Christine Stevens
What if you are the instrument of your own awakening?
Discover how to turn the Radiance Sutras into a musical meditation practice that helps you tune your body, regulate your nervous system, ground into presence, open doorways into wonder and delight, and experience more freedom, radiance, and expansion from within.
Sometimes a single line of poetry wants more than to be read — it wants to be breathed, voiced, and felt until it becomes a living meditation inside you.
A phrase you repeat softly like a mantra. A tone you follow with your breath. A rhythm that gathers your attention and draws you inward.
And before you’ve had a chance to think, you’re no longer standing outside the moment analyzing it — you’re inside it, listening.
If you’ve ever struggled to sit still and quiet your mind… or felt like meditation asks you to work against your own nature… you’re not alone. Most of us were never shown that meditation can open through sound in a way that feels natural, expressive, and even blissful.
Internationally recognized sound healer and music therapist Christine Stevens has guided thousands of people, using music to cultivate inner peace, creative flow, and a deeper sense of connection.
In this 7-week live video course, she’ll weave this approach with the Radiance Sutras — drawn from the tantric text Vijnana Bhairava Tantra dating back to 800 AD and translated by Dr. Lorin Roche — and show you how to enter these sacred teachings through music.
Christine has carefully curated specific sutras for each module that illuminate music as a path of awakening — passages on rhythm, voice, vibration, and silence that you’ll experience directly through practices she’s designed specifically for this course.
You’ll take the sutras that resonate with you the most… speak them, sing them, stretch them into sound, accompany them with instruments, jam with them …
… and feel how they draw you into a more grounded, steady, and intimate relationship with your inner life.
Each week, you’ll explore a variety of sound modalities and the silence that follows — and learn how to use them when your mind is busy, your energy is scattered, or something inside you just feels off. The more turbulent the world becomes, the more essential it is to have a practice that helps you feel centered, replenished, and connected to something larger and more sustaining.
Christine will introduce a range of instruments and sonic textures, so this becomes a process of discovery. You might find yourself drawn to the pulse of a drum, the shimmer of bells, the openness of a flute, the resonance of strings, or the quiet familiarity of your own humming voice.
Any instrument will do, because this isn’t about copying someone else’s practice or learning music or poems.
It’s about discovering that you truly are the instrument — and knowing how to tune yourself so you can return to steadiness, clarity, and ease whenever you need it.
These practices can become a source of joy, creative renewal, and quiet delight — helping you feel more luminous, more fully yourself, and more intimately connected to the living pulse of life.
During this sacred musical journey, you’ll:
- Create a personalized sound-based spiritual practice using the sutras, your voice, and the textures you’re most drawn to
- Discover how different tones and rhythms affect your body — so you can shift your state, focus your mind, and feel more grounded in minutes
- Develop simple, repeatable practices you can use anytime for self-care, emotional balance, and spiritual connection
- Learn Christine’s one-note practice humming practice to steady yourself during overwhelm, transition, or spiritual awakening
- Tune into the inner hum — a subtle sound current that helps you feel oriented, supported, and at home within yourself
- Work with rhythm, drumming, and movement to release tension and move through emotional waves with more ease
- Use mantra, seed syllables, toning, and song as active meditation practices that feel fluid, embodied, and alive
- Experience sound baths and resonance practices that nourish your body, calm your system, and restore a sense of wholeness
- Follow sound into vibrant, restorative silence — and feel how that resonance continues to reverberate and recalibrate you long after the sound fades
- And much more…
What You’ll Discover in These 7 Modules
In this 7-week transformational course, Christine will guide you through the skills and wisdom you’ll need to use the Radiance Sutras as a musical meditation practice to steady your energy, sharpen your inner focus, and open into greater freedom and radiance.
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 2026-05-20 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 use music, rhythm, and sacred text together in a way that helps your system settle and your inner life feel clearer, lighter, and more expansive.
Module 1: The Ambrosia of Sound - Awaken Your Divine Creative Energy (2026-05-20 11:00:00 am)
The roar of joy that sets the worlds in motion
Is reverberating in your body
And the space between all bodies.
Beloved, listen. (Sutra 16)
You'll explore sound and music as pathways into instinctive meditation, creative expression, and delight - as you dive into Sutra 16 on Pranava (OM).
Through the power of musical play and improvisational jamming, Christine will help you bring the teachings of this sutra to life in what she calls the Sutra Jam - a practice that can awaken your divine creative energy and support non-attachment.
As you listen and respond, you'll find key words and phrases that resonate with you, making the sutra personal for your own life and practice. You'll feel inspired to include a daily toning practice with a new, embodied understanding of OM.
In this opening module, you'll:
- Discover a musical meaning of tantra through the tension of strings on a guitar and the stretching of skin across a drum
- Experience the Sutra Jam technique, turning sacred text into a living sound experience through improvisation
- Discover the ambrosia of sound as a tool for meditation in daily life
- Learn how to connect with shabda, the divine current of sound, through the seed syllable OM
- Explore a new definition of OM and discover the roar of joy that sets the world in motion and exists in your body and between all bodies
Module 2: Bliss Through Sound - Trust Your Sonic Guidance (2026-05-27 11:00:00 am)
Immerse yourself
In the rapture of music.
