My name is Darin Shiu. I'm born and raised on the island of Oahu, Hawaii. I'm just a Lover of Wisdom exploring the art of mad science. I've climbed out of more hells than I can count by the Grace of GOD and have a LOVE for sharing the gems I collected along the way.
Just a human being dialing in the art of living against all odds.
I’ve been tattooing since 2009, beginning as a passionate hobbyist before completing a formal apprenticeship in 2017. However, I've been an artist my whole life. Tattooing in Oahu, Hawaii.
Sacred Art
Tattooing and painting for me is an ancient, sacred practice—a living prayer, a shield of protection, and a mark of transformation. Symbols, motifs, archetypes that tell a story. Stories are what make or break us. It can destroy our health like the victim secret stories each human tells themselves or it can preserve the heart of ancient culture, ancient wisdom, and or codes of our destiny.
As a professional tattoo artist since 2017, I still honor the ancient wisdom and principles that once preserved our health, wealth, Love, and happiness. In modern times with modern technology, a new era, with new bio-spiritual and ecological crisis, emerges the exploration and mission of my art. Surrealism, graffiti (yes I can still get down lol), sacred geometry, Polynesian, black and grey, dot work, and styles that have yet to be labeled. Every piece I create is infused with meaning, intention, and energy tailored to your unique journey, whether it’s a symbol of prosperity, guidance, or protection.
The more you surrender to my process, the better the outcome. The more controlling you are of my process and life experience in craft, skill, and intuition, the more you interfere with the gift I'm trying to give you!
***In some instances if there is too much interference with this sacred process, I will cancel the tattoo and refer you to a more fitting artist for the job. There will be no refund for the prep work I do.
The Principle of Soul Symphonics is an ecosystemic and comprehensive integrative methodology I developed that addresses the deep complex root system of mental emotional illness, chronic disease, and "need" for addictions that are plaguing modern society. It is a one of a kind integrative methodology for making the unconscious conscious. This principle naturally unlocks the human soul's innate boundless potential in a sustainable way according to the intelligence of nature and the cosmos. Vitality, maturing Love, and soul fulfillment become inevitable through the principle of Soul Symphonics.
"Until you make the unconscious conscious it'll direct your life and you'll call it fate." —Carl Jung
The human soul is an ecosystem of ecosystems—A web of relationships to self, others, and all of creation. Soul Symphonics is a comprehensive map for seeing into your Self as a web of ecosystems in order to clearly understand what grows, flowers, and produces fruits in your life, and vice versa. It is a comprehensive map to transform suffering into actualized potential.
Cosmic Arcadian Laws & Principles
Restore the connection to the Arcadian Intelligence of the cosmos, whose design of order and the terrains of our bodies has been lost and erased by modern industrialized society and dogmatic political religion. Rediscover the intelligence that organizes the cosmos and nature to get to the root of how human development is structured. We get acquainted with the lost sacred needs that nurture dormant potential to flower and fruit. We'll methodically bring the thoughts, emotions, and behaviors that keep most people in a vicious cycle of suffering into our conscious awareness.
Integrating Body Mind & Spirit
Discover your individual sacred needs for your particular body and challenging condition. We cover what in your ecosystem of life is feeding off your life force, where you’ve unconsciously been groomed and indoctrinated into mental and emotional CAGEs of addiction, severing your vitality and authentic soul potential to flower. Awaken to the six core terrains of your life experience, all of which are interconnected. Your conscious awareness of these relationships to your terrains are either perpetuating more life or more suffering.
Holistic Addiction Recovery
Experience a truly one of a kind comprehensive approach to addiction recovery that addresses the root causes of addiction. I cover the entropic CAGE of addiction. These are the largely unconscious addictions modern society has maladapted with, due to traumatized, malnurtured, and underdeveloped nervous systems. These are the primary addictions to Control, Approval, Gratification (Instant), and Enmeshment with dysfunctional relationships. Through Soul Symphonics we bring the architecture of what problems addictions are trying to solve, into conscious awareness in order to get to the root of the hidden issues for good.
"The conscious person uses the world as a mirror to better understand and master themselves. The unconscious person attacks the mirror because they do not realize it's a mirror."
Online masterclass launching soon! The Principle Of Soul Symphonics Book scheduled to launch in 2026. One on one coaching available.