History and Ethos
From Humble Beginnings
This is a grassroots business driven by Emily’s passion to bring back the medicine of the hive to the people.
Emily’s life is interwoven with the bee on a deep and cellular level. She is passionate about bee guardianship, natural bee tending and reviving the ancient methods of hive medicines of the hive.
Ten years ago, Emily fell in love with bees, and it became her life’s purpose to work intimately with them; firstly exploring mythology and a spiritual connection to the bees.
The amazing opportunity to live and volunteer with Save the Bees Australia for five years presented itself. This was filled with hands-on bee work - with every one of Simon’s hives a rescue (they would re-home bees from many different structures to save them from being exterminated). This immersive experience was life-changing, proving that activism campaigns can work and the power social media can have when people come together like bees, to work towards solutions.
Experimenting with making products out of beeswax, Emily processed what was left over from the rescues, and it organically became the beginning of Embodybee.
She moved away and worked with many different styles of natural hive designs and researched Apitherapy (an alternative modality of healing using not just all the products, but the elements of the bee hive to benefit human health and healing). Emily is an advocate for natural bee tending and has taught her Introduction to Bee Guardianship for 5 years now.
After moving to a rural community and lived off the grid, Emily collaborated with a herbalist on the land to create a production space and Apiary in pristine conditions. She worked hard to continue creating the highest-quality and vibrational products, refining and perfecting techniques and recipes.
Emily closed down the business in 2025 and took a break with her daughter to travel overseas and deepen her knowledge of Apitherapy from incredible bee tenders around the world. She will relaunch a few simple high quality products to the public before she returns in 2026. Little by little she will revamp and bring back her iconic apitherapy range, dreaming up everything with more magical intention.
Ensuring she selects the best-of-the-best quality ingredients, making sure they are as organic, local and sustainably sourced as possible. Yet as a bee lover and hyper-aware of the dodgy practices commonly used in the bee industry, she makes sure everything is ethical and honourable to the bees.
Embodybee creates the highest vibrational hand-made hive alchemy for the people. An ancient remembering women into a modern context, for everyday life.
The Embodybee Vision
Emily is working towards creating a physical retail apothecary, where you can access hive medicine. She is currently in the development stage and is hoping to offer a very unique modality of healing called Apitherapy, using not just the products of a bee hive, but the elements. Emily will have a bee-hive-bed to experience breath-work with hive air, and treatments with beeswax hand dipping and glorious facials. With the beautiful support of her incredible customers she can sense this vision becoming reality in the near future.