How to Play and Create Sacred Songs – Free Class with Christine Stevens
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.
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.
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.
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.
Why Attend “How to Play & Create Sacred Songs: Honor Your Meaningful Experiences & Connection to the Earth Through the Native American-Style Flute”
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.
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.
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.
What You’ll Learn
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.
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.
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.
- How “dancing scales” can strengthen your flute-playing skills and open new possibilities for improvisation
- Ways to move from simple musical patterns into melodies that express your own voice
- Why the cultural lineage, story, purpose, and meaning of a sacred song deserve attention and respect
- Practical approaches for learning and remembering songs more naturally
- How to work with self-doubt and frustration that can make learning music feel intimidating
- How emotion and visualization can deepen your relationship with a sacred song
- Ways musical ornamentation can help bring a melody and its intention to life
- How a sacred song honoring the Earth can become an expression of gratitude and reverence
- How your name, spirit name, or an animal spirit can offer inspiration for a personal song
- Why creating meaningful music does not require reading music, composing a polished melody, or owning a flute
Who This Is For
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.
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.
- People curious about learning the Native American-style flute
- Beginning players who want a more playful way to build confidence
- Experienced flute players interested in improvisation and creating original melodies
- Those drawn to sacred songs and their deeper stories, meanings, and intentions
- People who want to use music to honor meaningful experiences or a connection with Nature
- Sound-healing practitioners, music therapists, and spiritually oriented musicians
- Anyone interested in creating a personal sacred song using flute or voice
About Christine Stevens
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.
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.
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.
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.
Endorsements
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Christine guides groups to the secret world of the rhythmic arts.”
“With deep wisdom and connection, Christine Stevens is a master of the heart and healing rhythm.”
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- Nov 17 2026
- 5:30 pm - 6:35 pm
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- Timezone: America/New_York
- Date: Nov 17 2026
- Time: 8:30 pm - 9:35 pm
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