Christine Stevens
Feel the healing effects of playing the flute as you expand your awareness, open your heart, and create a new song for your life.
As you move through times of uncertainty and change, are you feeling called to step into a new story?
Do you long to seize this moment not only to heal, but to reignite your sense of aliveness, playfulness, and inspiration?
These days, many seekers are turning to beautiful wisdom systems and traditions from the past to bring healing during these challenging times.
The flute is the oldest known musical instrument, dating back 43,000 years, according to anthropological records. The earliest version, fashioned from a bird bone, was found in a cave in Germany.
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 grief, fears, and pain move through and out of you, too.
Experience music therapist Christine Stevens' 7-module journey to become empowered to play the flute — for spiritual practice, sound healing, prayer, connecting to Nature, personal transformation, and so 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's course teaches you 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.
You will be guided throughout the course to use the flute as a tool to become an open channel, removing your blocks so your soul’s music can finally come through.
Along the way you’ll come to embody the powerful truth that, when playing the flute, there are no wrong notes — and you can become empowered to move through life that way, too, as you realize your “missteps” and “negative” experiences all help you create the song only you can play.
You’ll connect to an ancient lineage of flute players dating back to Krishna and Kokopelli... discover the courting flute as a call to the Beloved... experience the sonic alchemy of breath and heart... and so much more.
Christine holds masters degrees in social work and music therapy — and inspires people all over the world with her message that music promotes holistic health, spirituality, and wellness.
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 seven modules experiencing for yourself how the flute can help you move stuck emotions, feel uplifted and relaxed, and connect with nature and Spirit. Get ready to discover how to use this magical instrument as a joyous vehicle for self-expression!
During this experiential course, you’ll:
- The flute as a tool for moving stuck emotions and opening to your natural breath and the flow of the present moment
- How many different cultures across the world play the flute
- How the flute’s music connects us, uplifts us, and helps us heal and evolve
- How to bless your flute, honoring its culture, spiritual lineage, and intention
- Flute meditations and sound healing practices to connect with Nature, the Divine, and more
- Basic techniques including holding position, air flow, finger placement, and note playing
- A flute meditation as you listen to the sacred flute played by Sri Chimnoy, a master guru in the Hindu tradition, and by Nawang Khechog, a celebrated Tibetan flute player and composer
- A daily practice of grounding and uplifting using flute and drum — also known as the Music Tree of Life
- How to paint brushstrokes of colors with each note’s timbre
- A proven formula of healing melodies
- How to share your own heartsong and play the music of others’ hearts
- Ways to craft melodies using leaps and spaces in the river of song
- How to play your flute to the beat of a drum — a recording is included
What You’ll Discover in These 7 Modules
In this 7-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, will be provided.)
The Beauty of On-Demand
This course features teachings, training sessions, 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.
Session 1 Befriending Your Flute - A Sacred Lineage
A 35,000-year-old flute — the world’s oldest known musical instrument — made from a vulture bone was found in a cave in Germany.
The Kokopelli figure has been found in ruins of the Pi House People as early as 200 AD. From the Hindu deity Krishna to the Sufi poetry of Rumi and Kabir; the flute holds an ancient sacred lineage of connection with the divine.
In this opening class, Christine will explain how the space between the holes matches the same scale we use today.
Christine will be joined by Martin Espino whose native heritage is Yaqui (Sonora, Mex) and Tephuano (Duranog, Mex).
A performer, “sound worker” meditation leader, and traditional flute maker from the Mexika tradition, Martin specializes in crafting traditional flutes, rattles and drums.
In this first module, you’ll:
- Be welcomed with a flute meditation played by Christine
- Learn about the Native history of the flute with Martin — he’ll share flutes made of clay, bamboo, cedar, wood, as well as rattles and drums
- Bless your flute, honoring the culture, spiritual lineage and intention.
- Learn basic techniques including holding position, air flow, finger placement and playing notes
- Discover the difference between smooth and tongued sounds, creating rhythm with a single note
- Practice a mindfulness meditation through sound
Session 2 Ascending the Ladder of Bliss - No Wrong Notes
Can you imagine living your life as though there were no wrong notes? What kind of music would you feel free to create?
Many music lovers find freedom in the 5-note pentatonic scale — echoing world-wide in Asian, Pacific-Island, Native American, South American and African cultures.
This week, you’ll explore the origin story of the cedar flute — how it comes from the branch of the tree, carved by the woodpecker and played by wind.
As you’ll discover, the powerful combination of the melodic flute and the driving rhythms of the drum is found all over the world. The symbolic roots and branches of this combination create a tree that reaches upward to the light, illuminating the spiritual path...
In this module, you’ll discover:
- How the 5-note pentatonic scale is said to come from the Potoo bird song — according to Bernie Kraus, author of the Great Animal Orchestra
- Ways to craft melodies using leaps and spaces in the river of song
- How to paint brush-strokes of colors with each note’s timbre
- A formula of healing melodies
- How to play your flute to the beat of a drum — a recording is included
- The magic of the 5-note pentatonic scale with no wrong notes
Session 3 As It Is in Nature - The Music of Birds, Mountains & Trees
According to Mexican tradition, the voice of creation includes drum, rattle, and flute. But how do you play duets with nature? How do you sound the inspiration of wind, water, and sky?
