy Codes
Grammy award-winning drummer for the Grateful Dead and author of Drumming at the Edge of Magic
With deep wisdom and connection, Christine Stevens is a master of the heart and healing rhythm.
Qigong master, speaker, healer, and founder of The Chi Center
About Christine Stevens
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Author and music therapist Christine Stevens was adopted into a Native American family by Uncle Manny Eagle Elk Council Pipe Sandoval in a Making-of-a-Relative ceremony — after spending more than a decade singing Lakota prayer songs, undertaking Hanbleceya (“Crying for a Vision,” one of the seven Lakota Sacred Rites), and becoming a pipe carrier for Women’s Way Long Dance, founded by Connor Sauer.
With the permission of her elders and respect for the Red Road ways of music medicine, she has played the Native American-style flute for more than 25 years, as well as percussion for sound healing, honoring Nature in sacred sites, from a Sedona vortex to the Grand Tetons.
She honors the wisdom keepers who passed down these rhythms, and ensures that each practice is taught with cultural sensitivity and integrity.
Christine is the author of The Nature Sutras, Music Medicine, and The Healing Drum Kit, and the founder of UpBeat Drum Circles, which brings drumming and sound healing to organizations and events dedicated to uplifting humanity. As an advocate of music and wellness, her media appearances include NBC, PBS, Discovery Health, and Living Better TV.
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.
The host of Global Rhythm Sangha Online, she teaches a variety of online training programs, including Awaken Your Rhythm, which has served hundreds of people from over 35 countries. Most recently, her pilot study, the Global Tele-Music Therapy program, published in Music and Medicine, helped reduce pain, discomfort, and stress with enduring effects during COVID-19.
Christine’s commitment to love, beauty, and harmony, and the reciprocity of offering music to Nature continues to guide her sound-healing practice and courses with The Shift Network.
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