Known to her fans for her user-friendly approach to peak potential on many fronts and to her colleagues for work covering music from Mozart to the Manding of Africa, Elizabeth Miles offers answers that pop off the page and onto your to-do-now list. Her book and ten-CD series Tune Your Brain®: Using Music to Manage Your Mind, Body and Mood (Berkley Books, Deutsche Grammophon 1997-2001) bring her expertise as an ethnomusicologist to bear upon how to be your best with the help of one of humankind’s most powerful inventions.

Tune Your Brain’s unique approach to achieving peak potential through music has earned major public acclaim. Elizabeth has been seen and heard talking about braintuning principles in Self, Mademoiselle, Glamour, Family Circle, First for Women, Woman’s World, Complete Woman, Weight Watchers, Simplicity, Success, Sanctuary, Realm, Bottom Line/Personal, Billboard, Cure, ePregnancy.com, NAPRA ReView, Massage Therapy Journal, the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Dallas Morning News, Seattle Times, Newark Star-Ledger, Tennessean, and Guardian, as well as on the nationally syndicated television show Living Better with Carrie Wiatt, the BBC’s “Feeling Healthy,” PBS, The Dennis Prager Show, Personal Achievement Radio, the Business News Network, Natural HealthLink Radio, Radio America Network's Bottom Line Secrets and more. Selections by the Prevention Book Club, Quality Paperback Book Club Sound Review, and BMG Record Club have also turned the spotlight on Tune Your Brain. The CD series has sold over 150,000 units, with long Top Ten runs on the Billboard charts.

Miles brings the mind-body power of music to life with her daily “Braintuning Break” radio feature, a four-season favorite on the California Classical Network. She lectures and consults on braintuning topics for audiences including the Los Angeles Unified School District, Kaiser Permanente, Universal Studios, the Society for Radiation Therapists, the Young Entrepreneurs’ Organization, the American Massage Therapy Association, the Wellness Community, and many more concerned with health, education, and performance.

Other books offering Miles' dynamic take on high-performance lifestyles include The Feng Shui Cookbook: Creating Health and Harmony in Your Kitchen (Birch Lane Press) and her co-authored works AgeLess: Take Control of Your Age and Stay Youthful for Life (Rodale Press), Organizing for Dummies and The Parents' Success Guide to Organizing (Hungry Minds) and Portion Savvy: The 30-Day Smart Plan for Eating Well (Pocket Books). Miles has also teamed up with Metacom Music to create WorkBeats, a CD line of music dedicated to workplace performance and health, sold in Staples stores nationwide.

As a musician, Elizabeth has studied clarinet, piano, voice, guitar, Indian sitar, Middle Eastern violin, West African drums, and Appalachian autoharp. Her professional experience runs the gamut from banking on Wall Street to booking rock concerts. A native of Madison, Wisconsin, Miles holds a Master's degree in Ethnomusicology from the University of California Los Angeles, a J.D. with a specialization in law and technology from Boalt Hall School of Law, and a BA from Dartmouth College. She lives in the Bay Area.