A brave woman dances topless while 12,000 bees buzz all over her
body.
Sara Mapelli, who calls herself the Bee Queen, has been doing it
for more than a decade as a form of meditation.
The woman, from Oregon, US, allows the stingers to crawl all over
her for up to two hours - and even sits down and drinks a cup of
tea as they cover her body.
Clear-up: The stingers are flicked off the back of the self-styled
Bee Queen using a brush
The
first layer of bees has to bite to stay on Sara's body, which she
said is extremely painful.
Sara wrote on her website that when dancing she moves with the bees
as they push against her in a 'deep meditation'.
'I
think of this dance as a duet among many. These 12,000 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,' she wrote.
Bee
dance: Sara wrote on her website: 'It is a deep meditation and I
feel the hive mind surround me, hold me, and expand my body on a
cellular level'
'It is a deep meditation and I feel the hive mind surround me, hold
me, and expand my body on a cellular level. I am a healer, dancer,
artist, builder of structures and bee keeper.
'As bee keepers, my partner, Theodore and I hope to help the bees
of the northwest by encouraging them to swarm and become hardy in
the ever changing environment.'
The bees cling on to her armpits, hair, breasts and chin as they
crawl all over her body
Tea party... with 12,000 extra visitors: Sara sits down at the
table with bees all over her body.
