The Art & Ritual of Tea Training & Certification Course & Retreat
Autumn 2023/ Live at Sewanee, Tennessee
November 12-17, 2023
Overview
Dive into the lessons of the leaf in the Art & Ritual of Tea Training & Certification Course in Sewanee, Tennessee. Learn to share tea as a ritual and ceremony as well as a healthy and celebratory beverage to facilitate healing, connection and deep peace for yourself, your family and your community.
Participants will receive course materials and teas including a selection of teas, a tea red earth tea bowl, seasonal incense and guides.
You will prepare by exploring concepts such as vibrational healing, ritual and plant spirit medicine. You will come to understand tea as a meditation aid, a spirit tonic and a divine plant by following her journey across the globe. Understanding both the Buddhist and British lineages of tea, you will understand tea as a meditation aid, not just a healthy beverage.
You will continue by understanding the leaf and how to best extract her healing medicine. You will learn from the alchemies of water, fire, earth and air. You will learn the 8 types of tea and how to steep any tea intuitively as a practice of presence. You will learn to work with plants to attune to Nature, the seasons, the shared energy flow of life as well as what you are calling in.
This retreat offers an opportunity to slow down and to reflect as well as a time to gather, learn and connect.
TEACHINGS:
Tea's Journey/ Buddhist & British Lineages
Tea as a Plant Spirit Medicine & Tea is a Goddess
The Ritual & Ceremony of Tea
Eight Types of Tea & Tea Steeping Workshop
WORKSHOPS:
Flowers, Leaves & Roots: Blending and making medicine
Bowl Tea Ceremony
Five Milk Teas
The Magic of Matcha
DAILY SCHEDULE:
7-9 AM Movement & Tea Ceremony
9-12 Morning Session
12-2 Lunch and free time
2-5 Afternoon workshop
5-7 Optional practice time
7 Dinner
8 Evening activities
Your Instructor
Sarah Scarborough has been journeying with Tea for the past 25 years. Having worked and traveled as a tea buyer, taster and formulator for international businesses and brands and as a tea entrepreneur, she has experienced traditional cultures around the world and how they share tea to cultivate peace, wisdom and connection. Having practiced yoga for 3 decades, she has gained an awareness of tea as a meditation, like sacred movement, enabling us to drop into awareness of the magic of life.
Sarah’s mission is to share with you a pathway into the magic of life and a deeper connection to Nature through the art and ritual of tea.
Course Inclusions
Live in person training and practice time and space
Training materials
Daily Tea Ceremony, nourishing meals, movement and circle
Opening and closing ceremonies
At home study between sessions
TEACHINGS:
The Ritual Workshop
The Journey of Tea (Tea & its origins and meaning)
What is Tea? Tea is a Goddess
Zen Mind (nootropic and other compounds in tea)
The British & Buddhist Lineages of tea
Teaism & its tenants
Setting Sacred Space
Creating Ceremony
Tea Alchemy/ Earth, Water, Wind, Fire
Vibrational Healing & Plant Spirit
Intuitive Steeping
Eight Types of Tea
Bowl Tea Ceremony
Tea Huntress/ Art & Ritual of Tea Certification
Cost
$3200 per person, all inclusive
Limited to 8 participants