Symbiotic Medicine
The Week. Eight women. Mauna Lani, Hawaiʻi. Four times a year. Held by a physician and a psychotherapist.
Eight women, Sunday night to Friday night, at Mauna Lani on the Kohala Coast of Hawaiʻi, four times a year. A destination week that is also a medical one, held by a physician and a psychotherapist. You arrive with a full picture of your own physiology already in hand: the ordinary blood work, hormones, metabolic markers and what your cells are short of, your glyphosate level, your DNA once, your gut microbiome, your sleep, the standard scales, and six weeks of your own heart rhythm and temperature, recorded every night by a strap that ships in the kit. The week takes a nervous system off the vigil it has been standing for years: sunrise light, breath taught at your own resonant rate, whole plant food from an organic kitchen, movement and dance, the ocean, the land, a cacao morning on a farm in Honokaʻa, a private session with Dr. King and a private session with Melisa, and a circle each night. You leave with your own numbers, a daily practice, a written plan, and ninety days of Dr. King's care. For the woman who brings it, the medication question is answered in private and never names the group.
One in six American women took an antidepressant in the last month, and most have been taking it for years. In every trial submitted to the FDA since 1979, the drugs beat placebo by 1.75 points on a 52-point scale. The question of whether a medication still serves you deserves a week, a physician who is not in a hurry, and your own numbers. That is what this is.
The Week is for adult women. The Terrain Assessment and the ninety days are for anyone, and a men's week will follow. The Week is not emergency or crisis care, and it is not the right setting for active suicidal thinking, psychosis, an active eating disorder or active substance dependence; the Terrain Assessment is where we decide together whether it fits.
Physician
A board-certified family physician. She reads your physiology as a time series, teaches the week, meets each woman for a private session, writes your plan and stays for ninety days. Every claim she makes about how the body works carries a citation.
Licensed marriage and family therapist, California
A licensed marriage and family therapist who holds the circles with Dr. King, meets each woman for a private session during the week, opens the Friday evening ceremony and calls you in week two. Her sessions are hers, described in her own words.
Guest teachers join for single sessions and are introduced to you in their own words before you arrive.
| Cohort | Dates | Enrollment |
|---|---|---|
| Winter | January 24 to 29 | November 1 to December 5, 2026 |
| Spring | April 25 to 30 | February 1 to March 5 |
| Autumn | September 12 to 17 | June 14 to July 16 |
| Late autumn | November 7 to 12 | August 9 to September 10 |
Each Week runs Sunday night to Friday night; travel days are the Saturday before and after. Eight seats. Pre-arrival kits ship seven weeks before each start.
See the full schedule| Sunday | Arrive. Phones into the basket at 5 pm. Opening circle with Dr. King and Melisa; your intention in your own words. The sleep protocol begins. |
| Monday | Sunrise light, breath and movement. Your own six weeks of heart rhythm on the screen in front of you. The vigil teaching. Private sessions with Dr. King begin: microcurrent applied to the body, your heart rhythm recorded before and after. Private sessions with Melisa begin. Journey Dance. Circle. |
| Tuesday | Sunrise and breath. Your own chemistry teaching; strength fundamentals. Sessions continue. The kitchen hour with the chef. Sound and rest. |
| Wednesday | Sunrise and breath. Your results read through older lenses beside the medical one, then the Convergence, where you hold them side by side and decide what is yours. Sessions. Fire circle. |
| Thursday | Cacao morning at the farm in Honokaʻa. The Hāmākua coast. An afternoon of ocean, petal baths and journaling. Fire, or the manta night snorkel by vote. |
| Friday | Sunrise, breath, final morning measures. Your 90-day plan delivered in private. The ceremony Melisa opens: dance with live sound, clay, release, the integration circle. Closing circle. Phones returned. |
| Saturday | Depart, or the second week begins. |
The pre-arrival kit ships seven weeks out: the Terrain Assessment and a heart rhythm strap you wear every night from the day it arrives. Your results are reviewed with you by video before you travel, so the week itself is yours.
The six days above; nothing is started or stopped during the week itself.
Ninety days of telehealth visits every two weeks and portal messaging, where any change to a prescription happens, slowly and in writing. Melisa calls you in week two.
The pre-arrival testing and your results review; the heart rhythm strap, which is yours to keep; six days of program and all meals from a plant-based kitchen; a private microcurrent session with Dr. King, heart rhythm recorded before and after; a private session with Melisa and the Friday evening she opens; Journey Dance and the cacao morning; the written 90-day plan; ninety days of Dr. King's care and Melisa's call in week two.
Not included: lodging (you book directly at Mauna Lani or nearby; we receive nothing from any hotel), flights, massage and other bodywork you choose to book in the protected blocks, and anything you choose to book for yourself on the optional Saturday.
The Electro-Equiscope is a microcurrent device listed with the FDA by its manufacturer. Listing is not FDA approval, and no device of this kind is cleared for any brain, mood or psychiatric use. It is used here for muscle and joint pain only.
For up to four women who stay, Saturday to the following Friday, at the clinical suite at The Shops at Mauna Lani: a private hour with Dr. King each day on the Equiscope, heart rhythm recorded before and after; five sessions of neurofeedback on FDA-cleared equipment, used as relaxation training; hypnosis with a certified hypnotherapist on the days between; a second session with Melisa, in person or by video; the medication conversation continued in private with Dr. King, day by day, with any change made slowly and in writing; daily breath, movement and ocean; and two further private planning sessions. $4,500, lodging separate. Four places per cohort.
Founding price for January 2027: $8,900. From April 2027: $9,900. Full payment is due 60 days before arrival; until then a 50% deposit holds your seat. Deposits are non-refundable; one transfer to a later cohort is allowed. Financing through Cherry is available. The first four women to pay the January Week in full by November 15, 2026 may add the second week for $2,500 instead of $4,500.
Flat fees. Lodging and travel separate. We bill no insurance and receive nothing from any hotel, laboratory or device maker.