LET TEA DRINK YOU, SAVOR YOU, AND SIT WITH YOU, IT WILL WHISPER THE SECRETS OF NATURE IN YOUR EAR
2nd week of March
Monday 8th-The Humble Pot: Learning to Use the Tea-ware of Asia. 7-8:30pm. $35/person. In this session we will explore the art of brewing teas. This is a subtle and never ending study; you will learn how to approach different kinds of tea and how to bring out the best in each one. This is a must for anyone who loves tea. We will as always drink some extraordinary teas this evening. For both beginning students and advanced.
Thursday 11th, A Formal Chinese Tea Ceremony Evening. 7-8:30pm. In this session we will drink 3 very rare teas including a 1983 aged top grade ali shan oolong and a 1970s aged puerh tea. This session will be done in classical Chinese tea ceremony fashion and using antique tea ware ( we will drink out of cups that are hundreds of years old). There will be flowers, sweets, beautiful music and tea that will float you on a cloud. This will be an elegant evening. $45/person, limit 7 people.
Friday, 12th. The Cup and the Sword-Movie Night. 7-9pm. $25/person. A night of drinking amazing teas, “Zatoichi, The Blind Swordsman” movies and snacks- what else do you need to know. (ps- I no longer have a 10 inch tv set from the 1970s, we now have a 32 inch flat screen-woo hooo!
Saturday 13th. Tea and Meditation Session. 9-1030am, $15-30-sliding scale. We will drink aged tea for 40 minutes to bring us into a state of quiet and expansiveness and then sit in the meditation room for a 30 minute meditation session. Come join us for this weekly session, it is an amazing way to start a weekend. For beginning as well as advanced practitioners. No experience in meditation or spiritual orientation is of any matter. (no mind-no matter)
Saturday 13th, Sitting in the Mountain: Learning to Use Tea for Meditation. 11am-12:30pm. $35/person. Limit 7 people. In this session we will explore teas that are useful for meditation. There are certain teas which put one in a very grounded and expansive state ideal for internal practices such as meditation, yoga, and chi gong. These teas help you feel the energies of the body, mind and spirit.
3rd week of march
Monday, 15th. Drinking the Forest- A Night of Drinking Aged Teas. 7-9pm. $45/person,limit 7 people. In this session you will be introduced to the aged teas of China. These teas have exceptional “chi” or energy to them and will leave you in a state of joy and mild “tea drunkeness”. Included will be aged early 1990s sheng puerh, aged 1980s oolong, early 1990s aged liu bao black, aged liu an black tea and a ten year old aged yunnan white bud tea. This is a rare chance to try some very amazing and interesting teas, come join me.
Tuesday,16th . Rolling in Flowers: Learning About Herbal Teas.7-8:30pm. $35/person. limit 7 people. There are amazing flowers and plants to drink, calm and heal us. In this class we will explore herbal teas from the west and China. We will learn about brewing, the uses of herbs, and the energetics of herbal teas. Come and drink flowers and leaf! We will drink rose, chamomile, immortality tea, tea flower and calendual among others.
Thursday 18th. Tea and Chi: The Energetics of Living Tea. 7-9pm. $35/person. This session explores the types of chi found in tea. High quality tea is alive and each tea has a very distinct energy to it, which produces a certain shift in our state of being. Teas can bring into many states: meditative, ecstatic, joyous, expansive, inner quiet, etc. Come explore the worlds of tea. Each one of these sessions every month is very different.(and fun)
Saturday 20th. 8:45-10:00 am. Tea and Meditation Session. 9-1030am, $15-30-sliding scale.We will drink aged tea for 40 minutes to bring us into a state of quiet and expansiveness and then sit in the meditation room for a 30 minute meditation session. Come join us for this weekly session, it is an amazing way to start a weekend. For beginning as well as advanced practitioners. No experience in meditation or spiritual orientation is of any matter. (no mind-no matter)
Saturday 20th 10:30am-12 pm. Beauty in a Cup: The Art of Brewing, $35/person, limit 7 people. The Art of Brewing Teas. You will learn the art of brewing teas; about water, tea ware brewing times, etc. The beauty of each tea can be unlocked with proper understanding. You will learn some of the secrets in this class. This session is for beginning as well as advanced practitioners, bring your questions, this is an art of endless depth. As always we will drink several rare teas that will leave you relaxed and joyful.
4th week of march
Monday 22nd. Tea for Healers, 7-9pm. $50/person. In this session I will address how rare teas can be used in conjunction with different healing modalities to facilitate the power and depth of the treatment given. Tea can become a simple and effective part of these healing practices and help to quickly move a patient into a deep, receptive, integrative place from which real healing can begin. Classes will engage your input as healers and discussion is welcomed.
Thursday 25th, 7-8:30pm. Tasting the Mountains: An Introduction toThe Teas of Asia. In this class we will explore the major types of oolongs from many of the sacred tea mountains in China and Taiwan. We will drink rare top flight oolongs from great mountains such as Phoenix, Wuyi, Dong Ding, and Li Shan and Ali Shan. If you like oolongs, this will be an eye opening experience, these teas are of a much higher quality than what you have ever had. They will leave you floating.
Friday 26th, 7-9pm. $50/person. Talking to the Immortals- A Night of Drinking Profound Rare Teas. On this evening we will drink many beautiful and rare teas, each of which will leave you deeply open, joy full and expansive.(and grounded) We will drink some 25 year old aged oriental beauty oolong, some remarkable 1980s puerh tea, some 1970s liu an black tea and some other treats that will leave you in a profound and poetic state. This night should not be missed by any tea lover.
A SPECIAL WEEKEND INTENSIVE: Saturday and Sunday, 27th and 28th. The Foundations of the Arts of Tea. This month on Saturday 27th and Sunday the 28th, we will be having the first weekend tea workshop. This is a chance for you to get some real depth in tea knowledge and culture. The theme this month will be Foundations in The Tea Arts.: We will learn about the arts of brewing, the effects of using different types of tea ware, water and tea and the energetics od different teas.We will of course be drinking amazing rare teas all weekend and a vegetarian lunch will be provided on Saturday.. This will be so much fun and it is a chance to learn how to make the Art of Tea your own art.
Schedule:
Saturday Morning 10am-12 noon
Lunch 12:30- 1:30pm (middle eastern vegetarian)
Saturday Afternoon Session: 2-4pm
Sunday Morning Session: 10am-12 noon.
Cost: $150.00, Limit is 7 people. (we will need at least five to make it work)
Call to make reservation: 503-230-0953. $75 non-refundable deposit required to hold a space.
5th week of march
Monday, 29th, 7-9pm. The Sacred Art of Tea: Inner and Outer Cha Dao. $40/person. Tea has the ability to connect us to both our humanity and our divinity. In this class you will be introduced to the sacred aspects of Chinese tea ceremony and various techniques for making tea a simple but deep practice for yourself and loved ones. You will learn the outer practices of tea ceremony as well as the keys to opening up the inner dimensions of this sacred art. This is a study of infinite depth- open to beginners and advanced practitioners.
Tuesday 30th, 7-9pm. Tea Drunk: A Night of Heady Tea and Ecstatic Poetry.$45/person. In this evening we will drink many heady rare teas, and read and share poetry from the great ecstatic traditions of Asia, and howl with the full moon. We will read such things as great sufi poetry, mahasiddha poetry form Tibet, wandering Sadhu poetry form India and Taoist poetry form China. We will drink teas that will bring us into that ecstatic lunar state….come celebrate the spiraling joy of life!
the indoor tea temple
the outdoor summer tea hut
