Here's the secret about magic: it's not elusive, it's not hard to find, and it's everywhere. Magic happens when we follow the mythic threads that call to our soul and travel ever deeper into ourselves. We court magic when we take our inner yearnings seriously- by paying attention to dreams, symbols, old stories, ancestry, etc.-  and more & more meaning and synchronicity become woven into the fabric of our daily lives.

Ariella is a beekeeper, musician, and storyteller.  A student of the Path of Pollen, she has studied honey bee shamanism and the way of the Melissae for the past 8 years in the United Kingdom. She developed an interested in earth wisdom at an early age, creating her first herb garden and herbal remedies at the age of 15.  Plant lore and an affinity for traditional folk music led her to study the myth and folk wisdom of her Celtic ancestry.  As a result, she has over 25 years experience designing, leading, and participating in Celtic and earth-based practices and ceremony.  She believes in the power of body as guide and nature as ally, and is committed to fostering relationships between the human and non-human world.  She employs her skills with group facilitation in a number of workshops and classes focused on beekeeping, dreamwork, and women's embodied wisdom.  

In the Intro:

• Dreamwork
• Me, my birthday, my dead mom, & something meaningful that happened
• Herb Learnin'- the myth of precise dosage
• Finding plant resonances

In the Interview:

• The beautiful stories behind the meaning of Ariella's name
• How the tales her father told her as a child planted a seed that started Ari following the mythic threads of her Celtic ancestry a decade later and inspired many pilgrimages to her ancestral countries
• Reclaiming the lost indigenous and women's wisdom from your line
• The grief of displacement and how our animal bodies recognize our ancestral homelands
• Ariella's devastating miscarriage and the lessons and healing that followed (including how her lost daughter brought the bees into her life) and how our biggest traumas are what we weave our gold out of 
• Ari's initiation into ancestral, shamanic beekeeping 
• Folklore & magic of place: that feeling when the fae folk/spirits of the land appear and offer you entrance to the Otherworld as you're standing at midnight on a sacred hill at Glastonbury that centuries of lore say is a powerful portal (a true story)
• Raven meaning & medicine
• Spontaneous, heart-opening healing: "the piece of me that left came back in"
• "My whole life has been led by listening to the animals and plants"
• Embodying your ancestry through story, music, the land
• How to study and work with Ari

Links:

• Ariella's website Honey Bee Wild
• Ari's music
• Take our fun quiz Which Healing Herb Matches Your Energy?
• Mythic Medicinals Sleep & Dream Elixir
• Medicine Stories Patreon & our dreamwork conversation
• Medicine Stories Facebook Group
• Music by Mariee Siou (from the song Wild Eyes)