Legacies - Beekeeping

Written By Cristy
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I have a distinct memory of being around five years old in the backyard and finding a bee drowning in our pool. I instinctual rescued it with my bare hand and low and behold it stung me and it died regardless. As an adult I looked back on that memory and considered the valuable lesson involved. Sometimes, despite my best intentions, I may get the sting of natural defenses. My fascination with bees remained in tack though. In Mexico, my father kept a beehives at the far end of a dirt road near our ranch. I can still remember the smells and textures of the leftover beeswax in his workshop after the honey extraction was complete. A few years back I went to visit his brother and had a chance at looking through old family photos. I was so intrigued to find this photo of several beekeeping boxes and my uncle began to tell me all about the booming honey business my grandparents had. My father, a strong silent type, never mentioned it before. I felt like a had reclaimed the sweet nectar of legacy and its magic for my soul. Now whenever I enjoy honey or see a bee hovering over a flower in my garden I am overjoyed by the beauty and majesty of the alchemy and sacred work embedded between humans and nature. 

 

So moved by this Tastemade video that touches on the value and threats to this tradition in Kars 🐝 

Cristy

Hola, Piyali, Hello! I am a queer Latina Chicana mestiza ((detribalized Caxcan/ Iberian colonial) mother, storyteller and decolonial somatic psychotherapist licensed in California with fourteen years of clinical experience in the field of depth psychology. My private practice, Imaginal Therapy + Sacred Arts, centers soul care and offers ketamine journeys. I am a graduate of Loyola Marymount University, Pacifica Graduate Institute and the Hakomi Institute of California. I specialize in intergenerational trauma, healing the family soul for personal and cultural transformation, and psychedelic/entheogen integration. I work with clients in a holistic approach to connect to collective wisdom through imagination, intuition, mindfulness, embodiment, dreamwork and creative expression. My treatment focus is on relationship, cultural wounds, trauma resolution, ancestral lineage repair, animist parenting, kinship ethics, and reconnecting to the sacred.

I am a certified Ancestral Lineage Healing practitioner and also an initiated serpent medicine keeper and priestess in sacred arts with 8 years of training. As a ritualist and coach, I offer virtual mentoring and circles globally. I am steeped in my traditions, mythology, cultura and roots, originally from the villages of Juchipila, Zac, Mexico, born and raised in Tongva lands, Los Angeles, residing on Nisenan land, Sacramento. My lineage gifts are in storytelling, dignity, sweetness, relating to the spirit magic of bee, deer, maize, and cacao. I have been given the medicine name, Cloud Serpent. I am honored to reclaim reverence for my mother mountain, Tlachialoyantepec, a sacred site. I hold a vow with my people to live the repair, in service of the anima, mundi, the world soul.

https://imaginaltherapy@gmail.com
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