An Introduction to Tea - Bringing Ceremony into Daily Life
This course is an invitation to slow down, return to simplicity, and enter into a living relationship with tea.
An Introduction to Tea is a comprehensive yet gentle guide to the Way of Tea—designed for those who feel called to work with tea as a meditative, ceremonial, and transformative practice, rather than just a beverage.
Whether you are completely new to tea as a ceremony or seeking to deepen an existing practice, this course offers the foundations needed to confidently host, participate in, and sustain a meaningful tea practice in daily life.
What This Course Covers
In this course, you will learn:
✧ A brief history of tea and its ceremonial roots
✧ The 7 genres of tea
✧ The 5 basics of tea and the 4 virtues of tea
✧ Embracing the feminine essence of tea
✧ The 5 brewing methods associated with this lineage
✧ The importance of silence in ceremony
✧ Music & tea—when to use it, and when to let silence lead
✧ How to host a tea ceremony and how to be a guest
✧ The roles of Chajin and Chatong within the tea space
✧ The bow
✧ Creating your chaxi (tea stage)
✧ Different water heating methods
✧ How to hold your bowl and kettle with mindfulness
✧ Water quality and its influence on tea
✧ Why we drink three bowls of tea
✧ Tea & mindfulness, tea as moving meditation, and tea as a life path
✧ Creating sacred space and a daily tea ritual
✧ Tea Ceremonies & Life’s Big Moments
✧ The benefits of keeping a tea journal
✧ Step-by-step guidance for Leaves in a Bowl and Side-Handle Pot ceremonies
✧ Trusted sources for tea and teaware
✧ Access to two live silent tea ceremonies
✧ Access to two live tea ceremonies with step by step guidance
Why This Course Matters
Tea teaches us how to listen—to the body, to the moment, and to life itself. In a world that moves quickly and demands constant attention, this course offers a return to presence, simplicity, and rhythm.
Rather than memorising techniques, you’ll learn how to feel the ceremony, trust your movements, and allow tea to become a quiet companion and teacher in your life. This is a course for those seeking depth without dogma, structure without rigidity, and ceremony that feels alive and accessible.
Course Format & Access
This course is delivered as a beautifully designed PDF, allowing you to move through the material at your own pace, with ongoing access to live video tutorials and ceremonies to support embodied learning.