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WORKSHOPS & EDUCATION
Practitioner & Educator
Keya Kai Guimarães is a cultural practitioner, educator, and certified herbalist whose work explores embodied storytelling, ecological relationship, and ritual as contemporary practice. She holds an MA in Indigenous Peoples’ International Policy from The George Washington University and an MFA in Dance Choreography from UCLA’s World Arts
Keya Kai Guimarães is a cultural practitioner, educator, and certified herbalist whose work explores embodied storytelling, ecological relationship, and ritual as contemporary practice. She holds an MA in Indigenous Peoples’ International Policy from The George Washington University and an MFA in Dance Choreography from UCLA’s World Arts and Cultures/Dance program. Keya approaches hula as a practitioner and cultural educator, informed by Hawaiian epistemologies in which movement, chant, and botanical adornment carry genealogical and ecological knowledge. As a certified herbalist, she approaches plants as allies, utilizing lei-making as ritual, medicine, and storytelling. Her interdisciplinary work weaves movement, botanical medicine, and environmental literacy, inviting people into a healing relationship with land, water, and body.
Educational Experiences
Keya offers immersive, hands-on workshops rooted in embodied knowledge and cultural practice—ranging from hula and movement traditions to herbalism, aromatherapy, and lei making as a form of medicine. Each experience weaves storytelling, plant wisdom, and sensory learning to cultivate presence, resilience, and a deep connection to place.
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Keya offers immersive, hands-on workshops rooted in embodied knowledge and cultural practice—ranging from hula and movement traditions to herbalism, aromatherapy, and lei making as a form of medicine. Each experience weaves storytelling, plant wisdom, and sensory learning to cultivate presence, resilience, and a deep connection to place.
She designs custom workshops for luxury spas, healing centers, yoga sanctuaries, garden clubs, and select educational settings, offering guests a deeply restorative and transformative experience. Each program is crafted as a refined sensory journey—layering botanical ritual, movement, and storytelling to support nervous system regulation, seasonal attunement, and embodied renewal. Participants are invited to slow down, reconnect, and carry these elevated self-care practices into their daily lives.
Philosophy
Philosophy
This work is guided by the understanding that healing is relational, both personal and planetary at once. When people reconnect with plants—through touch, scent, story, and presence—they also reconnect with their own bodies, their communities, and the ecosystems that sustain them. By cultivating reciprocity with the botanical world, we e
This work is guided by the understanding that healing is relational, both personal and planetary at once. When people reconnect with plants—through touch, scent, story, and presence—they also reconnect with their own bodies, their communities, and the ecosystems that sustain them. By cultivating reciprocity with the botanical world, we engage in personal restoration while fostering a deeper sense of responsibility for our communities, and the health of our shared Earth.
Please browse the PDFs below to sample some recent workshops. Then, please reach out to receive my latest local offerings, or to design a private experience for your group. I am always looking for an opportunity to create something that resonates with the season, the place, or people present.
-Aloha Pau`Ole, Keya
