Contemplative Tea Sits
Contemplative tea is a practice of self-emptying through the way of tea.
Tea, in ceremony, invites us into a very spacious silence- stilling the mind and allowing for deep rest. There is an activity and a movement in tea centered in an unhurried, restful presence.
A tea sit is often anywhere from 1 -4 hours, depending on the type of ceremony. Longer, slower sits are a wonderful opportunity for retreat from daily life, and those patterns of routine we grow accustomed to.
Each ceremony is unique, just as each person’s experience is unique. Tea meets us right where we’re at. We often find we are drawn into greater and greater depths of intimacy in proportion to our willingness to surrender ourselves, to let go of our persistent holding, our clinging and controlling.
We’ll gather together, let tea guide us into the silence, and then naturally bubble back up to share any kind of inspired dialogue from this shared presence.
Come as you are, dress comfortably, sit, be, enjoy tea.
Upcoming Tea Sits
We love booking one-on-one sessions, private group sits, and events.
“Who would then deny that when I am sipping tea in my tearoom I am swallowing the whole universe with it and that this very moment of my lifting the bowl to my lips is eternity itself transcending time and space?”
DT Suzuki