BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:-//WordPress - MECv7.35.1//EN X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://spiritualgrowthevents.com/ X-WR-CALNAME:Spiritual Growth Events X-WR-CALDESC:Free X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20260308T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=03;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20261101T010000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H X-MS-OLK-FORCEINSPECTOROPEN:TRUE BEGIN:VEVENT CLASS:PUBLIC UID:MEC-a9a82b0b868b6252298fb3f261209f90@spiritualgrowthevents.com DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261117T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261117T183500 DTSTAMP:20261105T102008Z RDATE;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261117T173000,20261121T120000 CREATED:20261105 LAST-MODIFIED:20261105 PRIORITY:5 SEQUENCE:1 TRANSP:OPAQUE SUMMARY:How to Play and Create Sacred Songs – Free Class with Christine Stevens DESCRIPTION:\n\nFree Online Event\n\n Some experiences carry more feeling than words can hold — a sunrise, a meaningful place, a spiritual insight, or a moment of connection with the natural world that you wish you could return to. Music can offer another way to remember what touched you and give that experience a personal form.\n \n\n Sound healer, music therapist, and author Christine Stevens invites you to explore how sacred songs and simple melodies can become expressions of gratitude, healing, connection, spirit, and creativity. Her approach welcomes curiosity and play rather than requiring you to be a trained musician.\n \n\n You’ll explore ways to learn, remember, and create sacred songs using the Native American-style flute or even your voice. Christine will introduce practices such as dancing scales, share ways to approach sacred songs with respect for their cultural lineage and meaning, and guide you in exploring a song honoring the Earth.\n \n\n You’ll also discover how a meaningful name, spirit name, animal spirit, or personal experience can become the beginning of a melody of your own. The emphasis is not on perfect performance, but on listening deeply and allowing music to become a more personal spiritual practice.\n \n\n Register Here For Free\n\n Beginners, experienced players, and those who do not own a flute are welcome.\n \n\n\n\n\n Explore This Free Event\n \n\n Jump directly to the section that interests you.\n \n\n\n \n →\n Why Attend\n \n \n\n \n →\n What You’ll Learn\n \n \n\n \n →\n Who Should Attend\n \n \n\n \n →\n About Christine Stevens\n \n \n\n \n →\n Endorsements\n \n \n\n \n →\n Frequently Asked Questions\n \n \n\n \n Register Here For Free\n →\n \n \n\n\n Music as Meaningful Expression\n \n\n Why Attend “How to Play & Create Sacred Songs: Honor Your Meaningful Experiences & Connection to the Earth Through the Native American-Style Flute”\n \n\n \n \n \n \n\n Music can hold memory, emotion, gratitude, and spiritual meaning in ways ordinary language sometimes cannot. Learning to play or create a sacred song gives you another way to honor experiences that matter deeply while building a more personal relationship with musical expression.\n \n\n Christine Stevens brings more than 25 years of experience playing the Native American-style flute, along with a background in music therapy, sound healing, rhythm, and musical practices connected with Nature. Her approach combines practical musical learning with attention to a song’s story, lineage, intention, and cultural context.\n \n\n The session also addresses a challenge many aspiring musicians recognize: self-doubt, frustration, or the feeling that you have to play everything correctly before music can become meaningful. Christine offers a more playful path into scales, improvisation, remembering songs, and creating melodies, while emphasizing respect for the traditions and wisdom that sacred songs carry.\n \n\n Register Here For Free\n \n\n\n\n Sacred Song + Creative Practice\n \nWhat You’ll Learn\n\n We’ll begin with an accessible way to build greater freedom on the Native American-style flute, so you can move beyond simply repeating notes and begin exploring musical patterns more creatively. You’ll be introduced to Christine’s “dancing scales” practice, which opens possibilities for improvisation and helps you become more comfortable shaping melodies of your own.\n \n\n From there, you’ll explore how sacred songs can be learned and remembered with greater intention, and you’ll look at why their stories, cultural lineage, meaning, and purpose matter. Christine will also address some of the self-doubt and frustration that can arise while learning music, so that practice can become more connected to curiosity and expression.\n \n\n You’ll then explore a sacred song honoring the Earth, and then see how emotion, visualization, and musical ornamentation can help bring its intention to life. Along the way, Christine will introduce a way to begin creating your own sacred song, so a meaningful name, spiritual connection, or personal experience can become the seed of a melody.