Shamini Jain
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Dr. Shamini Jain is a psychologist, scientist, and social entrepreneur. She is the Founder and CEO of the Consciousness and Healing Initiative (CHI), a collaborative accelerator that connects scientists, health practitioners, educators and artists to help lead humanity to heal ourselves. CHI was formed through Shamini's deep desire to bring key stakeholders together to create a coherent and effective movement to move us beyond models of “disease thinking” and the “decade of the brain”, into the study of biofield and systems-based healing, for personal and societal empowerment. Dr. Jain is also an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at UC San Diego, and a member of UC San Diego’s Center for Integrative Medicine.
Shamini obtained her B.A. in Neuroscience and Behavior from Columbia University, and her Ph.D. degree from the SDSU/UCSD Joint Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology, with a research focus in psychoneuroimmunology. She conducted her clinical residency at the La Jolla VA Hospital/UC San Diego, and her post-doctoral fellowship at UCLA. She has published extensively in the areas of psychoneuroimmunology, healing and well-being, and has received numerous awards from scientific societies for her clinical research, which has also been featured in major news outlets including TIME and CNN.
Shamini combines her background in clinical psychology, psychoneuroimmunology, Jain spiritual wisdom and the healing arts to share with others how they can best heal themselves and live life with joy. She teaches regularly in diverse venues including national retreat centers (Esalen/Kripalu/1440/Omega), NATO, TEDx, major universities and medical centers, health-related conferences, and corporations. Sounds True will publish her first book in early 2021.
Shamini’s serves on the Board of Directors for Greenheart International and Modern Spirit and on the scientific advisory board for several social benefit companies including Wacuri and Leap Forward.
In addition to forwarding her life’s passions and helping others realize theirs, Shamini's biggest joys are spending time with her beautiful family, singing, hiking and surfing.
Our collective existential crises are paving the way for our recognition of Oneness.
Let us fully dance through Maya into the heart of Love.