Silvia Nakkach MA, MMT, also known as Saraswati Devi, is a Grammy-nominated composer, interdisciplinary vocal artist, Hindustani raga musician, and multihyphenate educator and scholar. Nakkach has released 18 albums, authored the book Free Your Voice, and offered significant scholarly contributions to the academic study of music and sound therapies. She is a former clinical psychologist who now serves as faculty at the California Institute of Integral Studies’ program in East-West Psychology with an emphasis on Asian Contemplative and Transcultural Studies. Nakkach is also a Music Mentor at the CIIS’s Center for Psychedelic Therapies and Research. You can listen to her explorations of sound, spirituality, and the human experience on her podcast Beyond Music. She is the founding director of the International Vox Mundi School of Sound www.voxmundiproject.com.