Begin your tea practice with support
Living Tea offers rare, seasonally aligned teas, thoughtful teaware, and grounded guidance to help you discover a deeper world of tea, one still largely unknown outside of Asia. A trusted path into a beautiful, enduring practice, one cup at a time.
Includes teaware, guidance, and the option to add three curated teas chosen for those beginning their journey with loose leaf tea.
For the person craving a meaningful practice...
You want something quieter. More rooted. Something you can actually return to. Tea has a way of becoming that. It offers a simple way to sit down, slow down, and be with yourself each day.
The Ritual Kit is the clearest place to begin.
This was designed for you if:
- You have wanted to begin a tea practice but do not know where to start
- You are craving a daily ritual that feels grounding without becoming complicated
- You have struggled to keep up with meditation or other mindfulness practices and want something more tangible
- You want the tools and guidance in one place so you can begin with confidence
- You want to build a moment into your day, every day, to hold a little more beauty, calm, and intention.
This Ritual Kit offers a foundational meditation and ritual tea practice to support a more mindful, meaningful, and enlightened life. The practices detailed in this guidebook will transform your life.
This collection includes a 220mL zisha sidehandle teapot, two handmade tea bowls, and a practice booklet with the option to add three of our community favorite teas.
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Zisha Wood Sidehandle - Yixing, China
220mL — Ideal for 1-3 people
- Two (2) Handmade Tea Bowls - Saugerties, NY
These bowls are crafted from iron-bearing clay and shino glaze. -
Practice Booklet - Telluride, CO
A step-by-step foundational guide to tea ceremony and meditation
Upgrade your Ritual Kit to include the following teas:
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Gateway of Spirit - Wild Tree Purple Tea, Dehong, China
Fruity and floral with an uplifting energy - Riversong - Shou Puerh with Dried Orange Peel, Simao, China
Rich, earthy with citrus notes, and grounding - Panacea - Bud Tip Red Tea, Simao, China
Enlivening tea with malty cacao and caramel notes
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What’s included
Zisha Wood Sidehandle
Yixing, China
220mL — Ideal for 1-3 people. Zisha clay is a kind of porous material with double pore structure and high density. Zisha clay is widely considered the best medium for brewing fine tea as the unique mineral composition softens the tea and brings out the best flavors.
Two Handmade Tea Bowls
Woodstock, NY
Ben Suga is a ceramic artist whose work honors Japanese tea traditions while reflecting his American roots. He creates ceremonial teaware that balance centuries-old traditions with his own grounded style. Each bowl is handmade and unique, no two exactly alike.
Ritual Kit Practice Booklet
Telluride, CO
A step-by-step foundational guide to tea ceremony and meditation, written by Living Tea founder, Colin Hudon.
Three Curated Teas
Yunnan, China
Gateway of Spirit - Wild Tree Purple Tea: Fruity and floral with an uplifting energy
Riversong - Shou Puerh with Dried Orange Peel: Rich, earthy with citrus notes, and grounding
Panacea - Bud Tip Red Tea: Enlivening tea with malty cacao and caramel notes
There is a reason tea has been used for centuries as both medicine and practice.
When approached with intention, tea becomes more than a drink. It becomes a way of entering the present moment. A way of creating a pause in a world that keeps asking you to speed up.
The Ritual Kit was designed to help you begin that relationship simply.
What beginning a tea practice can look like
A tea practice does not need to be elaborate to be meaningful.
It can be as simple as taking fifteen minutes, brewing a bowl or two of tea, sitting in silence, and noticing what shifts when you stop rushing.
Over time, that small act starts to change something.
You feel more grounded. More aware. More able to meet your day instead of being dragged by it.
That is why so many people begin with tea and stay with it.
Why Living Tea
We are passionate about helping people build a relationship with tea that feels real, reverent, and alive. Living Tea was built from years of study, travel, practice, and direct relationship with the traditions, places, and people closest to the source. We source with care. We teach with humility. And we believe the deepest value of tea is not just in what you drink, but in how you learn to sit with it.
