Tea & Contemplation: Recent Episodes
Being Tea + Adam Grossi
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:
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We use the bowl method, a versatile and very accessible traditional method for enjoying tea, for every session.
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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.)
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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.
Hello dear listeners, Today we have a short program update to share with you, regarding a hiatus for Tea & Contemplation. Adam is on a medical leave, which is explained further in the episode. We'll have more information for you as it becomes available, and we're deeply grateful to you for co-creating this meaningful, enriching space with us these last two years. In the meantime, here are some of the resource links shared in this episode: Newsletters: Make sure you're subscribed to our newsletters, as we'll be sharing with our communities first any updates about the return of Tea & Contemplation. Newsletter for Sooz at Being Tea can be found here at this http://eepurl.com/dMbq6c (quick subscribe link). And to join Adam's newsletter, visit https://www.adamgrossi.com/ (his website here).
Practice spaces: Sooz hosts weekly guided tea meditation in the Being Tea space, in a regular series called Quiet Tea Sundays. This happens Sundays at 9am CST. You can learn more here on https://beingtea.com/quietteasundays/ (Being Tea's website).
Here's a link to Adam's book, https://hi-buddy.org/products/candor-arts-wind-through-quiet-tensions-adam-grossi (Wind Through Quiet Tensions.)
Social media: Keep in touch with Sooz and Adam on social media. You can connect with Adam on IG https://www.instagram.com/adamgrossi/ (@adamgrossi) and Sooz on IG https://www.instagram.com/beingtea/ (@beingtea).
We look forward to joining you in practice again soon! Be well, be kind to yourselves and to each other, and remember to breathe with your tea.
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.
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.
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 https://www.buymeacoffee.com/teaandcpodcast (buymeacoffee.com/teaandcpodcast).
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/ (http://www.adevotedyogi.com/).
Tea & Contemplation is hosted by Suzette (‘Sooz’) Hammond - tea educator, tea contemplative practitioner, and founder of https://beingtea.com/ (Being Tea) - and https://www.adamgrossi.com/ (Adam Grossi) - artist, writer and yoga teacher. They are both based in Chicago, IL. You can connect with Adam on IG https://www.instagram.com/adamgrossi/ (@adamgrossi) and Sooz on IG https://www.instagram.com/beingtea/ (@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 https://beingtea.com/teaandcontemplation/ (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 https://www.buymeacoffee.com/teaandcpodcast (buymeacoffee.com/teaandcpodcast).
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!
Tea & Contemplation is hosted by Suzette (‘Sooz’) Hammond - tea educator, tea contemplative practitioner, and founder of https://beingtea.com/ (Being Tea) - and https://www.adamgrossi.com/ (Adam Grossi) - artist, writer and yoga teacher. They are both based in Chicago, IL. You can connect with Adam on IG https://www.instagram.com/adamgrossi/ (@adamgrossi) and Sooz on IG https://www.instagram.com/beingtea/ (@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 https://beingtea.com/teaandcontemplation/ (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 https://www.buymeacoffee.com/teaandcpodcast (buymeacoffee.com/teaandcpodcast).
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.
Tea & Contemplation is hosted by Suzette (‘Sooz’) Hammond - tea educator, tea contemplative practitioner, and founder of https://beingtea.com/ (Being Tea) - and https://www.adamgrossi.com/ (Adam Grossi) - artist, writer and yoga teacher. They are both based in Chicago, IL. You can connect with Adam on IG https://www.instagram.com/adamgrossi/ (@adamgrossi) and Sooz on IG https://www.instagram.com/beingtea/ (@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 https://beingtea.com/teaandcontemplation/ (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 https://www.buymeacoffee.com/teaandcpodcast (buymeacoffee.com/teaandcpodcast).
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, https://www.instagram.com/jessyoungchang/ (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/ (http://www.adevotedyogi.com/).
Tea & Contemplation is hosted by Suzette (‘Sooz’) Hammond - tea educator, tea contemplative practitioner, and founder of https://beingtea.com/ (Being Tea) - and https://www.adamgrossi.com/ (Adam Grossi) - artist, writer and yoga teacher. They are both based in Chicago, IL. You can connect with Adam on IG https://www.instagram.com/adamgrossi/ (@adamgrossi) and Sooz on IG https://www.instagram.com/beingtea/ (@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 https://beingtea.com/teaandcontemplation/ (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 https://www.buymeacoffee.com/teaandcpodcast (buymeacoffee.com/teaandcpodcast).
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.
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 https://beingtea.com/teaandcontemplation/ (beingtea.com/teaandcontemplation).
Tea & Contemplation is hosted by Suzette (‘Sooz’) Hammond - tea educator, tea contemplative practitioner, and founder of https://beingtea.com/ (Being Tea) - and https://www.adamgrossi.com/ (Adam Grossi) - artist, writer and yoga teacher. They are both based in Chicago, IL. You can connect with Adam on IG https://www.instagram.com/adamgrossi/ (@adamgrossi) and Sooz on IG https://www.instagram.com/beingtea/ (@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 https://www.buymeacoffee.com/teaandcpodcast (buymeacoffee.com/teaandcpodcast).
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.
Tea & Contemplation is hosted by Suzette (‘Sooz’) Hammond - tea educator, tea contemplative practitioner, and founder of https://beingtea.com/ (Being Tea) - and https://www.adamgrossi.com/ (Adam Grossi) - artist, writer and yoga teacher. They are both based in Chicago, IL. You can connect with Adam on IG https://www.instagram.com/adamgrossi/ (@adamgrossi) and Sooz on IG https://www.instagram.com/beingtea/ (@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 https://beingtea.com/teaandcontemplation/ (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 https://www.buymeacoffee.com/teaandcpodcast (buymeacoffee.com/teaandcpodcast).
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 develop those deep listening skills, filtering and tuning out the noise, and learning to tend to that inner monologue as a garden - one that needs frequent, attentive weeding.
Tea & Contemplation is hosted by Suzette (‘Sooz’) Hammond - tea educator, tea contemplative practitioner, and founder of https://beingtea.com/ (Being Tea) - and https://www.adamgrossi.com/ (Adam Grossi) - artist, writer and yoga teacher. They are both based in Chicago, IL. You can connect with Adam on IG https://www.instagram.com/adamgrossi/ (@adamgrossi) and Sooz on IG https://www.instagram.com/beingtea/ (@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 https://beingtea.com/teaandcontemplation/ (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 https://www.buymeacoffee.com/teaandcpodcast (buymeacoffee.com/teaandcpodcast).
Our January theme is "Making a Place." Covid continues to impose intense restrictions on our ability to travel and to commune with the world outside of our homes. For many of us, it is a time of confinement, of being stuck in place. Psychologist and Holocaust survivor Victor Frankl posited that, “Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” Today, we close this series with a contemplation on what home means - to come home, to be of a place. And what it means to gain and lose places and homes, too.
This week's practice features our regular guest and dear friend here in the tea space, jessica young chang. 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/ (http://www.adevotedyogi.com/) or on IG @jessyoungchang.
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 –both based in Chicago, IL. You can connect with Adam on IG @adamgrossi and Sooz on IG @beingtea.
This podcast is supported entirely by listeners like YOU! You can make one time donations as a thank you anytime, or become a monthly member and even attend the live sessions with us each week. Visit https://www.buymeacoffee.com/teaandcpodcast
Tea & Contemplation is broadcast live on Zoom every Friday morning at 8am CST. Attendees for the live session are invited to participate in our private group sharing/healing circle (which is unrecorded), for community support.
