TEA COURSE ~ CHADAO ~ YIN OF TEA
WELCOME TO CHADAO COURSE
YIN - STEPPING INTO THE FEMININE WAY
6 WEEKS ~ 6 SESSIONS
Here you will learn how to start your own tea practice, your own tea ritual, how to listen to Tea, how to cultivate your relationship with Her, how to meditate with Tea.
In this part we will be exploring how through our Tea Practice we can create moments of deep connection and why they are incredibly important if we want to live life more fully, with joy and passion, with deep intimacy.
The more we pause and deeply listen, the more grace, compassion and gratitude will fill our souls.
Each week there is a certain theme, a certain angle that we will explore in our tea session, and then throughout the whole week we will contemplate and take that theme into our life – I call it Life Practice. It is ongoing and constantly presents so many opportunities to go deeper, and it does not require us to dedicate long stretches of time to practice. But only if we are aware and present. Each week our awareness will be directed to noticing certain things arising and manifesting. And the group field will be helping greatly with that - what I found personally is that it intensifies and speeds things up that usually are much slower to manifest. Each of these themes are incredibly important in your practice of TEA.
These practices are drawing from different traditions that touched me personally -Dzogchen, Zen, Ch’An, tantra. In all of these practices CONSISTENCY and REGULARITY is the key.
THEMES
1. INTRODUCTION
SLOWING DOWN
HANDLING OF THE BOWL
FOUR VIRTUES OF TEA
2. SAVOURING – LIVING LIFE THROUGH SENSES
3. DEEP LISTENING/ RECEIVING
4. FORM OF THE TEA CEREMONY
LEAVES IN A BOWL TEA CEREMONY
5. ACCEPTING YOUR SHADOW - BEING WHOLE AND WHY IT IS IMPORTANT IN TEA
6. THE IMPORTANCE OF GAZE
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
1. This course is on my website and has unlimited access
2. Tea is included in the course, so please provide your address so it can be sent to you.
3. All practical information on where to buy a bowl, a teapot, a kettle is included in the course
4. There is a Telegram Channel where we stay in touch
5. For those who have completed the courses there are free ad hoc community tea sits where we have tea in ceremony, share our insights, ask questions and connect.
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TELEGRAM COURSE CHANNEL
The Channel is for all additional information relating to the course and optional practices
The Channel is for all additional information relating to the course and optional practices
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What to Prepare For Each Session
Almost each session we will start with three bowls of tea in silence.
In this section I listed everything you need to be prepared for each sessionAlmost each session we will start with three bowls of tea in silence.
In this section I listed everything you need to be prepared for each session -
This section gives a few links and ideas on where to get your bowl from
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what is the essence of the way of tea?
A film called Beyond the Clouds tells the story of the nomadic baggage carriers that suddenly stopped in the middle of nowhere in the mountains. Without explanations. Just stopped with their eyes closed and sat for hours. Everyone was perplexed. Following a number of hours the carriers stood up and resumed their journey. One of the elders decided to give an explanation.
He said: “We were walking too fast and our souls got left behind. So we had to stop and wait for the souls to catch up.”
This story is such a great depiction of what tea is. Tea Ceremony is that space for us to rest and become quiet, so our souls, that got lost in the busyness of life, in the constant doing, can catch up with us. Otherwise, without this time, without the soul, everything becomes meaningless, disconnected. And life without connection to the sacred and meaning is empty.
