The Ritual of Tea
ONLINE COURSE
I’d like to invite you on a journey- tea will be your guide. Though she is subtle, she is a wise and powerful teacher, an ancient plant spirit medicine. For millennia, tea has been enchanting, connecting and healing humankind and she has stories to share with you too!
LEARN HOW TO START A
PERSONAL TEA PRACTICE
The Ritual of Tea is an invitation to slow down, a meditation reconnecting you to Nature, yourself and others and an exercise to cleanse your body, mind and spirit.
This 3 part, 3 hour course was designed to support you in starting your own personal tea practice and sharing tea as a beautifully connective experience for your friends and family.
THE MESSAGE OF TEA:
Slow down
Feel gratitude
Cultivate beauty
Come home to Self
Amplify creativity
Feel the luxury of simplicity
Find solutions to problems
Detoxify the mind and body
Find clarity and truth
Open and soften the heart
Connect with Nature, Self & Community
Tea Awakening
Through my own tea practice I have experienced an awakening and over years of sharing and teaching this practice to others, I have come to see that there is a common thread that is the message, or the gift, of Tea. It is commonly felt as an opening or an awakening and is most often ineffable.
“Tea is an act complete in its simplicity.
When I drink tea, there is only me and the tea.
The rest of the world dissolves.
There are no worries about the future.
No dwelling on past mistakes.
Tea is simple: loose-leaf tea, hot pure water, a cup.
I inhale the scent, tiny delicate pieces of the tea floating above the cup.
I drink the tea, the essence of the leaves becoming a part of me.
I am informed by the tea, changed.
This is the act of life, in one pure moment, and in this act the truth of the world suddenly becomes revealed: all the complexity, pain, drama of life is a pretense, invented in our minds for no good purpose.
There is only the tea, and me, converging.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh
This class will help you create the time and space.
IN THE RITUAL OF TEA COURSE YOU WILL:
Receive The Ritual of Tea Guide and a checklist for your tea practice.
Come to know Tea as an entheogen, or "divine plant", is and how these plants can guide, heal and connect us.
Understand the 4 main naturally occurring chemical compounds in tea and how they create “Zen Mind”
Learn the difference between the British and Buddhist lineages or styles of Tea
Understand how to create sacred space and how to incorporate the elements in each season.
Understand which tea tools, vessels and other objects will best support and enhance your practice.
Receive music for tea meditation
Learn the 4 tenants of teaism, tea lifestyle and how they ripple throughout a tea lifestyle
Experience a Bowl Tea Ceremony
Be guided in starting a daily tea practice
Join the Course
It is suggested to take this class after The Ritual Workshop and to join our community,
The Circle, to support you in living a tea lifestyle- one of calm, alert focus and all of the Yin elements of flow, magic and beauty that Tea brings!