Silvia Nakkach, M.A., MMT

Grammy® nominated composer, interdisciplinary vocal artist, educator, author, academic consultant, Hindustani raga musician, experimental new music, embodied improvisation, and recording artist. A former clinical psychotherapist and an internationally accredited specialist in transcultural sound and music therapies, including music in shamanic practices. For many years, she has been on the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) faculty, where she created the premier certificate program in Sound, Voice, and Music in the Healing Arts offered by a major academic institution. She teaches the Metaphysics of Sonic Resonance in East-West Psychology and Contemplative Asian and Transcultural Studies at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS). She is a Mentor at the CIIS’s Center for Psychedelic Therapies and Research. She is the Founding Director of the International Vox Mundi School of Sound and the Voice, with Training Certificates in Japan, Brazil, S. Korea, and throughout the US. She is a core faculty of the Sedona Sound Healing Institute. In addition to her academic credentials, Silvia has devoted more than 40 years to the study of Classical North Indian Raga Music under the direction of the late Maestro Ali Akbar Khan and other great living masters of the Chant of Dhrupad tradition, presently under the direction of Pt. Uday Bhawalkar. Silvia has released sixteen CD albums and is a contributing author of several scholarly books. Her book Free Your Voice has been published by Sounds True

 

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