Our January theme is "Making a Place." Covid continues to impose intense restrictions on our ability to travel and to commune with the world outside of our homes. For many of us, it is a time of confinement, of being stuck in place. Psychologist and Holocaust survivor Victor Frankl posited that, “Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” This month in Tea & Contemplation, we respond to isolation by invoking the power and magic of PLACE. What does it mean to be of a place? And how might we find nourishment in the art of placing, arranging, and intentional configuration?
Today's subject is how we care for the items and conditions of our space, and how this care itself is a way of understanding our own needs, to be seen, to be appreciated, and to live in wholeheartedness. Our intention in this series is to situate ourselves anew: to recognize the possibility inherent in our surroundings, and this most sacred place we call the body. We hope you enjoy!
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 –both based in Chicago, IL. You can connect with Adam on IG @adamgrossi and Sooz on IG @beingtea.
This podcast is supported entirely by listeners like YOU! You can make one time donations as a thank you anytime, or become a monthly member and even attend the live sessions with us each week. Visit https://www.buymeacoffee.com/teaandcpodcast (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/teaandcpodcast)
Tea & Contemplation is broadcast live on Zoom every Friday morning at 8am CST. Attendees for the live session are invited to participate in our private group sharing/healing circle (which is unrecorded), for community support.
Our January theme is "Making a Place." Covid continues to impose intense restrictions on our ability to travel and to commune with the world outside of our homes. For many of us, it is a time of confinement, of being stuck in place. Psychologist and Holocaust survivor Victor Frankl posited that, “Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” This month in Tea & Contemplation, we respond to isolation by invoking the power and magic of PLACE. What does it mean to be of a place? And how might we find nourishment in the art of placing, arranging, and intentional configuration? Today's contemplation is for the altar space and special items in our home.
This is not the cleaning-house approach of Marie Kondo; we’ll be embracing the clutter and the mud, the messiness of living in a home where everything is happening, often all at once. We’ll practice honoring and naming the parts of our space that do feel confining to us, when we feel trapped, and how we might make peace with those feelings. Our intention is to situate ourselves anew: to recognize the possibility inherent in our surroundings, and this most sacred place we call the body.
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 –both based in Chicago, IL. You can connect with Adam on IG @adamgrossi and Sooz on IG @beingtea.
This podcast is supported entirely by listeners like YOU! You can make one time donations as a thank you anytime, or become a monthly member and even attend the live sessions with us each week. Visit https://www.buymeacoffee.com/teaandcpodcast (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/teaandcpodcast)
Tea & Contemplation is broadcast live on Zoom every Friday morning at 8am CST. Attendees for the live session are invited to participate in our private group sharing/healing circle (which is unrecorded), for community support.
Our January theme is "Making a Place." Covid continues to impose intense restrictions on our ability to travel and to commune with the world outside of our homes. For many of us, it is a time of confinement, of being stuck in place. Psychologist and Holocaust survivor Victor Frankl posited that, “Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” This month in Tea & Contemplation, we respond to isolation by invoking the power and magic of PLACE. What does it mean to be of a place? And how might we find nourishment in the art of placing, arranging, and intentional configuration?
This is not the cleaning-house approach of Marie Kondo; we’ll be embracing the clutter and the mud, the messiness of living in a home where everything is happening, often all at once. We’ll practice honoring and naming the parts of our space that do feel confining to us, when we feel trapped, and how we might make peace with those feelings. Our intention is to situate ourselves anew: to recognize the possibility inherent in our surroundings, and this most sacred place we call the body.
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 –both based in Chicago, IL. You can connect with Adam on IG @adamgrossi and Sooz on IG @beingtea.
This podcast is supported entirely by listeners like YOU! You can make one time donations as a thank you anytime, or become a monthly member and even attend the live sessions with us each week. Visit https://www.buymeacoffee.com/teaandcpodcast (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/teaandcpodcast)
Tea & Contemplation is broadcast live on Zoom every Friday morning at 8am CST. Attendees for the live session are invited to participate in our private group sharing/healing circle (which is unrecorded), for community support.
Our December theme is DARKNESS. In a culture obsessed with light, darkness is burdened with our abundant fears and hostilities. If we are to integrate, to ground into the fullness of who we really are, we must release our projections and step into the dark. The unseen. The unknown, and the unknowable. The shadow, and the veil. Darkness, the ground from which we all emerge. In honor of our theme, there are no weekly subjects this month. We cannot see the path ahead; we'll make it as we go. We encourage you to practice each session in darkness / by candlelight, too, if possible (even if just turning off one overhead light).
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 –both based in Chicago, IL. You can connect with Adam on IG @adamgrossi and Sooz on IG @beingtea.
Tea & Contemplation is broadcast live on Zoom every Friday morning at 8am CST. Attendees for the live session are invited to participate in our private group sharing/healing circle (which is unrecorded), for community support.
This podcast is supported entirely by listeners like YOU! You can make one time donations as a thank you anytime, or become a monthly member and even attend the live sessions with us each week. Visit https://www.buymeacoffee.com/teaandcpodcast (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/teaandcpodcast)
Our December theme is DARKNESS. In a culture obsessed with light, darkness is burdened with our abundant fears and hostilities. If we are to integrate, to ground into the fullness of who we really are, we must release our projections and step into the dark. The unseen. The unknown, and the unknowable. The shadow, and the veil. Darkness, the ground from which we all emerge. In honor of our theme, there are no weekly subjects this month. We cannot see the path ahead; we'll make it as we go. We encourage you to practice each session in darkness / by candlelight, too, if possible (even if just turning off one overhead light).
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 –both based in Chicago, IL. You can connect with Adam on IG @adamgrossi and Sooz on IG @beingtea.
Tea & Contemplation is broadcast live on Zoom every Friday morning at 8am CST. Attendees for the live session are invited to participate in our private group sharing/healing circle (which is unrecorded), for community support.
This podcast is supported entirely by listeners like YOU! You can make one time donations as a thank you anytime, or become a monthly member and even attend the live sessions with us each week. Visit https://www.buymeacoffee.com/teaandcpodcast (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/teaandcpodcast)
Our December theme is DARKNESS. In a culture obsessed with light, darkness is burdened with our abundant fears and hostilities. If we are to integrate, to ground into the fullness of who we really are, we must release our projections and step into the dark. The unseen. The unknown, and the unknowable. The shadow, and the veil. Darkness, the ground from which we all emerge. In honor of our theme, there are no weekly subjects this month. We cannot see the path ahead; we'll make it as we go. We encourage you to practice each session in darkness / by candlelight, too, if possible (even if just turning off one overhead light).
This week's practice features our regular guest and dear friend here in the tea space, jessica young chang. 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/ (http://www.adevotedyogi.com/) or on IG @jessyoungchang.
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 –both based in Chicago, IL. You can connect with Adam on IG @adamgrossi and Sooz on IG @beingtea.
Tea & Contemplation is broadcast live on Zoom every Friday morning at 8am CST. Attendees for the live session are invited to participate in our private group sharing/healing circle (which is unrecorded), for community support.
This podcast is supported entirely by listeners like YOU! You can make one time donations as a thank you anytime, or become a monthly member and even attend the live sessions with us each week. Visit https://beingtea.com/teaandcontemplation/
Our December theme is DARKNESS. In a culture obsessed with light, darkness is burdened with our abundant fears and hostilities. If we are to integrate, to ground into the fullness of who we really are, we must release our projections and step into the dark. The unseen. The unknown, and the unknowable. The shadow, and the veil. Darkness, the ground from which we all emerge. In honor of our theme, there are no weekly subjects this month. We cannot see the path ahead; we'll make it as we go. We encourage you to practice each session in darkness / by candlelight, too, if possible (even if just turning off one overhead light).
