Portland beekeeper Sara Mapelli doesn’t wear the traditional beekeeper’s uniform. Instead, she wears, well, nothing.
Or maybe more accurately, she wears a “bee blouse”¡ªher naked torso and arms are . Mapelli says the blouse, which she wears while dancing, allows her to “feel the hive mind surround me, hold me, and expand my body on a cellular level.”
Remarkably, she was stung only once, on the lip, during her latest dance. She even brings the little buzzers to tea (seven minutes in).
“The bees push with their powerful wings from each side of my body,”?. “I resist and then I let go and flow and move with them.”