Tea & Contemplation

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?

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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. 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?

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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.

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?

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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.

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.

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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.

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."

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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 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?

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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 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?

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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 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?

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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 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?

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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 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.

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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