Contemplative Tea Sits
Contemplative tea is a practice of self-emptying through the way of tea.
Tea, in ceremony, invites us into a very spacious silence— deepening the breath, stilling the mind, and allowing for peace-filled rest. This is not like any commercially available tea, but tea that is living, aged, from old-growth tea trees.
When tea is cultivated + shared in this harmonious way, it carries great power in connecting us with the depths of our true nature, which allows us to see the true nature in all other beings and all of reality.
In tea ceremony, we practice letting go of our restlessness, busy-ness, and dis-ease, so we can fully receive the energy and spirit of tea. This is a transformative journey. Show up with your aches, pains, questions, challenges, and let tea guide the way back to your true center.
Each ceremony is unique, just as each person’s experience is unique. Tea meets us right where we’re at. We often find we are drawn into greater and greater depths of intimacy in proportion to our willingness to surrender ourselves, to let go of our persistent holding, our clinging and controlling.
A tea sit is often anywhere from 1 -4 hours, depending on the type of ceremony. Longer, slower sits are a wonderful opportunity for retreat from daily life, and those patterns of routine we grow accustomed to.
We’ll gather together, let tea guide us into the stillness, and then naturally bubble back up to share any kind of inspired dialogue from this greater presence.
Come as you are, dress comfortably, sit, be, enjoy tea.
“Who would then deny that when I am sipping tea in my tearoom I am swallowing the whole universe with it and that this very moment of my lifting the bowl to my lips is eternity itself transcending time and space?”
DT Suzuki
Upcoming Tea Sits
We love booking one-on-one sessions, private group sits, and events.