I’ve posted about Sarah Scarborough, aka The Tea Huntress, before- she is the founder of Firepot Chai here in Nashville. It’s one of my favorite little spots in the entire city and Charlie and I (and now Tessy too) have loved many, many little day dates here before the park. If you haven’t been to the shop in 12 South- start there.
But if you’re outside of Nashville- and of course local too- I want to introduce to you Sarah’s tea membership. Yes if you love tea, you will love this membership. But for me it’s not even as much about the tea as it is all the beautiful + spiritual tools the membership brings. It brings me so much joy to find it in the mail. Along with tea, there is a “The Ritual of Tea: A Guide” booklet and one or two little soul gifts to go along with the theme for the month.
“The Ritual of Tea is an invitation to slow down, a meditation reconnecting you to self and others and an exercise to cleanse your body, mind, and spirit.”
I am writing this in November of 2020 so this month’s booklet is all about the beginning of the quiet time of year, when the days are short and perhaps dark and life is inviting us to slow down and be still. Paired with a beautiful oolong tea, the November box came with incense and a copper holder. In month’s past, we have received beautiful gemstones, cleansing tools like natural sea sponge, meditation guides and reminders to look inward and love yourself. It really has become one of my favorite things and I treasure the booklets for all their wisdom- I use them often in my meditations.
But I will tell you that this November box is the last of this membership. Sarah has relaunched “The Tea Huntress” and is evolving the membership from monthly to quarterly. The new quarterly boxes will be filled with more tea and more tools to last the three months. So wherever you are reading this from, I highly, highly recommend this membership. For the tea lovers and the ones needing those beautiful little reminders of life’s beauty and nature’s invitation to revel in her.
“Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves- slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future.” – Thich Nhat Hahn
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