Friday evening: Storytelling and tea 6:30-9pm

 

Storytelling and Visual Timeline of Sacred Beekeeping

Laura Bee brings the ethos of the ancient Sacred Beekeeper to life with a visual tapestry of symbols, archetypes and images. Her explorations into Greek and Minoan mythology and history, travels to Sacred Sites in Europe, Turkey and Peru, and her grounded grasp of our culture in situ bring forward a rooted vision of hope and a fresh de-colonized perspective into our relationship with the honeybee and Nature. With wit and deep insight, Laura aims to entertain and illuminate her vision of the Sacred Beekeeping lineage and share elements still living in our culture at large.

 

Saturday 10-9

10 Greetings and Introductions

 

10:30-12 Presentation

Six-fold Sacred Path: Science, Sacred, History, Mystery, Art/Medicine & Activism

Laura Bee will introduce the Six-Fold Sacred Path as collaboratively designed over the first six years of her program The College of the Melissae (of which she serves as it’s Director and Founder.)  Bees are the second most studied animal on the planet and have been celebrated as icons and Archetype since Ancient times. Honeybees are credited with teaching medicine to humans the world over and still are being studied for their gifts today.  Laura Bee founded the college with an eye toward formalizing these studies as well as developing a platform for people to explore the under-studied realms of; the Sacred, the personal mystery of meditations and dreamings so oft connected to beekeeping practices, and activism; since we so clearly need to protect pollinators, honeybees provide a universal and relatable symbol of environmentalism, industry and cooperation the world over.

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5 Senses Meditation; The College of the Melissae is happy to share Five-Senses (and Senses Beyond Senses) Meditation.  This practice is helpful when seeking to work with and connect with Bees and Nature, or to de-stress heightened energy states.

 

Movement and body postures associated with Sacred Bee (8, Lotus Mudra, Thraie Buzz)

 

Honeybee Archetype; Storytelling & Exercises

• Experience Queen Bee Energy

• What the Drone Tells us

• What Honeybees say about Sacrifice, Death, Superorganism, Service

• Gaia Speaks

 

The Melissae Share: College of the Melissae students share their capstone projects

 

SUNDAY

10-11

Guided Bee Meditation with the bees (bring journal, art supplies)  Start out with a guided meditation then take a moment to explore quiet time with bees

 

Art Project 

 

Ceremony as guided by the Bees. The Melissae Offering….

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DETAILS

This event is being held at a private home in Asheville NC. Address will be provided upon registration.

Please bring

• comfy lounge clothes

• journal 

• bee veil

• your lunch and other dietary needs for the day (we will have cake and coffee/tea for tea time

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