\n \n\n Here’s just a little bit of what you’ll learn:\n \n\nHow “dancing scales” can strengthen your flute-playing skills and open new possibilities for improvisation\nWays to move from simple musical patterns into melodies that express your own voice\nWhy the cultural lineage, story, purpose, and meaning of a sacred song deserve attention and respect\nPractical approaches for learning and remembering songs more naturally\nHow to work with self-doubt and frustration that can make learning music feel intimidating\nHow emotion and visualization can deepen your relationship with a sacred song\nWays musical ornamentation can help bring a melody and its intention to life\nHow a sacred song honoring the Earth can become an expression of gratitude and reverence\nHow your name, spirit name, or an animal spirit can offer inspiration for a personal song\nWhy creating meaningful music does not require reading music, composing a polished melody, or owning a flute\n\n\n Register Here For Free\n \n\n\n\n For Curious and Experienced Musicians\n \nWho This Is For\n\n This event is for anyone drawn to the Native American-style flute, sacred song, sound healing, or using music as a form of spiritual and creative expression. It may be especially meaningful if you want to connect music with gratitude, Nature, meaningful experiences, or moments you would like to remember in a more personal way.\n \n\n You can participate whether you are simply curious, just beginning to play, or have years of flute experience. You do not need to read music, compose polished melodies, or even own a flute to explore the ideas Christine will share.\n \n\nPeople curious about learning the Native American-style flute\nBeginning players who want a more playful way to build confidence\nExperienced flute players interested in improvisation and creating original melodies\nThose drawn to sacred songs and their deeper stories, meanings, and intentions\nPeople who want to use music to honor meaningful experiences or a connection with Nature\nSound-healing practitioners, music therapists, and spiritually oriented musicians\nAnyone interested in creating a personal sacred song using flute or voice\n\n\n Register Here For Free\n \n\n\n\n Meet Your Teacher\n \nAbout Christine Stevens\n\n Christine Stevens is an author, music therapist, sound healer, and musician whose work explores the relationship between rhythm, music, wellness, spiritual connection, and self-expression. She has played the Native American-style flute for more than 25 years and has also worked extensively with percussion for sound healing and musical practices honoring Nature.\n \n\n Christine was adopted into a Native American family by Uncle Manny Eagle Elk Council Pipe Sandoval in a Making-of-a-Relative ceremony after more than a decade of singing Lakota prayer songs, undertaking Hanbleceya, and becoming a pipe carrier for Women’s Way Long Dance. With the permission of her elders and respect for Red Road ways of music medicine, she emphasizes cultural sensitivity and honoring the wisdom keepers who have carried these traditions.\n \n\n She is the author of The Nature Sutras, Music Medicine, and The Healing Drum Kit, and the founder of UpBeat Drum Circles. Her work has included programs for Fortune 500 companies, disaster survivors, and refugee women, and she has served as a Musical Ambassador of Peace, including leading a drum circle training for peace in northern Iraq and touring Japan with a music medicine approach to the Native American-style flute.\n \n\n Christine hosts Global Rhythm Sangha Online and teaches online programs including Awaken Your Rhythm, which has served hundreds of people in more than 35 countries. Her approach brings together practical musical learning, spiritual meaning, respect for cultural lineage, and the belief that music can become a personal offering of love, beauty, harmony, and reciprocity with Nature.\n \n\n Register Here For Free\n \n\n\n\n Sound Healing and Musical Wisdom\n \nEndorsements\n\n\n\n “Christine Stevens’ work is truly brilliant. I love how she teaches drumming rhythms. The power of her work is reflected in the brightness of her spirit.”\n \n\n Sandra Ingerman\n \n Author of 13 books, including Soul Retrieval: Mending the Fragmented Self\n \n \n\n\n\n “Christine’s work is anointed with the kiss of heaven’s inspiration, celebration, and joy. She is an instrument of global peace on the planet.”\n \n\n Rev. Michael B. Beckwith\n \n Author of Spiritual Liberation and founder of Agape International Spiritual Center\n \n \n\n\n\n “Christine Stevens is a magical sage of sound healing. She is a bridger of worlds with a deep sense of what matters most. She brings healing home for the soul.”\n \n\n Dr. Sue Morter\n \n Founder of the Morter Institute for BioEnergetics and author of The Energy Codes\n \n \n\n\n\n “Christine guides groups to the secret world of the rhythmic arts.”\n \n\n Mickey Hart\n \n Grammy award-winning drummer for the Grateful Dead and author of Drumming at the Edge of Magic\n \n \n\n\n\n “With deep wisdom and connection, Christine Stevens is a master of the heart and healing rhythm.”\n \n\n Master Mingtong Gu\n \n Qigong master, speaker, healer, and founder of The Chi Center\n \n \n\n\n Register Here For Free\n \n\n\n\n Everything You Need to Know\n \nFrequently Asked Questions\n\n Select any question below to reveal the answer.\n \n\n Event Details\n \n\nWhen and where does the event take place?\n\n This free online video event takes place on Tuesday, November 17, 2026, at 5:30pm Pacific Time. A final replay presentation is scheduled for Saturday, November 21, 2026, at 12:00pm Pacific Time.\n \n\n\nWho is Christine Stevens?\n\n Christine Stevens is an author, music therapist, sound healer, and musician who has played the Native American-style flute for more than 25 years. She is the author of The Nature Sutras, Music Medicine, and The Healing Drum Kit, and the founder of UpBeat Drum Circles.\n \n\n\nWhat will I learn during this event?