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...
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Aligning with the Wood Element: Seasonal Tea Club Spring 2022
Welcome to the Living Tea Seasonal Tea Club for Spring 2022. As nature awakens with vibrant growth and vitality, we honor the Wood Element, symbolizing new beginnings, expansion, and creative...
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Leaning Into Spring: Creativity, Chaxi, and the Wood Element
Something shifts in spring, not just in the light or the temperature, but in the quality of what wants to move through us. There’s an energy that’s been quietly composting...
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The Five Elements
This blog explores the Taoist Five Elements—Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, and Water—as a living map for aligning with the seasonal rhythms of nature and life itself. By observing natural cycles of...
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...
"To drink the wisdom of nature’s great connectors" - Seasonal Tea Club Autumn 2021
Seasonal Tea Club 2021 The Art of Life in Autumn The tao that can be toldIs not the eternal Tao.The name that can be namedIs not the eternal Name....
"Restoring our dialogue with Nature" - Seasonal Tea Club Summer 2021
Seasonal Tea Club 2021 The Art of Life in Summer The human heart is the center of a territory with no boundaries. Elisabeth Rochat de la Vallée The boughs of...
"Allow more stillness" - Seasonal Tea Club Spring 2021
LIVING TEA Spring Seasonal Tea Club 2021 The kettle whispers and hums through the early morning air as I unwrap a cake of warming, aged shou puerh. Here in...