Christine Stevens
Feel the profound effects of flute playing, as you learn scales, songs, and ornamenting techniques — to find your own personal soul song and create healing experiences for yourself and others.
For most people witnessing and experiencing the cataclysmic events of this year, it’s become increasingly clear that our world — including individuals, communities, animals, and natural elements — is in dire need of healing.
At this moment in history, many seekers are turning to beautiful wisdom systems and traditions from the past to bring repair to the planet. Among Indigenous cultures, one of the many healing approaches has always been music.
You may be surprised to know that the flute is the oldest known musical instrument, dating back 43,000 years... and, during these times, you can turn to the flute as a tool to help you expand your awareness, open your heart, and find inner peace.
As your life-breath moves through the flute, your emotions — including grief, fear, and pain — move through and out of you.
Experience music therapist Christine Stevens 10-step journey to become empowered to play the flute — for spiritual practice, sound healing, prayer, connection with nature, personal transformation, and much more...
You won’t need to know how to read music or play the flute — music is already written in your heart... and Christine teaches you in the oral tradition that’s been used for thousands of years. You also don’t need to purchase a flute. You’ll receive instructions on how to craft an inexpensive flute yourself.
Playing the Native American flute can help you access, express, and heal feelings — even those your conscious mind isn’t aware of.
It’s the magic of flute playing as a spiritual practice that can bring so much joy... and the capacity to find in the 5-note pentatonic scale your authentic story that needs to be told.
And the techniques, ornamentation, and scales you’ll learn during the 10 modules of Deepen Your Flute Journey were designed to help you both develop the skills to play the flute...
... and use the flute as a tool to become an open channel — removing your blocks so your soul’s unique music can finally come through.
You’ll unlock your potential to play with feeling — to bring healing for yourself and others.
In this 10-part program, you’ll take a deep dive into all the aspects of flute playing that are already in you and ready to be sung... and you’ll emerge with an array of skills and insights.
Sacred Flute Playing for a Life of Authenticity & Service
As you come to embody the powerful truth that, when playing the flute, there are no wrong notes, you can become empowered to move through life that way, too — allowing yourself to let your true spirit shine, without getting stuck in the difficult feelings you may be navigating.
This course can help you gain the in life… and develop the confidence to play for emotional release and healing — for yourself and others...
You’ll learn to integrate the aspects of the flute that ...
You’ll explore a variety of scales, composition, improvisation, music theory, and ornamentation to develop a sound that only you can bring into the world.
And, perhaps one of the most beautiful benefits of this course is the sense of belonging to a global community of spiritual flute healers.
Christine holds master's degrees in social work and music therapy — and inspires people all over the world with her message that music promotes holistic health, spirituality, and emotional wellbeing.
She’s played her flute for healing in war zones and disaster areas, for battered women and witnesses of genocide, for surviviors of fires and hurricanes, and many more.
Now you can spend 10 sessions with Christine, experiencing for yourself how this sacred instrument can help you move stuck emotions, feel uplifted and relaxed, connect with nature and Spirit, and provide healing for yourself and others.
During this experiential course, you’ll:
- Use the flute as a holistic tool to help with self-expression and personal transformation
- Confidence in your ability to play your flute as a healing tool — for yourself and others
- Techniques to empower your self-expression
- Techniques to use your breath effectively as you play your flute... to help you pause between “sentences”
- Practice playing different moods... such as contentment, longing, devotion, and gratitude
- An understanding of how to break through the 5-note scale and have, at your fingertips, what’s available when the third hole is open
- Greater potential for emotional release and catharsis
- A basic understanding of music theory
- A shamanic way of playing in concert with the elements
- Many opportunities for practice with other course participants
- Powerful teachings from guest teachers, including Guillermo Martinez
- The option to play in a musical showcase during the final session
- And much more...
What You’ll Discover in These 10 Modules
In this 10-module transformational intensive, Christine guides you through the fundamental body-mind-spirit skills and competencies you’ll need to master the flute, one of the most accessible instruments to play for sound healing, self-expression, connection to Spirit, mindfulness, and more. (It’s highly recommended that you have a flute to receive the most from this transformational course. Suggestions for how to craft an inexpensive flute on your own or what kind of flute to purchase, as well as instructions, are provided.)
