Christine Stevens – The Healing Flute

Description Of The Healing Flute

Learn to play the Native American-style flute for self-healing, kindness, compassion, and self-love — to quickly shift your energy, calm your nervous system, release difficult emotions, and enter a state of inner reflection and soul connection, furthering your spiritual path for optimal wellbeing of your body, mind, and emotions.

Enter into seven healing lodges, sacred ceremonial spaces in the Native American tradition where you can safely journey inward with the support of your community.

What You’ll Learn In The Healing Flute

In this course, you’ll:

• Learn the fundamentals of Native American-style flute playing, if you’re new to the instrument — and further develop and deepen your skills, if you’re already a player
• Discover how to direct the music of the Native American-style flute to heal areas in your life where you’re feeling unwell, unfulfilled, ungrounded, or where your tank is running low
• Learn to play songs and improvise on the flute just for yourself as a self-care, self-love practice
• Be guided through a wide variety of flute-playing techniques to use it as a profound instrument of healing
• Learn healing songs for self-soothing and personal empowerment
• Explore your personal anthem on the flute
• Learn to use the flute for self-inquiry, as an information carrier for your soul — to receive answers to your deepest questions
• Release deeper and deeper layers of emotion and grief through the minor pentatonic scale
• Enter 7 healing lodges in circle with your community so you can leave the outside world behind for a moment and focus on your inner realms
• Discover how to use the flute in personal ceremonies whenever the need arises and for healing, gratitude, grief, and new beginnings
• Experience flute-playing as a breathwork practice that calms your nervous system and helps you slow down and get present
• And much more…

During this The Healing Flute course, you’ll learn to play healing songs Christine Stevens will teach you — and you’ll also discover how to improvise on the flute with emotion, enabling you to slow down, connect with yourself and nature, and release what’s no longer serving you.

In addition, Christine Stevens has invited to the course a very special guest teacher, Guillermo Martinez — master craftsman, flute maker, and founder of Quetzalcoatl Music.

You’re sure to walk away from the seven sessions with lifelong tools for liberation, playfulness, and joy as you continue to develop your skills as a flute player and illuminate your healing path.

What You’ll Discover in These 7 Modules

In this 7-part transformational program, Christine Stevens will guide you through the fundamental skills and competencies you’ll need to learn to play the Native American-style flute as a tool for self-healing, self-care, and self-love, to connect with yourself and nature, release difficult emotions, and further your path toward physical, mental, and emotional wellbeing.

This The Healing Flute course will feature step-by-step teachings and experiential practices with V. 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 learn to play the Native American-style flute for emotional release and self-healing — to quickly shift your energy, calm your nervous system, and enter a state of inner reflection and soul connection.

Module 1: Learning Lodge — Experience the Healing Power of Specific Flute-Playing Techniques

The word lodge holds many meanings. The English definition is “shelter,” while the Native American tradition refers to structures that house sacred gatherings. When you enter a lodge, you leave the outside world behind and focus on inner realms.

You’ll experience the gifts of technique and how to make learning part of personal healing. Christine Stevens will show you how to play the two different modes of scales — major and minor — and how to use them for personal healing, which is very empowering.

Playing the Native American-style can help you undo negative messages you carry about your personal creative expression and Christine Stevens will explain the brain science behind the neural network of enlightenment.

Learn flute-playing techniques and healing applications with a reflective and personal approach in which the flute is a metaphor for the human instrument.

Discover the healing gifts of each technique Christine Stevens shares, including:

• Using the extended breath in tone as a tool to focus your mind and body
• Playing the 5-note pentatonic scale with no wrong notes, as well as balancing the major and minor — or solar and lunar — modes
• Dancing scales, which ground you in the present moment so you can begin your journey into improvisation
• Embellishments that invite playfulness and fun by decorating notes

Module 2: Song Lodge — Learn Healing Songs for Self-soothing & Personal Empowerment

Discover song medicine as a tool for your personal healing.

We return to songs time and again in times of need because they restore us. When we play songs on the flute, Christine Stevens says, we embody the lyrics with our mind, while expressing the wordless melodies.

Begin building your medicine bag of tools — songs — for times when you need them the most…

… while also practicing preventive medicine by playing music simply for yourself.

In this session, you’ll:

• Learn 2 healing songs with provided fingering charts — a lullaby for soothing and a sacred chant of personal empowerment
• Explore the technique of playing a song in the 4 directions — new beginnings in the East, the playfulness of the South, the power of release in the West, and the quiet of the North
• Experience how playing songs transforms you and identify the origin point of each song’s intention and application in your life
• Discover how to turn any favorite inner mantra or affirmation into a song

Module 3: Healing Lodge — Access Healing, Inner Guidance, Soul Wisdom & Playfulness With Different Flute-Playing Tools

How can you heal what’s hurting? How can you maintain your wholeness as a well-tuned instrument?

Sometimes, we can be our own worst critics. Playing music from a place of patience, intention, and inner support is a self-compassion, self-care practice. You may already have healed some of your challenges — mind, body, and spirit — using sound and music.

Start shifting your energy toward wound repair. Christine Stevens will demonstrate in real time ways of playing the flute for a variety of issues that you and your co-participants are facing.

Practice “earthing” — playing with your bare feet on the ground — first through imagery and then as an actual practice.

As you learn how to play the Native American-style flute to access your inner guidance and soul wisdom for your own healing, you’re likely to notice emotions coming through that you weren’t aware of or didn’t expect.

