Silvia Nakkach, MA, MMT, Grammy® Nominated musician and a pioneer in field of the sound in transformation of consciousness and music in shamanic practices. She is an award-winning composer, author, recording artist, and former music psychotherapist.
While on the faculty of CIIS, she created the prime Certificate on Sound and Voice in the Healing Arts hosted by an academic institution. She is the founding director of the international Vox Mundi School of Voice with centers across the US, Europe, Japan, Brazil, South Korea, and India, where she travels extensively each year with groups of students interested in training in the Yoga of the Voice.
Presently, she is the Director of the Art and Science of Sound Healing Certificate at the California Institute of Human Science in San Diego, and the Coordinator and Faculty of the Sound Healing Certificate at the Open Center in New York City.
She has devoted 35 years to the study of North Indian classical music under the direction of the late Maestro Ali Akbar Khan and other masters of the Dhrupad raga singing tradition. She has released 16 CD-albums, and among numerous academic publications and contributions on books, she is the author of Free Your Voice (Sounds True). www.voxmundiproject.com