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Steeped in Presence: The Way of Tea & Stillness
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30 students
Steeped in Presence: The Way of Tea & Stillness
Tea mindfulness and presence training with Zen, Taoism, Confucianism, and Cha Qi.
Created byAndras Dancsecs
Last updated 11/2025
English
What you'll learn
- Learn how to use tea as a daily mindfulness practice rooted in Zen and Taoist philosophy.
- Discover the deeper meaning of stillness through simple tea rituals and sensory awareness.
- Understand how presence transforms ordinary tea into a path of self-cultivation and peace.
- Develop your own personal tea ceremony as a tool for clarity, grounding, and reflection.
- Experience Cha Qi, the subtle energy of tea and learn to feel stillness in the body.
- Integrate mindfulness and ritual into everyday life through the art of brewing and being.
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Course content
6 sections • 27 lectures • 2h 13m total length
Requirements
- No prior experience with tea or meditation is needed, just curiosity and openness.
- You’ll only need a few tea basics: a cup, hot water, and your attention.
- A quiet space or a few minutes of stillness will help you get the most from the practices.
- Optional: a teapot, gaiwan, or matcha bowl if you wish to deepen your ritual.
Description
Tea can be more than a drink.
It can become a quiet space where you slow down, breathe easier, and reconnect with yourself.
This course teaches presence and inner calm through simple tea rituals and the philosophy behind them. Every lesson is built to help you feel stillness through your senses — the warmth of water, the rhythm of pouring, the clarity of breath, and the subtle energy that rises as tea unfolds in the body.
You’ll learn how attention works, how ritual supports focus, and how ancient ideas from Zen, Taoism, Confucianism, and Cha Qi can bring balance, clarity, and harmony into everyday life. The teaching is practical and grounded. There is no pressure, no performance — only an invitation to notice more and move slower.
The course follows a carefully crafted arc:
Arriving → Seeing clearly → Flowing with life → Cultivating oneself → Feeling the energy → Returning to ease.
Each module is paired with a distinct tone, music style, and voice pacing so the atmosphere of the philosophy is felt, not just explained.
You’ll experience guided sessions, outdoor practices, slow brewing demonstrations, and unique tea meditations — including special practices such as “tea without leaves” that reveal how tea is ultimately a mirror of your inner world.
By the end, you won’t just understand these teachings — you’ll have a personal ritual to return to calm, clarity, and grounded presence whenever life pulls you away.
A way to feel centered again.
A simple, beautiful practice that fits naturally into your life.
If you want a quiet method of inner transformation — gentle, sensory, and real — then this journey is for you.
Additional Resources
If the ideas and practices in this course resonated with you, I've written a small colection of books that explore the same path through tea, presence, and stillness — in written form.
They are not required to benefit from the course. They simply offer another way to continue the practice, at your own pace.
Steeped in Presence — reflections on tea, ritual, and awareness
Steeped in Silence — a guided tea meditation journal
Steeped in Wisdom — stories, myths, and cultural reflections around tea
Links to my books and related work can be found in my instagram bio.
Who this course is for:
- Anyone seeking calm, clarity, and a meaningful way to slow down through daily ritual.
- Tea drinkers who want to go beyond taste into philosophy, mindfulness, and presence.
- Meditation and mindfulness practitioners looking for a tactile, sensory form of awareness.
- Creatives, thinkers, and seekers drawn to Zen, Taoism, and the art of simplicity.
- People who feel scattered or overstimulated and want a grounded, peaceful daily practice.