THE Path of The HIVE

A path of kinship, craft, and ancient remembering.

THE Path of The HIVE

A path of kinship, craft, and ancient remembering.

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.

The Nature
of this Path

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.

Ways to Learn

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.

On-Demand Course

Learn what it takes to keep bees in a more natural way

Introduction to Natural Beekeeping

Become a Beekeeper

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. 

Seasonally Offered 
6 Week Program

Dream with the wisdom of the hive

Dreaming with Bees: Into the Hive

Dream with Bees

tending the Sacred Hive

10 Month Women's Beekeeping Apprenticeship


Discover the magic of the bees + deepen your inner gifts.
Guided by the feminine principle, this 10-month online apprenticeship follows the deep vein of folklore, goddess lore, and honey bee animism, mixed with a comprehensive study of natural beekeeping. The program’s core goal is to explore your relationship with honey bees, self, and the Earth.

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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.

2 hour On-Demand Course

Learn what's going on in the hive

The Art of Reading Comb

Learn

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

Kindred Bees Lectures

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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.

60 minute sessions

One on One Sessions with Ariella

Beekeeping Mentorship

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What Class is For me?

Intro to Natural Beekeeping

I’m new to bees and want to learn the basics

I’m exploring the mythic lineage of bees

Dreaming with Bees: Into the Hive

I want true mentorship, depth, and community

Tending the Sacred Hive Apprenticeship

I just need a little support

Beekeeping Mentorship Session

I want help understanding what I'm seeing here

Art of Reading Comb

I'm in love with bees! Where do I even start?

Kindred Bees Lectures

Top Resources

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Steps to Starting 
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