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Holistic Ink Therapy by Darin Shiu

Aloha! My name is Darin Shiu. People call me "Dee" for short. I'm a Holistic Ink Therapist, born and raised on the island of Oahu, Hawaii. I've been tattooing since 2009, but immersed in art since the day I was born. I've been a Chek Holistic Health Coach since 2020, but have been studying and practicing in the holistic health field since 2014. As much as I've learned about art, the human psyche, disease, and suffering, I'm still a student in the art of LIFE. 

What is holistic Ink Therapy?

Holistic means to encompass the "whole of a thing, not just a part." I specialize in helping people liberate themselves psychologically, emotionally, and or physiologically. Some people just want meaningful tattoos to aid them on their journey of life, while others want help liberating themselves from chronic disease, and suffering. Some want both.

No person is the same and neither are the programs or tattoos I develop for each person. As a holistic therapist I have a massive arsenal of non invasive wisdom to help people heal by addressing their entire being; mind, body, and Soul. No one can affect one part of a person without affecting the entire person and vice versa. "What is in One is in the whole." What we do to One, we do to the whole. How we affect one part of the web of Life affects all parts of the web of Life.

Ink Therapy

I specialize in black and grey surrealism, graffiti, and calligraffiti, geometric tattoos. All the art I choose to express holds a ton of good meaning and LOVE. The art I strive to create are symbols of victory, health, wealth, LOVE, and happiness. They are living prayers. That is the mission of my art.

Holistic Therapy

I specialize in coaching foundation principles of holistic health, etiology - investigating the origin of disease, reversing disease, and reversing addiction organically. I do thorough assessments, develop individual diet guidelines in alignment with your unique genetics, allergies, and intolerances. I do not use any invasive methods. I coach to bring understanding to foundation principles that guide human vitality. I walk with you step by step because the road to reverse dis-ease is a long journey of expanding one's consciousness. It's a courageous journey of forging new behavior that make room for your unique genius and potential to expand to new heights.


My life is dedicated to strengthening my integrity and upholding sacred boundaries to be fit to serve and be the change. I strive to compassionately illuminate what is in the dark for most, so we all can elevate in the deeper conscious meaning of LOVE.

I consider tattooing a sacred process that has turned into a fashionable commodity like all things exploited in the world today. To me, this process of self inflicted pain for "PERMANENT" SYMBOLS of meaning we LOVE, hold the potential to activate deeper aspects of our Spirit that empower us through our lives. But we have to be in a mental and emotional state of willingness to let go to the process.

Follow me on Instagram: @deeshiustylee


Ink Therapy Inquiries

Our time together is always sacred.

I do not create anything demonic or satanic.

Tattoos are not like someone detailing your car or cooking your food. I have to touch you, pierce your frequency, deal with your blood and subtle worlds associated with your blood. It's just as personal for me as it is for you. The work that I choose to implant into your skin will have my name associated with it for  life! 

We design the tattoo together and is all inclusive in my half day or full day rate. 

My creating process is unorthodox and the more authentic, open minded you are, and the more you trust my intuitive artistic judgement, the wilder you allow my creativity to bloom!!! 

Holistic Health Therapy Inquiries

Depending on the level of the severity, I may refer you to another specialist in the Holistic field. 

After our initial consult and first session we can meet in person or online / facetime for some sessions. Our first session will be approximately 2 hours as we walk through your assessment. There are a lot of variables that contribute to dis-ease and suffering so the assessment and your honesty are paramount for our time together to be effective.

I generally recommend meeting online a couple times a week for the first month to check in, answer your questions, and adjust anything we need to adjust in your program. Your health program is very dynamic and individual to you.

I charge an hourly rate. You will have the option to do lab testing. Any lab tests, to dial in specific physiological starting points, are charged separately. I do recommend a few of them especially depending on what chronic symptoms you suffer from to take out guess work. 

"If we're not assessing, we're just guessing."

I do my best to not overwhelm you, as the journey in understanding oneself and the path to reverse disease can be a lot. I firmly believe and have seen to be true that almost all disease is reversible if given the right environment, conditions, and time to heal. I do my best to make change easy and doable. The programs I develop for each person are meant to be integrated slowly. We focus on creating one new easy habit at a time till it becomes second nature. Then we move to the next. If in any case the program step is too much to integrate, we will restructure the step to a smaller step, a doable goal.

I look forward to helping you liberate yourself, your mind, body, and Soul! 

Schedule an in person consultation first.

*Please fill out the form below with your name, email address, and what kind of therapy you are interested in.

For Ink Therapy we can schedule a 10 minute consultation in person at the shop first. We'll discuss the details of the art you are looking to implant and a time to schedule. In the form below please include a BRIEF description of what kind of tattoo you want. PLEASE INCLUDE what style, and what area of the body you would like to cover.

For  Holistic Therapy we can schedule an in person or Facetime / Zoom meeting consultation to see if we'd be a great fit for working together. If all sounds great we can schedule our first in person assessment session. In the form below please state the chronic symptoms you suffer from, how long, and any diagnosis that has been given to you.

DETAILS NEED TO BE DISCUSSED IN PERSON. Please do not write me a one to two page description of what you have scattered in your mind. We can only work on one thing at a time. Save the long discussion for the in person consultation. Thank you!