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 –both based in Chicago, IL. You can connect with Adam on IG @adamgrossi and Sooz on IG @beingtea.
Tea & Contemplation is broadcast live on Zoom every Friday morning at 8am CST. Attendees for the live session are invited to participate in our private group sharing/healing circle (which is unrecorded), for community support.
This podcast is supported entirely by listeners like YOU! You can make one time donations as a thank you anytime, or become a monthly member and even attend the live sessions with us each week. Visit https://www.buymeacoffee.com/teaandcpodcast (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/teaandcpodcast)
Our December theme is DARKNESS. In a culture obsessed with light, darkness is burdened with our abundant fears and hostilities. If we are to integrate, to ground into the fullness of who we really are, we must release our projections and step into the dark. The unseen. The unknown, and the unknowable. The shadow, and the veil. Darkness, the ground from which we all emerge. In honor of our theme, there are no weekly subjects this month. We cannot see the path ahead; we'll make it as we go. We encourage you to practice each session in darkness / by candlelight, too, if possible (even if just turning off one overhead light).
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 –both based in Chicago, IL. You can connect with Adam on IG @adamgrossi and Sooz on IG @beingtea.
Tea & Contemplation is broadcast live on Zoom every Friday morning at 8am CST. Attendees for the live session are invited to participate in our private group sharing/healing circle (which is unrecorded), for community support.
This podcast is supported entirely by listeners like YOU! You can make one time donations as a thank you anytime, or become a monthly member and even attend the live sessions with us each week. Visit https://www.buymeacoffee.com/teaandcpodcast (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/teaandcpodcast)
Our November theme is Dismantling Discipline. We are in a time when people are trying SO hard, all the time, and it never seems to be enough. And this conflict gets refracted and twisted around in our practice spaces, too - an area in our life where acceptance, curiosity, and nurturing are supposed to be the guiding principles. Not rigidity. So what can we do? Can we move away from dominance and more toward dedication? Let's sit with tea and our breathing, and talk together. This week's session: "What do you want to do? Centering Pleasure" Our cultural conditioning often paints pleasure and discipline as contrasting forces. But what if they are actually best suited to complement and support each other?
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 –both based in Chicago, IL. You can connect with Adam on IG @adamgrossi and Sooz on IG @beingtea.
Tea & Contemplation is broadcast live on Zoom every Friday morning at 8am CST. Attendees for the live session are invited to participate in our private group sharing/healing circle (which is unrecorded), for community support.
This podcast is supported entirely by listeners like YOU! You can make one time donations as a thank you anytime, or become a monthly member and even attend the live sessions with us each week. Visit https://www.buymeacoffee.com/teaandcpodcast (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/teaandcpodcast)
Our November theme is Dismantling Discipline. We are in a time when people are trying SO hard, all the time, and it never seems to be enough. And this conflict gets refracted and twisted around in our practice spaces, too - an area in our life where acceptance, curiosity, and nurturing are supposed to be the guiding principles. Not rigidity. So what can we do? Can we move away from dominance and more toward dedication? Let's sit with tea and our breathing, and talk together. This week's session: "Softening the Critic." So many of us are burdened by the perceived failures of our expectations around discipline. What can we do to soften this harsh internal critic?
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 –both based in Chicago, IL. You can connect with Adam on IG @adamgrossi and Sooz on IG @beingtea.
Tea & Contemplation is broadcast live on Zoom every Friday morning at 8am CST. Attendees for the live session are invited to participate in our private group sharing/healing circle (which is unrecorded), for community support.
This podcast is supported entirely by listeners like YOU! You can make one time donations as a thank you anytime, or become a monthly member and even attend the live sessions with us each week. Visit https://www.buymeacoffee.com/teaandcpodcast (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/teaandcpodcast)
Our November theme is Dismantling Discipline. We are in a time when people are trying SO hard, all the time, and it never seems to be enough. And this conflict gets refracted and twisted around in our practice spaces, too - an area in our life where acceptance, curiosity, and nurturing are supposed to be the guiding principles. Not rigidity. So what can we do? Can we move away from dominance and more toward dedication? Let's sit with tea and our breathing, and talk together. This week's session: "Push vs Flow." A tale of two paths. There is pushing yourself do something: a reflection of willpower. And there is surrendering to the flow of inspiration: evidence of spiritual integration. This week's practice features our regular guest and dear friend here in the tea space, jessica young chang. 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 (adevotedyogi.com) or on IG @jessyoungchang.
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 –both based in Chicago, IL. You can connect with Adam on IG @adamgrossi and Sooz on IG @beingtea.
Tea & Contemplation is broadcast live on Zoom every Friday morning at 8am CST. Attendees for the live session are invited to participate in our private group sharing/healing circle (which is unrecorded), for community support.
This podcast is supported entirely by listeners like YOU! You can make one time donations as a thank you anytime, or become a monthly member and even attend the live sessions with us each week. Visit https://www.buymeacoffee.com/teaandcpodcast (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/teaandcpodcast)
Tea & Contemplation is back from our October break! Our November theme is Dismantling Discipline. We are in a time when people are trying SO hard, all the time, and it never seems to be enough. And this conflict gets refracted and twisted around in our practice spaces, too - an area in our life where acceptance, curiosity, and nurturing are supposed to be the guiding principles. Not rigidity. So what can we do? Can we move away from dominance and more toward dedication? Let's sit with tea and our breathing, and talk together. This week's session: "The Myth of Discipline." Where did we learn that hardness, and subjugation were the means for how we define what it means to be disciplined?
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 –both based in Chicago, IL. You can connect with Adam on IG @adamgrossi and Sooz on IG @beingtea.
Tea & Contemplation is broadcast live on Zoom every Friday morning at 8am CST. Attendees for the live session are invited to participate in our private group sharing/healing circle (which is unrecorded), for community support.
This podcast is supported entirely by listeners like YOU! You can make one time donations as a thank you anytime, or become a monthly member and even attend the live sessions with us each week. Visit https://www.buymeacoffee.com/teaandcpodcast (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/teaandcpodcast)
PROGRAM NOTE: Tea & Contemplation is on break this October, as Sooz and Adam are offering a 4-week special series, "Creating a Personal Practice." (This series is offered live on Zoom, Oct 16 - Nov 6, 2021. Tickets are available on both our websites.) So this month, we'll be posting some "Best of T&C" episodes from 2020 that just might be new to you! Tea & Contemplation returns to its regular schedule on Nov 5th. This week's episode : "Elevating the Habitual: Does this count?", from November 2020, picks up right after last week's "Small Sips" session.
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 –both based in Chicago, IL. You can connect with Adam on IG @adamgrossi and Sooz on IG @beingtea. Tea & Contemplation is broadcast live on Zoom every Friday morning at 8am CST. Attendees for the live session are invited to participate in our private group sharing/healing circle (which is unrecorded), for community support.
