John Sarantos enjoys teaching the contemporary Native American flute. He has attended the Renaissance of the Native American Flute Workshop in Helena, Montana, facilitated by R. Carlos Nakai and Ken Light for the past 10 years: the last six years as the main instructor for the beginning and intermediate flute players. In the summer of 2004, R. Carlos Nakai and Ken Light of Amon Olorin Flutes inducted John as master flute instructor. The summer of 2006 marks John's 11th year at the renaissance of the Native American Flute Workshop. He was also the teaching assistant for the first three years of the Pacific Northwest Flute Gathering near Seattle and returned for the seventh year as one of the three main instructors in 2003. For the past three years John has also been one of the main instructors for the Armadillo Flute Society Retreat held just outside of Dallas, Texas.

John's specialty is teaching the non-musical approach to the contemporary native American flute. He helps folks play their own songs as well as learn the Nakai flute tablature.

John has taught workshops and given private lessons in Oregon, Washington, Wisconsin, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Texas, Kansas, Montana, and Kentucky. He is currently conducting flute workshops in three state prisons. John has written six songbooks for the contemporary native American flute: Under One Sky, five and six hole versions; A Kokopelli Songbook volumes one and two; A Kokopelli Christmas containing 110 songs in tab only; and a new version of A Kokopelli Christmas containing 20 songs in tab with finger pictures for five and six hole flutes.

John was also one of the first main contributors and continues to write for The Voice of the Wind, the official publication of the International Native American Flute Association. He has also been involved with the creation of several flute circles. John has over fifty world flutes in his collection. He has become infatuated with Xavier Quijas Yxayotl's Mayan and Aztec styled clay flutes based on 2,000 year old technology and now has a variety of 12 of them. Concert: Indigenous Flutes: John Sarantos will be demonstrating a variety of world flutes from China, Japan, Thailand, Australia, Sweden, Greece, and North America. The main emphasis will be on Native American Flutes. John will also be telling stories from his life's journey and well as some Greek myths, and world tales.