About Me

Aloha. I'm Jinju.

I was still a child the first time mental illness took my mother from me. It kept taking her. That wound became my life's purpose. I spent my adult years trying to save her — and others like her. Certain that understanding the brain held the key to healing mental illness, I became a neuroscientist.

My body, however, had other plans. After nearly dying in the lab and being handed my own diagnosis and a pill, I surrendered the path I thought would heal us. I returned to what I'd abandoned for "serious" work: dance. Dancing with poi and fire began rewiring my brain and restoring my nervous system in ways no medicine had — and the scientist in me had to understand why.

What I found became my life's work: a bridge between Science, Soul, and Soma, and a mission to activate Goddess Brains® around the world. Because most of what we "know" about the brain and nervous system is based on studies of males — and the female brain is far more magnificent than science has let on.

If you've ever felt like you don't quite belong here, it's not you. Your sensitivity is a gift. Your magnificence is real.

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Dr. Jinju Dasalla, Ph.D., known as The Goddess Brain Doctor, is a neuroscientist, coach, author, fire dancer, and mother devoted to sharing the medicine of feminine flow and awakening Lokahi consciousness — harmony with the Earth, the elements, and one another. Co-founder of NaiAsa Institute, she leads programs in NaiAsana™ yoga, Goddess Brain® Coaching, and NeuroSomatic Flow® — a modality that rewires the brain, releases trauma, and reclaims joy.

Featured in Elle, Wanderlust, and Bali Spirit Festivals, she has advised and lectured at institutions including Naropa University, Duquesne University, Penn State College of Medicine, UNC, and Hawaii Yoga Institute. She lives in Bali with her husband and son, building a retreat sanctuary and tending the Saraswati Seva Project to empower local women and families.