Optional Workshops

The following optional workshops can be added to your camp experience for an additional fee during registration.

Rim Blown Flutes

with Joseph L Young

Discover the many unique differences among rim blown flutes, including Pueblo (Basketmaker & Mojave), Japanese Shakuhachi,  Andean Quena, and Chinese Xiao. Come to understand their distinctive styles and techniques for expressing each flute’s emotive voice, including tools for improving embouchure, tone and volume.

How long does it last: 2 hours

Min Students : 3
Max Students : 10
Price: $65

NOTE: Do to conflicting times do not sign up for this workshop if you have or want to sign up for the Flute Making or Buckskin Flute Bag Making workshops.

The Healing Flute

Expressing the Warrior, Teacher, Healer, & Visionary

with Kalani Das

Explore fundamental qualities of the four Shamanic Archetypes of the Warrior, Healer, Visionary, and Teacher, as informed by the Angels Arrian book, The Four Fold Way. Participants will express traits such as Leadership, Honor, and Showing Up, as part of the Warrior; History, Wisdom, and Acceptance, as part of the Teacher, and so on. We will examine how we can embody and express these traits through our intentions and actions, as well as through the music we create, on our own and with others. This program is suited for facilitators, workshop leaders, practitioners, and individuals who wish to connect their work with qualities that we all value, inside and beyond music making. A solid musical foundation is advised in order to take full advantage of these teachings. All levels are welcome and each student will learn according to their own training, experience and potential.

Recommended Reading and Viewing:
Lecture
Book

How long does it last: 3 hours

Min Students : 10                
Max Students : 20
Price: $85

Healing Inside & Out with the NAF

with Rona Yellow Robe

In this transformative workshop, Rona Yellow Robe will guide participants on a journey of healing and self-discovery through the power of the Native American flute. Delving into the heart of the instrument’s spiritual essence, Rona will share her insights and techniques for harnessing its soothing, therapeutic qualities. Participants will learn to create a meditative environment using music as a tool for stress relief, emotional release, and personal growth.

By attending this workshop, you will not only enhance your understanding of the Native American flute but also discover its potential to bring peace, balance, and harmony to your life. Embrace the opportunity to deepen your connection with yourself and the music, opening the door to a more fulfilling and enriching musical experience.

Recommended: mid-A, G, F#, or E flute

Key Takeaways:

Min Students : 10              
Max Students : 25
Price: $65

Body, Mind, & Spirit Sound Journey

with Shelley Morningsong & Rona Yellow Robe

Sound vibration and tones are powerful gifts of creation for healing. Together, Rona and Shelley will guide you into a reflective exploration of your mind, body and spirit through a deep and peaceful meditation.  Shelley and Rona will provide the sound of Crystal Singing Bowls, Ancient Vocal Chants, Native Flute, Gong, Hang Drum, Stringed Instruments and more.

Join us for a calming sound experience that is non-invasive and transformative, releasing stress and enriching physical, emotional, and spiritual harmony.

Note: This session can be experienced sitting in a chair, or you can bring a yoga mat, blanket, and pillow.  Shelley and Rona will help to provide blankets. 

Length –  80 minutes

Min Students : 1              
Max Students : 50
Price: $65

NOTE: Due to conflicting times do not sign up for this workshop if you have or want to sign up for the Flute Making or Buckskin Flute Bag Making workshops.

Flute Making

with Brent Haines

Master Flute Making Class by Brent Haines of Woodsounds Flutes will be taught in the afternoons during the Flute Camp.

Flute Making 101 is an excellent opportunity to get hands on with the Native Flute. This class is designed to introduce and solidify understanding of how a Native Flute is voiced and tuned. The student’s ability to enjoy and grow with the flute will be increased through learning the skills and principles.

Student may choose a Mid G, Mid A, or Hich C flute blank with a Spirit Claw totem.

Min Students: 1
Max Students: 10
Price: $1000

NOTE: Due to conflicting times do not sign up for this workshop if you have or want to sign up for Buckskin Flute Bag Making workshop.

Discover The Indonesian Suling

with Suzanne Teng

The Suling is a beautiful bamboo flute from Indonesia that is easy to learn and play. With 4 holes, it produces a beautiful Javanese pentatonic scale & plays 2+ octaves. 

Suzanne will show you how to play the full range of the flute (over two full octaves!) and get you going on your Suling journey! All flutes come with a custom-made cloth case. Flutes will be delivered to you at school.

This class is for all levels. 

How long does it last: 2 hours

Min Students : 1
Max Students : 10
Price: $150

To view/hear the Suling included in the class:
https://mysticjourney.net/flutes (small-sized Javanese Suling).

Please visit https://mysticjourney.net/flutes for more details, videos, and photos.

