Sandira Belia

I am an artist, author, and group facilitator, bridging the physical and non-physical realms.

Born to a beekeeper mother in Brittany, I was immersed in the song of the bees from childhood. Often seen as an unusual and otherworldly child by others, I realised early that I wouldn’t fit into the boxes that conventional society offered.

Thanks to my activist and open-minded parents, I was encouraged to travel the world to find my truth. After a few years of training and working in Environment Education, I spent a large part of my young adult life backpacking around the world, with an unshakeable trust in my guiding star, in a quest to understand the authentic nature of life.

These peregrinations led me to develop subtle modes of communication with different types of consciousnesses such as the Devas* and other guardians of the Earth. I have had many teachers, both human and non-human. Some of the most inspiring ones have been the plant medicines like Ayahuasca and Psilocybe, and of course, the Deva of the honeybee.

When I arrived in Portugal in 2010, I initially lived for 5 years in the intentional community of Tamera (Healing Biotope and Peace Research Centre) where my journey with the bees began.

Harvesting honey has never been my calling, my interest and my joy lay in the exploration of respectful ways of relating, creating and playing with the bees. There I created the BeeGarden, an egg-shaped sanctuary for the honeybees. Today, this place is the nest of the Connection Hub, a large and powerful energetic portal that supports the healing of the bees worldwide.

* A Deva is a collective intelligence

Then life sent me an initiatic and transformative challenge: I became ill. Very ill. For 5 years, fibromyalgia was  both my biggest nightmare, and my biggest teacher.

In the depths of it, weighing only 33 kilos, I had serious conversations with death… There I found the profound decision to live, with indisputable clarity.

During these years, the honeybee was one of my closest allies, my muse, and healer.

My breakthrough was accompanied by the birth of my first book, “Bee Wisdom: Teachings from the Hive“. Published in French in 2020 by Le Souffle d’Or, and in English in 2021 by Northern Bee Books, it shares many of my conversations with the Deva of the honeybees, as well as various anecdotes about my journey with them.

Today, I am anchored in central Portugal, with the wonderful responsibility of caring for a piece of land full of white, pink and orange quartz. I am preparing spaces to welcome several cosy honey bee nests.

An eternal student, I am researching and exploring the wonders of sacred partnership and non-conventional relationship dynamics, sacred medicine ceremony facilitation and how to work with the magic of portals, both in houses and on the land.