The Sweet Life, Regenerative Beekeeping
Immerse yourself in Regenerative Beekeeping
Retreat into Bees
Apiary Alchemy Adventure
Apiary Alchemy Adventure
Apiary Alchemy Adventure
*Earn our Apiary Alchemy Certificate of Completion.
* Learn to be a regenerative beekeeper.
* Develop the skills to build your own Apiary.
* Explore the arts through bees.
* Enjoy Island excursions & local transport.
* Keep your course work, materials, and creations.
* Meals, materials and lodging included.
* Develop your own passion based business.
* Relax with yoga & meditations.
*Allow magical Moloka’i to transform & inspire you.
”From thy retreat arise, and unfold
The books of Awen without fear;
And the discourse of a maiden,
And the repose of a dream.”
The Red Book of Hergest :120
Workshop Description
Apiary Alchemy Adventure
Apiary Alchemy Adventure
Description
Join Bee Boys on the Magical & Mysterious Island of Moloka'i for a unique and rare opportunity to work with honeybees on a living sanctuary. Our immersion features pristine environments to observe varroa-free honeybees in nature. Enjoy indoor and outdoor classrooms on an open campus of over 70 acres above Kalaupapa. Learn all the beekeeping basics in regenerative and instinctual apiculture, while exploring the Alchemical aspects of working with bees.
Experience alternate hive construction, salve and balm making, tincture and tonic mixtures, medicine making and practical beeswax applications. Dive into encaustic painting, wax rendering, beeswax candle making and bee meditations. Enjoy wild hikes, light yoga, cooking & baking with hive products and much more! All classes are led by Bee Boys beekeepers Kevin O’Connor and Ryan Williamson with honored guest visionary Alison Yahna of Artemis Smiles Honeybee Sanctuary.
Meals and accommodation are included in the tuition price. Locally sourced veggies, greens, proteins & herbs are celebrated w/culinary class. Devour delicious and nutritious meals highlighting honey, nature, and living life on Moloka'i. Special dietary restrictions can generally be met with happiness and ease.
Enjoy all the amenities that the living sanctuary Hui Ho’olani has to offer, including Hiking trails, native plants, honeybees, butterflies, swimming pool, outdoor bathtubs and more!
Local Fresh Meals
Apiary Alchemy Adventure
Local Fresh Meals
Meals
All meals are included in the tuition price. Many ingredients are grown in the organic gardens at the Hui. We have established relationships with farmers, fisher folk, and hunters on Moloka’i to plan our menus to be fun, authentic and dynamic. Please be clear on application about your dietary needs and preferences. Food celebration is an essential aspect of our Apiary Alchemy Adventure.
Facility
How to get there
Local Fresh Meals
Amenities
Hui Ho'olana offers
Beautiful hiking trails, the largest native dryland forest restoration project on Molokai, and endless gardens, honeybees, butterflies, natural swimming pool, outdoor soaking tubs and more! The living sanctuary is a peaceful and serene learning atmosphere perfect for inner reflection and outdoor fun. Click the link to see more from Hui Ho’olana
How to get there
How to get there
How to get there
Traveling to Molokai
You will have the opportunity fly to the island of Moloka’i with Mokulele Airlines. Moloka’i hosts the world's tallest sea cliffs, incredible valleys, and striking coastlines, the flight in is spectacular! Mokulele Airline is currently the only airline that flies to Molokai once in Hawaii. Upon arrival, you will be greeted and escorted to the living sanctuary at Hui Ho’olana. Ground transportation to and from the airport will be provided. Moloka’i is a very small island, seldomly visited by off islanders. We walk lightly when on Moloka’i, in respect of the living culture and people.
Accommodation
How to get there
How to get there
Accommodations
Natural, simple, clean, and beautiful living brings you close to the bees and nature. Single occupancy rooms are assigned unless you are joining as a group. The Lodge accommodation or cabin life as you choose in the application. Check out Hui Ho’olana and all of its beautiful spaces.
the peace of the living sanctuuary at Hui Ho’olana
Apiary Alchemy
What is Apiary Alchemy
Apiary Alchemy is the process of communing with honeybees, in a way that inspires and influences our true self.
When working with the gifts the honeybees bring us, we begin to harmonize with the bees. As we open ourselves to the Awen & inspiration from the bees, our basic selves begin to shift & change- so advents the process of inner alchemy.
The honeybees have a message for each and every one of us. When we commune with them, we change- become something new.
“ One becomes two, two becomes three and out of the third comes the one in the fourth “
Axiom of Maria
Beekeeping on Moloka’i
Alison Yahna
Alison Yahna founded Artemis Smiles Honeybee Sanctuary after spontaneous initiation into an ancient lineage of European bee shamanism in1999. For more than twenty years she has been an oracle of their sacred wisdom teachings, and an advocate, educator and practitioner of natural and regenerative beekeeping. She is celebrating the recent inauguration of The Mother Temple, a honeybee temple for this age - echoing those of antiquity. She is thrilled to share her love of the bees and their wisdom teachings with you on beautiful Moloka'i, daughter of the moon. (ArtemisSmiles.com)
Offering
Consciousness' of the super-organism and how bees are assiting human evolution at this critical time'
The Queen has fallen' - how factory farming of honeybees has affected their health and innate wisdom, and practices that help restore that'Alternative hives': skep/sun hive weaving, log hives, top bar hives, open hives'honeybee shamanism'- sacred beekeeping history, currently and practices (experiential)