This podcast is supported entirely by listeners like YOU! You can make one time donations as a thank you anytime, or become a monthly member and even attend the live sessions with us each week. Visit https://www.buymeacoffee.com/teaandcpodcast (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/teaandcpodcast)
PROGRAM NOTE: Tea & Contemplation is on break this October, as Sooz and Adam are offering a 4-week special series, "Creating a Personal Practice." (This series is offered live on Zoom, Oct 16 - Nov 6, 2021. Tickets are available on both our websites.) So this month, we'll be posting some "Best of T&C" episodes from 2020 that just might be new to you! Tea & Contemplation returns to its regular schedule on Nov 5th. This week's session : "Small Sips: The Rhythm of Nourishment" from November 2020
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 –both based in Chicago, IL. You can connect with Adam on IG @adamgrossi and Sooz on IG @beingtea.
Tea & Contemplation is broadcast live on Zoom every Friday morning at 8am CST. Attendees for the live session are invited to participate in our private group sharing/healing circle (which is unrecorded), for community support.
This podcast is supported entirely by listeners like YOU! You can make one time donations as a thank you anytime, or become a monthly member and even attend the live sessions with us each week. Visit https://www.buymeacoffee.com/teaandcpodcast (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/teaandcpodcast)
PROGRAM NOTE: Tea & Contemplation is on break this October, as Sooz and Adam are offering a 4-week special series, "Creating a Personal Practice." (This series is offered live on Zoom, Oct 16 - Nov 6, 2021. Tickets are available on both our websites.) So this month, we'll be posting some "Best of T&C" episodes from 2020 that just might be new to you! Tea & Contemplation returns to its regular schedule on Nov 5th. First up is an episode exploring the panchakosha, an ancient and lovingly accessible framework (more than 2,000 years old), used in yoga and meditation for contemplating the dimensions of the self. Over the next 3 sessions, we'll be exploring how to leverage this revered map as a way to locate our selves amidst the flux. This week's session : "Coming Home in the Heart-Mind."
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 –both based in Chicago, IL. You can connect with Adam on IG @adamgrossi and Sooz on IG @beingtea.
Tea & Contemplation is broadcast live on Zoom every Friday morning at 8am CST. Attendees for the live session are invited to participate in our private group sharing/healing circle (which is unrecorded), for community support.
This podcast is supported entirely by listeners like YOU! You can make one time donations as a thank you anytime, or become a monthly member and even attend the live sessions with us each week. Visit https://www.buymeacoffee.com/teaandcpodcast (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/teaandcpodcast)
PROGRAM NOTE: Tea & Contemplation is on break this October, as Sooz and Adam are offering a 4-week special series, "Creating a Personal Practice." (This series is offered live on Zoom, Oct 16 - Nov 6, 2021. Tickets are available on both our websites.) So this month, we'll be posting some "Best of T&C" episodes from 2020 that just might be new to you! Tea & Contemplation returns to its regular schedule on Nov 5th. First up is an episode exploring the panchakosha, an ancient and lovingly accessible framework (more than 2,000 years old), used in yoga and meditation for contemplating the dimensions of the self. Over the next 3 sessions, we'll be exploring how to leverage this revered map as a way to locate our selves amidst the flux. This week's session : "Craving Stability & Embracing Change."
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 –both based in Chicago, IL. You can connect with Adam on IG @adamgrossi and Sooz on IG @beingtea. Tea & Contemplation is broadcast live on Zoom every Friday morning at 8am CST. Attendees for the live session are invited to participate in our private group sharing/healing circle (which is unrecorded), for community support. This podcast is supported entirely by listeners like YOU! You can make one time donations as a thank you anytime, or become a monthly member and even attend the live sessions with us each week. Visit https://www.buymeacoffee.com/teaandcpodcast (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/teaandcpodcast)
PROGRAM NOTE: Tea & Contemplation is on break this October, as Sooz and Adam are offering a 4-week special series, "Creating a Personal Practice." (This series is offered live on Zoom, Oct 9 - Nov 6, 2021. Tickets are available on both our websites.) So this month, we'll be posting some "Best of T&C" episodes from 2020 that just might be new to you! Tea & Contemplation returns to its regular schedule on Nov 5th. First up is an episode exploring the panchakosha, an ancient and lovingly accessible framework (more than 2,000 years old), used in yoga and meditation for contemplating the dimensions of the self. Over the next 3 sessions, we'll be exploring how to leverage this revered map as a way to locate our selves amidst the flux. This week's session : "Introduction to the Kosha Model."
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 –both based in Chicago, IL. You can connect with Adam on IG @adamgrossi and Sooz on IG @beingtea.
Tea & Contemplation is broadcast live on Zoom every Friday morning at 8am CST. Attendees for the live session are invited to participate in our private group sharing/healing circle (which is unrecorded), for community support.
This podcast is supported entirely by listeners like YOU! You can make one time donations as a thank you anytime, or become a monthly member and even attend the live sessions with us each week. Visit https://www.buymeacoffee.com/teaandcpodcast
Our September theme is Nourishing Energy. Our sense of energy is so dynamic. At times we may feel full of a zest for life, brimming with vitality, and at other times we might find that, despite eating well and getting plenty of sleep, we can't seem to escape a feeling of depletion and exhaustion. This is especially common heading into the autumn season, when many routines and schedules shift all over again. Clearly, energy is a complex field, and in this month's sessions, we'll explore how we can navigate it skillfully. This week's session : "Can you share?" Do we have the capacity to offer nourishment to others? And if we do, how might we go about fostering each other's energetic nourishment? This week's practice features the return our regular guest and dear friend here in the tea space, http://www.adevotedyogi.com/about-jess (Jessica Young Chang). 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 adevotedyogi.com or on IG @jessyoungchang.
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 –both based in Chicago, IL. You can connect with Adam on IG @adamgrossi and Sooz on IG @beingtea.
Tea & Contemplation is broadcast live on Zoom every Friday morning at 8am CST. Attendees for the live session are invited to participate in our private group sharing/healing circle (which is unrecorded), for community support.
This podcast is supported entirely by listeners like YOU! You can make one time donations as a thank you anytime, or become a monthly member and even attend the live sessions with us each week. Visit https://www.buymeacoffee.com/teaandcpodcast
Our September theme is Nourishing Energy. Our sense of energy is so dynamic. At times we may feel full of a zest for life, brimming with vitality, and at other times we might find that, despite eating well and getting plenty of sleep, we can't seem to escape a feeling of depletion and exhaustion. This is especially common heading into the autumn season, when many routines and schedules shift all over again. Clearly, energy is a complex field, and in this month's sessions, we'll explore how we can navigate it skillfully. This week's session : "What are we harvesting?" It sometimes feels as though our present experience is the inevitable result of circumstances, but the truth may be more slippery. A popular way of expressing this in contemplative practice is the analogy of seeds - the seeds that we nourish within ourselves. What role are we playing in what is arising within us? What do we choose to harvest and fill ourselves with?
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 –both based in Chicago, IL. You can connect with Adam on IG @adamgrossi and Sooz on IG @beingtea.
Tea & Contemplation is broadcast live on Zoom every Friday morning at 8am CST. Attendees for the live session are invited to participate in our private group sharing/healing circle (which is unrecorded), for community support.
This podcast is supported entirely by listeners like YOU! You can make one time donations as a thank you anytime, or become a monthly member and even attend the live sessions with us each week. Visit https://www.buymeacoffee.com/teaandcpodcast
Our September theme is Nourishing Energy. Our sense of energy is so dynamic. At times we may feel full of a zest for life, brimming with vitality, and at other times we might find that, despite eating well and getting plenty of sleep, we can't seem to escape a feeling of depletion and exhaustion. This is especially common heading into the autumn season, when many routines and schedules shift all over again. Clearly, energy is a complex field, and in this month's sessions, we'll explore how we can navigate it skillfully. This week's session : "Fields to Tend." Our heart-minds are capable of holding a seemingly infinite array of subjects, feelings, and thoughts. What responsibility do we have to ourselves to edit, streamline, and focus our attention? Within the field of our awareness, what are we holding close, what are growing, and what needs to be released?
