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Learn to Play for Ceremonies on the Native American Style Flute
Create Your Musical Ministry
Do you feel called to play the Native American style flute for ceremonies, healing work, or spiritual gatherings?
This book offers a clear, grounded, and reverent pathway for musicians who wish to bring live Native American style flute music into ceremonial, meditative, and sacred spaces. Through step-by-step instruction, simple illustrations, QR codes leading to audio and video examples, charts, stories, and practical guidance, you’ll learn how to play the Native American style flute not just with technique—but with presence, intention, and service.
This is not a performance-based flute method. It is a contemplative approach to ceremonial flute playing.
Inside, you’ll explore essential foundations, including:
- Instrument fluency and musical artistry on the Native American style flute
- The role of silence in ceremonial and meditative music
- Performance versus service in sacred music settings
- Listening deeply to those you serve
- Musical modes simplified for intuitive flute playing
- Four foundational rhythms for ceremonial music
- Breath awareness and the phenomenal breath
- Simple melodic phrases for prayerful flute playing
- Mileage and Commitment
Whether you are new to the Native American style flute or seeking to deepen your ceremonial flute practice, this method provides an immediate on-ramp to a reverent, intentional way of playing. It is well suited for musicians interested in healing music, meditation music, spiritual music, and ceremonial flute playing.
Written for those who feel called to support ceremonies with live music—rather than to perform—this book emphasizes simplicity, attentiveness, and musical improvisation. It is ideal for spiritual practitioners, retreat leaders, music ministers, and anyone drawn to the sound of the Native American style flute.
Author Ami Sarasvati, CMP, is a teacher, musician, author, and retreat leader devoted to bringing light and harmony into the world. She approaches the Native American style flute as a healing journey rooted in listening, reverence, and service, and she joyfully shares this work with students near and far.
Create your musical ministry on the Native American style flute.
About the author:
Ami Sarasvati is the author of books and courses Learn to Play the Native American Style Flute: Discover Your Heartsong, Discover the Musical Modes on the Native American Style Flute, Learn to Play for Ceremonies on the Native American Style Flute: Create Your Musical Ministry, Musician’s Heart Journey, and Musician's Practice Journal. She is an active teacher, retreat leader, Certified Music Practitioner (CMP) and ceremonial musician. She has witnessed, again and again, the healing power of music for both the individual and the community.
Ami grew up in Manchester, NH, went to high school at St. Paul’s School in Concord NH, and got her BS in Journalism at Boston University in Boston MA in 1987. She lives in Arizona.
Credentials include:
Certified Music Practitioner since 2016 through Music For Healing and Transition Program
Graduate of Music for People's Musicianship and Leadership Program
Actively teaching Native American Style Flute on Lessonface, Teacher of the Year in 2020-2025 teaching private lessons and groups
Faculty teacher of Module 3 for Music For Healing and Transition Program
Retreat Leader and/or Retreat Contributor
Accredited T’ai Chi Chih Instructor
Poetic Medicine Facilitator
Advanced Labyrinth Facilitator (Veriditas)
HealthRhythms Facilitator
Her life’s purpose is to bring more light and harmony to the planet through live music, art, labyrinth walks, and poetry.
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