Christine Stevens
What if the act of drumming could focus your mind, shift you from stress to presence, and spark playfulness and creativity — while also providing you with a daily meditative practice for accessing Spirit?
Learn specific rhythmic practices that help you stay grounded, merge with your heartbeat, and connect to the pulse of global unity and healing.
Drumming can be a powerful and mesmerizing tool for spiritual awakening, coaxing you into a state of bliss...
... much like a repeated personal mantra that shifts you out of the busy mind and into the flow of the present moment — what’s known as the experiencing network.
According to music therapist Christine Stevens, author of Music Medicine and the founder of UpBeat Drum Circles, “rhythm mantras” on the drum are like mala beads for the mind — repetitive, grounding, and meditative. When you practice, shifts happen quickly — the rhythms soon become effortless and you enter a state where you’re no longer “driving the bus,” but co-creating with Spirit.
Drumming rhythmic patterns — whether you’re pounding a beat on your own body, a bucket, a hand drum, frame drum, or djembe drum — is also one of the easiest ways to make music on your own or with community.
What’s more, playing the drum links you to spiritual wisdom traditions from a variety of different global cultures, connecting you to a deep lineage of healing music makers that goes back centuries — even millennia.
Are you ready to unlock the sacred language of rhythm?
In this inspiring one-hour event, Christine will take you on a rhythmic experiential journey, where you’ll start unlocking the universal language of drumming to access healing, joy, and profound spiritual evolution. (No prior drumming or musical experience needed!)
Adopted into a Native American family in a Making-of-a-Relative Lakota ceremony, Christine has learned drumming from Indigenous masters, and has received permission from her elders to teach the music of their traditions.
She’ll bring her decades of expertise and passion for global drumming traditions to guide you in this transformative practice.
With or without a drum of your own, you’ll learn accessible rhythms from around the world — gathered during Christine’s global travels — that will serve to ground you, awaken your natural creativity, and help you find your unique place in the rhythmic symphony of humanity.
Christine will first guide you through a visualization to honor the cultural healing tradition of drumming, grounding you in the moment and helping you access your connection to your heart and Spirit.
She’ll then teach you a simple rhythm to use for active meditation, so you can feel, in the moment, how the repetition of the pattern changes your brain state from thinking to surrendering.
Yet, this event isn’t just a lesson in drumming. It’s an opportunity to feel the joy of creation, the peace of connection, and the power of a unified beat. Through Christine’s expert guidance, you’ll discover how drumming can be a tool for relaxation, a means of self-expression, and a bridge to spiritual awakening and evolution.
By the end of the hour, you’re bound to notice a shift in your mood and energy through the shared power of rhythm. Expect to reconnect with your sense of play and creativity while contributing to a global rhythm prayer that unites the collective.
During this workshop, you’ll:
- Experience a guided grounding drum practice that connects you to your heart, centers your energy, and prepares you for a deeper sense of presence
- Practice a simple repetitive rhythm mantra — an active meditation practice that’s both grounding and empowering, giving you the confidence to reclaim your innate creativity and carry a beat with ease (and enjoy it)
- Learn 3 primary sounds of the drum — base, tone, and slap — which alone make it easy to express and explore your creative musical side
- Understand the neurological benefits of rhythmic patterns, as they enhance your brain function and shift you into the now
- Explore how humanity evolved through the entrainment of shared rhythms — a process of adjusting an internal rhythm to synchronize with the external, a group, or the universal — which takes you out of the ego mind and into the present moment to experience co-creation with Spirit
Christine’s teachings are rooted in cultural wisdom from around the world, honoring the sacred traditions of drumming as a tool for healing and celebration. Her inclusive, heart-centered approach ensures that everyone, regardless of experience, can participate and benefit.
Whether you’re a seasoned drummer or a complete beginner, you’ll discover that drumming is a doorway to inner balance, and a path to connect with something greater than yourself.
As we all navigate the anxiety of this uncertain era, drumming invites us to tune in to the subtle frequencies of life and embrace a rhythm that unites the body, mind, and spirit.
When you join Christine for this extraordinary hour, you’ll also be among the first to hear about her brand-new 7-week live video course, in which you’ll delve deeper into the sacred language of the drum — learning how to play for self-healing and with your community for global healing, while broadcasting positive energy to the world. You’ll practice rhythms that are available to all levels of players.
By building a repertoire of rhythm patterns for the purpose of awakening, you’ll become a better drummer while imbuing your life with greater joy and deepening your connection to the force of creation.
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Join this FREE video event with Christine Stevens and start to use drumming — whether on a hand drum, a bucket, or your body — as a meditative practice that shifts you from stress to presence, playfulness, and creativity while connecting you to the pulse of global unity and healing.
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What People Are Saying About Christine Stevens...
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.
Author of 13 books, including The Book of Ceremony
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.
Author of Spiritual Liberation and founder of Agape International Spiritual Center
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.
Founder of the Morter Institute for BioEnergetics and author of The Energy Codes
Grammy award-winning drummer for the Grateful Dead and author of Drumming at the Edge of Magic
With deep wisdom and connection, Christine Stevens is a master of the heart and healing rhythm.
Qigong master, speaker, healer, and founder of The Chi Center
About Christine Stevens
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Author and music therapist Christine Stevens was adopted into a Native American family 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.
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.
