Elizabeth W. Szatmari-Krasnoff, MA is currently in the Ph.D. program of Transformative Studies with a focus in Consciousness Studies at the California Institute of Integral Studies. She is studying the effect of sound on self-regulation of the autonomic nervous system. She was diagnosed at a young age with 50% hearing loss and has experienced the grief of two miscarriages after the birth of her son. She calls music the "language of consciousness".