The Apprenticeship:
The honey bees are calling for a different approach to beekeeping. They are asking for us to be stewards, guardians, and companions. They are asking us to heal our selves and be present to who they are. They are humming the song of the earth, and asking us to listen.
Guided by the feminine principle, this 10-month online apprenticeship follows the deep vein of honey bee animism and natural beekeeping practices to explore your relationship with honey bees, self, and the Earth.
Much more than a how-to program on beekeeping, this course explores the nuances of what it means to be a bee guardian in the modern age, how to communicate and listen to the bees in creative and non-linear ways, and methods for tending to bee hives from bee-centric model.
Through exploration of the the folk pathways and history of the sacred bee, you will learn how embodied, womb-centric teachings and modalities can support you in healing, creativity, intuition, and your relationship to the more-than-human world.
Modules
January: Dreaming into Being
The Norns & Breath
Theme: Weaving
FEbruary: Stories in the Land
Bridgit & Beeswax
Theme: Reawakening
March: Birth of a being
Artemis & Propolis
Theme: The Midwife
April: Ecology and Spirit
The Fey Folk & Pollen
Theme: Liminality
May: Love Language
Venus/Aphrodite & The Flower
Theme: The Lover
June: Ecstatic Expansion
The Marys & Royal Jelly
Theme: The Mother
July:Where the wild bees are
Lilith & The Hum
Theme: Sovereignty
August: Nectar of the Gods
Hathor & Honey
Theme: Pleasure
September: Drawing in, Drawing Down
Persephone/Demeter & Sting
Theme: Death and Rebirth
October: Song For Slumber
Callieach/Baba Yaga & Mead
Theme: The Wise Elder
What Students Have to Say
What You Will Learn
Natural Beekeeping
How to start a hive
Biology and lifecycle of bees
Natural and bee-centric practices
Hive styles
Reading comb
Handling bees
Pests and Disease
Hive products - honey, pollen, etc
Debates around treatment
Bee animism & Spiritual Ecology
Breathwork meditations
The Walk of Infinite Flight
Communicating with bees
Dreamwork
Working with the elements
Intuitive development
The energy centers of the body in relationship to bees
Land connection practices
Understanding the wild bees
Seasonal cycles
Womb wisdom
Hive Sisterhood
Private online forum for gathering and sharing via Circle.so
Monthly group movement meditation
Sharing and sisterhood
One-to-one mentorship with Ariella (two 1-hour sessions)
“Many threads in
my life have been
woven together
with a flow of
beekeeping knowledge,
selfcare and
A deep listening
to the land”
- Nicole s.
WHAT’S INCLUDED?
Monthly teaching session with both bee animism and beekeeping as key focus.
Audio and video teachings
Written teachings and companion PDFs
Weekly article, podcast or resource for deeper learning
Monthly audio lecture on each goddess.
Live and recorded practices and meditations from or inspired by spiritual ecology and bee animsim.
Weekly land presence practice with journal prompts
Two 60 minute one-to-one sessions with Ariella between March 2023 and October 2024 (meaning you have an entire year after course ends to do your sessions).
Online community forum for the hive sisterhood to gather
All live classes will be recorded and available during and after program ends.
Meet Ariella
Ariella is a teacher, beekeeper, musician, and writer living in Northern California. She is extensively trained in the gynocentric ways of European Bee Animism as it was taught by Naomi Lewis in the UK. Due to recent scandal, the history and veracity of bee shamanism is currently being investigated, and while the nature of her work is subsequently changing, Ariella remains committed to womb wisdom and the sacred teaching of the bee. If you want to know more about the scandal, please click here.
Ariella brings a fusion of natural beekeeping methods with animistic techniques to support your growth as a beekeeper and person.
In her fifth year teaching long-form women’s beekeeping apprenticeships, Ariella will combine some of her favorite aspects of her in-person program with her virtual program to create an offering for online education that ultimately takes you away from the screen and out onto the land.
Her approach to beekeeping falls under the labels of natural and bee-centric beekeeping. She is driven by the relationship between beekeeper and bees, what we can learn from the hive as a wise, sentient being. With a background in folklore and ancient history, Ariella suffuses her work with myth and folk wisdom, but is ultimately interested in supporting you to discover your own innate wisdom as a woman of the earth and stars.
PRICING
$3000
$2888 paid in full
Payment plan options include:
2 installments, 4 installments, or 12 monthly payments of $260
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For those earning under $30K a year or living in a country with a high exchange rate, we are offering limited full and partial scholarships.
This is the second of two classes I have had the privilege of taking with Ariella Daly. Both have been outstanding. If you are interested in beekeeping and want to do it in a kinder, gentler, more natural way; ‘Tending the Sacred Hive’ is the class for you. Ariella is amazing and her wealth of knowledge about bee-centric beekeeping and Bee Shamanism is outstanding. I cannot recommend this program enough nor can I do it justice. My life has changed in very personal and inexplicable ways on so many levels. I am deeply grateful to Ariella for the wealth of information she has imparted to us and her graciousness in allowing us to have continual access to our course information so that I can take it all again and refer back to when I have a hive of my own!
- A. Santiago, Bee Guardian, Washington