Beginner Book

This little book is the perfect place to start your journey of learning to play the Native American style flute (NAF). No musical experience is necessary. In fact, for many people, learning to play the NAF is their first experience playing an instrument. This book will guide you through the basics of playing your flute right away. If you want video support as you work through the book, get Ami’s recorded course that walks you directly through the book. Dozens of videos and audios help you through the book. This popular book is available on Amazon. It is also available as a recorded course.
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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, 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, the role of silence in ceremonial and meditative music, and much more. 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.
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Discover the Musical Modes on the Native American Style Flute

Are you ready to add variety and spice to your Native American style flute playing? Expand your musical horizons by learning to play the musical modes on your flute! Maybe you’ve never heard of the musical modes. As humanity has evolved, so have these mysterious musical modes, yet they may appear daunting to NAF players. No longer! Here is your invitation to deepen your musical roots on the NAF. These pages offer you immediate access to the modes with straightforward finger charts, Nakai TAB, and other references. You can play the modes on your flute within minutes using this book. In addition to the charts, this book offers a brief understanding of the musical modes, pointing out their characteristic sounds. Welcome to a journey of musical storytelling and an immediate method of playing the musical modes. With this book in hand, you will be jamming solo, playing along to backing tracks, or joining other musicians playing modal music right away! There is also a recorded course that goes with the book. Look under the courses tab.
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Musician's Heart Journey

Musician’s Heart Journey is a journaling course and daytimer method for musicians who enjoy journaling and desire to get in touch with the voice of the inner musical muse. This important inner resource illuminates the next step on your unique musical path, week by week. Meditations, writing prompts, and a two-step journaling method, escort the reader on a journey where you create and develop your unique, heart-centered musical goals. Highlights include: Musical Breath Meditation, the Future Musician Self Meditation, Provisions for the Journey, the Musical Library Meditation, a Musical Timeline Creation, Heart-centered Musical Goal-setting, Mapping the Journey, Weekly Compass, the Virtual Magnifying Glass, Segmenting Your Practice, How to use the Open Pages … and so much more! There is also a recorded course that goes with the book. Look under the courses tab.
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