Tea & Contemplation

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?

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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 :

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?

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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 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?

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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 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, 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."

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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 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.

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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

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

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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