the way of tea
Tea Ceremony Gatherings
This ceremony is an invitation to connect deeply with nature, yourself, and the community around you.
Come and experience the beauty, wisdom + rich traditions of a Tea Ceremony
✓ create + integrate spaciousness, slowness + simplicity into your life
✓ deepen the connection you have with yourself, with others, and with nature
✓ quiet the mind + understand your internal guidance more clearly
✓ release inclinations of urgency, perfectionism, people pleasing + self-abandonment
✓ receive
With invitations to:
Through this practice, we will explore the profound connection between Tea + our own beings
This Tea Ceremony is rooted in the Chinese ritual of Cha Dao, which translates to "the way of Tea". This ancient practice invites us to live in harmony with nature, regard the lineage of both the practice + the leaf, and embrace a slower pace of life.
Upcoming events.
Explore all the upcoming in-person + online gatherings.
special offerings
Weekly Tea Offering: Grounding Together
Join me every Wednesday from 9-10 AM EST for an online Tea gathering — a weekly ritual to pause, breathe, and reconnect with ourselves and each other.
In the midst of life’s busyness, this space invites us to slow down, soften, and ground. Through the profound practice of Tea Ceremony, we’ll come together to root into stillness, meet ourselves in presence, and share in the quiet company of others across distance.
This offering is open to all and is donation-based. Whether you come every week or drop in when you can, this is a space to anchor yourself and return to your center in community.
Bring a warm cup of tea, your presence, and an open heart. Let’s gather, ground, and begin the day together.
Details:
When: Wednesdays, 9-10 AM EST
Where: Online (link provided upon registration)
Cost: Donation-based
Register Here & Invitation to Donate Below
All are welcome — no prior experience with Tea Ceremony is needed.
Personal Tea Ceremony + Birth Chart Reading — $300
2-hour 1:1 gathering including: one traditional Tea Ceremony, a personalized printed birth chart as well as an in person reading.
Private group tea ceremony
— $400
2-hour gathering including:
Tea Ceremony + group reflection, full ceremony set up, space for up to 8 guests.
styles of serving tea
o1
leaves in a bowl practice
This steeping style invites us to further our connection to nature by witnessing the dance of Tea leaves as they gently unfold in the water offering their medicine
o2
sidehandle practice
This steeping method invites a different relationship to Tea with deepened flavors + scents from the Tea medicine
ACCESSIBILITY NOTE
This ceremony will take place seated on the ground. Alternative accommodations will be made for anyone who is unable and/or uncomfortable doing so.
important acknowledgments
My Tea Ceremony education is through Chinese tradition. Cha Dao, the practice I will be serving in, has roots in Chinese culture which will be acknowledged and honored within our ceremony as well as acknowledgment of the land + humans where the Tea grew from.
FAQs
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There is nothing for you to do but show up and be served Tea.
This ceremony is a form of silent meditation – I will guide us in the beginning and invite you to explore finding your own natural rhythm as sip each bowl of Tea side-by-side.
Note: It is said when a Tea Ceremony begins everything is perfect. This is a space to practice releasing the binary of “right” and “wrong” – there's an invitation here to relate differently to things that may arise within you like perfectionism. To move from brain to the whole body. To trust yourself and let your intuition guide you. -
They are. Since we will be drinking Tea in the leaves-in-a-bowl style, you may find yourself with a leaf or two in some of your sips. Invitation to trust yourself if you feel drawn to taste or digest a leaf.
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The type of Tea Ceremony we'll be practicing is called Cha Dao (meaning “the way of Tea”). This is an ancient Chinese practice that invites those who practice to “live life in a harmonious way with nature, respecting the lineage, slowing down when sitting for Tea, meditating with Tea, recognizing the chi (life force energy) exchange as well as the sacred mystery that every bowl of Tea offers.”[1]
In our ceremony we will be taking time to honor those this practice originates from as well as the land from which the Tea leaves were grown and the humans who harvested and dried them. Embracing the much larger community that shares in this sacred ceremony each time it is practiced. -
Just your beautiful self and an openness to meet yourself where you're at in this experience.
I will provide all the components needed for the ceremony – this is an opportunity to show up and simply receive.
Note: You may want to wear comfortable clothing as we will be sitting on the floor – if you are unable to sit on the floor for any reason please let me know and I will make sure we provide what you need to honor your body best. -
Yes, all Tea has natural caffeine; however the wild Tea we will use in our ceremony is different than a highly concentrated Tea bag that you might be used to. The equivalent of this type of natural caffeine would be like eating a piece of chocolate.
Courtney is a Tea-loving, road-trip-mix-making, philosophical soul. A Sagittarius Sun/Moon/Rising, 5/1 Sacral Generator, and Enneagram 7 — in a nutshell, a human who loves to explore life both internally + externally.
As a relational leader, her mission focuses on creating space and inviting rehumanization into the conversation – specifically within the context of business.
From her roots in documentary filmmaking + photography she learned the power of the human story and cultivation of brave spaces where people can show up in full expression + be seen. Now, as a certified holistic life coach with a focus on rehumanizing business, she continues to champion and co-create space that invite deeper connection + humanity to the table.
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