TEA SCHOOL
Tea is the Teacher – Let Tea Drink You, Savor You, and Sit With You
SACRED CHA DAO – THE WAY OF TEA
Tea is a gateway to inner growth, healing, and the subtle mysteries of existence. It is a gift from nature to help us learn the flow of nature and the language of life. In this school, we teach tea as a vibrational medicine for self-cultivation, health, and plant medicine. Tea is a plant that helps humans have a visceral experience of both their humanity and their divinity and how to move through this life embracing both as sacred.
My program includes both the internal and classical external arts of Chinese tea. You will learn the profound art form of making tea, how to serve it, and how to use it in a way that will teach you endlessly about yourself and the world we inhabit. We also offer advanced deeper study into the energetic and healing qualities of tea, tea as sacred medicine, tea as plant spirit medicine, and tea as a tool for self-cultivation to serve your creative growth. The aim of our classes is to give people the tools to make tea their own living art.
The tea school is set up so you may engage at any level of depth that is calling you. There are many aspects and dimensions to learning the sacred arts of tea, so we approach the study from many different sides. The goal is to give you an innate, global understanding of this profound art. This is a socratic school of learning, so come to a few sessions, do your own work at home to integrate, and come back with questions about your evolving practice.
Even though we have group classes, like any real art, this is a highly personal path to follow and I work with people as individuals. This is a school of personal cultivation where people come to develop their being through art. See below on options for engaging with tea school .
tea school:
mondays 930-11am
fridays 930-11am
location: outer se pdx
cost $40
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Ongoing Weekly Class- we offer ongoing weekly classes where we explore tea as vibrational and cultivation medicine in all its aspects - tea, tea ware, tea ritual, and internal aspects of cha dao.
The classes are energetic as well as educational and will help clear , open and reset you for the coming week.
Special Monthly Tea Classes- monthly classes to inspire and broaden your understanding of the art of the. See below for some of our class offerings. These will be posted under events on the website and on social media .
SOME OF OUR OFFERED CLASSES
on special request
The following are a few of the classes offered. These are also available on request for private or private group sessions.
RARE TEA JOUNREY
A session devoted to very rare aged teas from our collection. These are powerful teas and each a journey in itself. Usually this class is mix of discussion, meditation, and laughter- both light and profound.
GONG FU CHA
Here we study the ritual and art of Chinese tea ceremony. There are both internal and external aspects for this art to achieve grace, power, flow and potency .
PUER CLASS
A class devoted to drinking and understanding puerh tea. We draw from the tea schools vast collection of young, aging and old teas.
TEA AND POETRY
A night devoted to ecstatic tea, reading and writing poetry.
TEA, PLANT, SPIRIT
Learn how to work with tea as a plant, spirit, medicine to support your life and growth. This plant has an amazing healing intelligence that will meet you where you are, each and every day.
TEA AND MEDITATION
In this clsss we drink rare teas which facilitate presence and stillness. Each tea is followed by a short meditation period and then discussion.
THE ART OF CHA DAO
Tea is an art form, and is ever responding and being illuminated by the current energies of life. Learn to make this art form your own.
ANTIQUE TEA WARE
Explore antique tea ware from our vast collection. Each peice of tea ware will shift the expression of energy , flavor , aroma and personality of a tea.
FULL MOON TEA JOURNEY
We celebrate the full moon each month with teas that drop us into the poetry of life and its nature cycles. Our session includes tea, chocolates, incense, music and poetry from old masters.
TEA AND TAO
An exploration of the energies of the tao through the energies of different teas. We explore the ying/yang, elemental energies and ba gua energies of teas.
Five Elements Tea
In this class we drink ecstatic teas, eat chocolate, write a poem after each tea to reflect what it has opened up inside and read classical poetry from Asia.
TEA AND PRESENCE
Tea is the medicine of presence. In this class we learn through embodied experience about what this state is and how to deepen it and bring it into our lives.
