Makini Duewa

My mission is to educate, inspire, and offer strategies for simple healthier holistic living and mindset elevation that cultivates a lifetime of health and happiness.

My name is Makini Duewa and I am an educator and Integrative Nutrition health coach. My passion and privilege are to work with individuals, partners, families, groups, and communities everywhere to reclaim their vitality, health and wellbeing. Together we identify, clarify, and achieve their highest health and wellness goals. With my integrative approach and my client’s willingness to courageously take steps towards greater self-awareness, values work, personal development, and their own infinite capacity for change - I help my clients illuminate the factors that elevate (or undermine) their health on and off the plate.

As a holistic health professional and in my Functional Nutrition counseling, I work one-on-one with my clients to impact the root causes of chronic illness, to gain awareness why it’s happening and offer personalized recommendations so my clients can live their best lives, despite any challenge or diagnosis.

I am a mother of 4 and live in the beautiful Bay Area of California. I began Makini Integrative Health to create a hub for all the wonderful services that I have to offer and to establish a trusted and effective space for folks to be seen and cared for in all aspects of their wellness. I love working as a health coach and holistic health care practitioner. I also worked for 19 amazing years as a childbirth doula/coach-educator-activist. Some of my education and training includes Integrative Nutrition health coaching, advanced coaching, Functional nutrition, herbology, botany, microscopy, biosciences, anatomy physiology, learning styles, diversity equity & inclusion, group facilitation and dance.

In all I do, my personal agenda is to use my talents, education and research to help folks make all the difference in their health and the health of their family and community. Research and testimony show that we can prevent/reverse conditions like chronic inflammation, gut challenges, mental clarity and most chronic diseases through diet and lifestyle changes. My aim is to maximize every individual's "health span" - to enjoy a fuller lifetime with energy to achieve dreams and to live life with passion!