Tea Classes Calendar for May 2010
WEEKS 1 & 2 : Heavens Tea is on the road to San Francisco to do tea for some of my wonderful friends down there!
Week 3
Friday May 14th-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.
Saturday May 15th: 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 May 15th: Learning Chinese Tea Ceremony: 10:30-1200 noon, $35/person. In this session you will learn the simple but profound art of Chinese tea ceremony. This stlye of tea is easy to learn but endless in depth and will teach you how to connect to yourself, tea and your guests in a beautiful way. As always we will drink amazing rare teas during this class.
WEEK 4
Monday May 17th: Tea and Chi: The Energetics of Living Tea. 7-9pm. $40/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)
Wednesday May 19th: 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 both eastern and western herbs and I promise you a very different experience than you have had with herbal teas, these sessions are quite heady.
Saturday May 22nd :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 May 22nd :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.
WEEK 5
Monday May 24th: 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 12 year 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.
Thursday May 27th FULL MOON! Full Moon 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!
Saturday May 29th: 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 May 29th: Tasting the Mountains: An Introduction to The 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.
WEEK 6
Monday May 31st 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.
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