Silvia Nakkach, M.A.,MMT, is a pioneer in the field of voice and transformation of consciousness, an award-winning composer, a psychologist, a healing music recording artist, author, and an internationally recognized singer. She holds Master Degrees in Psychology, Music Therapy, and Music Composition. Silvia has studied raga singing and classical Indian music with Maestro Ali Akbar Khan since 1982. Throughout 30 years of sustained commitment to the field of music and healing, Nakkach have created an innovated repertoire of vocal therapeutic techniques that have become landmarks in the field of music therapy, sound healing, and voice coaching. She is in the faculty at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco where she have created and coordinates a new Certificated Program on Sound, Voice and Music Healing starting in 2006. This program will be the only curriculum of this kind offered by a major academic institution.
In addition to her clinical practice, Silvia teaches regularly at various prestigious universities around the world as a visiting professor, and is the founding director of The Vox Mundi School of the Voice. She is internationally renowned for her seminars, lectures, and performances devoted to the relationship between music, shamanism, and spirituality. Silvia has released seven CD albums, and she was selected by UTNE READER Magazine as being one of 40 international artists who will shake the art world in the new millennium.
MUSICIAN
Devotional Singing
Silvia Nakkach is an award winning composer, multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, author, and psychologist. She graduated from the National Conservatory of Buenos Aires, Argentina in piano and voice performance. She holds Masters Degrees in Music Therapy and Psychology from the National University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and in Music Composition from Mills College, Oakland, California. She has earned credentials in Psychodrama and Gestalt Therapy. Since 1982 she has studied raga singing and North Indian classical music with Maestro Ali Akbar Khan.
As a singer and composer Silvia has received many awards and commissions world wide. Her major work, the opera Amazonia Insight has been performed in many countries. She has released seven tape albums and six CDs, her last CD "Ah, The Healing Voice", is widely played in health care centers to create a healing atmosphere before and after surgical interventions.
Invocation
Silvia Nakkach opens a gateway into the world of sacred sound and musical mysticism. Combining words of power and divine utterances Silvia transforms an exhalation into spiritual longing, and connects us with the entire web of life and the divine. A transcendent cross-cultural adventure into boundless radiance, openness and love.
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Musical Massage: Inside
The Musical Massage Collection features soothing and sensual instrumental music created by artists of extraordinary sensitivity and depth, touching listeners with irresistible melodies and beautiful textures. Inspired by the mood of "gentle touch," these musical passages induce deep breathing and relaxation. The instrumentation exudes resonant timbres that harmonize you from the Inside Out. Acoustic grand piano, cello and string bass, tambouras, Turkish harp, duduk, Tibetan bells, and light ambient vocals trace melodic patterns that come and go freely. Artist Silvia Nakkach is an award-winning composer, teacher, author, psychologist, and internationally acclaimed singer. A pioneer in the field of using music to transform consciousness, she has contributed an extensive body of vocal practices that have become landmarks in the field of music therapy, sound healing, and community development through arts.
Unwind is a simple and deeply relaxing way to enhance your meditation and help you let go of the tensions of the day. Specially selected melodies and rhythms, based on years of research, carry you to a place of inner stillness and quiet joy.
The spiritual and healing power of song has been recognized by people of all cultures since the beginning of time. Whether the song is a prayerful call to spirit or a comforting nonverbal melody, the slow sounding of the voice helps to balance the human body, reduce stress, and stimulate a feeling of well being. Silvia Nakkach integrates insights from her cross-cultural investigations as a singer-composer, music therapist, and educator into a unique musical form that wanders through a combination of world instruments, cello, glass instruments, repetitive patterns, chants, and indigenous songs to create a soothing and uplifting sonic massage. As you immerse yourself in listening, you will experience sharpened focus, and heightened creativity. In addition to offering an exquisite listening experience, enclosed instructions can lead you into exploring your own voice as an instrument for self-healing. The results may include decreased muscle tension, lower blood pressure, slower pulse, and increased circulation. As the body is put at ease, more energy is available for enjoying life.
Silvia Nakkach is an internationally accredited specialist in cross-cultural music-therapy training, she has been involved in clinical research in the areas of singing and creative uses of the voice in music therapy for twenty five years. She has contributed with an extensive body of therapeutic vocal techniques which have become landmarks in the field of sound healing and music therapy training in Argentina, Brazil, Spain and lately in the USA.
EDUCATOR
Vox Mundi Project's Programs Worldwide
In collaboration with an increasing number of trained professionals, Silvia Nakkach continues to meet an international demand for seminars and clinical work.
Her recent work includes offering Vox Mundi training programs and post-graduate seminars at the following institutions: Beth Israel Medical Center for Music Therapy, NYC Mills College, Oakland, CA Northern California Orff-Schulwerk Association, San Francisco American Orff-Schulwerk Association, National Conference, Phoenix, AZ San Francisco Exploratorium, Interactive Sound and Science Studio Continuing Education for Public Officials, Santa Barbara, CA Nordorff-Robbins Center for Music Therapy, New York University, NYC Holographic Repatterning Association, Albuquerque, NM and Mexico City ASSAM, Argentinean Association for Music Therapists, Buenos Aires ALUMINE, University of Transpersonal Psychology, Buenos Aires University of Expressive Arts, Barcelona SAT Institute, Dr. Claudio Naranjo Director, Spain, Italy, USA
Formerly, she was a Professor of Voice and Transpersonal Music Therapy, at the Music Therapy Institute of Vitoria, Spain.
Music without words means leaving behind the mind. And leaving behind the mind is meditation.
Meditation returns you to the source. And the source of all is sound. — Kabir
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