The Beauty of On-Demand
This course features step-by-step teachings and experiential practices from Christine. Each session builds harmoniously upon the previous ones, so you’ll develop a complete holistic understanding of the practices, tools, and principles you’ll need to access your flute-playing gifts. Your purchase includes 24/7 ongoing access to your course content, allowing you time to review the materials at your own pace and integration.
Please Note: If you have not experienced Christine's teachings before, you’re welcome to take this next-level training but we ask you to complete the foundational 7-module The Flute as Sound Medicine program on your own as a prerequisite. It will be included in your registration and can be completed before or in tandem with this advanced intensive.
Module 1 Expanding Your Flute-Playing Potential With Scales & Higher Octaves
The Native American flute plays a five-note scale, and no note is wrong. What happens when we reach higher — beyond that standard scale? What awaits you in the new sonic territory of higher octaves?
Christine will help you step further into your playing potential by setting intentions to experiment with higher octaves for spiritual connection, health, and healing.
In this module, you’ll:
- Start to lift your energy higher by playing the 3 high notes above the standard pentatonic scale
- Explore basic music theory of the overtone series and harmonic resonance
- Experience a practice of overtone chanting
- Discover new notes and scales by removing the third hole strap
- Learn the nuts and bolts of flute music notation
- Receive a deepening practice to connect the low and high tonic notes to ground and uplift
Module 2 Musical Development for Soul Expression
In this exciting second session, internationally acclaimed performer and flute maker Guillermo Martinez, owner of Quetzalcoatl Music and member of Bamboo, Cedar, Oak, will join you to share his teachings on musical development in scales, ornamentation, and creating a good sound — all in service of soul expression.
During this second session, you’ll:
- Discover new notes and scales through the in-between sounds of the pentatonic scale
- Connect with the ancient flute lineage and explore the deeper meaning of the flute for your life journey
- Have the exciting opportunity to learn from a master flute maker and performer
- Receive tips on performing equipment and sound
Module 3 Improvisation — Awakening Your Musical Soul
You have a unique song to play... a scale that resonates with you... and your own style to discover and nurture. It’s time for you to expand and discover new ways to awaken your musical soul.
In this session, you’ll learn how scales offer structure so you can more easily improvise melodies through the alchemy between player and prompt.
You’ll:
- Use your voice and flute to access new songlines of your soul
- Practice using play-along tracks as creative prompts
- Push your edge by decorating melodies with beauty through ornamentation
- Learn new tools of articulation and tonguing to expand your heart communication through sound
- Receive a deepening practice for improvisation at dawn and dusk — marking the changing tempos of your day
Module 4 Composition
Composition literally means “ingredients... the way a whole or mixture is made up.” This can refer to so many aspects of creativity, including a musical work of art.
With that in mind, this class will focus on how improvisation can lead to song. You’ll explore how to balance the freedom of improvisation with song structure. And you’ll look at what happens when we add form and chords... and how they help us play with the changes life gives us.
In this session, you’ll:
- Learn composition techniques based on Indian raga music and Lakota prayer songs
- Learn to notate your musical ideas and incorporate simple two-chord patterns
- Experience the power of listening back to your own playing
- Explore the exquisite balance of how structure provides creative freedom
- Receive a deepening practice to make a composition as a dedication to someone or something — and then play that song for (or as an offering to) the person or thing you’re honoring
Module 5 Expressing Your Emotions
Imagine living your life as a clear flute, an open channel to flow through your experiences without judgment... looking at pain and challenge as the holes in the flute.
If there are no wrong notes in the flute scale, surely there are no wrong feelings. The Native American flute offers us a tool to acknowledge and allow our emotions to bring healing to challenging experiences.
During this class, you’ll:
- Learn the art of orchestrating feelings — using the flute and adding complementary sounds that amplify and release emotions
- Use the flute to express your feeling tones, and access healing beyond words
- Explore playing with and beyond fear
- Practice playing different moods... such as contentment, longing, devotion, and gratitude
Module 6 Nature’s Inspiration for Sound Healing
The collective is grieving as a result of our climate change crisis. To begin to address the healing of our planet through music, you’ll work with the primal elements — air, earth, fire, and especially water. Christine will also teach you unique ornamentation sounds related to nature... using the flute in creative ways.
