Mindfulness & Tea Workshop
Explore mindfulness through three bowls of tea at this weekend collective between The Mind Collected and Augur Tea Affairs. This 3-hour session weaves the fundamentals of mindfulness meditation with the practice of tea, in an exploration of the adage that the taste of tea and Zen are the same.
Mindfulness
By highlighting key mindfulness attitudes of non-effort, acceptance and letting go, this session will guide participants in bringing a sense of ease, grace and spaciousness into one’s practice, while deepening appreciation into the inherent ephemeral nature of things. Through movement and stillness, dialogue and silence, and the shifting space between participants, we will explore how aligning with change, as manifested in the tea room, can enrich both our formal practice and everyday life.
Tea
Surveying how tea has long inspired kings and emperors to poets and monks for over a thousand years, we consider how this seemingly humble beverage is relevant to us in the present day where our lives are constantly caught up in endless preoccupations. Through sitting with tea, we hope to reconsider the things that truly matter, and more closely examine our being and meaning. We discover how the mindful practice of tea is not an escape from life, but the very means by which to live it.
In this session we will cover:
Fundamentals of Mindfulness
Basic tea practice using Baozhong, Lishan, Tieguanyin (winter and spring harvests)
Mindful Eating
2 guided mindfulness practices
Aligning with insight — Impermanence, Change, Allowing, and Letting Go
Mindful movement through tea practice and service
This workshop is suitable for:
Beginners wishing to explore a mindfulness and/or tea practice
Practitioners who wish to integrate mindfulness into everyday life through the practice of tea, mindfulness practice and relational skills
Practitioners curious to explore how impermanence and dis-satisfactoriness are central foundations to mindfulness and tea practice
A Taste of Now: A Mindfulness And Tea Workshop
Join us in this 3-hour mindfulness and tea workshop hosted by The Mind Collected and Augur Tea Affairs.
Date: 15 May 2021
Price: $80/person
Time: 1pm - 4 pm
Location: The Sitting Room @ Joo Chiat
Facilitating Teachers
Jonathan Lim
Counsellor. Mindfulness Teacher. Psychotherapist
Jon is a qualified mindfulness teacher, emotional skills facilitator, and psychotherapist at The Mind Collected. Drawing from his background in psychotherapy, early Greek and Eastern philosophy, and contemplative practice, his workshops are experiential by design, with a focus on practice, dialogue, and inquiry.
Jon is grateful to have facilitated workshops internationally for organisations like Google Singapore, the Woodlands Health Campus, and the Institute of Adult Learning and the New Life Foundation. Outside of work, he is usually found on silent retreat, or on his mat deepening his practice in mindfulness and yoga and Brazilian jiu-jitsu.
Find him on instagram.com/1_mat_universe
Kenny Leong
Writer. Tea Practitioner. Educator.
Kenny Leong is a tea practitioner, presenter, and writer who has devoted himself to tea culture research and education since 2014. His work focuses on fine artisanal tea and explores it in a contemporary context with an emphasis on aesthetics.
Kenny regularly conducts tea sessions, tastings, and classes. He has hosted tea events for clients such as FENDI, Starwood, and OCBC. In 2019, he presented a tea programme for Offcuts Teahouse, an art installation that was part of the Arts In Your Neighbourhood initiative by the National Arts Council.
He maintains an Instagram account dedicated to tea at instagram.com/kennyleong.
Testimonials
“The fine tea session hosted at the Sitting Room was a totally out of this world experience. Immersed in stillness and the fragrance of freshly brewed tea, with the occasional chirping of birds and the graceful tea brewing of our host, Kenny, was such a tranquil process…I felt at peace and refreshed after the session.”
— Chia Yi Min
“Both Jon and Parveen exude the art of mindfulness as they teach. It showed the amount of knowledge on the subject and how they tailored it for their audience.
— G.C, IAL
“Jon’s embodied approach to mindfulness and his calm and patient disposition helps to bring a different type of energy into the room. An empathetic and knowledgeable trainer, he facilitated the session well, and has in-depth knowledge of the contents.