Autumn and the Metal Element: Aligning with the Cycles of Life
In the Five Element framework, Autumn is associated with Metal. In this season of the harvest, we imagine the scythe that cuts the grain from the stalk: Metal separates what...
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"The blossoming of the natural world" - Seasonal Tea Club Spring 2023
Man follows the earth. Earth follows heaven. Heaven follows the Tao. Tao follows what is natural. Tao Te Ching, Lao Tzu Chapter 25 How you wish to relate to tea...
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What are the Five Elements?
If you’ve read the Seasonal Tea Club, attended a Living Tea event, or followed us on Instagram, you’ve heard something about the Five Elements. This is the philosophy that guides...
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Citrus Oolong Tea Mocktail Recipe
Indulge in the refreshing fusion of flavors with our Citrus Oolong Tea Mocktail recipe! This delightful concoction combines the delicate and sweet notes of an oolong tea with the vibrant essence...
"Preserve what is essential" - Seasonal Tea Club Autumn 2022
Seasonal Tea ClubAutumn 2022 With this season’s offering, we conclude our fifth year of the tea club. We have two common sayings in our tea tradition that seem particularly apt...
Some Essential Values of the Tea Ceremony
The tea ceremony, like all ceremonies, is a distillation of what we find valuable. We experience ceremonies all the time: weddings, birthday parties, graduations, funerals. These look different around the...
What is the Late Summer Season?
In the Taoist Five Element framework, Late Summer is its own, fifth season. It is the center point: when yang mellows and transforms into yin, when Summer has fully ripened...
"Expansive, open-hearted connection" - Seasonal Tea Club Summer 2022
Living TeaSeasonal Tea Club Summer 2022 “For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof,...
Puerh Tea Processing - Seasonal Tea Club Winter 2021 (part 2)
Puerh and Winter Teas For many reasons, Puerh tea is the most exotic in all of China’s vast repertoire. Puerh tea only comes from Yunnan in Southwest China, a place...
The Art of Meditation - Seasonal Tea Club Winter 2021 (part 1)
“The principle of nowness is very important to any effort to establish an enlightened society. You may wonder what the best approach is to helping society and how you can...
Zen, Tea, and the Zigzag Path of Parenting
Written by Living Tea Founder and CEO Colin Hudon Raising a child puts everything into perspective, for what could be more important? Children are the vital link in our chain...
How Jade Rose, mama of a toddler, lives a Life of Tea
Jade S. Rose is an artist, mother of Linden, and leader of Living Tea. Today she shares with us how she integrates Tea practice into her busy everyday life. Every...