Fire In The Root

When was the last time you truly enjoyed a cup of tea?

Not drank it while scanning emails, not gulped between tasks, but actually paused and allowed yourself to savour it.

At our venue, Casal do Frade, in the beautiful countryside of Portugal, we will use locally grown ginger in our tea ceremony. Ginger is powerful — warm and spicy, growing underground, drawing heat from the earth into its root. Ginger is anti-inflammatory, a pain reliever, helps with digestion, reduces stress and much more.

Can you visualise drinking a cup of fresh ginger tea? The fragrance rises as hot water meets the root. The warmth of the cup resting in your hands. The first sip — comforting, soothing, gently calming.

Whilst sipping our ginger tea, we are tasting the land that holds us. A tea ceremony invites us to slow down, to arrive fully in the moment, to nourish body and soul. It offers shared quietness, warmth before our evening practice, and the simple pleasure of presence.

A pause between doing and being. Something we rarely offer ourselves in busy lives that constantly ask us to do for others, rather than simply be for ourselves.

Perhaps the tea ceremony is a reminder that presence doesn’t always arrive in grand moments. Sometimes it comes quietly — rising in steam, held between the hands.

This is another practice on our programme at the Soul Wellness Retreat this coming August 9th-13th. The brochure and booking form are available should you wish to join us, and I really hope you do! https://tr.ee/SaXfYu