I’m so happy the bees lead you to me. I’m not your average beekeeper. I’m a voice in the wave of bee people devoted to the preservation of the bee and pollinators in their own sovereignty.
I’m here because I believe in the wild, divine power of nature as both teacher and healer. For me, honey bees are one of the great enigmas and wisdom teachers of the earth and I want to help you on your own journey into beekeeping and self-discovery through bee wisdom.
Who Am I?
I came to beekeeping through some serendipity, some heartbreak, and some soul searching. I am a bee tender, a bee enthusiast, and have a fascination with the cultural and historical practices, myths, and beliefs around bees and beekeeping. Sometimes I travel too; I find honeybees wherever I go.
I have been tending hives since 2011. I primarily use Top Bar Hives, but have experience with Langstroth & Warré (the latter pictured left). I work closely with beekeepers and people who work with the hive on a symbolic/metaphorical level.
For the last 14 years, I have been a devoted student of the bee, bee animism, womb wisdom, and history and folklore around bees and bee priestesses of Ancient Greece. Beyond this, I have a BA in Cultural Anthropology with a focus on spirituality informed by relationship to the Earth across time and cultures. This has lead to a keen interest in the relationship between the human world and the bee world. You can explore this relationship in my lecture series Kindred Bees.
I also studied in Galway, Ireland, where I focused on Irish archeology, as well as the history of conversion from pagan religions to Christianity.
Lastly, I am a mother, an animist, a musician, and a very good baker.
What’s my approach to beekeeping?
My approach to beekeeping falls under the labels of natural and bee-centric beekeeping. I am primarily interested in the relationship between beekeeper and bees, what we can learn from the hive as a colony and what we can offer to the bees, both in a single hive and as a species. I support people in the basics of hive maintenance, learning how to care for bees, and developing a relationship to the honey bee. My goal is to empower students to work with their honey bee colonies with a gentle, more natural approach, and to use the human-nature relationship to delve deeper into their own soul. While my style focuses on a more feminine approach than is currently practiced in the commercial beekeeping world, I happily work with students of any gender. And of course, most of the time, I tend my hives dressed in skirts.
What about dreamwork?
As life would have it, my work with bees lead me down an unexpected road. I have a lifetime of dream studies under my belt, but when bees came into my world, I learned of a whole new way to dream and share dreams. Through practices of animistic dreamwork, dream incubation, intentional dreaming, and dream mirroring, I have developed a body of work centered around the idea that we do not dream alone.
My dreaming courses focus on no only methods of dreaming, but also methods for sharing and working with our dreams personally and collectively. I you would like to experience my work, consider an Oracular Dreamwork Session, or one of my small cohort courses, Dreaming with Bees or Betwixt and Between.