You know what you love
Go there. (Sutra 18)
What we listen to affects us, and when you play music, sing, or hum, it impacts your soul.
You'll explore a listening practice for connecting with bliss through music (sangit ananda), by identifying what you love and bringing personal preference into the foreground of listening.
Through the sound-healing practice of invocation highlighted in Sutra 107, Christine will guide you in calling in intention through sound, using a phrase or word from a sutra poem that resonates most deeply with you.
By the end of this module, you'll begin to better trust your own sonic guidance and playfully invoke your highest calling.
In this module, you'll:
- Experience muktva - liberation through listening - by drawing your attention to specific sounds you love
- Explore a spiritual playlist practice, using song selection to bring personal preference into the foreground of listening
- Learn about the power of getting out of the way so sonic channeling can flow through you
- Experience the power of invocation as you choose your own passage from Sutra 107 and call intention through sound
Module 3: This Is the Rhythm of Life - Awaken Your Radiance Through Drum, Rhythm & Dance (2026-06-03 11:00:00 am)
Radiant One, the life essence carries on its play
Through the pulsing rhythm
Of outward and inward movement.
This is the ceaseless throb, the rhythm of life. (Sutra 2)
You'll explore three sutras that offer guidance through rhythm, dance, and drumming, revealing the polarities of movement and stillness and inviting you into embodiment as a path of divine awareness.
Whether you play a drum or not, Christine will remind you that we all have the inner drum of our heart - a rhythm we rode into existence.
Delving into Sutra 2, you'll enter the rhythm of life through breathwork, while Sutra 33 invites you to descend into the space between the beats.
Sutra 77 reminds us that the heart of the Universe pulses in all hearts, opening the way to a cosmic sense of oneness. Get ready to drum, dance, and awaken your radiance.
In this module, you'll:
- Experience a guided practice of the silent drum, using rhythm and movement to quiet your mind through active meditation
- Explore the polarities of rhythm through a practice of marutah
- Discover your own sva tala - the rhythm of your soul - and how to use it in self-care and soul care
- Explore the power of ecstatic drumming as a tool for radiant awakening
Module 4: Wherever Breath Flows, There Is Song - Awaken Your Voice (2026-06-10 11:00:00 am)
Enter the bowl of vastness that is the heart.
Listen to the song that is always playing
Give yourself to it.
Quiet ecstasy is here. (Sutra 26)
Through vocal practices of seed syllable, mantra, and song, you'll explore three luminous sutras. Christine will guide you into this essential tool of awakening, because your voice is always with you - always available.
Some of this practice will be the outer expression of toning and chanting, and some will be the inward song you access through listening.
As Sutra 32 reminds us, "You are the instrument breath is playing." You'll be able to use your voice as meditation and as a way to enter the temple of divine awareness.
In this module, you'll:
- Learn about the four tools of the voice - hum, tone, mantra, and song
- Experience improvised kirtan - call-and-response singing as a way to embody the knowledge of the sutras
- Discover the power of the drone - the first and fifth notes of the scale, which create overtones
- Learn to use a vocal practice with a play-along track, accompanied by the strings of the bazuki
- Explore strings, rhythm, harmonium, and apps that will support your voice
Module 5: The Great Hum Is Calling You Home - Find Stability in Your Inner Sound (2026-06-17 11:00:00 am)
Close the ears that track the outer world,
Open the ears of the soul.
Cherish the vibrating energies thus contained. (Sutra 91)
You'll discover what the sutras often call the great hum or the secret sound. Christine will guide you into this primordial shabda - the inner sound current that underlies all sound - through practices of resonance, reverberation, and awareness.
Through the one note practice, you'll discover the hum as a tool for integration as you move through the subtle, and sometimes terrifying, shifts of the spiritual path.
You'll also learn how to trust your intuition and sonic awareness. As you listen with the ears of the soul, you'll begin to guide your attention in a new way toward the unstruck chord of creation.
In this module, you'll:
- Learn about the one note practice as you send healing sound into your body
- Explore the sutras' teachings on the inner sound current that lives in your body and subtle body
- Develop your own sound practices inspired by these sutras
- Discover resonance within and the power of space that allows your inner sound to echo and flood your body
Module 6: Bathe in the Ocean of Sound - Create Your Own Luminous Sound Healing (2026-06-24 11:00:00 am)
Bodies feed on sound,
Nourishing every nerve.
Vibrations strengthen bones,
Vitalizing the cells. (Sutra 19)
You'll explore the buoyancy contained in healing sound and experience how resonance and rhythm can support your wellbeing.
Christine will guide you through sound healing shaped by personal preference, helping you create a practice that feels customized to your own life path.
As you taste different sonic accompaniments - from heavenly bells and flutes to the earthy sounds of drums and rattles - you'll learn how to choose instruments for your own sound bath, enabling you to enter the ebb and flow of sound waves for healing.
