A 4 DAY RETREAT JUNE 5TH-8TH, 2025 PORTLAND, OR

Escape into the sanctuary of the hive and reconnect with nature, community, and the wisdom of the bees. Through regenerative beekeeping, meditative hive communion, and honeybee medicine, we’ll nourish our bodies and spirits while slowing into the rhythms of the natural world.

Step away from the noise of daily life and immerse yourself in the sacred world of the bees. This four-day retreat is a unique blend of hands-on beekeeping training, spiritual connection, and deep nourishment.

Together, we’ll explore regenerative hive stewardship, animistic practices, and the healing gifts of bee medicine. Through breathwork, sound healing, ancestral singing, and hive medicine making, you’ll learn to engage with the bees in a more intuitive and respectful way.

RETREAT SPACE

With nourishing meals by Wild Rose Ghee and a conscious technology detox, this retreat offers a space to slow down, reconnect with yourself and the natural world, and build lasting community. We’ll close our time together with a private screening of Amrita, celebrating the magic and wisdom of the hive.

Nestled within earthen walls shaped from the very soil beneath our feet, the straw bale home offers a deeply grounding and nourishing sanctuary for our retreat.

Just beyond its doors, a flourishing 1/4-acre garden overflows with fruit trees, berries, and an abundance of vibrant flora, creating a rich oasis for pollinators. At its heart, four thriving beehives—each designed with regenerative principles—hum with life, embodying the sacred connection between land, bees, and those who gather here to learn, heal, and reconnect with the rhythms of the natural world.

For those traveling from out of town, we offer three on-site housing options to provide a restful and immersive retreat experience. If you need lodging, please reach out to Onyx to discuss availability and details.

NOURISHMENT

by Aleya of Wild Rose Ghee

I curate deeply nourishing dining experiences, serve mothers as a postpartum care provider, and operate an herbal ghee company called Wild Rose Ghee. My style of food preparation can best be described as local, seasonal, playful and reverent. At the center of my food philosophy is the steady belief that when approached with curiosity and devotion, food holds so much power to heal, nourish, and support our unique needs. My relationship to nourishment is inspired by an ever-deepening romance with flavor, story, beauty, & this bounteous Earth we get the wild pleasure of collaborating with. My weekends are spent slinging my herbal ghee creations at local farmers markets and my weekdays are spent either in service to mothers as a postpartum chef, or retreat/event catering. With a degree in Integrative Health Sciences from the National University of Natural Medicine and a certification-in-progress with Innate Traditions, I have a rich understanding of ancestral & physiologically-appropriate principles and styles of cooking, Ayurvedic food philosophy, and folk herbalism. These systems all fuel my kitchen practices and ethos, and provide a deep appreciation for the rich food landscape we have the unique honor of being in relationship with here in the PNW. 

what’s included

  • Coffee/tea with light breakfast snacks

  • Daily vegetarian + gluten free catered meals by Aleya of Wild Rose Ghee (Dinner Thursday, Lunch/Dinner on Fri + Sat, Lunch on Sun)

  • Shamanic practices to commune more deeply with the spirit of the bees

  • Hands on Beekeeping Training (learn how to care for bees using regenerative practices)

  • Hive Medicine Making

  • Bees + Breathwork with Natasha Stewart

  • Conscious Technology Use Workshop w/ Olivia Ashton of UNDIVIDED

  • Garden sound bath + bee essence journey w/ Onyx

  • Learn to sing ancestral rounds with Soli Gonzalez of Gonzolain

  • Private Amrita screening

SAMPLE DAILY SCHEDULE

9AM - 10AM BEE MEDITATION

10AM - 12PM APIARY WORK

12PM FAMILY STYLE LUNCH

1-3PM CONSCIOUS TECHNOLOGY WKSHP

3-5PM FREE TIME

5-7PM CANDLE DIPPING + SALVE MAKING

7PM FAMILY STYLE DINNER

8:30PM TEA + EVENING WIND DOWN

RETREAT COORDINATOR + FACILITATOR

ONYX BAIRD

Onyx is a regenerative beekeeper dedicated to exploring the intersection of science, spirituality, and environmental conservation. She has a MS in Fisheries + Wildlife from Michigan State University, and has traveled the globe to study with some of the world’s leading experts in sacred beekeeping and conservation. Through merging scientific knowledge with spiritual wisdom, Onyx has pioneered a radical approach to beekeeping that prioritizes the honeybee’s highest well-being.

CONSCIOUS TECHNOLOGY GUIDE

OLIVIA ASHTON

Olivia Ashton is a technology guide and meditation teacher based in Portland, Oregon. She has dedicated the past five years to exploring, researching and developing UNDIVIDED; an online course and curriculum that supports folks in healing cycles of phone addiction, reclaiming their attention, and creating a more conscious relationship with their smart phones + devices.

Deeply informed by her decade long meditation practice, work with addiction, devotion to presence, nature and love, Olivia teaches from a place of embodied wisdom, compassion and curiosity. Her teachings help people take back hours of their day from mindless scrolling, strengthen their tech boundaries, create phone habits that support their focus and creativity, and so much more.

Olivia is deeply committed to supporting the community in creating a conscious way forward with technology, together.

BEES + BREATHWORK

NATASHA STEWART

Natasha is passionate about fostering nurturing and transformational spaces, for individuals and groups, to unveil their innate healing capacity and unearth material blocking their most authentic expression and connection to life. She is trauma-informed, and provides a compassionate, judgement-free and gentle presence for clients to dive into their full spectrum of human-ness and open to the preciousness of this life. 

Her favorite healing modality to guide is Conscious-Connected Breathwork for it’s ability to connect individuals with their bodies, unleash creativity, and help us get unstuck. 

SACRED SONG

SOLI GONZALEZ

soliana gonzalez of the local portland folk duo gonzolain, will be leading us through some traditional european folk rounds to help us embody more deeply the energy of sacred song carried within the hive.