Herbal Radio Lāʻau: Hawaiian Flora with Keya Kai Guimarães | Tea Talks with Jiling
This week on Tea Talks with Jiling, we are joined by Keya Kai Guimarães. Keya is a community herbalist, lei-maker, and crafter of aromatic plant medicines, born beneath the fragrant Ponderosa pines of Colorado and shaped by the rain-kissed beauty of Kauaʻi. Honoring her Irish, Chinese, and Polynesian ancestry, Keya walks a path of listening to the land— approaching the botanical realm as both pilgrim and apprentice. For the past ten years, her herbal focus has been on women's health and hormonal transitions— from menarche to menopause— using plant-based remedies, seasonal wellness coaching, and lei-making as a living healing art.
Listen in as Keya and Jiling discuss:
- Apprenticing with the plants
- Hawaiian lei and hula traditions
- How lei-making relates to herbal medicine
- Botanomancy and how to play with Keya's newest project, the "Lāʻau: Hawaiian Flora" card game and book of monographs
Visit Keya Kai Guimarães at:
🃏 Lāʻau: Hawaiian Flora card game & book of monographs
📱Instagram @ecotonekauai & @keyaflowerandfern
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🪷Jiling Lin is an acupuncturist and herbalist in Coastal Southern California. A clinician and teacher, Jiling is also a passionate traveler, artist, and adventurer. Visit Jiling at JilingLin.com— and get her free Nourishing Life (養生) template and Five Phases (五行) outline. Join her newsletter for seasonal beauty— and fresh updates about her coming book! (Publication 2027/ 2028)
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