In this module, you'll:
- Explore sound healing through the instruments that call to you, discovering which best support your needs
- Experience a luminous sound bath inspired by the Radiance Sutras - allowing your attention to follow the sound current along your spine and throughout your body
- Learn how different centers of your body respond to sound - low and high, deep and uplifting
- Allow sound to resonate more deeply through your being, nourishing your body and awareness
Module 7: The Temple of Silence - Dissolve Into Inner Peace (2026-07-01 11:00:00 am)
Listen to the subtle, ever-changing tones
Discover what gradualness is.
The power of sound will lead you
Into the power of silence. (Sutra 17)
You'll explore silence as a superfood in a busy, cacophonous world.
Christine will guide you into the sutras' teachings on the silence that follows devotional chanting - a felt sense of resonance within that can open a deeper inner peace. You'll discover that everything holds silence - even the ocean tide has a moment of pause.
The sutras illuminate the powerful silence at the end of devotional chanting, and, through a chanting practice inspired by Yogananda, you'll learn how to dissolve sound into silence and experience the resonance within.
In this closing module, you'll:
- Discover four types of silence - silence before sound, silence after sound, silence in the space between the beats, and the primordial silence that birthed all sound (skan skan wakan)
- Experience a meditation practice of softening into silence, allowing music and sound to gradually fade as you feel the resonance that remains
- Explore breath awareness as a key aspect of filling and emptying, making space through purification
- Learn how to integrate times of silence in daily life - whether taking a few moments to breathe between tasks, or simply being quiet in nature
SPECIAL BONUS OFFER
When you register by 2026-05-05 11:59:00 pm , you’ll receive special bonus offerings designed to complement Christine ’s transformative 7-module course — and deepen your understanding and practice even further.
Sutra 16: Om — The Roar of Joy (Pranava)
Audio Teaching From Dr. Lorin Roche With Music Accompaniment By Christine Stevens
Dr. Lorin Roche - author and translator of The Radiance Sutras - shares key insights into the primordial seed syllable Om and the mantras that awaken the energy of joy. His audio teaching is accompanied by Christine on the Native American flute and Himalayan singing bowl, creating a rich, immersive listening experience. As you explore the Sanskrit meaning of this ancient sutra, you'll also feel the activation of your own inner sound stream, or shabda.
The Inner Hum
Guided Audio Meditation From Christine Stevens
Join Christine on a sonic journey into your own inner sound, a source of radiance within you. She'll guide you to experience the drum of your heart - the first shamanic pulse of self-love - and also the spaciousness of the heart itself. As you listen to the song already resonating within, Christine's original meditation music, featuring Native flute, bouzouki strings, crystal chimes, and sansula kalimba gently supports the experience.
Plus... you’ll receive these bonuses too!
Radiance Sutra Songs
Studio Track Audios With Christine Stevens and Dan Cartamil
This collection of studio tracks created by Christine and Dan Cartamil is inspired by The Radiance Sutras by Dr. Lorin Roche. Each song draws from a different sutra, offering a musical doorway into the text's spirit, imagery, and energy. The album includes eight original tracks - from "Shine Forth" and "Current of Creation" to "Ceremony of Delight" - plus a bonus vocal meditation practice track with bouzouki and drone. Together, these pieces invite you to listen, reflect, and deepen your connection with the teachings through sound. 6\. Nowhere is More Holy Than This (Sutra 51) - 5.45 BONUS 9\. Vocal Meditation Practice Track with Bouzouki and Drone - 10.17
The Radiance Sutras of Sound
Video Dialogue With Christine Stevens and Dr. Lorin Roche
In this luminous video conversation, Dr. Lorin Roche describes sound and music as a powerful portal into instinctive meditation, weaving Sanskrit meaning with advanced mindful techniques. You'll explore the themes the sutras illuminate around rhythm, song, and silence, and discover how both listening to and creating music can open a connection to radiant awareness as the truth of your existence. At its heart, this teaching offers a deeply reassuring invitation - to rest in the knowing that you belong here, and that you are home. [image1]:
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Here’s What You’ll Receive
Seven 90-Minute Class Sessions With Christine Stevens
Experience a unique opportunity to be mentored by and learn from author, sound healer, 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 let the Radiance Sutras become a musical path inward — one that steadies your energy, widens your inner world, and awakens a more radiant way of being. Course sessions are on 2026-05-20 11:00:00 am.
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 you further integrate the weekly lessons. Practice sessions are not recorded for playback; if you’re unable to attend the live sessions, the 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 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, Sound Healing With the Radiance Sutras
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 an author, sound healer, and music therapist whose powerful insights and pioneering work are helping us heal and awaken ourselves and our world.
If you’re serious about bringing the Radiance Sutras into sound so they can help you feel less scattered, more present, and more connected to your own inner brightness, 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.
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More Praise for Christine Stevens
Author of 13 books, including The Book of Ceremony
Author of Spiritual Liberation and founder of Agape International Spiritual Center
Founder of the Morter Institute for BioEnergetics and author of The Energy Codes
Author of Minding the Body, Mending the Mind
Author of Healthy Aging
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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