Apitherapy Weekend @The Bee Shop

April 22 to 24, 2022

Early bird prices. To obtain this price you must book on or prior to April 16, 2022.

Full 3-day weekend pass   $195 + HST

Any 2 days pass $150 + HST

1-day pass $90 +HST

Above passes include simple luncheons, bee snacks and some drinks

Regular Price for bookings on or after April 17, 2022.

Full 3-day weekend pass $225 + HST

Any 2 days pass $165 + HST

1-day pass $100 + HST

 Please note Individual treatment prices for honey massage and honey facials are extra. Call to book or schedule a session.

Honey Massage cost is: $45 for a 30-minute session in The Bee Shop lower level treatment room.

Honey facial cost is: $35 for a 20-minute treatment in the Bee Shop either lower level treatment room or unit 1 on 2^nd floor of the Bee Shop.

To book your Apitherapy pass or honey massage or honey facial treatments please call The Bee Shop during store hours at 416 533-2337 or 416 533-BEES

With a credit card (visa or MC) e-transfers to: 1beeshop@gmail.com also accepted. Or come into the store to pay cash, visa, mc or debit.

 

 

 

 

Apitherapy Conferences & Workshop

                             

Weekend @ The Bee Shop

April 22 to 24, 2022

 

Program outline

 

Friday April 22, 2022

11 AM – to 12PM Introduction to Apitherapy

Presented by Oliver Couto and Yann Loranger

Apitherapy is the Queen of Therapies. See how this majestic, holistic approach to health and healing through the blessing of the honeybee’s products of the hive can improve your health and that of your animals.

Small test samples of bee products given as they are mentioned.

Featuring Covid and bee products: How to prevent Covid with bee products and how to help heal it with bee products if one has it.

12:15PM to 1PM The Honeybee’s Eyes and Vision

Presented by Yann Loranger assisted by Oliver Couto

Come fly with our amazing honeybee and find out in this fascinating lecture how she sees and loves the world.

1PM to 2PM Apicusine

Presented by Deborah McLaughlin, Isabelle Rabbat and Oliver Couto Cooks Rosina Sirove, assistant Rosana San Vincente

 Explanations and benefits of using some of the most nutritious and delicious bee products in cuisine with focus on use in today’s meal. Included is how to present meals with a honeybee theme.

 Light Lunch Menu

Starter: Fresh green salad, figs, walnuts with honey vinegar and sprinkled with bee pollen

Light main: Smoked salmon slices with cream cheese slight drizzle of honey and dab of mustard on multigrain bread.

Dessert: Wild rice pudding with milk raisins, honey, cinnamon and bee pollen sprinkling.

Beverages:

Non-alcoholic: Honey lemonade, sparkling water and natural water,

With alcohol: Mead (honey wine) alcohol, Honey lager beer (alcohol)

2:00PM to 3PM Pollen Analysis in Honey to Determine its Floral Content Presented by Yann Loranger and Oliver Couto

It is often said that God is great because He takes care of little things. Discover how the honeybees work with infinitesimally small doses or homeopathy in visiting flowers to gather the essential of which to make their liquid gold, and how through analyzing the pollen in honey, one can determine which flowers they visited so as to be able to name the honey correctly.

3:15PM to 4:15PM Phytotherapy

Presented by Ramona Bolton/Rosana San Vincente

This extremely important lecture on the medicinal properties of plants, especially the ones the bees are visiting, will feature a tour of the Bee Shop’s rooftop zodiacal pollinator garden where the medicinal healing properties of plants, herbs and vegetables related to the differential zodiacal signs and their corresponding body parts will be demonstrated. Not to be missed!

Participants will receive 1 free pack of organic seeds to plant at home.

4:30PM to 7PM Apitherapy questions and answers period

With Oliver Couto, Yann Loranger and Isabelle Rabbat

Snacks: Honey sticks and apicocktails

Saturday April 23, 2022

10:00AM to 12:30PM Apicosmetics

Presented by Isabelle Rabbat and Deborah McLaughlin as assistant

 For millions of years the honeybees have been beautifying mother Earth. In this amazing conference see how the wonderful products of the hive can beautify your body or your living, walking, talking, breathing part of our beloved Mother Earth. How the honeybees can make women more beautiful and men more handsome. Not to bee missed this marvelous presentation of api-esthetics.

10:00AM to 10:30AM Beauty and the Honeybee

An Introduction to Apicosmetics presented by Oliver Couto

10:30AM to 11:00AM Honey Detox Massage Demonstration

With Isabelle Rabbat with Deborah McLaughlin

Watch how the honeybee’s liquid gold, honey, can be used to detoxify, heal and nourish your skin as well as release tension and tonify the muscles.

*For an additional fee individual honey massages can bee booked, please sign up early as places are limited.

11:15AM to 11:45AM Honey Facial Demonstration

Presented by Isabelle Rabbat and Deborah McLaughlin

Watch how the honeybee’s liquid gold can rejuvenate, nourish, heal, caress, infuse your face and give it a radiant glow, as the kiss of the honeybees works its magical and loving touch.

*For an additional fee, individual honey facials can bee booked, please sign up early as places are limited.

12:00 to 1PM Apicosmetic Products

Presented by Oliver Couto

Explanations on various bee products how they are highly beneficial when used in soaps, lip balms, skin creams, shampoos polishes, etc

Apicosmetic Product Display and some sampling and testing of products available.

