Expression
The Thirteen
A year-long physician-led council. Thirteen women. One doctor. Deep biology, deeper relationship.
Embody Medicine · A physician-led ecosystem
Healing begins when we stop abandoning ourselves.
A return to relationship — with our biology, our community, and our truth.
A physician-led ecosystem for women's regenerative health, precision medicine, transformational retreats, and community-centered care.
The Problem
Women are navigating a crisis without a map.
- Exhausted.
- Burned out.
- Hormonal.
- Confused.
- Dismissed.
- Disconnected.
Women are managing households, careers, hormones, families, and futures — often inside a medical system that compresses their lives into seven-minute visits and reference ranges that were never built around them.
They are told their labs are normal while they feel anything but. They are handed prescriptions instead of context. They are pathologized for being depleted by lives that would deplete anyone.
The work of regenerative health begins by naming this — and then building something different.
The Transformation
What changes is not the world. What changes is the relationship.
Women arrive
- Disconnected
- Exhausted
- Confused
- Dismissed
- Burned out
Women leave
- Embodied
- Regulated
- Connected
- Informed
- Empowered
- Hopeful
The Ecosystem
One philosophy. Four expressions.
Embody Medicine is not a clinic. It is an integrated ecosystem — physician-led, women-centered, rooted in Hawaiʻi — for a generation rebuilding their relationship with their bodies.
At the center
Embody Medicine
Philosophy & Practice
Expression
Embody Retreats
Luxury physician-led experiences in Hawaiʻi. Nature, medicine, community, transformation.
Expression
Big Island WellCare
Relationship-centered primary care for the families and communities of Hawaiʻi.
Expression
Precision Diagnostics
Advanced testing, biomarker tracking, genomics, microbiome assessment, and physician interpretation that create the clinical foundation of the Embody Medicine experience.
Why this exists
The ecosystem is designed so that the premium work pays for the community work.
The Thirteen, the retreats, and the precision-medicine work generate the evidence, the methods, and the resources that make Big Island WellCare possible — accessible, relationship-centered primary care for the families who live here.
Innovation flows upward into rigor. Resources flow back into community. The premium programs aren't separate from the mission; they are how the mission gets funded.
One ecosystem. Two directions of care. Both real.
The Flagship · Founding Cohort
The Thirteen
13 Women·1 Physician·1 Year
A physician-led council for women ready to understand their biology and transform their relationship with themselves.
- ·Year-long physician relationshipMonthly clinical sessions with Dr. King. Direct, unhurried, longitudinal.
- ·Advanced testing & interpretationGenomics, hormones, microbiome, micronutrients, environmental load — read as one picture.
- ·Four seasonal retreats in HawaiʻiFour seasonal gatherings across the year, guided by the Seasonal Embodiment Calendar — hosted at partner resort properties on Hawaiʻi Island.
- ·A council of twelve other womenA small, durable community on the same arc — the rarest element of the work.
- ·Integration between visitsProtocols, messaging access, and a documented plan that evolves with you across the year.
Founding Cohort · Applications Open · Rolling Review
Embody Retreats
Luxury physician-led experiences rooted in Hawaiʻi.
Nature, medicine, community, and clinical insight — held inside the volcanic landscapes, rainforests, and shorelines of the Big Island. Designed for women who want a place to land and a physician in the room.
Founding Retreats·Applications Opening·First Cohorts Forming
3 Days
Initiation
An invitation. A first descent into nervous-system, breath, and biology — with Hawaiʻi as the room.
5 Days
Deepening
A longer arc. Clinical insight, somatic practice, community, and the rhythms of land and ocean.
7 Days
Transformation
A full immersion. Testing, integration, story, and the slow architectural work of return.
The Community Foundation
Big Island WellCare.
Relationship-centered medicine for the families and communities of Hawaiʻi.
The community foundation of the ecosystem. Accessible direct primary care, prevention, and the slow work of knowing a family across years — the bridge between conventional medicine and regenerative care.
Where the rest of Embody Medicine reaches outward, WellCare keeps the practice rooted here.
Why Hawaiʻi
We chose a place that is still becoming itself.
Regenerative health is easier to feel where regeneration is happening on a planetary scale. The Big Island is the youngest landmass in the chain — lava cooling into rock, rainforest closing over it, ocean shaping the edges. The body recognizes this rhythm.
- Lava
The Big Island is still being made. Regeneration here is not a metaphor — it is the literal geology underfoot.
- Ocean
The Pacific regulates the nervous system in a way that no clinical protocol can replicate. The body knows this before the mind does.
- Rainforest
Microbial density, plant medicine, humidity, sound. The forest does the work of resetting what indoor life depletes.
- Land lineage
Hawaiʻi holds deep traditions of healing, kinship, and reciprocity with place. We work in respect of that, not on top of it.
The Founder
Dr. Kristy King.
Physician. Founder of Embody Medicine. Founder of Big Island WellCare.
I built this ecosystem because the medicine I wanted to practice didn't fit inside the rooms I was practicing it in. Women deserve a physician who will stay long enough to know the story — and a structure that lets that be possible.
Embody Medicine is the answer I built to a question I kept asking: what would medicine look like if it were designed around the people it served?
The Journal
Ideas, education, and the slow work of seeing the body clearly.
Essays, education, and a place to think out loud. The Journal exists for women, families, and clinicians who want medicine that takes the body seriously — and the life it lives inside seriously, too.
- Women's health
- Regenerative health
- Longevity
- The nervous system
- Community & belonging
- Philosophy & science