As R. Carlos Nakai says, “You must play with emotions. Always have the flute available when you need it.”

In this module, you’ll:

• Learn the 3 keys to healing, and practice them with your flute playing
• Practice creating a mindset that fills your breath and sound with love, light, and healing tone — and notice how it changes your sound
• Discover 3 tools for making your flute become your ally in spiritual growth and self-healing — long tones for deepening and slowing down, improvisation for finding answers through playing, and receptive listening for emotional attunement
• Develop your capacity to create playfulness and healing with the 2 pentatonic scales — major and minor

Module 4: Grief Lodge — Step Into the Healing Field to Release Painful Emotions

We all face social restrictions and taboos around sadness and processing loss, which can make us uncomfortable with our own — or other people’s — visceral expressions of grief and other shadow emotions.

When Christine’s father was making his transition, she was guided to create a grief flute. She decorated the flute and wrote his name and things she loved about him on it. As she played it daily during his journey with hospice, she honored all the emotions of loss, anger, denial, sadness, and gratitude. When the process was complete, she released the flute to the fire.

Through this process, Christine Stevens discovered how to modulate her emotions and avoid the overwhelming rush of grief that can bring us to our knees. She felt fully present for her father’s transition in a beautiful way as she tended her soul needs through playing the flute.

Christine Stevens won’t ask you to create a grief flute during this The Healing Flute course. In this session, though, she’ll guide you to work with emotions through your flute-playing.

You’ll:

• Experience 4 rounds of a grief lodge, releasing layer after layer of emotion through the deep sound held by the minor pentatonic scale
• Honor and identify grief and personal loss that need to be released
• Experience a collective releasing of sadness through sound to honor the Earth’s loss of species
• Close the module with a one-note practice of unity, and see where that note takes you

Module 5: Heartsong Lodge — Discover Your Personal Anthem as the Most Divine Healing Gift You Can Give Yourself

The origin story of the Native American flute is one of love. In fact, it’s known as the courting flute.

How can you cultivate greater self-love, self-compassion, and joy? How can you access the wisdom of heart-centered consciousness and use it to play the flute from your heart? What happens when you play the flute for just you, as the most divine gift you can offer yourself?

HeartMath Institute has demonstrated the power of coherence between the brain and the heart. In this session, Christine Stevens will guide you in the Golden Breathwork techniques developed by Aaron Gannon (which are included in the bonus material for this The Healing Flute course) to make space in the energy centers of your body and bring it into your playing.

You’ll discover your own personal anthem, a song that’s sung in the heart and brought into your life, creating the song that’s yours to carry. To play that song just for yourself is an immense gift to cherish!

In this module, you’ll:

• Learn the 4 musical notes that correlate to emotions, to enhance your playing and your life
• Explore and create your own personal anthem on the flute and experience the power of playing music for just yourself
• Practice the Golden Breathwork techniques to bring the breath, heart, and mind into coherence
• Listen to and improvise the heartsongs of others

Module 6: Visioning Lodge — Find Your Life Purpose & Answers to Your Deepest Questions

Why are you here? What’s the greatest vision you hold for your life?

Music holds the keys to your intuition — information you can’t access through thought or rumination.

You’ll enter into a process of question and answer with the inner guidance of your soul through playing the flute. Without using words, you’ll learn to listen to the tonal quality of energy in your playing, to discover your life purpose.

Christine Stevens will share the five steps mapped in the Life Visioning Process by Rev. Michael Bernard Beckwith, founder of the Agape International Spiritual Center…

… to help you listen to your highest truth and clear obstacles that prevent you from being your fullest awakened self.

In this session, you’ll:

• Explore using the flute for self-inquiry, as an information carrier for your soul to receive answers to your deepest questions
• Discover the 5 steps in the Life Visioning Process
• Hold sacred space for yourself and your co-participants in a process of profound listening and sharing
• Practice a technique for answering a question on your flute

Module 7: Ceremony Lodge — The Beauty Way of Creating Ceremony With the Flute as a Tool for Healing & Prayer, With Guillermo Martinez

In First Nations cultures, the notion of Beauty Way is practiced in community ceremonies that are guided by the rhythms of nature, the seasons, moon cycles, naming celebrations, and special occasions.

Some people say that they’re “cracked open by beauty.” When this happens, tears become medicine rather than an expression of sadness.

You’ll be joined by guest teacher, master craftsman, and flute maker Guillermo Martinez, founder of Quetzalcoatl Music. He’ll show you how to call in the directions and smudge the space around you. He’ll also use a pow wow drum he made to create space for you to share your prayers — with the flute — as part of the ceremony.

You’re invited to bring something personal to the community altar, smudge at home, and dress to honor the ceremony.

You’ll learn how to create personal ceremonies for your life, family, and nature as you continue to walk with the Native American Flute as a healing ally and tool of prayer.

In this final module, you’ll:

• Learn a medicine song to honor the Eagle Nation
• Learn a Beauty Way song to anchor your life in the consciousness of good
• Experience the healing power of connecting to Spirit as you play your flute, and honor the 4 directions in a powerful drum ceremony
• Understand how to put your prayers into the flute as you play from your spiritual center
• Discover how to use the flute in personal ceremonies whenever the need arises and for healing, gratitude, grief, and new beginnings

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 Stevens, 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 Stevens 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, and The 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.

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