Individual Treatments

Beauty and the Honeybee Spa Treatments

sessions with Isabelle Rabbat and Deborah McLaughlin

Honey massage

Honey facial

Royal jelly facial

Bee pollen facials

Honey bath

1PM to 2PM Apicusine

Presented by Deborah McLaughlin, Isabelle Rabbat and Oliver Couto

Cooks Rosina Sirove, assisted by Rosana San Vincente

Explanations and benefits of using some of the most nutritious and delicious bee products in cuisine with focus on use in today’s meal. Included is how to present meals with a honeybee theme.

Light Lunch Menu

Starter / Appetizer: beet, walnut, salad with feta cheese, honey vinegar, olive oil and pink Himalayan salt

Main: Potato and cheese perogies

Beverage: Fruits, Honey and bee pollen smoothie

Dessert: Hexagonal honeycomb cakes

2:15PM to 3PM Propolis

Presented by Yann Loranger

Introduction to its human and animal health benefits and how honeybees use propolis. Explore how this lesser known extremely beneficial medicine of the honeybees can work wonders.

3:15PM - 4PM Botanical Sources of Propolis and their Specific Health Benefits

By Yann Loranger

More on how this amazing substance has various modes that Propolis is made of and the specific manner for consumption which can aid in healing various areas of the body.

Propolis line of Products

4:15PM – 5 PM Happy Culture’s new propolis line

Presented by Yann Loranger

5PM – 6PM Apitherapy Questions and Answers

With Oliver Couto, Yann Loranger and Isabelle Rabbat

Snacks: Honey sticks and apicocktails

Sunday April 24, 2022

11:AM to 1PM Beeswax Candle Making

Workshop by Oliver Couto - 2 hours

Did you know that the flame of a beeswax candle is as close to pure sunlight as you can get? Learn the amazing health benefits and symbolism of these candles and how to make 3 different kinds, rolled, taper and mold. Participants get to keep 3 candles.

1:30PM to 2:30PM Apicusine

With Deborah McLaughlin, Isabelle Rabbat and Oliver Couto

Cooks Rosina Sirove, assisted by Rosana San Vincente

Explanations and benefits of using some bee products in cuisine as used in today’s meal. Included is how to present meals with a honeybee theme.

Light Lunch Menu

Starter: Vegetarian Samosas, Hexagonal crackers and humus dip

Main: Baked Honeycomb Pasta

Dessert: Comb honey and cheese plate with grapes

Beverages: Herbal teas sweetened with honey, sparkling water or regular water

2:45PM to 4:15PM Natural Beeswax Lip Balm and Shoe Polish Making

Workshop with Oliver Couto

Learn how to make a beeswax lip balm and beeswax shoe polish. The exceptional benefits of using beeswax and symbolism for these applications are shown.

4:30PM to 5:00PM Beeswax Ear Cone Candling

Presented by Oliver Couto

How to properly use cone candles and how to use an otoscope to verify their benefits.

5:00PM- 5:30PM Closing of Apitherapy weekend

 

End of conference weekend talk and mention of upcoming events.

Snacks: Honey sticks and apicocktails

 Presenter Bios

Oliver Couto

Oliver is and urban beekeeper and owner of The Bee Shop. He is one of the Co-Chairs of The Toronto Beekeepers Collective. He was a member of the Pollinator Advisory Committee for the City of Toronto, He is an instructor for the introductory beekeeping courses at the Toronto Botanical Garden and the Kortright Center for Conservation. He is producer of The Sacred Bee film series that gently unites the world’s major faiths through the paradigm of the honeybee.

Yann Loranger

Yann is a rural beekeeper from Roxton Falls, Quebec. He is former president of The Canadian Apitherapy Association and is president of Happy Culture Inc. a bee products company. He has built a Bee Air house and promotes apitherapy, that uses bee products for health.

 

Isabelle Rabbat

 

Isabelle is a Registered Massage Therapist and beekeeper from Quebec. She specializes in honey massage. She also promotes apitherapy and gives conferences on the matter to health practitioners. She is a director of Happy Culture Inc. and resides in Roxton Falls, Quebec with her partner Yann Loranger.

 

Deborah McLaughlin

Deborah (whose name means bee) is a member of The Toronto Beekeeper’s Collective and managerial employee of The Bee Shop. She is an apicosmetic practitioner and an interior designer.

Rosana San Vincente

Rosana is a recently graduated urban agriculturist. She is a valuable volunteer at The Bee Shop who assisted Mr. Couto in organic plant selection and the constructional execution of his first Zodiacal rooftop pollinator garden situated on top of his Bee Shop store.

Ramona Bolton

Ramona is one of the principal directors and founders of the Institute of Traditional Medicine. She is an excellent herbalist and holistic pedagogue

Rosina Sirove

Rosina specializes in European cuisine. She is an Italian / English spiritual book translator who resides in Midland, Ontario.

Corporate Sponsor

The Bee Shop

is located In Toronto’s West End.

It is a retail health and food store that sells

the amazing products of the beehive.

Its principal owner is Oliver Couto,

an urban beekeeper and

dedicated beekeeping teacher.

Happy Culture Inc.

is a bee products specialty company located in Roxton Falls, Quebec. Its principal owners are Yann Loranger and Isabelle Rabbat. It has recently developed an exceptional line of bee propolis products.

Bee-O-Pharm is Happy Culture’s bee product line.