In this session, you’ll learn to decorate notes using vibrato of the breath and ornamentation inspired by bird song and the sacred lineage of flute playing
You’ll explore how long tones are used to quiet the mind, while jumping between wide intervals can create excitement and adventure...
In this class, you’ll:
- Decorate notes inspired by bird song, trill, toss, flutter-tongue, and vibrato
- Play the music of landscapes — from mountain peaks to river-drone
- Participate in a live improvised call-and-response session
- Learn to travel and visualize nature while playing
- Play a sound-scape song of nature sounds
- Learn a daily practice of grounding and uplifting using flute and drum — also known as the Music Tree of Life
Session 4 Exploring the Lunar & Solar Scales
Throughout time, major and minor tonalities have been associated with emotions, mood states, and the dynamics of life.
This week you’ll explore the magic of the pentatonic scale — and how it combines two different energies Christine calls lunar and solar, representing the minor and major modes.
You’ll engage in the brightness of each note as a ray of light from the sun.
Christine will guide you to engage in the mystery of each note as a phase of the moon — and discover where feminine and masculine meet, the joining of day and night, sound and silence, spirit and soul...
In this module, you’ll:
- Explore solar and lunar scales as a tool of emotional expression
- Discover how different drone notes change the sound of your flute playing
- Learn partner games to practice in class
- Use your voice to connect with the lunar and solar notes of the flute
- Practice call and response in the oral tradition of learning without music
Session 5 Sonic Alchemy - Healing, Mindfulness & Transformation
When Christine was working in the war zone of Iraq, she found the flute to be the sound that reached the hearts of survivors in a battered women’s shelter...
Once she played the flute, the women picked up the drums and joined. Within an hour, all the women were dancing together, finding freedom in the music.
She asked them through the translator — when was the last time they danced? One woman held up nine fingers, indicating it had beennine years.
This week you’ll discover how, in the sound healing tradition, you use intuition to play notes and melodies that are healing to others...
You’ll explore how it applies to yourself as well — and you’ll transform the wounds of your life into music, just like the holes in the flute.
In this session you’ll:
- Begin with a flute meditation to set a healing intention
- Learn to use your sonic intuition to play healing sound
- DIscover how to turn the intentions of others into music in ceremony and healing
- Integrate breath-work and energy work while playing your flute
- Honor the space between the notes, balancing giving and receiving
Session 6 The Magic of Improvisation - Free Your Note & Be in the Moment
Cutting-edge neuroscience has found that improvising music in the moment — without trying to read musical notation — brings many neurological benefits...
A study by Dr. Charles Limb, MD showed that improvisation deactivates the areas in the brain involved in self-judgement, criticism, and self-monitoring.
Meanwhile, the medial prefrontal cortex activates the parts of the brain involved in meditation, telling your personal story, and experiencing the moment.
This week you’ll discover how improvisation helps build your creativity. You’ll explore the many ways it’s a daring practice of self-expression — a tool that changes your brain from the default network to the presence or mindfulness network.
Everyone can be inspired by prompts and partners. playing solo or in duets and ensembles. It’s a powerful way to create poetry as you learn simple structures of beauty that sculpt your song-writing freedom.
In this module, you’ll:
- Learn to play a flute Haiku, inspired by Japanese poetry
- Discover the universal keys to improvisation from one quality note to simple repetition
- Discover compelling research on the brain benefits of improvisation — playing from the heart
- Learn how to use play-along tracks & APPs for creative expression and other creative prompts
- Experience tools for online jamming with others
Session 7 Courting the Beloved - A Heart Song Practice
Beginning with its origins as a “courting flute” in the Native American tradition, the flute plays the heart of love and longing.
This week you’ll move through the flute’s connection to love throughout many different traditions and times...
You’ll discover how, in sanskrit, Hindu tradition, there’s a shabda, a sonic current of love that encircles the universe forever.
In the zen temple of Japan, shakuhachi flute players wore barrels over their heads to avoid an ego of being a performer, and allow their playing to be an offering to Buddha.
What music did Krisha play that drew the Gopis to follow? What song did Kokopelli play that brought rain to the thirsty earth? What response do we hear, when we play our flute as a question to the divine?
This session will feature Guerillmo Martinez demonstrating his heart song practice — and sharing tools of playing the voice of creation using drum, rattle, and flute.
In this final module, you’ll:
- Experience a flute meditation as you listen to the sacred flute played by Sri Chimnoy, a master guru in the Hindu tradition, and by Nawang Khechog, a celebrated Tibetan flute player and composer
- Discover 3 parameters of finding your own heart song — and express it on the flute
- Be inspired by Guerillmo’s teachings on reaching inward to create outward music
- Explore sound and silence in the practice of connecting with the divine current of sound
SPECIAL BONUS OFFER
In addition to Christine ’s transformative 7-module course, you’ll receive this special bonus offering to complement the course and take your understanding and practice to an even deeper level.
Flute Handbook
Healing Flute Play-Along Compilation
The Zen of Flute
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Here’s What You’ll Receive
Seven Pre-Recorded 90-Minute Modules
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 guides you to discover specific skills and abilities to feel the healing effects of playing the flute as you expand your awareness, open your heart, and play a new song for your life.
Seven Transcripts of Sessions
In addition to the high-quality videos and MP3 audios, you’ll also receive session transcriptions. 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.
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Pasadena, 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.