"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,...
SEASONAL TEA CLUB
"Tea has forever been a celebration" - Seasonal Tea Club Summer 2023
In Taoist medicine, the Fire element corresponds to the heart, small intestines, and bitter flavor, symbolic of the charring nature of fire. It’s with bittersweetness in my heart that I...
SEASONAL ALIGNMENT
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...
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...
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...
"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...
Sip Your Intentions: How to Add Mindfulness to Your Morning Tea Practice
After the winter solstice on December 21, days become imperceptibly longer, and sunlight returns to our world. The New Year in the Gregorian calendar is coming up as well, and...