I am grateful for every class I have taken with Ariella, and even more grateful to her as a teacher and mentor. Ariella is welcoming, kind, engaging, sensitive, inspiring, and generous with her wisdom and knowledge about beekeeping, dreamwork, and history. I have learned so much from her beekeeping classes, from the foundational techniques and knowledge to the more detailed aspects of natural beekeeping, as well as dreamwork and seasonal practices to feel connected not only to myself, but to the earth in a deep and meaningful remembering. In every class, I have felt seen and heard, as Ariella holds space for each person, perspective, and experience within the whole.
Working with Ariella has been a deeply empowering and refreshing experience. The way that she relates to bees is woven in with our own personal work and becomes about not only an honoring of the hive as a whole, but an honoring of ourselves as well. Ariella has dedicated her heart and many years of her life to working with bees and it shows in the way that she shares this knowledge as well as in the way that she works with the hive. Beekeeping is so needed right now, and I couldn’t recommend her more highly as a solid, steady presence in supporting each of us to find our own way in honoring and working with bees.
Hive Style: Top Bar Hive