MIM HQ

“Science taught me resilience. DJing taught me to trust it.”

Molina aka .wav — paediatric brain tumour researcher, cancer biologist and DJ — started mixing halfway through her PhD as a way to cope with the pressure of research and the difficulty of ever really switching off.

What began as a stress buster became something more lasting: a creative outlet, a community, and another way of understanding failure, instinct and persistence.

Now she’s playing a Research fundraiser at on 26 June — bringing her two worlds into the same room.

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Trauma is not “stored in the body” as a fixed archive.

The brain keeps predicting danger through rigid patterns. Healing is about restoring flexibility, movement, agency, and the capacity to update the system.

This is exactly where MIM works—through rhythm, music, movement, and structured sensory feedback to help the system become flexible again.

🔍Based on: Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience paper The body does not keep the score: trauma, predictive coding, and the restoration of metastability.