Living Tea
Have you ever drunk Living Tea?
What kind of tea leaves considered as Living Tea?
Living Tea is known as plant medicine. The quality of the leaves, the specific way of picking them and hand made process using only natural elements keeps its flavor, components, energy and health benefits alive. No machine touch, no compressing (aka making tea cakes), no process that would intentionally break the leaves. There’s a huge difference between Living Tea and tea we commonly use or get in many Tea Houses even. These alive tea leaves we will have in our cups can never get bitter, not even after a day of soaking or using boiled water. And you can brew them 10-15 times!
They are from a very specific, ancient tea “forest” areas of China. As for today I (Adél) am in a voluntary cooperation with a small, women owned local company there who support this ancient tradition by making these precious tea leaves and have them available internationally. I haven’t found anyone else who cultivate Living Tea like they do. They are unique.
So, these tea leaves that I’m using are quite special:
- They’re carefully hand picked in a very specific way by local individuals, often by elderly people of the village.
- All tea trees are indigenous and are aged between 300 – 1,500 years old in the area they are from.
- These leaves are never mixed with any other (unnatural)ingredients, never seen machines.
- Only whole leaves, no crushing or grinding involved.
- The leaves are treated with care in a slow-paced environment, using ancient methods (working with natural elements as sun, air, fire, and human manual labor) keeping their natural potency alive, ensuring the best of flavors and aromas. In these family owned small businesses, people truly listen to the tea plant, they listen how the leaves react to the sun, air and the season and they let the tea decide the method they will use on them. So they don’t force the making at all.
- These leaves are protected by traditional methods and indigenous local hands therefore contain their original medicinal qualities and nutrients providing rich flavor and showing their unique aroma.
Very short history of TEA and how we see tea today, generally speaking.
Using tea leaves goes back to ancient ingenious cultures in East, South East Asia, more than 13,000 years ago! It was treated as something not ordinary but special and used with intention. There are many legends around what happened to people who drank Living Tea.
In the 1700’s only, tea leaves were introduced to the west, first to Europe, becoming the privileged drink that only wealthy people could afford. The first Living Tea was sold as smoked tea because that’s how they tried to preserve the leaves during traveling. I have some in my shelves for curiosity, the taste is very smokey. But that’s not for medicine. At these old times the original tea leaves in China were worth more than gold. Literally. Have you ever thought of why?
Today we forgot what Tea is or was supposed to be. Today, tea as we know is cheap, and available for everyone. What happened? Businesses started to see profits, of course. Nothing new. Machines started to grind and blend tea leaves adding unhealthy and unnatural ingredients, creating “natural” flavors, reducing the amount of tea leaves in tea drinks until a point we left with the triggering caffein part of it but not the healing energy of this plant. Only for the sake of profit, ruining the rich flavor, natural aroma, its softness and health benefits. we losy connection to Tea as the Plant. It is all gone and today we generally think we know what tea is. Well, not quite.
Only some local farmers in Asia try to keep the original tea culture alive as it was in the beginning. These local farmers choosing hard, everyday work to protect what they believe in: keeping tea alive, as nature provides it. Therefore most of these Living teas is unavailable for the west. I’m offering these type of tea leaves from these communities only. My involvement is voluntary, based on friendship with a women owned business.
Why I am doing tea rituals with Living Tea?
With a soulful ritual we can embrace Tea as plant medicine and explore its full potential.
When we create a peaceful, silent corner in our busy world with these precious Living Tea leaves in our cups, we consciously create an opportunity for an extraordinary experience. These rituals are not for casual conversations or learning about tea. It’s about healing ourselves, connect to Tea as plant medicine and giving ourselves a well-deserved pause from the noisy world, calming the mind from its chatters and feeling into our Hearts.
The slow motion ritual is also providing a balancing effect between actions and pauses to let the aroma shine, the flavor be fully felt and each moment enjoyed.
How does my type of Tea Ritual work longer term?
Living Tea, as plant medicine is always here without expectations. She meets you as you are, like any other plant medicine. She sees you and shows you what you need to see, inspire you, awaken you.
After a longer time of practice she appears as an ally for your awakening journey.
Tea as plant medicine mostly works in a calm and relaxed environment. She loves silence in which you listen to her whispering. She is a wise guide in our fast spaced and noisy world where its silent power is overlooked. Shortly after you start sitting with your Living Tea leaves, she reveals itself and opens her full potential for you.
Living Tea brings clarity to the mind, warming up the body’s energy centers and has a calming and opening effect on the heart. Only Living tea can do this.
The tea wil be picked pick from white, green, yellow, red and black tea variety according the need of your current situation.
Is Tea really a medicine plant?
Yes, it is! The tea plant name is Camellia Sinensis and it’s been used as a healing medicine in traditional Chinese Medicine. Tea plant was mentioned in the ancient Chinese Medicinal Herbs book around 2000 yrs ago as a potent remedy for quite a variety of poisons. They succesfully used Tea plant agains different kind of toxins as a cure and boosting the Immune System.
They also mention an energetic change in our energy field during drinking Tea. A Heart opening and mind clearing effect. But these energetics are only true about Living Tea leaves. They carry medicinal potential because of the intentional, special picking technic and the way they make them into drinkable forms. These medicinal effects comes totally alive in your cup. Isn’t this fact already sounds magical for you and shows how powerful this plant is?
The Tea ritual
Tea ritual can be learnt, experienced or both. I am here to invite you to give it a soulful try and see how it feels for you. My tea gatherings’ length is only 1 hour and for maximum 4 people at a time or can be 1 on 1. Cultivating personal need, space and comfort.
Online meeting always available.
Please book a short free consultation to hear more about Living tea and my gatherings’ purpose before you book any Tea Session. Thank You!
