Sunday Tea Gathering
Soto Zen
A single afternoon gathering at Sowing the Moon Tea House featuring matcha tea, conversation, and sweets in a contemplative setting. The center frames tea ceremony as spiritual practice and social gathering in the Zen tradition.
About this retreat
This is a tea gathering, not a meditation retreat—a single afternoon event at Green Gulch Farm's Sowing the Moon Tea House. The format emphasizes tea ceremony as contemplative practice within the Zen context, combining matcha preparation and service with conversation and sweets. If you're familiar with chanoyu (the Way of Tea) as a meditative discipline, this event treats it as such rather than as instruction in tea procedure.
The center has not published details about experience level, prior tea knowledge, or group size. Contact Green Gulch Farm directly for those specifics and to confirm availability—the listing notes waitlist only.
Originally listed on Green Gulch Farm Zen Center / Green Dragon Temple's website.
Full details from Green Gulch Farm Zen Center / Green Dragon Temple
A traditional Japanese tea gathering at Sowing the Moon Tea House where guests share matcha tea, conversation, and sweets in a contemplative setting emphasizing the Way of Tea as spiritual practice and social gathering.
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