About Us

Krish Kiefer, founder of Orchid Bodyworks, felt it was part of her journey to utilize energetic and natural healing methods to help others live their best lives.

Although always having been interested in how the physical, the mental, and the spiritual intersect, Krish began to explore the concept of health and different ways to achieve it in earnest when her father passed away from illness in 2009. After that pivotal point in her life, she joined a gym and doubled down on eating well. Even though she was taking major steps to ensure her health, she still felt as though a part of her journey was yet to come. “I thought just for my own wellness,” Krish reflects, “but found I was being called to the alternative healing arts to also help others.”

She began to research healing modalities while juggling motherhood and the demands of being a full-time photographer. Although she enjoyed her job, she was beginning to grasp how powerful the human mind and its perceptions are, and how energy work can help to unravel the mysteries therein. She was further propelled down the path of healing when, in 2014, she was hired to photograph a women’s retreat in Mexico. There she met Mallina, an experienced healer and her first teacher. “I had a profound healing experience and knew I was being guided to study Lomi-Lomi Nui with Mallina,” Krish says. “It was the beginning.”