During this middle session, you’ll:
- Experience a medicine wheel ceremony by learning to play flute songs for the four elements
- Experience a journey into your personal favorite tree to explore the branches of song — and notice where the branches take you
- Learn how to bring the outdoors inside, using visualization and sound apps to connect with nature’s beauty, harmony, and peace
Module 7 Flute Pranava
Breath is life.
Pranava is the Sanskrit word for the holy breath that connects with energy. Inhaling fills and sustains us, while breathing out helps us purify and release. Can you think of your breath the same way as you play your flute?
Breathmarks in flute music indicate pauses in phrases. And as we learn to pace our airflow with the flute, we learn to maintain a cadence of breath that anchors peace in the body.
Note: Christine recommends the Double Nova High Spirits flute in any key (G, A, or F#) for this module.
In this module, you’ll:
- Practice playing for yourself and your personal healing as an act of self-care
- Learn to use yogic breathing to access diaphragm support
- Overcome self-doubt through sonic mirror practice — listening back to your own playing
- Practice using sustained notes to center your mind and improve your lung capacity
- Discover the magic of playing a double flute
Module 8 Flute Savasana
Our personal flute playing enables us to be of service in experiences where healing is needed. In this class, you’ll explore playing the flute as a means of self-care and caring for others. Christine will demonstrate how the way we play for relaxation and healing is different from other kinds of playing — holding different intentions and accessing deeper meaning in the elements of music.
You’ll:
- Learn techniques to overcome fear when playing for others
- Practice incorporating other instruments – chimes, bowls, drones, and drums
- Discover how to create phrases in your music — to begin and end your sound healing offerings
- Explore some other musical elements related to healing sound — silence, rhythm, melody, and harmony
- Practice arpeggios and learn how to use rattles for energy clearing
- Find out how to use reverb, amplification, and microphones when offering healing sounds
Module 9 Power Songs — Finding Your Personal Anthem
Like a power animal, we have a power song, a personal soul song, that supports and empowers our spirit. It may be a song you originate or one you learn to sing or play on the flute. Discover the playlist for your life... and how to embody it more fully.
In this class, you’ll:
- Design and create your personal flute practice as an evolutionary journey for your body, mind, and spirit
- Experience playing an algorithm of notes in the sonic spelling of your name
- Learn how to carry songs that deeply touch your soul — how to notate them or play them by ear
- Compose a personal anthem... a melody that’s your musical fingerprint
Module 10 Beauty Way — Songs in the Key of Love
What is the role of beauty in your life? How can you invite more beauty into your spiritual practice... through sound, scent, taste, and sight? How can you integrate all you’ve learned to create your own unique practice — bringing greater peace, joy, and creativity into your life?
In this final session, you’ll welcome a guest instructor who will offer a Native American perspective on the ancestry of flute playing — in what’s known as the beauty way.
In this class, you’ll:
- Experience how the senses are gateways to embody beauty
- Learn a flute ceremony honoring the lineage... the ancestry of sound healing
- Have the option to participate in a student showcase and play for others in a final class performance
- Design your personal flute practice, integrating all that’s been covered in this course
SPECIAL BONUS OFFER
In addition to Christine ’s transformative 10-module course, you’ll receive this special bonus offering to complement the course and take your understanding and practice to an even deeper level.
The Medicine of Rhythm Play-Along Collection (coming soon)
Audio Compilation From Christine Stevens
Underlying all improvised music is rhythm — the musical element of forward motion. This compilation — which includes sacred rattles rattles and percussion from shamanic cultures — will help you deepen your rhythmic sense. She’ll demonstrate two different rhythmic grooves to expand your skills as a flute player… because they offer you a more profound connection to the roots of the music tree. With these backing tracks, you’ll practice playing along with a drum ensemble in both 4/4 and 6/8 time. All the tracks are long-play so you can entrain with the rhythm and see where the branches of the music tree carry you.
