In this opening session, you’ll learn how to honor a musical moment with decoration.

You’ll advance your playing skills by practicing fluttering and tonguing, and learning when to use each within a phrase.

You’ll explore staccato by repeating one, two, or three notes as a technique to activate energy. Christine will guide you in the sacred power of grace notes — single, double, and wide intervals — to bring more ease and flow to your playing.

Christine will teach you the song “Deep Into the Earth I Go,” adding embellishments and bending notes to include your own emotional expression.

Everybody loves trills! In this module, you’ll practice trills to invoke hummingbird medicine — the energy of the Thunder Being Nation.

You’ll explore both the hurried movement and the art of holding still, which helps you dive into the nectar of life.

You’ll work with the technique of overtone notes, which imitate the bird’s song. You’ll learn to play for dolphin medicine, kissing your flute to invoke playfulness.

And, you’ll call eagle medicine into your life with the “Spotted Eagle Song.” Christine has asked your friend Guillermo Martinez to join for a portion of this session so you can once again experience his masterful teachings.

Here’s where you’ll take an inventory of your gifts. You’ll discover what you do best and how to emphasize your unique skills in your playing.

Christine will guide you through the universal design of healing music in two parts.

You’ll also practice an advanced form of dancing scales and explore the art of composition — how medicine songs are born.

In this profound class, you’ll experience soul retrieval with your flute — bringing back into your life what’s missing or wounded, using the four directions of the medicine wheel of life.

You’ll work with a personal affirmation or a mantra of any sacred tradition to create a song. Christine will teach you the “Spirit Calling Song” in the Lakota tradition, in which you ask a question about any aspect of your secret life and allow your flute to answer.

You’ll explore the role of the flute in your life, and its sacred lineage — to soothe, heal, and bring enjoyment, personal expression, and narrative to your life and your song.

Using this song, you’ll listen to the cry of your soul to practice the art of transmission.

You’ll also practice playing for the healing of others as you use your breathing to capture the energy you wish to express through your flute.

In this class, you’ll explore the healing power of resting in music and in life.

You’ll practice playing with the feeling of busy movement in the flute to a structured rhythm… and then finding stillness in less rhythmical playing.

You’ll be asked to consider where you’re moving in rhythm in life, and where you’re resting and finding stillness — and discover which one you need most.

In this final module, you’ll create a closing ceremony together — recalling a magic moment from your life and playing it on the flute to more effectively and actively absorb beauty.

Integration is the practice of remembering and owning all that you learn, change, and grow — and making it your own. You’ll learn the song “Good Where We’ve Been,” a Plains Indian coming-and-going song.

Ocean Energy Medicine for Self-Healing
Play-Along Backtrack From Christine Stevens

You can’t help but enjoy playing along to this track featuring the sea kelp rattle, water sounds, and gentle, swaying drum beat in an ocean rhythm. Together they invoke the healing energy of primordial sound, going with the flow, the buoyancy of salty waves, and the sweet release of letting go as the sun sets on the Pacific Ocean. This is particularly exciting because Christine has never before offered this particular kind of backtrack!

Animal Medicine for Self-Healing
Play-Along Backtrack From Christine Stevens

This 12 minute track supports you with the three sounds of creation, the trilogy, as taught by Guillermo Martinez, with a drum beat and a sacred rattle to support your improvisation and healing intention. Feel the medicine of the gentle deer as played in the rattle. Feel the medicine and strength of the elk captured in the drum beat. Use this play-along track when you want to experience strength, travel into other realms, and feel the grounded energy of the Earth. This is a brand-new kind of backtrack for you, as Christine’s continuing student!