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Tea & Contemplation Being Tea + Adam Grossi
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Tea & Contemplation is a podcast + practice space for exploring our inner world, through the lens of tea and yogic philosophy.
June 2022 update: This series is now retired in weekly format, after running for over a year and a half, but we're leaving these lovely archive sessions up for your enjoyment. For future new podcasts and projects with tea meditation, subscribe to Being Tea's newsletter, available at https://beingtea.com/
Every episode begins with a real time guided meditation with tea, followed by discussion on this month's themed topic of exploration. Your hosts are artist, writer and yoga teacher, Adam Grossi, and tea educator and founder of Being Tea, Suzette Hammond. This podcast is for anyone who is curious about meditation and is craving quiet thinking time and space to process emotions.
NOTES FOR PREPARING THE TEA:
- We use the bowl method, a versatile and very accessible traditional method for enjoying tea, for every session.
- Just a pinch of loose leaf tea + hot water in an open mug or small bowl with no strainer necessary. (This appears on the podcast cover art.)
- We brew tea together during the session in real time, so simply just have your kettle heating just before you come sit down for practice and you’ll be all set.
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Clearing, ep 3 of 3
Our theme for the month of March is "CLEARING." Given the deep weight the world is carrying at the moment, it feels like an appropriate place to pause and just consider how we practice peace within ourselves. How we deescalate from within. How we clear and make space for listening, restoration, grieving. So, we'll be spending March contemplating the practice of clearing with our tea and with our inner quiet. Come sit with us and be in community.
We're back after a little spring break last week! And today, our monthly guest, jess young chang, joins us to lead a contemplation about clearing as both a form of letting go (a verb) and also a space (a noun). jess is currently pursuing her Master's at Harvard Divinity School, with a focus on the nature of the body and the Divine in both Tantric and Christian traditions. She is also a yoga teacher, as well as women's health advocate, from Chicago, IL. You can reach Jess at http://www.adevotedyogi.com/.
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Tea & Contemplation is hosted by Suzette (‘Sooz’) Hammond - tea educator, tea contemplative practitioner, and founder of Being Tea - and Adam Grossi - artist, writer and yoga teacher. They are both based in Chicago, IL. You can connect with Adam on IG @adamgrossi and Sooz on IG @beingtea.
Tea & Contemplation is recorded as a live studio audience session, every Friday morning at 8am CST. Attendees of the live session get to participate in our lovely group discussion and sharing circle afterward (which is unrecorded), for communal support in the practice. So if you like what you experience here and think you might also enjoy practicing with community, please join us!
Tickets to join live sessions can be found at beingtea.com/teaandcontemplation.
Finally, just to note: This podcast is supported entirely by listeners like YOU! You can make one time "tip jar" gifts as a thank you anytime, or become a monthly supporter which includes tickets to our live weekly sessions. Just visit our support link at buymeacoffee.com/teaandcpodcast. -
Clearing, ep 2 of 3
Our theme for the month of March is "CLEARING." Given the deep weight the world is carrying at the moment, it feels like an appropriate place to pause and just consider how we practice peace within ourselves. How we deescalate from within. How we clear and make space for listening, restoration, grieving. So, we'll be spending March contemplating the practice of clearing with our tea and with our inner quiet. Come sit with us and be in community.
Today's session is about establishing trust with our body and our senses as a means to assist us with this working of letting go and clearing away. Also, in this episode, we want to send an extra THANK YOU to our tea friends around the world, as we mark a special milestone: over 500 regular listeners, from North America, North Africa, Europe, Asia, South America, and Oceania. Thank you so much for being on this journey with us these last 2 years!
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Tea & Contemplation is hosted by Suzette (‘Sooz’) Hammond - tea educator, tea contemplative practitioner, and founder of Being Tea - and Adam Grossi - artist, writer and yoga teacher. They are both based in Chicago, IL. You can connect with Adam on IG @adamgrossi and Sooz on IG @beingtea.
Tea & Contemplation is recorded as a live studio audience session, every Friday morning at 8am CST. Attendees of the live session get to participate in our lovely group discussion and sharing circle afterward (which is unrecorded), for communal support in the practice. So if you like what you experience here and think you might also enjoy practicing with community, please join us!
Tickets to join live sessions can be found at beingtea.com/teaandcontemplation.
Finally, just to note: This podcast is supported entirely by listeners like YOU! You can make one time "tip jar" gifts as a thank you anytime, or become a monthly supporter which includes tickets to our live weekly sessions. Just visit our support link at buymeacoffee.com/teaandcpodcast. -
Clearing, ep 1 of 3
Our theme for the month of March is "CLEARING." Given the deep weight the world is carrying at the moment, it feels like an appropriate place to pause and just consider how we practice peace within ourselves. How we deescalate from within. How we clear and make space for listening, restoration, grieving. So, we'll be spending March contemplating the practice of clearing with our tea and with our inner quiet. Come sit with us and be in community.
Today's session centers on finding a place within our own body for beginning this work, including guided breathwork and physical connecting practice.
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Tea & Contemplation is hosted by Suzette (‘Sooz’) Hammond - tea educator, tea contemplative practitioner, and founder of Being Tea - and Adam Grossi - artist, writer and yoga teacher. They are both based in Chicago, IL. You can connect with Adam on IG @adamgrossi and Sooz on IG @beingtea.
Tea & Contemplation is recorded as a live studio audience session, every Friday morning at 8am CST. Attendees of the live session get to participate in our lovely group discussion and sharing circle afterward (which is unrecorded), for communal support in the practice. So if you like what you experience here and think you might also enjoy practicing with community, please join us!