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 –both based in Chicago, IL. You can connect with Adam on IG @adamgrossi and Sooz on IG @beingtea.
Tea & Contemplation is broadcast live on Zoom every Friday morning at 8am CST. Attendees for the live session are invited to participate in our private group sharing/healing circle (which is unrecorded), for community support.
This podcast is supported entirely by listeners like YOU! You can make one time donations as a thank you anytime, or become a monthly member and even attend the live sessions with us each week. Visit https://www.buymeacoffee.com/teaandcpodcast
Our September theme is Nourishing Energy. Our sense of energy is so dynamic. At times we may feel full of a zest for life, brimming with vitality, and at other times we might find that, despite eating well and getting plenty of sleep, we can't seem to escape a feeling of depletion and exhaustion. This is especially common heading into the autumn season, when many routines and schedules shift all over again. Clearly, energy is a complex field, and in this month's sessions, we'll explore how we can navigate it skillfully. This week's session : "How We Draw Energy." Is energy magic? An unknowable force, beyond our control? Probably. But, our relationship to it is something that we can assess, tweak, and notice tangible results. Let's talk about how we build energy and draw nourishment into our being.
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 –both based in Chicago, IL. You can connect with Adam on IG @adamgrossi and Sooz on IG @beingtea.
Tea & Contemplation is broadcast live on Zoom every Friday morning at 8am CST. Attendees for the live session are invited to participate in our private group sharing/healing circle (which is unrecorded), for community support.
This podcast is supported entirely by listeners like YOU! You can make one time donations as a thank you anytime, or become a monthly member and even attend the live sessions with us each week. Visit https://www.buymeacoffee.com/teaandcpodcast
Our August theme is Burnout. Burnout is nearly a social universal now. We all get what it means on a visceral level. However... Rather than glorifying it like we praise "busy" as a badge of honor, what if we did something about it? What can we actually do to acknowledge, speak our truth, and be kind to ourselves right now? Can we be self-compassionate together? Where in our life, no matter how small of an area, can we choose to step away for our own mental and physical well-being? This week's session : "What should rest feel like?" Today, we sit with how does the body know when we're truly resting, easing our burnout and overwhelm?
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 –both based in Chicago, IL. You can connect with Adam on IG @adamgrossi and Sooz on IG @beingtea.
Tea & Contemplation is broadcast live on Zoom every Friday morning at 8am CST. Attendees for the live session are invited to participate in our private group sharing/healing circle (which is unrecorded), for community support.
This podcast is supported entirely by listeners like YOU! You can make one time donations as a thank you anytime, or become a monthly member and even attend the live sessions with us each week. Visit https://www.buymeacoffee.com/teaandcpodcast
Our August theme is Burnout. Burnout is nearly a social universal now. We all get what it means on a visceral level. However... Rather than glorifying it like we praise "busy" as a badge of honor, what if we did something about it? What can we actually do to acknowledge, speak our truth, and be kind to ourselves right now? Can we be self-compassionate together? Where in our life, no matter how small of an area, can we choose to step away for our own mental and physical well-being? This week's session : "Choosing to Step Away." What comes up for us when we identify areas that we need to release or step away from?
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 –both based in Chicago, IL. You can connect with Adam on IG @adamgrossi and Sooz on IG @beingtea.
Tea & Contemplation is broadcast live on Zoom every Friday morning at 8am CST. Attendees for the live session are invited to participate in our private group sharing/healing circle (which is unrecorded), for community support.
This podcast is supported entirely by listeners like YOU! You can make one time donations as a thank you anytime, or become a monthly member and even attend the live sessions with us each week.
Our August theme is Burnout. Burnout is nearly a social universal now. We all get what it means on a visceral level. However... Rather than glorifying it like we praise "busy" as a badge of honor, what if we did something about it? What can we actually do to acknowledge, speak our truth, and be kind to ourselves right now? Can we be self-compassionate together? Where in our life, no matter how small of an area, can we choose to step away for our own mental and physical well-being? This week's session : "Speaking it Aloud." What would it be to name what causes feelings of overwhelm and burnout in our lives, and to speak that in the open?
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 –both based in Chicago, IL. You can connect with Adam on IG @adamgrossi and Sooz on IG @beingtea. Tea & Contemplation is broadcast live on Zoom every Friday morning at 8am CST. Attendees for the live session are invited to participate in our private group sharing/healing circle (which is unrecorded), for community support. This podcast is supported entirely by listeners like YOU! You can make one time donations as a thank you anytime, or become a monthly member and even attend the live sessions with us each week.
After a summer break in July, Tea & Contemplation is back! Our August theme is Burnout. Burnout is nearly a social universal now. We all get what it means on a visceral level. However... Rather than glorifying it like we praise "busy" as a badge of honor, what if we did something about it? What can we actually do to acknowledge, speak our truth, and be kind to ourselves right now? Can we be self-compassionate together? Where in our life, no matter how small of an area, can we choose to step away for our own mental and physical well-being? This week's session : "Acknowledging to Self." Often the hardest step of the exploration of burnout is calling it by name, recognizing when the signs are seeping in. Perhaps because calling it by name makes it more real.
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 –both based in Chicago, IL. You can connect with Adam on IG @adamgrossi and Sooz on IG @beingtea. Tea & Contemplation is broadcast live on Zoom every Friday morning at 8am CST. Attendees for the live session are invited to participate in our private group sharing/healing circle (which is unrecorded), for community support. This podcast is supported entirely by listeners like YOU! You can make one time donations as a thank you anytime, or become a monthly member and even attend the live sessions with us each week.
Our June theme is Keeping Time. A rather strange sensation to arise during 2020 / 2021 (strange in that it feels somehow comforting that so many people are experiencing this feeling) is our changing awareness of time. How we are feeling the concept of “time” in often radically different ways now than we previously understood it. This month is about exploring our relationship to time through various lenses, such as its elastic nature (“too much” or “too little”), the feeling that we are left behind or out of sync, and how we listen to the insight of slow. This week's session : A common observation during the pandemic has been folks reporting a feeling of "lost" time. The awareness of days or weeks becomes totally blurred of meaning. As we emerge in contentious stop-start patterns from this period, a similar sensation - being left behind - is also taking root. Most notably for people who, for various circumstances, are not able to be in the same rhythm of time as people around them. And so we end our exploration this week with "Lost Time / Left Behind."
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 –both based in Chicago, IL. You can connect with Adam on IG @adamgrossi and Sooz on IG @beingtea. Tea & Contemplation is broadcast live on Zoom every Friday morning at 8am CST. Attendees for the live session are invited to participate in our private group sharing/healing circle (which is unrecorded), for community support. This podcast is supported entirely by listeners like YOU! You can make one time donations as a thank you anytime, or become a monthly member and even attend the live sessions with us each week. Check out: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/teaandcpodcast (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/teaandcpodcast)
Our June theme is Keeping Time. A rather strange sensation to arise during 2020 / 2021 (strange in that it feels somehow comforting that so many people are experiencing this feeling) is our changing awareness of time. How we are feeling the concept of “time” in often radically different ways now than we previously understood it. This month is about exploring our relationship to time through various lenses, such as its elastic nature (“too much” or “too little”), the feeling that we are left behind or out of sync, and how we listen to the insight of slow. This week's session : This week is "The Elasticity of Time" - how we have the ability to shift our perception of how we feel about time in any moment. We can do this consciously/willingly, such as allowing enjoyable moments to linger or unpleasant moments to go faster. We may also do this unconsciously or even as a response to a traumatic situation. Knowing this very human perceptual quality that we all have when it comes to time, how does this alter your beliefs about the boundaries of time in your day?