\n\n You’ll explore dancing scales, improvisation, ways to learn and remember sacred songs, the importance of a song’s cultural lineage and intention, and approaches to creating a personal sacred song inspired by meaningful experiences or spiritual connections.\n \n\n\nWhat if I can’t attend live?\n\n Register anyway. Registrants can receive a full-length recording of the event, and a final replay presentation is scheduled for Saturday, November 21, 2026, at 12:00pm Pacific Time.\n \n\n\nHow long is the event?\n\n The free online event is approximately one hour long.\n \n\n\nDo I need any special equipment to participate?\n\n You do not need to own a Native American-style flute to participate. Christine’s teaching can also be explored through your voice, and event access details will be provided when you register.\n \n\n\nWho is hosting the event?\n\n This event is presented by The Shift Network\n \n\n\nIs this event suitable for beginners?\n\n Yes. The event welcomes people who are simply curious about the flute, beginners, and experienced players, and you do not need to read music or own a flute to participate.\n \n\n\nIs this event religious?\n\n The event is spiritually oriented and explores sacred songs, gratitude, connection with the Earth, and personal spiritual expression. It also emphasizes respect for the cultural lineage, purpose, and meaning of the sacred songs being explored.\n \n\n\nWill there be an opportunity to go deeper after the event?\n\n Yes. Christine will share details about an upcoming 7-week live course focused on learning seven sacred songs on the Native American-style flute, each connected with a distinct intention such as healing, soothing, honoring, blessing, peace, or transformation.\n \n\n\nWhat can I expect to feel during the event?\n\n Your experience will be personal. The session is intended to invite creativity, reflection, musical exploration, and a deeper relationship with gratitude, meaningful experiences, and connection to the Earth without requiring any particular emotional or spiritual response.\n \n\n\nCan I share this event with friends?\n\n Yes. You are welcome to share the registration page with friends who may be interested in sacred song, the Native American-style flute, sound healing, music, creativity, or spiritual connection.\n \n\n\nIs this event really free?\n\n Yes. Registration for this online event is free. Christine will also discuss an optional 7-week live course separately.\n \n\n\n About the Teaching & Sacred Song Practice\n \n\nWhat are “dancing scales”?\n\n Dancing scales are part of Christine’s playful approach to exploring musical patterns on the flute. She uses the practice to help players strengthen their skills, discover new note combinations, improvise more freely, and begin shaping melodies of their own.\n \n\n\nWhy does cultural lineage matter when learning sacred songs?\n\n Christine emphasizes that sacred songs carry stories, traditions, purposes, and meanings that deserve respect. Learning about that lineage can deepen your understanding of a song and help you approach it with greater intention and cultural sensitivity.\n \n\n\nHow will Christine help me remember the songs I learn?\n\n Christine will share practical ways to learn and remember sacred songs more naturally while addressing obstacles such as self-doubt and frustration. The emphasis is on building familiarity, confidence, and a meaningful connection with the music rather than relying only on memorizing notes.\n \n\n\nHow will the event explore a sacred song honoring the Earth?\n\n Christine will guide an exploration of a sacred song honoring the Earth and show how emotion, visualization, and musical ornamentation can deepen your connection with its intention. The focus is on bringing gratitude, reverence, and personal presence into the music rather than simply reproducing notes.\n \n\n\nHow can I begin creating a sacred song of my own?\n\n Christine will invite you to draw inspiration from something personally meaningful, such as your name, spirit name, an animal spirit, or another meaningful experience. You’ll explore how simple musical ideas can become the beginning of a personal melody without needing to compose a polished piece.\n \n\n\nDo I have to read music to create a song?\n\n No. Christine’s approach does not require you to read music or compose a formally written melody. The emphasis is on listening, experimenting with simple musical ideas, and allowing personal meaning to guide the creative process.\n \n\n\nHow do emotion and visualization relate to playing sacred songs?\n\n Christine uses emotion and visualization as ways to connect more deeply with a song’s meaning and intention. Rather than approaching a melody only as a sequence of notes, you’ll explore how inner imagery and feeling can inform the way you play and experience the music.\n \n\n\nCan I use my voice instead of a flute?\n\n Yes. Christine’s approach includes using your voice as well as the Native American-style flute, so you can explore sacred song and personal musical expression even if you do not own an instrument.\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n Health Disclosure\n \n\n The contents of this website/e-mail are for informational purposes only and are not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. This website does not provide medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.\n \n\n\n\n Relationship Disclosure\n \n\n We are grateful to be of service and bring you these life-changing events free of charge. 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