This week on the Tub Talks podcast, we take to the baths with Mia Maestro, who hosts many of the tea ceremonies held over the years at Secular Sabbath in between her full-time acting career. While she has always been a lover of tea, her journey really started over a decade ago when she was surprised to find a deeper practice in the art of tea meditation. This philosophy of slowing down to regain focus, or set a new tone in one's body, has trickled into many facets of her life. Especially in both her career as an actress and her intense work in activism.

Mia shares what it was like growing up in Argentina during an age of terrorism, where she lived through an inverse world to the one she has created for herself today. Acting has always been a part of her life, launching her big screen career as a teenager in Tango. Even as a  little girl, acting was a means to play, and take on new personas. As an adult, she’s learned to develop empathy, process emotions, and open a space for healing through acting. Bringing tea ceremony her ritual has opened a portal to explore deeper connections to her childhood self.

Mia acts in mainstream and arthouse films, serves tea to prisoners with life sentences in jail, and goes deep into the bush in Africa to shine a light in the shadows of our world. At the heart of it all, Mia consistently uses tea as a tool to connect people, reset focus within, and create an ephemeral space for deep states of inspiration. But, not all tea is the same which Mia explains, and it carries with it an energy force able to brighten your perception and awaken your mind, depending on the leaf. The energetics that comes with tea practice shape how she lives in ‘flow state.’

Full of knowledge and tokens of wisdom, Mia takes us on a contemplative conversation going beyond tea as a means of consumption, exploring how she brings her practice to work. So get the kettle hot and share a cup with us, as we explore Mia’s world of setting intention and finding the purest form of self-expression in everyday life.