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About / The people behind the studio

Built with love. Run with care.

Shakihi is a creative studio for wellness, travel, and creative brands, founded on a simple belief: the brands people trust are the ones that care.

The story /

Hi, we're Shakihi.

We spent our careers in marketing and operations, the part of a business nobody sees and everybody feels. We've taken companies into new markets the hands-on way: opening in Spain, New York, and Greece, and building a compliance framework that held up across twenty-six markets. We know what it takes to make something beautiful actually work, the quiet systems, the details, the follow-through.

But the work that changed us happened off a spreadsheet. Training in lomilomi, the Hawaiian healing tradition, and in TCM acupuncture and Toyohari, the Japanese meridian therapy built on subtlety and precision, taught us what operations never could: that care like business requires structure to be sustained. It's also caring that makes the difference between a brand people scroll past and one they feel.

Shakihi is where those two halves meet.

Acupuncture needles beside a lit incense stick
Why "Shakihi" /

Where the word means love.

Every business needs a test for its decisions. Ours is one question: does it come from care?

Care for your story

So the brand sounds like you, not a template.

Care for your visitors

So the website feels like a deep breath.

Care for your future

So the systems still work when you're not holding every thread.

That's why the studio carries the name it does. Love isn't the tagline. It's the method.

How we work /

One system, not parts.

We build brands the way we would want ours built: as one system, not parts. Identity, website, content, and operations, designed together.

Pacific Northwest beach with sea stacks at dusk
Beyond the studio /

When we're not building brands, we're usually near the water. Shakihi is based on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations, a place that reminds us daily why wellness, travel, and creativity are worth building for.

Let's build
something beautiful.

Tell us what you're creating and where you want it to go. We will reply with honest thoughts on how we can help.

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