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 –both based in Chicago, IL. You can connect with Adam on IG @adamgrossi and Sooz on IG @beingtea. Tea & Contemplation is broadcast live on Zoom every Friday morning at 8am CST. Attendees for the live session are invited to participate in our private group sharing/healing circle (which is unrecorded), for community support. This podcast is supported entirely by listeners like YOU! You can make one time donations as a thank you anytime, or become a monthly member and even attend the live sessions with us each week. Check out: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/teaandcpodcast (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/teaandcpodcast)
Our June theme is Keeping Time. A rather strange sensation to arise during 2020 / 2021 (strange in that it feels somehow comforting that so many people are experiencing this feeling) is our changing awareness of time. How we are feeling the concept of “time” in often radically different ways now than we previously understood it. This month is about exploring our relationship to time through various lenses, such as its elastic nature (“too much” or “too little”), the feeling that we are left behind or out of sync, and how we listen to the insight of slow. This week's session : If there's anything Tea really knows how to teach us, it is this week's focus - "The Insight of Slow." What do we learn when we give ourselves the opportunity to be in company with another teacher, who is themselves inherently very gradual and unfolding?
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 –both based in Chicago, IL. You can connect with Adam on IG @adamgrossi and Sooz on IG @beingtea. Tea & Contemplation is broadcast live on Zoom every Friday morning at 8am CST. Attendees for the live session are invited to participate in our private group sharing/healing circle (which is unrecorded), for community support. This podcast is supported entirely by listeners like YOU! You can make one time donations as a thank you anytime, or become a monthly member and even attend the live sessions with us each week. Check out: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/teaandcpodcast (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/teaandcpodcast)
Our June theme is Keeping Time. A rather strange sensation to arise during 2020 / 2021 (strange in that it feels somehow comforting that so many people are experiencing this feeling) is our changing awareness of time. How we are feeling the concept of “time” in often radically different ways now than we previously understood it. This month is about exploring our relationship to time through various lenses, such as its elastic nature (“too much” or “too little”), the feeling that we are left behind or out of sync, and how we listen to the insight of slow. This week's session : We begin this month with "The Desire for Time" - the idea that time is something that we either "have" or "don't have." What would it be to put ourselves in a different perspective to this idea that, honestly, may not always serve us well in moments of stress, intensity, or uncertainty?
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 –both based in Chicago, IL. You can connect with Adam on IG @adamgrossi and Sooz on IG @beingtea. Tea & Contemplation is broadcast live on Zoom every Friday morning at 8am CST. Attendees for the live session are invited to participate in our private group sharing/healing circle (which is unrecorded), for community support. This podcast is supported entirely by listeners like YOU! You can make one time donations as a thank you anytime, or become a monthly member and even attend the live sessions with us each week. Check out: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/teaandcpodcast (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/teaandcpodcast)
Our May theme is How Much Do You Need? Reflections on the nature of practice, including how we choose methods that serve us, how we deal with distractions, and how we show up honestly for ourselves. Lineage traditions and modern expressions all meet in the sea of possibility, and teachers of all approaches are a click away these days. Ultimately, practice is activated by intention. So: where are we headed, and how are we resourcing ourselves for the journey? This week's session : Our final session this month gets into "Pretense & Honesty." Sometimes what we do can feel performative, to meet some unsaid standard of expectation or correction, and answering questions of "For whom?" or "For what?" is complicated. How do we create space for honesty with ourselves, that removes pretense and allows for meaningful, personal experience?
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 –both based in Chicago, IL. You can connect with Adam on IG @adamgrossi and Sooz on IG @beingtea. Tea & Contemplation is broadcast live on Zoom every Friday morning at 8am CST. Attendees for the live session are invited to participate in our private group sharing/healing circle (which is unrecorded), for community support. This podcast is supported entirely by listeners like YOU! You can make one time donations as a thank you anytime, or become a monthly member and even attend the live sessions with us each week. Check out: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/teaandcpodcast (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/teaandcpodcast)
Our May theme is How Much? Reflections on the nature of practice, including how we choose methods that serve us, how we deal with distractions, and how we show up honestly for ourselves. Lineage traditions and modern expressions all meet in the sea of possibility, and teachers of all approaches are a click away these days. Ultimately, practice is activated by intention. So: where are we headed, and how are we resourcing ourselves for the journey? This week's session : "Depth & Breadth." How deep into a practice do we really need to go in order to feel tangible, everyday benefit? This session is about navigating the balance between when we need to add/study more our technique or method vs when we've got ourselves stuck down a rabbit hole, literally in over our heads.
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 –both based in Chicago, IL. You can connect with Adam on IG @adamgrossi and Sooz on IG @beingtea. Tea & Contemplation is broadcast live on Zoom every Friday morning at 8am CST. Attendees for the live session are invited to participate in our private group sharing/healing circle (which is unrecorded), for community support. This podcast is supported entirely by listeners like YOU! You can make one time donations as a thank you anytime, or become a monthly member and even attend the live sessions with us each week. Check out: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/teaandcpodcast (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/teaandcpodcast)
Our May theme is How Much? Reflections on the nature of practice, including how we choose methods that serve us, how we deal with distractions, and how we show up honestly for ourselves. Lineage traditions and modern expressions all meet in the sea of possibility, and teachers of all approaches are a click away these days. Ultimately, practice is activated by intention. So: where are we headed, and how are we resourcing ourselves for the journey? This week's session : This week's practice is "Distraction & Stimulation" and features our regular guest and dear friend here in the tea space, http://www.adevotedyogi.com/about-jess (Jessica Young Chang). 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, where she became friends with Adam and Sooz. Jess appears frequently on Tea & Contemplation as our honored guest to lead the themed discussion.
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 –both based in Chicago, IL. You can connect with Adam on IG @adamgrossi and Sooz on IG @beingtea. Tea & Contemplation is broadcast live on Zoom every Friday morning at 8am CST. Attendees for the live session are invited to participate in our private group sharing/healing circle (which is unrecorded), for community support. This podcast is supported entirely by listeners like YOU! You can make one time donations as a thank you anytime, or become a monthly member and even attend the live sessions with us each week. Check out: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/teaandcpodcast (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/teaandcpodcast)
Our May theme is How Much? Reflections on the nature of practice, including how we choose methods that serve us, how we deal with distractions, and how we show up honestly for ourselves. Lineage traditions and modern expressions all meet in the sea of possibility, and teachers of all approaches are a click away these days. Ultimately, practice is activated by intention. So: where are we headed, and how are we resourcing ourselves for the journey? This week's session : Our first session is "Intention and Technique." What brings you to contemplative, mindful practices like yoga or meditation? What is your "why", truly?