Tickets to join live sessions can be found at beingtea.com/teaandcontemplation.
Finally, just to note: This podcast is supported entirely by listeners like YOU! You can make one time "tip jar" gifts as a thank you anytime, or become a monthly supporter which includes tickets to our live weekly sessions. Just visit our support link at buymeacoffee.com/teaandcpodcast. -
Deep Listening, ep 4 of 4
Our theme for February in Tea & Contemplation is "Deep Listening." Winter is a very inward, reflective time of year, and perhaps a time where we are extra prone to absorbing excessive messages. Whether they originate internally from our own insecurities, or externally because we're just living in a period of nearly debilitating intake of everything, all the time.
This month, Adam and I sit with how to filter and tune out the noise, learning to tend to this inner monologue as a garden - one that needs frequent, attentive weeding.
Today's session is one for sitting with what we're hearing, even in our most painful moments, while honoring the call of our own sovereignty. (the recording of this session takes place as news of the invasion of Ukraine is breaking.)
We invite back into our space our friend and regular guest host, jess young chang, to lead our contemplation. jess is currently pursuing her Master's at Harvard Divinity School, with a focus on the nature of the body and the Divine in both Tantric and Christian traditions. She is also a yoga teacher, as well as women's health advocate, from Chicago, IL. You can reach Jess at http://www.adevotedyogi.com/.
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Tea & Contemplation is hosted by Suzette (‘Sooz’) Hammond - tea educator, tea contemplative practitioner, and founder of Being Tea - and Adam Grossi - artist, writer and yoga teacher. They are both based in Chicago, IL. You can connect with Adam on IG @adamgrossi and Sooz on IG @beingtea.
Tea & Contemplation is recorded as a live studio audience session, every Friday morning at 8am CST. Attendees of the live session get to participate in our lovely group discussion and sharing circle afterward (which is unrecorded), for communal support in the practice. So if you like what you experience here and think you might also enjoy practicing with community, please join us!
Tickets to join live sessions can be found at beingtea.com/teaandcontemplation.
Finally, just to note: This podcast is supported entirely by listeners like YOU! You can make one time "tip jar" gifts as a thank you anytime, or become a monthly supporter which includes tickets to our live weekly sessions. Just visit our support link at buymeacoffee.com/teaandcpodcast. -
Deep Listening, ep 3 of 4
Our theme for February in Tea & Contemplation is "Deep Listening." Winter is traditionally held as the season when our ears are at their greatest sensitivity, as our other senses are resting in the absence of normal seasonal stimulation. It's also of course a very inward, reflective time of year, and perhaps a time where we are extra prone to absorbing unhelpful messages. Whether they originate internally from our own insecurities, or externally because we're just living in a period of debilitating noise.
This month, Adam and I sit with how to filter and tune out the noise, learning to tend to this inner monologue as a garden - one that needs frequent, attentive weeding. In today's session, we talk about accessing that deep listening through physical practice, and how we handle and sit with what we encounter in that space.
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Tea & Contemplation is recorded as a live studio audience session, every Friday morning at 8am CST. Attendees of the live session get to participate in our lovely group discussion and sharing circle afterward (which is unrecorded), for communal support in the practice. So if you like what you experience here and think you might also enjoy practicing with community, please join us!
Tickets to join live sessions can be found at beingtea.com/teaandcontemplation.
Tea & Contemplation is hosted by Suzette (‘Sooz’) Hammond - tea educator, tea contemplative practitioner, and founder of Being Tea - and Adam Grossi - artist, writer and yoga teacher. They are both based in Chicago, IL. You can connect with Adam on IG @adamgrossi and Sooz on IG @beingtea.
Finally, just to note: This podcast is supported entirely by listeners like YOU! You can make one time "tip jar" gifts as a thank you anytime, or become a monthly supporter which includes tickets to our live weekly sessions. Just visit our support link at buymeacoffee.com/teaandcpodcast. -
Deep Listening ep 2 of 4
Our theme for February in Tea & Contemplation is "Deep Listening." Winter is traditionally held as the season when our ears are at their greatest sensitivity, as our other senses are resting in the absence of normal seasonal stimulation. It's also of course a very inward, reflective time of year, and perhaps a time where we are extra prone to absorbing unhelpful messages. Whether they originate internally from our own insecurities, or externally because we're just living in a period of debilitating noise.
This month, Adam and I sit with how to filter and tune out the noise, learning to tend to this inner monologue as a garden - one that needs frequent, attentive weeding. In today's session, we talk about listening inside the body, emotional repression, and the struggle to center ourselves.
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Tea & Contemplation is hosted by Suzette (‘Sooz’) Hammond - tea educator, tea contemplative practitioner, and founder of Being Tea - and Adam Grossi - artist, writer and yoga teacher. They are both based in Chicago, IL. You can connect with Adam on IG @adamgrossi and Sooz on IG @beingtea.
Tea & Contemplation is recorded as a live studio audience session, every Friday morning at 8am CST. Attendees of the live session get to participate in our lovely group discussion and sharing circle afterward (which is unrecorded), for communal support in the practice. So if you like what you experience here and think you might also enjoy practicing with community, please join us!
Tickets to join live sessions can be found at beingtea.com/teaandcontemplation.
Finally, just to note: This podcast is supported entirely by listeners like YOU! You can make one time "tip jar" gifts as a thank you anytime, or become a monthly supporter which includes tickets to our live weekly sessions. Just visit our support link at buymeacoffee.com/teaandcpodcast.