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Radiant Rest Podcast with Tracee StanleyWisdom of the Hive with Michelle Cassandra Johnson and Amy Burtaine"In times marked by turmoil and uncertainty, honeybees offer a powerful example of how to turn toward each other, to deeply commit to creating conditions for survival of all beings, and to build a future where all can thrive." —Michelle C. Johnson & Amy Burtaine Bees are life-giving. They are vital pollinators that support our food supply, and they are also teachers with healing and wisdom to share. In this episode, host Tracee Stanley sits down with coauthors of Wisdom of the Hive: What Honeybees Can Teach Us about Collective Wellbeing, Michelle Cassandra Johnson and Amy Bur...
2025-08-281h 09
The Plant Spirit Podcast with Sara ArtemisiaThe Wisdom of the Bees with Michelle Cassandra Johnson and Amy Burtaine#72 - Join us for an amazing conversation with Author, Bee Tender, Activist & Healer Michelle Cassandra Johnson and Leadership Coach & Racial Equity Trainer Amy Burtaine on the practical and mystical teachings of honeybees, including powerful lessons that the hive offers for collective healing in community and for our relationship with the more-than-human world.In this episode you’ll discover:What bees can teach us about living through times of chaos and collective transformation How they operate as a superorganism, always tending the health of the whole How bees’ work in the darkness offers teachings in times of disrup...
2025-08-071h 04
Moments with MarianneThe Wisdom of the Hive with Michelle Cassandra Johnson and Amy BurtaineDo honeybees hold the keys to healing our trauma, deepening our relationships, and restoring balance with the world around us? Tune in for an inspiring discussion with Michelle Cassandra Johnson and Amy Burtaine on their new book The Wisdom of the Hive: What Honeybees Can Teach Us about Collective Wellbeing. Moments with Marianne airs in the Southern California area on KMET1490AM & 98.1 FM, an ABC Talk News Radio Affiliate! https://www.kmet1490am.comMichelle Cassandra Johnson is an author, activist, spiritual teacher, racial equity consultant, and intuitive healer. She teaches workshops and leads ret...
2025-07-2930 min
The Unfolding: Presented by The Loveland FoundationTend to Your Hive with Michelle Cassandra JohnsonIn this episode of The Unfolding: Presented by The Loveland Foundation Podcast, host Rachel Keener is joined by author, healer, and activist Michelle Cassandra Johnson for a thoughtful conversation inspired by her latest book, The Wisdom of the Hive. Drawing from her personal lineage and spiritual journey, Johnson reflects on what bees can teach us about healing, community, and interconnection.Rooted in the agricultural legacy of her grandparents and shaped by her own practices in yoga, meditation, and ritual, Johnson explores how bee behavior mirrors the kind of care, communication, and collective resilience we often long for...
2025-07-2547 min
Sounds True: Insights at the EdgeMichelle Cassandra Johnson and Amy Burtaine: The Wisdom of the HiveMore and more people are waking up to the very real dangers that humanity is facing as a result of a declining honeybee population. Yet as we join the refrain, "Save the bees!" Michelle Cassandra Johnson and Amy Burtaine pose a profound and extraordinary question: What if it's the bees who are trying to save us?
In this eye-opening conversation with the coauthors of the new book The Wisdom of the Hive, Tami Simon speaks with Michelle and Amy about bees as psychopomps who come to us with guidance; the spiritual lineage of bee priestesses; sustainability and respect in bee t...
2025-06-101h 10
Sounds True: Insights at the EdgeMichelle Cassandra Johnson and Amy Burtaine: The Wisdom of the HiveMore and more people are waking up to the very real dangers that humanity is facing as a result of a declining honeybee population. Yet as we join the refrain, "Save the bees!" Michelle Cassandra Johnson and Amy Burtaine pose a profound and extraordinary question: What if it's the bees who are trying to save us?
In this eye-opening conversation with the coauthors of the new book The Wisdom of the Hive, Tami Simon speaks with Michelle and Amy about bees as psychopomps who come to us with guidance; the spiritual lineage of bee priestesses; sustainability and respect in bee t...
2025-06-101h 10
Intuition for Changemakers91. What Honeybees Can Teach Us about Adaptability with Michelle Cassandra Johnson and Amy BurtaineSend us a textWhat if the honey bees are here to save us? Today, my special guests Amy Burtaine and Michelle Cassandra Johnson, co authors of the book, The Wisdom of the Hive: What Honeybees Can Teach Us about Collective Wellbeing and I are going to talk about this question and more. We’ll talk about bees as role models of adaptability, special lessons the bees have gifted these two authors, and they’ll even share with us a practice and contemplation or two that you can do right now to create more honey inside— all today on...
2025-05-2048 min
Finding RefugeHealing in CommunityThis episode features a special interview with four of Michelle’s close comrades and colleagues. Michelle brought the team of Healing in Community facilitators together to hear about how they are tending their hearts at this time—Katie Veleta, Johnette Walser, Amy Burtaine, and Stephanie Ghoston Paul co-led an online retreat this past summer with Michelle, and they are reuniting for a special offering this fall: an online series exploring topics such as Collective Grief and Liberation, Embodying Grief, How to be a Living Ancestor, Decolonizing Our Relationship with the Land, and more. In this conversation, Katie, Johnette, Amy, and...
2020-08-211h 02