{"id":918,"date":"2013-06-27T23:20:08","date_gmt":"2013-06-28T06:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/?p=918"},"modified":"2013-07-09T10:07:49","modified_gmt":"2013-07-09T17:07:49","slug":"a-golden-gift-of-apitherapy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/a-golden-gift-of-apitherapy\/","title":{"rendered":"A Golden Gift of Apitherapy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Few weeks ago, a couple who frequents my Thursday evening yoga class gave me a gift unexpectedly. \u00a0Honey! \u00a0I was pleasantly surprised to find out that this is no ordinary honey off a store shelf as It wasn’t purchased. \u00a0To my amazement, it came from their own beekeeping. \u00a0Wow. \u00a0In the middle of Silicon Valley, I did not know you can collect so much honey – I did not know you can harvest honey in Silicon Valley from local flowers. \u00a0Such a city girl that I am -it’s a discovery that beehives can be kept privately and harvested on your own. I heard that chicken cooping for your eggs was popular among Silicon Valley types (almost said geeks) but now, may beekeeping also be something on the rise among them? <\/p>\n

As yoga students, these two beekeeping yogis have been very dedicated with virtually never miss attendance record for my Thursday night yoga class. It’s so lovely to see a couple practice together, side by side. \u00a0There’s just something very heart warming in watching these two lovely yogis’ backs as they head out after a class, together slinging a yoga mat. \u00a0When they say goodbye or good night, there’s a look of peace, maybe some relief and a gentle smile. \u00a0You see the Before and the After effects of a yoga practice first hand. \u00a0Having a partner or a friend to share a yoga practice with always makes it more special – and when it becomes a routine part of the schedule, all the better. \u00a0Watching them take off into the night, I am happy they yoga together to deepen what already must be a special relationship – after all, they are partners in bee keeping – and that’s pretty special.<\/p>\n

Their hand-made label in the back of the bottle is full of fun honeybee facts: \u00a0“Bees need to provide 70,000 loads of nectar, and travel 50,000 miles to produce a single pound of honey. \u00a0Darker honey has higher mineral content and antioxidant potential.The queen bee can live to 3-5 years. Honey should not be fed to babies under the age of 1 year.”<\/p>\n

Only few months ago, I had bought a jar of bee pollens from a local honey purveyor – In fact, these yellow mini fuzz balls of a pollen in smoothies fixed my allergies as I now breathe freely.<\/p>\n

\"IMG_3288\"<\/a> \"IMG_3287\"<\/a>Did you know that honey, aside from being a great natural sweetener is wonderful to use as an ointment to heal cuts and burns?<\/p>\n

Apitherapy is the term given to the medicinal use of honey, bee venom, as well as honey bee products. This is a very old form of medicine that can be traced back to ancient Greece and Egypt. In the ancient times, honey was treated as medicine.T<\/em>his golden nectar…is precious.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n

Thank you Margie and Steve. \u00a0BTW, did I ever share the beehive meditation? \u00a0It’s a way to turn inward into your own beehive=brain…It really clears your mind …You two would love it:) – probably already a master at it!<\/p>\n

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Few weeks ago, a couple who frequents my Thursday evening yoga class gave me a gift unexpectedly. \u00a0Honey! \u00a0I was pleasantly surprised to find out that this is no ordinary honey off a store shelf as It wasn’t purchased. \u00a0To my amazement, it came from their own beekeeping. \u00a0Wow. \u00a0In the middle of Silicon Valley, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[9,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=918"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1026,"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918\/revisions\/1026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}