THE Path of The HIVE
THE Path of The HIVE
Some people come to the bees through curiosity. Others through grief. Some through a feeling they can’t name: a pull at the edge of consciousness, as if a hive is humming somewhere just out of sight.
If you’ve found your way here, it’s because the bees have been tapping at you. To enter a relationship.
A lineage.
A way of tending life that is older than agriculture and far wiser than the systems we’ve inherited.
The call to the bees touches something beyond memory.
Most beekeeping education is built on extraction: production metrics, yield, efficiency, chemical routines, and control.
It behaves as though the hive is a system to manage rather than a living, superorganism to with its own intelligence, rhythms,
and ancient feminine design.
This path exists for those who refuses to harden themselves just to “get into beekeeping.” You desire skills, but also integrity and relational living. You want methods that honor the intelligence of the bees, the land they belong to, and the feminine lineage that tended them long before industrialization.
Here, beekeeping is:
• Ecological devotion.
• Mythic remembering.
• The restoration of a relationship that was never meant to be severed.
Most beekeeping courses out there are about the A-B-C’s of beekeeping. If we are going to learn how to listen to the bees, we have to start by asking not how but who. Who are the bees as individuals? Who are they as a collective? Who are they in relationship to the land?
This course is a four hour video lecture series on honeybees and natural beekeeping.
Learn what it takes to keep bees in a more natural way
A 6 week course on dreaming practices for connecting to the heart wisdom of the bees as guides and allies. Dreaming with different aspects of the hives, we will learn and explore collectively as the bees bring us their honeyed wisdoms.
Dream with the wisdom of the hive
Learn how to understand and interpret what you see when you open up a hive. This includes: how to hold comb (natural and on foundation), how to handle comb as you draw it out and put it back into hive, how to find the queen, what to look for: eggs, larvae, pollen, nectar, queen cells, ow to find the queen, and ow to recognize healthy vs sick brood.
Learn what's going on in the hive
The Kindred Bees lecture series is for those who call the bees as kindred family. From ancient Delphi to Body Sovereignty, we will steep ourselves in the language and lore of the bees. Some crowd favorites include "Messengers of Love", "The Great Goddess", "The Melissae" and "How Bees Heal Us".
FREE series:
choose from 14 lectures
Don't know how to handle a problem? Wondering where to get started? Need support connecting with your bees? I offer 1:1 sessions for people who are looking for practical knowledge and bee-tending wisdom. Certified by Cornell University as a Master Beekeeper, with 15 years experience, I can help you with all you bee questions.
One on One Sessions with Ariella
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