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.

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Tea & Contemplation is hosted by Suzette (‘Sooz’) Hammond - tea educator, tea contemplative practitioner, and founder of Being Tea - and Adam Grossi - artist, writer and yoga teacher –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

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, 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.

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Tea & Contemplation is hosted by Suzette (‘Sooz’) Hammond - tea educator, tea contemplative practitioner, and founder of Being Tea - and Adam Grossi - artist, writer and yoga teacher –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

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.

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Tea & Contemplation is hosted by Suzette (‘Sooz’) Hammond - tea educator, tea contemplative practitioner, and founder of Being Tea - and Adam Grossi - artist, writer and yoga teacher –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

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.

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Tea & Contemplation is hosted by Suzette (‘Sooz’) Hammond - tea educator, tea contemplative practitioner, and founder of Being Tea - and Adam Grossi - artist, writer and yoga teacher –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

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, 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.

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Tea & Contemplation is hosted by Suzette (‘Sooz’) Hammond - tea educator, tea contemplative practitioner, and founder of Being Tea - and Adam Grossi - artist, writer and yoga teacher –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

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?

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Tea & Contemplation is hosted by Suzette (‘Sooz’) Hammond - tea educator, tea contemplative practitioner, and founder of Being Tea - and Adam Grossi - artist, writer and yoga teacher –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

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?

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Tea & Contemplation is hosted by Suzette (‘Sooz’) Hammond - tea educator, tea contemplative practitioner, and founder of Being Tea - and Adam Grossi - artist, writer and yoga teacher –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

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?

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Tea & Contemplation is hosted by Suzette (‘Sooz’) Hammond - tea educator, tea contemplative practitioner, and founder of Being Tea - and Adam Grossi - artist, writer and yoga teacher –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