Sound Healing Playalong Collection
Audio Compilation From Christine Stevens
Featuring guitar, singing bowls, chimes, hand pan, sansula kalimba, harmonium, buffalo drums, and more. This is a unique practice tool but also can be used for performing live or online for sound healing programs as backing tracks. This collection is created for your improvised playing or compositions; to invoke peace, healing, and harmony, pairing the flute with traditional sound healing instruments. Made for key of A flutes, with bonus tracks for A-432 earth flutes.
Flute Journey Tutorial Package
5-Part Exclusive Video Teaching From Christine Stevens
These never-before-released videos, filmed in nature in Japan and Wyoming, will transport you deeper into your flute playing and expand your sound healing repertoire.
You’ll receive the following tutorials:
- Playing Healing Heart Songs: Watch Christine demonstrate using the flute to access the heartsong of a friend.
- Playing Your Intentions: How to set your intention for a dedication and use a backing track to play along with recorded music, while making sure the music matches the key of your flute.
- Improvisational Support Track: Play your improvised melodies with a rhythm ensemble — as if you have a band backing you up with healing sounds.
- Drumbeat Tutorial: Learn the two different rhythmic modes and use your flute to explore rhythmic prompts.
- Call-and-Response Flute Phrasing: Develop ear training by copying Christine’s call-and-response playing — with pauses for you to practice and play along.
Awaken Your Inner Music
Guided Audio Practice From Christine Stevens
Awaken Your Inner Music is a 22-minute guided audio practice based on the four healing elements of music as outlined below. It’s designed to be used for self-tuning and sound healing. You can tap along, dance, move, breathe, and rest.
This audio track includes 4 components:
- Rhythm for the body featuring frame drum meditation
- Melody for the heart featuring Native American flute
- Harmony for the soul featuring strumstick and voice
- Silence for the mind featuring singing bowls, chimes, and quietude
Drumming for Healing: Change Your Brain With Rhythm
Rhythm is defined as the element of music that pertains to forward motion. Join internationally acclaimed author & speaker, Christine Stevens in this interactive session on sound healing through rhythm. Learn 3 rhythms to boost your immune system & quite the mind. Learn cutting edge brain science on moving from the default neural network to the experiencing network of being present in the moment. Receive a rhythmic activation to awaken our rhythm. Drum along or just listen & receive.
In This Session:
- Learn 3 rhythms to boost your immune system & quite the mind
- Learn cutting edge brain science on moving from the default neural network to the experiencing network of being present in the moment
- Receive a rhythmic activation to awaken our rhythm
Beginner Review Sessions
Additional 30 Minutes of Live Practice Time Prior to Every Class
Thirty minutes before each module begins, you can join a beginner review session... where you can ask any questions you may have about flute playing. These sessions will be led by master teacher and performer Bonnie Schmader, founder of Earth Tones. We were thrilled to offer this in Christine’s previous flute course and hope it supports all who feel they need a little extra time practicing and learning the material.
Practice Sessions
Practice Session Dates: 10/29, 11/5, 11/12, 11/19, 12/3, 12/10/2020; 1/7, 1/14, 1/21, and 1/28/2021
Practice Session Time: The practice sessions will take place on Thursdays at 1:00pm Pacific (time zone converter) for 60 minutes.
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What People Are Saying About Christine Stevens…
Pasadena, California
Las Vegas, Nevada
Here’s What You’ll Receive
Ten Pre-Recorded 90-Minute Sessions
Experience a unique opportunity to learn from author, speaker, drummer, and music therapist Christine Stevens — from the comfort of your own home. Each session includes a streaming video and will guide you to discover specific skills and abilities to broaden your repertoire of flute-playing tools, discover your own personal anthem, and create healing experiences for others.
Ten PDF Transcripts of Sessions
In addition to the high-quality videos and audios, you’ll also receive the session transcriptions in PDF format. You can then review, print, and highlight the most important insights and practices you were given.
Exercises and Questions for Each Lesson
Between sessions, you’ll have the option of completing related exercises, practicing new tools, and answering questions to accelerate your learning and integrate each lesson.
An Unprecedented Opportunity to Join the Online Course, Deepen Your Flute Journey
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More Praise for Christine Stevens
Gardena, California
Author of 13 books, including The Book of Ceremony
Founder of the Morter Institute for BioEnergetics and author of The Energy Codes
About Christine Stevens
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.