Kekoa is a father, permaculture practitioner, Licensed Massage Therapist and wild- crafter with a love for indigenous healing modalities and earth centered wisdom. Born and raised off the grid in Hāmākua Loa, Māui in deep relationship to the natural world and practicing primitive skills he has developed a passion for the inseparable relationship between internal well being and the health of the environment. Since 2013, he has been studying, practicing and organizing retreats in Ancient Hawaiian Bodywork a form of massage therapy that focuses on the integration and embodiment of all that we are. Within this ancient paradigm of healing one reconnects with the essential part of themselves capable of holding a fuller spectrum of being, the dark and the light, and in so doing reunites with the essential aspect of life which recognizes kinship with all things.