Guest Teacher for July, 2019

Events, Special Guests
🏮 Session 1: Identitea & Spiritualitea: Misunderstandings Around Powerful Plants And Their Rituals

    (See “About The Events” at bottom of page for class descriptions.)

  • Date & Time: 2019-07-26, 1:00 p.m.
  • (Registration Closes Thursday, July 25th)
  • Duration: About 2 Hours

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🏮 Session 2: Blending & Brewing Mexican Flavors

    (See “About The Events” at bottom of page for class descriptions.)

  • Date & Time: 2019-07-26, 6:00 p.m.
  • (Registration Closes Thursday, July 25th)
  • Duration: About 2 Hours

Ticket Prices (What’s this?)


By purchasing your ticket, you agree to the following:
After registration closes, I’ll send your ticket and event info to the email address you submit using the form below.
I do this personally; it is not an automated process. I will not use any information you submit for other purposes, unless you give me permission to do so in the form. Thank you!

Did you read and understand the Things To Know and Registration Terms sections below?(required)

Would you like to receive email updates about future PDX TEA events?(required)


 
Things To Know:

  • For every PDX TEA event, please keep yourself as free as possible from any fragrances, including “natural” fragrances. :)
  • To keep your palate clear, I suggest avoiding dairy the day of the event.
  • I also suggest avoiding any toothpaste containing SLS — sodium laurel/laureth sulfate. (SLS can temporarily suppress your ability to perceive sweetness.)
  • I’ll provide a special place for you to put your cell phone during the event. (You’re welcome to take notes on paper, and pictures before and after.)
  • The PDX TEA Room is a shoes-off environment.

Registration Terms:

I create PDX TEA events with great love and attention, through many hours of research, practice, and preparation; procurement of tea, production of materials, printing of handouts, planning of dog care, and so on. The following guidelines help me maintain the high standard of your experience, and the sustainability of my organization:

  1. All events are pre-registration only. (No at-the-door ticket sales.)
  2. Registration ends 48 hours before the event’s start time.
  3. If you want to register, but the cutoff time has passed, please contact me directly by text message, as soon as possible, at (971) 258-2832. (Yes, that’s 971 Club Tea. :)
  4. Each event has a maximum of 7 guests, and a minimum of 3 guests.
  5. If an event does not have 3 guests registered by the time registration ends, I may choose to reschedule or cancel the event. (If I cancel it, I will promptly refund you your money via PayPal.)
Thank you so much for understanding the importance of these considerations!

 

About The Events

Session #1: Identitea & Spiritualitea: Misunderstandings Around Powerful Plants And Their Rituals

The afternoon session will be a conversation with Fernando and myself taking in some of the common themes we’ve observed in “outsider” approaches to Chinese tea and tea culture, as well as to the medicinal and sacred plants used in traditional Mexican cultures.

We’ll drink some fantastic tea, and talk about some really fascinating subjects that are close to Fernando and my hearts, as they are — I’m sure — to many of yours.

Session #2: Blending & Brewing Mexican Flavors

For the evening session, we’re going somewhere PDX TEA has never gone before: herbs! Unbelievable, I know. : )

Fernando is going to talk about his observations around flavors characteristic of the Mexican palate, and how that influences Mexican people’s taste in tea. Further, he’s going to live-blend us some tisanes to taste on the spot!  For those of you who are concerned about the evening hours, there’s no caffeine in this session.

About Fernando

Fernando Gaitán is based in Mexico City, where he runs the Shaktea tea house, and the Academia Mexicana de Té. He is a student of Roy Fong, and together they are cultivating the first tea of Oaxaca. We hope you can join us for this incredibly cool opportunity to meet, drink tea with, and learn from him.

Guest Teacher for June, 2019

Events, Special Guests
🏮 Tea of the Immortals: A Taste of Sichuan Tea Culture

  • Date & Time: 2019-06-25, 1:00 p.m.
  • (Registration Closes Sunday, June 23rd)
  • Duration: About 2 Hours

Ticket Prices (What’s this?)


By purchasing your ticket, you agree to the following:
After registration closes, I’ll send your ticket and event info to the email address you submit using the form below.
I do this personally; it is not an automated process. I will not use any information you submit for other purposes, unless you give me permission to do so in the form. Thank you!

Did you read and understand the Things To Know and Registration Terms sections below?(required)

Would you like to receive email updates about future PDX TEA events?(required)


 
Things To Know:

  • For every PDX TEA event, please keep yourself as free as possible from any fragrances, including “natural” fragrances. :)
  • To keep your palate clear, I suggest avoiding dairy the day of the event.
  • I also suggest avoiding any toothpaste containing SLS — sodium laurel/laureth sulfate. (SLS can temporarily suppress your ability to perceive sweetness.)
  • I’ll provide a special place for you to put your cell phone during the event. (You’re welcome to take notes on paper, and pictures before and after.)
  • The PDX TEA Room is a shoes-off environment.

Registration Terms:

I create PDX TEA events with great love and attention, through many hours of research, practice, and preparation; procurement of tea, production of materials, printing of handouts, planning of dog care, and so on. The following guidelines help me maintain the high standard of your experience, and the sustainability of my organization:

  1. All events are pre-registration only. (No at-the-door ticket sales.)
  2. Registration ends 48 hours before the event’s start time.
  3. If you want to register, but the cutoff time has passed, please contact me directly by text message, as soon as possible, at (971) 258-2832. (Yes, that’s 971 Club Tea. :)
  4. Each event has a maximum of 7 guests, and a minimum of 3 guests.
  5. If an event does not have 3 guests registered by the time registration ends, I may choose to reschedule or cancel the event. (If I cancel it, I will promptly refund you your money via PayPal.)
Thank you so much for understanding the importance of these considerations!

 

About The Event

Sichuan’s Méng Dǐng (蒙頂) holds a legitimate claim to the title of the origination point for tea cultivation, with the first records of cultivated tea on that peak dating to the 50s, B.C.E.

My long-time tea friend and traveling companion, Chloé Womack, recently spent two months at Wenshuyuan Monastery, Chengdu, studying the particularities of Sichuan’s epic tea culture. We’re very fortunate to welcome her back to PDX TEA, where she’ll share some of the fruits of the instruction she received there.

She’ll prepare two classic teas of Sichuan, both of which she (personally!) handcrafted at Wenshuyuan Monastery, while studying under Master Yì Zhì (亦智法師): Méng Dǐng Gānlù (蒙頂甘露), and Méng Dǐng Huángyá (蒙頂黃芽).

She’ll share her first-hand understanding of the production of these teas, as well as what she’s learned and observed about the current and historical traditions of Sichuan Tea Culture.

We hope you can join us for this incredibly special opportunity!