Silvia Nakkach,M.A.,M.M.T..
Is an award-winning composer, multi-instrumentalist, voice-culturist, author. She has graduated and holds degrees from the National Conservatory of Buenos Aires, Argentina on piano and voice performance. She obtained Masters Degrees in Psychology and in Music Therapy from the National University of Buenos Aires, and in Music Composition from Mills College, Oakland, California. In Argentina, she also has earned credentials in Psychoanalytic Psychodrama and Gestalt Therapy. Since 1982 she has studied raga singing and North Indian classical music with Maestro Ali Akbar Khan, in San Rafael, California. She is a certify instructor of Tai Chi-QiGong.
Nakkach is a recognized authority on the healing power of music, sound and the voice. She is a pioneer in the use and the integration of sacred sound with contemporary practices of transformation of consciousness in music psychotherapy and in health care. An internationally accredited specialist in cross-cultural music healing training, she has been involved in research in the areas of singing and creative uses of the voice since 1974. She has contributed an extensive body of therapeutic sound and vocal techniques that have become landmarks in the field of sound healing and music therapy in South America, Europe and the USA. She has created a music repertoire widely used in Palliative Care, Hospices, and Healthcare Centers for substance abuse and during pregnancy and delivery. Nakkach significant body of work has been integrated in an innovative curriculum of vocal principles, theories, and applications available through the Vox Mundi Project programs, archives and publications.
http://www.voxmundiproject.com/silvianakkach.html
Silvia teaches the Certificate in Sound, Voice, and Music Healing at the California Institute of Integral Studies:
http://www.ciis.edu/About_CIIS/Public_Programs/Sound_Certificate/Class_S...
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