Astara Calas is a musician and consciousness explorer living in Los Angeles

Of Greek and Swana heritage, her first loves were music and dance. She spent many years performing in both the US and Europe. From a young age, Calas channeled sounds and visions, a type of synesthesia from the etheric realm and today she records these impulses in her music.

Calas took classes in Transcendental Meditation and past life regression when she was a teenager. She then went on to major in eastern philosophy and Jungian psychology at the University of Colorado before moving to Europe where she lived as a working musician singing and playing guitar in a space rock band. The band eventually signed to Columbia Records and relocated to Los Angeles.

After Finding her way out of the vortex of rock and roll, Astara discovered Jonathan Goldman, a pioneer in the field of sound healing and became certified as a sound healer. In those years of deep sonic exploration she learned how to tap into her consciousness and record the sounds she heard from other planes.

Through the practice of kundalini yoga, Astara was lead to the philosophy of Sufi music mystic Hazrat Inayat Khan so she bought a set of tabla and took up studies in the architecture of Indian classical raga cycles with teacher Pandit Shashanka Bakshi. She eventually ditched the tabla for synthesizer and formed Indian classical/ experimental musical group Liberate Elemental Forces with other students of Shashanka’s

Outside of music she is also one of the founders of the iconic restaurant Elf in Echo Park which helped create the movement of elevated organic vegetarian food.

She is certified in several healing modalities and has been practicing the Dolores Cannon method of hypnosis (QHHT) since 2012