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 –both based in Chicago, IL. You can connect with Adam on IG @adamgrossi and Sooz on IG @beingtea. Tea & Contemplation is broadcast live on Zoom every Friday morning at 8am CST. Attendees for the live session are invited to participate in our private group sharing/healing circle (which is unrecorded), for community support. This podcast is supported entirely by listeners like YOU! You can make one time donations as a thank you anytime, or become a monthly member and even attend the live sessions with us each week. Check out: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/teaandcpodcast (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/teaandcpodcast)
Our April theme is Call to Grow. As we emerge from our guarded shelters this spring, what are we reaching for? What do we do with this complicated feeling, of longing to grow, to support, to provide? How might our own human life cycle mirror that of our tree friends, in spirals and attunement toward the light? As we look deeply into the nature of our questioning, we see that the seed of new possibility is always present, and that not all circles and spirals are forms of repeating past mistakes. Come join us, as we grow from seed to forest, together. This week's session : This week is "Tree." Recognizing that we carry both our younger seed and sapling selves as well as our full grown potential - all in the same moment every day - and how this shapes our understanding and worldview of the forest around us.
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 –both based in Chicago, IL. You can connect with Adam on IG @adamgrossi and Sooz on IG @beingtea. Tea & Contemplation is broadcast live on Zoom every Friday morning at 8am CST. Attendees for the live session are invited to participate in our private group sharing/healing circle (which is unrecorded), for community support. This podcast is supported entirely by listeners like YOU! You can make one time donations as a thank you anytime, or become a monthly member and even attend the live sessions with us each week. Check out: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/teaandcpodcast (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/teaandcpodcast)
Our April theme is Call to Grow. As we emerge from our guarded shelters this spring, what are we reaching for? What do we do with this complicated feeling, of longing to grow, to support, to provide? How might our own human life cycle mirror that of our tree friends, in spirals and attunement toward the light? As we look deeply into the nature of our questioning, we see that the seed of new possibility is always present, and that not all circles and spirals are forms of repeating past mistakes. Come join us, as we grow from seed to forest, together. This week's session : This week is "Sapling", and features our regular guest and dear friend here in the tea space, http://www.adevotedyogi.com/about-jess (Jessica Young Chang). 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, where she became friends with Adam and Sooz. Jess appears frequently on Tea & Contemplation as our honored guest to lead the themed discussion.
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 –both based in Chicago, IL. You can connect with Adam on IG @adamgrossi and Sooz on IG @beingtea. Tea & Contemplation is broadcast live on Zoom every Friday morning at 8am CST. Attendees for the live session are invited to participate in our private group sharing/healing circle (which is unrecorded), for community support. This podcast is supported entirely by listeners like YOU! You can make one time donations as a thank you anytime, or become a monthly member and even attend the live sessions with us each week. Check out: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/teaandcpodcast (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/teaandcpodcast)
Our April theme is Call to Grow. As we emerge from our guarded shelters this spring, what are we reaching for? What do we do with this complicated feeling, of longing to grow, to support, to provide? How might our own human life cycle mirror that of our tree friends, in spirals and attunement toward the light? As we look deeply into the nature of our questioning, we see that the seed of new possibility is always present, and that not all circles and spirals are forms of repeating past mistakes. Come join us, as we grow from seed to forest, together. This week's session : This week is "Germination," what creates the conditions for us to take that first step into the next stage.
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 –both based in Chicago, IL. You can connect with Adam on IG @adamgrossi and Sooz on IG @beingtea. Tea & Contemplation is broadcast live on Zoom every Friday morning at 8am CST. Attendees for the live session are invited to participate in our private group sharing/healing circle (which is unrecorded), for community support. This podcast is supported entirely by listeners like YOU! You can make one time donations as a thank you anytime, or become a monthly member and even attend the live sessions with us each week. Check out: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/teaandcpodcast (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/teaandcpodcast)
Our April theme is Call to Grow. As we emerge from our guarded shelters this spring, what are we reaching for? What do we do with this complicated feeling, of longing to grow, to support, to provide? How might our own human life cycle mirror that of our tree friends, in spirals and attunement toward the light? As we look deeply into the nature of our questioning, we see that the seed of new possibility is always present, and that not all circles and spirals are forms of repeating past mistakes. Come join us, as we grow from seed to forest, together. This week's session : This first week is "Seed," the conditions of dormancy in the nourishment of soil.
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 –both based in Chicago, IL. You can connect with Adam on IG @adamgrossi and Sooz on IG @beingtea. Tea & Contemplation is broadcast live on Zoom every Friday morning at 8am CST. Attendees for the live session are invited to participate in our private group sharing/healing circle (which is unrecorded), for community support. This podcast is supported entirely by listeners like YOU! You can make one time donations as a thank you anytime, or become a monthly member and even attend the live sessions with us each week. Check out: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/teaandcpodcast (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/teaandcpodcast)
This March, we explore the theme Alone Together. It's been a year of separation. How are you feeling, here in this space between together and also alone? This month, we explore the natural movement toward the warmth of spring bloom, while also holding space for the thaw that reveals all the material of existence - old leaves, emotions, memories, and yes, even garbage - that we're still working through from seasons before. Both can be true. Both can be held. And we do this both alone and together. This week's session : "Noticing the Blooms and Minding the Wounds" - This week's practice features our regular guest and dear friend here in the tea space, http://www.adevotedyogi.com/about-jess (Jessica Young Chang). 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, where she became friends with Adam and Sooz. Jess appears frequently on Tea & Contemplation as our honored guest to lead the themed discussion.
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 –both based in Chicago, IL. You can connect with Adam on IG @adamgrossi and Sooz on IG @beingtea. Tea & Contemplation is broadcast live on Zoom every Friday morning at 8am CST. Attendees for the live session are invited to participate in our private group sharing/healing circle (which is unrecorded), for community support. This podcast is supported entirely by listeners like YOU! You can make one time donations as a thank you anytime, or become a monthly member and even attend the live sessions with us each week. Check out: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/teaandcpodcast (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/teaandcpodcast)
This March, we explore the theme Alone Together. It's been a year of separation. How are you feeling, here in this space between together and also alone? This month, we explore the natural movement toward the warmth of spring bloom, while also holding space for the thaw that reveals all the material of existence - old leaves, emotions, memories, and yes, even garbage - that we're still working through from seasons before. Both can be true. Both can be held. And we do this both alone and together. This week's session : "Asynchronous Suffering" is the awareness that not all of us are in the same space, at the same time, that we perhaps were a year ago. The crisis of the pandemic became an almost unifying, nearly universally shared experience across the globe. As we emerge from this time now, in dramatically different ways both locally and afar, how are we handling the loneliness that we may feel alone in suffering once again?
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 –both based in Chicago, IL. You can connect with Adam on IG @adamgrossi and Sooz on IG @beingtea. Tea & Contemplation is broadcast live on Zoom every Friday morning at 8am CST. Attendees for the live session are invited to participate in our private group sharing/healing circle (which is unrecorded), for community support. This podcast is supported entirely by listeners like YOU! You can make one time donations as a thank you anytime, or become a monthly member and even attend the live sessions with us each week. Check out: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/teaandcpodcast (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/teaandcpodcast)
This March, we explore the theme Alone Together. It's been a year of separation. How are you feeling, here in this space between together and also alone? This month, we explore the natural movement toward the warmth of spring bloom, while also holding space for the thaw that reveals all the material of existence - old leaves, emotions, memories, and yes, even garbage - that we're still working through from seasons before. Both can be true. Both can be held. And we do this both alone and together. This week's session : Our first practice this month, "Dethawing" is a nod to the expansion/contraction relationship of spring, and this year in particular. How we find ourselves smiling at the new budding life around us in one moment, and taken aback by our unprocessed grief in the next. What is it that you need to grieve, friend?
