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...
OUR GUIDING PRINCIPLE
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...
TEA & TAO
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...
EXPLORE PUERH
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...
"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...
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...