Have you ever imagined beekeeping as a path to deeper peace and self-discovery? For Samantha Halbrook it’s not just about honey. She combines her passion for bees with energetic healing practices, creating a unique wellness experience.
In this article, Mystic Mag explores Samantha’s innovative approach, which breaks away from traditional beekeeping methods.
Can you provide an overview of your beekeeping mentorships, energetic offerings, and bee bed as a healing modality, and what inspired you to offer these unique services?
When I got into beekeeping, I found that the beekeeping world was really strictly tied to what people thought the “right way” to bee keep was. I think that there’s a lot of that that goes on in spirituality too, that there is a right and a wrong way and at some point, we all find that barrier or that wall or that resistance from the people, the clubs or the environment that we surround ourselves with, where somebody is expressing that there is a right and a wrong way to do things.
My beekeeping mentor ship, bee bed immersion and the energetic offerings that I use to serve my community are a blend of both spirituality and beekeeping that are tailored to each client. The beekeeping mentorship is an opportunity for people interested in the healing potential of the honeybee and nature herself to experience and play with the idea of beekeeping in a guided and safe environment. It’s a container where they’re able to experiment and to ask questions and to expand and try new things without feeling restricted or like they’re doing something wrong.
This is an ideal container for someone that is self-lead, trusts and follows their intuition, understands and works with the natural and unseen realms who is starting beekeeping with an emphasis on working with Nature as opposed to the mainstream teaching of honeybee management. The energetic offerings and Bee Bed really tie into the spiritual side of the beekeeping where we tap into the frequencies of the bees to bring healing on a deeper level, while doing this from a place that people can recognize.
When we can tie a spiritual concept to a physical experience, a motion or an action that we’re taking, it helps ground that into the body so that we are more consciously able to understand and feel the outcome. Beekeeping really opened me up to my spiritual path and helped me reacquaint myself with my faith in the un-seen. When my sister got sick a few years ago, I realized that there are so many things that I’m not – I’m not a physician. I’m not a physical therapist. I’m not a psychologist, but I am a beekeeper and I am intricately tied to the energy of my bees.
What they have to offer I can bring to not only her in her time of need, but people in similar situations dealing with multiple sclerosis, as well as my community. I get to provide a service that is so unique and so special, and be able to bring the honeybees to the community in a different light than most people experience them. Instead of seeing this insect as something to be scared of and to run from we get to see it from the lens of healing and expansion and dedication and hard work and reward and sweetness. And that’s really what I’m here to do is to bring that energy into the world.
Beekeeping mentorships, energetic offerings, and the bee bed as a healing modality suggest a combination of practical and holistic approaches. How do you integrate these elements to support the well-being of your clients?
The practicality of honeybees being used to facilitate healing is that when we are doing something that is so drastically outside of our normal experiences, (i.e. standing around 80,000 honeybees) we are already allowing ourselves to open and take in the experience at a more focused or acute level. Why wouldn’t we take advantage of this adventure and emphasize the positive effect honeybees provide. Tending the bees during a hive tour can help relax the mind and reset the nervous system.
Frequency healing, aromatherapy, bee air therapy, and sound healing are all experienced when we visit the hives and are more prominent when meditating within the bee bed. For a deeper level of healing and self-exploration, we add shamanic energy work specifically working with honeybee medicine. Each experience builds upon the last to deepen the connection with Mother Nature and the honeybee.
Each offering appears to provide a distinct experience. Could you elaborate on the goals or outcomes that clients can expect from participating in your beekeeping mentorships, energetic offerings, and bee bed sessions?
The main outcome that my clients experience is a strong sense of calm and deep peace. I find that this serenity helps build undeniable internal trust. All of my offerings revolve around the idea that we get to be stewards to these creatures whether we’re working with them directly or in an energetic sense. Being able to rewire our belief from “these insects are not serving us” to a belief that “mother nature creates everything to exist in coherence,” we are then able to step outside of our current experience and look down into our lives and decipher what is going on from a higher perspective.
Every experience is uniquely tailored to the client but whether they’re coming out to experience shamanic energy clearing or they’re coming out to get their hands into a beehive, the intention behind the work is that we are connecting deeper with mother Earth. As my teacher says, there is an energetic component to everything in our world. When we can experience love and kindness and hard work and dedication from something that previously brought up feelings of fear, constriction, dearth and hardship, that’s when we get to change our external world by changing our internal world first.
Beekeeping mentorships involve hands-on learning and engagement with nature. How do you guide individuals through the process of beekeeping, and what benefits do they derive from this experience?
The beekeeping mentor ship is a really fun place where people get hands-on learning catered to the curious. When I started my beekeeping journey there were so many books and so many resources and so many people but at every turn there was a disclaimer that there is a right way and there is a wrong way. While I do believe that there are good intentions behind these disclaimers, I also believe that we have to be able to follow our intuition even when something seems to be working.
That’s how we are going to find what works better. The beekeeping mentorship is a constantly moving container where we experiment with your gut leads, we ask questions that we don’t have the answers for and then we explore together. The program moves through an 8 week curriculum designed to uncover the style of beekeeping you desire, and then implement your choice to see if it works for you and the hives in real time.
The program is for those that are either just getting into beekeeping and need to know the basics or those that are looking for support in the unusual. By that I mean trying the outside the box ways of beekeeping and having somebody to balance ideas off of and review things from a spiritually led perspective instead of one that’s rooted in fear.
The benefits of the mentorship can range from learning the basics of beekeeping if you’re a first year beekeeper, things like installing a nucleus of bees or learning how to do your first mite check, all the way to things like how to create sacred space in your apiary, how to perform energy clearings for your hives, and having a soundboard to bounce ideas off of. I’m the person you call when you want encouragement and input from experience.
Energetic offerings imply a focus on energy work and holistic healing. How do you facilitate these sessions, and in what ways do clients experience shifts or transformations in their energetic well-being?
Session can take place in person with the option to lay on the bee bed, or remotely. These sessions are meant for you to be comfortable while we exchange open dialogue discussing what is happening in your biofield. I use my shamanic teachings to decipher the energetic field while our conversation explains how it relates directly to your life.
Honeybees naturally emit a healing vortex that sustains a coherent vibration. When we as an organism enter this vortex, we are brought into resonance with the coherent energy meaning our bodies are working smarter, not harder on a cellular level. This frees up “space” in our bodies so that we can focus more energy into the shamanic healing, our emotions, and releasing or rewiring the subconscious beliefs that are no longer serving us.
The bee bed as a healing modality is intriguing. Can you explain how it works and the potential therapeutic benefits it offers to individuals seeking healing and relaxation?
Honeybees are a really fascinating creature, because when given the opportunity in nature, they will nest over geopathic stress lines, which are essentially areas where the Earth’s magnetic field is amplified, and honeybees prefer frequencies of up to 250 hurtz. Now where it gets really cool is that when a hive is over a geopathic stress line, they can naturally amplify the Earth’s electromagnetic field and radiate that into the surrounding environment and the surrounding organisms.
When we place ourselves in that coherent frequency of the amplified earth energy from the bees, we are putting ourselves inside of that healing frequency, that ideal place for us to experience alignment. If we can train our minds to quite, we give our bodies a break from the overtime they are used to working, and provide a resting period where we are functioning at peak performance on a cellular level.
Aside from the frequency healing, there are tons of benefits from breathing the air that passes through a bee hive – known as bee air therapy. The benefits include respiratory health, immune system support, pain relief, stress reduction, and even skin health.
