In this episode I speak with my friend Sandeep Prakash about his journey with music. We talk about where his musical experiences came from, we look at trance music in communities healing from slavery, and we dig deeper into the performative nature vs. the improvisatory nature of music!
Sandeep Prakash is a psychologist, with an MA in East-West Psychology form the California Institute of Integral Studies, where he is currently a PhD candidate. His training involved both western psychology and Indian philosophical traditions–yoga and advaita vedanta. He has done research that challenges conventional boundaries of psychology and shamanism, such as tantric Yoga in India and San Pedro visioning in Peru.
Prakash's current research on float therapy looks into the lives of people who have used floating—or sensory deprivation tanks—to heal from trauma, PTSD, anxiety, addiction, chronic pain, and insomnia.
At CIIS he trained under some of the leading scholars of holistic psychology: Carol Whitfield, Jorge Ferrer, Craig Chalquist, Samuel Malkemus, Marina Romero, Sofia Reinders, and many others. Outside the classroom, his path has taken him through psychotherapy, shamanic initiations, various Western and Indigenous psychospiritual trainings, training in music in India (while studying the yogic arts of sound), initiated into a yoga tradition with a YAI-200hr certification by Krishna Prakash at Shrimath Yoga, and a rigorous Rite of Passage 4-day wilderness fast.
Sandeep's counseling approach is inspired by the Indian advaita Vedanta teaching methodology, somatic and transpersonal psychology, and expressive arts therapy.
If you are interested in learning more about float therapy, then I've included a video as well as Sandeep's website below. The tanks mentioned are seen onstage with Sandeep.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=CPV5I7Tqs8Y&feature=emb_logo
http://www.sandeepprakash.com
Follow Sandeep on instagram:
@globalicaro
@levitationpsychology
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