"No more is needed" - Seasonal Tea Club Winter 2022
Seasonal Tea ClubWinter 2022 The last Autumn leaves fall to the cold, dry earth. The barren trees create a sense of spaciousness through which winter light becomes ethereal. Rising from...
Moving from Outward Expansion to Inner Depth: Seasonal Tea Club Autumn 2024
The seasonal shift to Autumn invites us to slow down and reflect. Transitioning from the vibrant yang energy of summer into the grounding earth element of late summer, we prepare...
Turning Inward: A Metal Element Ritual for Autumn
For the light-filled days behind us and the darkening days ahead, we give you thanks. For the harvest, learnings and the beauty of life that still surrounds us in fading...
Letting Go, Creating Space, and Finding Value: Seasonal Tea Club Autumn 2023
Autumn, a time of letting go and creating space. Just as trees shed their leaves and fields lie fallow, we too release unnecessary attachments and embrace spaciousness. In this season...
Shou Puerh & Chen Pi Cinnamon Rolls
There's something undeniably special about mornings where time seems to slow down, allowing us to savor each moment. And what better way to celebrate those leisurely mornings than with the...
Colin Hudon's Morning Routine, and How to Adapt Yours for Winter
As the days grow shorter, we are all finding ourselves adjusting to less light and lower energy. While living in harmony with the seasons is our guiding principle here at...
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...
"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...