yego.me
💡 Stop wasting time. Read Youtube instead of watch. Download Chrome Extension

She Dances With 10,000 Bees on Her Body | National Geographic


2m read
·Nov 11, 2024

For me, wearing the Beast, it's about communing with another species. I have talked to so many people about fear and bees, and they tell me how they were chased when they were kids because they'd see me wearing the bees. I think that they realize that you can be another rate of nature.

This is the fourth bee dance I've done. It's me and twelve thousand insects. It's sensual at the same time; you know that there's this fierceness. We spend a lot of time getting prepared. Today, we're looking for the Queen. You have to look really keenly to make sure that you're not missing her because then you have to start a little over.

We put the Queen in a little spaceship; I like to call it that. The Queen is amazing because she's laying all the eggs. I'll be wearing her, so they're following her pheromone. It will take them a little while to land and lighter, but once they come, they will fly down upon me like I'm inside a tornado. I'm really trying to stay calm when they're on me; it's a little uncomfortable. They pinch and sort of hold on, and they're very loud. They have a beautiful hum that's happening.

The more I dance, with music, it becomes more natural for me. It's really a duet, and now we're dancing together. This time, I'm going to integrate the work that I do, helping people heal based on helping people break an emotional or a physical pattern. Once people are interested in just connecting to nature, that's one of their focuses. I really want people to have a little transcendence.

I had no idea what to expect; the power of the bees, along with the serenity, was an incredible mix. I was concerned about everybody because there were some big bees in the air. Because of the winds, they kept getting sort of uplifted, and normally they're more collected on the body. The first time the bees crawled on my face, I yelped, and I was like, "Oh!" and then they just kept happening. Finally, towards the end of it, I just—I was deafened by it, and it was a great experience.

Now I don't have barriers here keeping me from getting too close. Where we are in the world, we're not moving to most things in nature. So how do we educate people, or how do we change the minds of people? How do we give them experience? I think it's just taking notice, and once you take notice, then you start maybe changing the way their actions are.

More Articles

View All
Stop Buying Stocks | The Market Crisis Just Got Worse
What’s up, Grandma’s guys? Here, so I know I always preach the age-old sayings of “Buy and Hold.” You can’t predict the market; time in the market beats timing the markets. The market can remain irrational longer than you could remain solvent, and the sto…
"YOU WON'T BELIEVE YOUR EYES!" - Smarter Every Day 142
Hey, it’s me Destin. Welcome back to Smarter Every Day. You won’t believe your eyes. You’ve heard this before, right? It’s usually like a clickbait title to get you to watch an internet video or read a stupid article. But are there cases when you actually…
Saving wisely: Emergency funds | Budgeting & saving | Financial Literacy | Khan Academy
In life, there are things that we expect, and there’s other things that we don’t expect. When we think about it from a finance point of view, the things that we might expect is, okay, we’re going to get a regular paycheck because of our work, and we’re go…
Human impacts on the environment | Middle school Earth and space science | Khan Academy
Everything we do has an impact on the world around us that can be a good thing or a bad one. For most of us, that impact can seem pretty small. If you throw an empty can on the ground instead of in the recycling bin, your local park will still be pretty c…
Office Hours With Sal: Friday, March 20. Livestream From Homeroom
Is there a lag? Okay, stand by. Here we go. Hello! I think we are up now. So, uh, thanks for joining our, uh, morning live stream here at Khan Academy. We’re calling it something of a homeroom, a national homeroom, or international homeroom, I guess. Yo…
Persistence Of Vision
So tonight I’m hanging out with my friend Nigel, and he’s brought along one of his science toys—a little white plastic ball. Um, it’s not actually a white plastic ball at all. You told me you were bringing the white plastic ball tonight. It’s, uh, what co…