Fee includes your own custom-made Suling & case

Buckskin Flute Bag Making

with Fabian Fontenelle

Create your own flute bag under the instruction of Fabian Fontenelle

Fabian is Zuni/Omaha. He was born in Zuni Pueblo, New Mexico but he also has family in Nebraska. Fabian is the great-great-grandson of the famed Chief Big Elk of the Omaha people. Fabian compliments The Shelley Morningsong Band by adding what has been a long history of delighting audiences from his countless travels around the world.

With powerful dance performances intertwined with traditional storytelling, Fabian depicts a profound imagery of a “Spirit World” pronouncing the spoken word of his ancestors in his fluent Native Zuni Language. A performance by Fabian Fontenelle is a show in itself, a captivating display of ancient sacred songs, dancing, drumming and hand-crafted regalia adorned with the intricacy of hand-beading and more. Fabian is an original member of the American Indian Dance Theatre, and also provided master-work choreography and performances with two-time Grammy Award Winning Taos Pueblo, NM acclaimed artist Robert Mirabal on tour in “Music from a Painted Cave” which was also featured on PBS television under “Great Performances”.

​Fabian is also an educator on the history of Native America and has done consulting work and acting for the History Channel, “Into the West” produced by Stephen Spielberg and other productions, as well as education for public schools and museums. Learn more about Fabian here.

Fabian will provide soft buckskin, pony beads of various colors, leather tools, and acrylic paint pens for the students to design their own art designs on the bag. The bags themselves can range in length from 20” to 30” and width is determined by flute size.

2 hours/day for 2 days, 1.5 hours 3rd day 

Min Students: 1
Max Students: 5
Price: $155

All levels.

NOTE: Due to conflicting times do not sign up for this workshop if you have or want to sign up for the Flute Making workshop.

Masterpiece Recording Session

with Suzanne Teng & Gilbert Levy

Suzanne and Gilbert will work with you to create, prepare, arrange and record your own masterpiece! Suzanne will help you flesh out a musical idea from hearing you play just a few notes or from preconceived musical ideas. She’ll serve as music producer as she helps clarify the vision of the piece, helping you to develop the idea, create a structure, and guide you through the entire recording process.

Gilbert, an award winning engineer, will have you sounding better than you’ve ever heard yourself. He will also perform and record a selection of drums, percussion, stringed instruments, hand-pan, and synthesizer pads to accompany your flute part.  During this session, you will become a recording artist/composer, learning about mic technique, overdubs, song development/arranging, and mixing techniques.

You will witness the blossoming of your musical idea into a completed composition, and leave with a fully produced and professionally recorded masterpiece!
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Cost includes two-hour recording session plus one-hour post production mixing session, all supporting musical performances by Gilbert and Suzanne, and MP3, MP4 and WAV files emailed to you within a week following Flute Camp (or during Flute Camp if you schedule your session early in the week).

For $85/hour extra, a more complex masterpiece can have multiple overdubs, fine-tuned mixing for commercial-ready release, tuning of pitches, additional accompaniment, all done in post-production after camp. Sign up for this option at camp after you discuss your masterpiece ideas with Suzanne.​

About the facilitators:

Suzanne and her husband/music partner Gilbert Levy – a New Orleans born drummer who has performed with jazz greats Wynton and Branford Marsalis –   have released seven critically acclaimed albums.  They have won numerous awards including the Independent Music Awards (twice), International Acoustic Music Awards, Los Angeles Music Awards,   New Mexico Music Awards,  Native America Style Flute Awards Album of the Year, Akademia Music Awards, Global Music Awards (Gold Medal),  Peace Song Awards, and InterContinental Music Awards.  Suzanne was recently awarded the Best Multiple Flutes Player Award from the World Flute Society. 

Their music has been licensed for hundreds of film, television, commercial and video productions and was featured on NBC’s America’s Got Talent.  Appreciated for its sacred, relaxing and heart opening qualities, their works have been used in numerous healing recordings, films and videos, including a special CD compilation of their music created by the pharmaceutical company Genentech that was distributed to over 50,000 cancer patients to aid in their recovery. “Mystic Journey…lifts the listener to a place where beauty, ecstasy and tranquility reside” (Whole Life Times) both in recordings and live performances, as demonstrated in venues where they have performed such as the Dalai Lama’s International World Festival of Sacred Music, where they were featured artists each year of the festival. Suzanne and Gilbert have also composed and recorded music for yoga and acupuncture DVDs and several films including  the documentaries “Raw for 30” and “Beirut Rising.” They live in Santa Fe with their dog, cat, a coop of chickens, and their son Miles, when he visits home for the holidays.

Learn more about Suzanne Teng and Gilbert Levy at SuzanneTeng.com, and MysticJourney.net.

Min Students: 1
Max Students: 6
Price: $285