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 –both based in Chicago, IL. You can connect with Adam on IG @adamgrossi and Sooz on IG @beingtea. Tea & Contemplation is broadcast live on Zoom every Friday morning at 8am CST. Attendees for the live session are invited to participate in our private group sharing/healing circle (which is unrecorded), for community support. This podcast is supported entirely by listeners like YOU! You can make one time donations as a thank you anytime, or become a monthly member and even attend the live sessions with us each week. Check out: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/teaandcpodcast (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/teaandcpodcast)
Our February theme is ALL THE FEELS. A theme that hardly needs any introduction, this month we explore what it is to honestly acknowledge our feelings, to name them, to even give ourselves permission to feel. This week's session : "Freedom Within Constraint", our theme this week, is all about understanding how the boundaries around us influence how we express and understand feelings - much like how the shape of a teapot affects the tea. Knowing that these constraints and boundaries are real and not going anywhere, how can we move toward greater ease in expression?
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 –both based in Chicago, IL. You can connect with Adam on IG @adamgrossi and Sooz on IG @beingtea. Tea & Contemplation is broadcast live on Zoom every Friday morning at 8am CST. Attendees for the live session are invited to participate in our private group sharing/healing circle (which is unrecorded), for community support. This podcast is supported entirely by listeners like YOU! You can make one time donations as a thank you anytime, or become a monthly member and even attend the live sessions with us each week. Check out: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/teaandcpodcast (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/teaandcpodcast)
Our February theme is ALL THE FEELS. A theme that hardly needs any introduction, this month we explore what it is to honestly acknowledge our feelings, to name them, to even give ourselves permission to feel. This week's session : "Approaching Difficult Emotions" gets into some of the most deeply complicated parts of our human experience. How do we approach feelings or emotions that are on the ends of the spectrum that are the most challenging for us? And how does working through them affect our ability to register other emotions that are also happening in the space around us?
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 –both based in Chicago, IL. You can connect with Adam on IG @adamgrossi and Sooz on IG @beingtea. Tea & Contemplation is broadcast live on Zoom every Friday morning at 8am CST. Attendees for the live session are invited to participate in our private group sharing/healing circle (which is unrecorded), for community support. This podcast is supported entirely by listeners like YOU! You can make one time donations as a thank you anytime, or become a monthly member and even attend the live sessions with us each week. Check out: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/teaandcpodcast (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/teaandcpodcast)
Our February theme is ALL THE FEELS. A theme that hardly needs any introduction, this month we explore what it is to honestly acknowledge our feelings, to name them, to even give ourselves permission to feel. This week's session : Our first session is in that very topic - "Permission to Feel." What is it to bring our awareness to how we deny ourselves access to both pleasant and unpleasant emotions? What healing can we unlock when we truly give ourselves permission to feel, without judgement or sense of needing to change anything about the existence of that feeling?
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 –both based in Chicago, IL. You can connect with Adam on IG @adamgrossi and Sooz on IG @beingtea. Tea & Contemplation is broadcast live on Zoom every Friday morning at 8am CST. Attendees for the live session are invited to participate in our private group sharing/healing circle (which is unrecorded), for community support. This podcast is supported entirely by listeners like YOU! You can make one time donations as a thank you anytime, or become a monthly member and even attend the live sessions with us each week. Check out: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/teaandcpodcast (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/teaandcpodcast)
Our January theme is Patterns. We are subject to worldly patterns that create structure and cycles in our dynamic shared realm. At the same time, through forces like will, desire, fear, and trauma, we also exert patterns of our own as we move through this life. This month, we sip and sit with what creates these habits and how we might weave new patterns in a season of intentions and resolutions. This week's session : Our final session this month is "Stabilizing Transformation." All this work of stepping forth into new habits and patterns for the new year, it's worth asking ourselves and sitting with the reality that comes up - how do we maintain this new wholeness of being?
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 –both based in Chicago, IL. You can connect with Adam on IG @adamgrossi and Sooz on IG @beingtea. Tea & Contemplation is broadcast live on Zoom every Friday morning at 8am CST. Attendees for the live session are invited to participate in our private group sharing/healing circle (which is unrecorded), for community support. This podcast is supported entirely by listeners like YOU! You can make one time donations as a thank you anytime, or become a monthly member and even attend the live sessions with us each week. Check out: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/teaandcpodcast (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/teaandcpodcast)
Our January theme is Patterns. We are subject to worldly patterns that create structure and cycles in our dynamic shared realm. At the same time, through forces like will, desire, fear, and trauma, we also exert patterns of our own as we move through this life. This month, we sip and sit with what creates these habits and how we might weave new patterns in a season of intentions and resolutions. This week's session : This week's practice features our regular guest and dear friend here in the tea space, http://www.adevotedyogi.com/about-jess (Jessica Young Chang). 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, where she became friends with Adam and Sooz. Jess appears frequently on Tea & Contemplation as our honored guest to lead the themed discussion. For this session, we explore "What to Keep and What to Let Go."
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 –both based in Chicago, IL. You can connect with Adam on IG @adamgrossi and Sooz on IG @beingtea. Tea & Contemplation is broadcast live on Zoom every Friday morning at 8am CST. Attendees for the live session are invited to participate in our private group sharing/healing circle (which is unrecorded), for community support. This podcast is supported entirely by listeners like YOU! You can make one time donations as a thank you anytime, or become a monthly member and even attend the live sessions with us each week. Check out: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/teaandcpodcast (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/teaandcpodcast)
Our January theme is Patterns. We are subject to worldly patterns that create structure and cycles in our dynamic shared realm. At the same time, through forces like will, desire, fear, and trauma, we also exert patterns of our own as we move through this life. This month, we sip and sit with what creates these habits and how we might weave new patterns in a season of intentions and resolutions. This week's session : This episode is themed "Perilous Expectations," and takes place January 15, 2021, just over one week from the storming of the U.S. Capitol building, and the leftover feelings from this event inform our contemplation here.
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 –both based in Chicago, IL. You can connect with Adam on IG @adamgrossi and Sooz on IG @beingtea. Tea & Contemplation is broadcast live on Zoom every Friday morning at 8am CST. Attendees for the live session are invited to participate in our private group sharing/healing circle (which is unrecorded), for community support. This podcast is supported entirely by listeners like YOU! You can make one time donations as a thank you anytime, or become a monthly member and even attend the live sessions with us each week. Check out: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/teaandcpodcast (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/teaandcpodcast)
Welcome to Tea & Contemplation! This New Year's Day session served as an informal pilot for our program/teaser for what we're really excited to share with you this year. Tea & Contemplation began in the summer of 2020, and by this episode, we're really finding our groove with the show format. Since this episode is more of a "getting to know you" session, the guided tea meditation and themed discussion is more brief than usual, but it gives you a great idea of what to expect and what our style is. We hope you enjoy and we look forward to joining you in tea! Sooz & Adam
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 –both based in Chicago, IL. You can connect with Adam on IG @adamgrossi and Sooz on IG @beingtea. Tea & Contemplation is broadcast live on Zoom every Friday morning at 8am CST. Attendees for the live session are invited to participate in our private group sharing/healing circle (which is unrecorded), for community support. This podcast is supported entirely by listeners like YOU! You can make one time donations as a thank you anytime, or become a monthly member and even attend the live sessions with us each week. Check out: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/teaandcpodcast (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/teaandcpodcast)