The Tea Huntress: Can Tea Raise Your Vibration?

What if your daily cup of tea could become a sacred ritual for healing, mindfulness, and deeper connection to yourself and the Earth?

In this episode of Fairy & Flame, we sit down with Sarah Scarborough, founder of Tea Huntress, to explore the ancient wisdom of tea, the art of tea ceremony, and the powerful connection between plants, people, and spirit.

Sarah has dedicated her work to honoring the traditions of tea, connecting with tea farmers, and creating intentional blends that invite us to slow down, reconnect, and find beauty in the present moment.

Having both experienced Sarah’s beautiful tea ceremonies firsthand, we dive into the magic that unfolds when we approach tea as more than just a beverage—but as a practice of presence, connection, and reverence for nature.

In this episode, we explore:

*The ancient origins and spiritual significance of tea ceremonies
*How tea rituals can support mindfulness, meditation, and emotional well-being
*The connection between tea, plant wisdom, and our intuition
*Sarah’s journey to becoming the Tea Huntress
*The inspiration behind her intentional tea blends, including her beloved Moon Milk & Stardust Teas
*The wisdom of ancient tea trees and the farmers who steward them
*How conscious tea consumption can support regenerative agriculture and preserve ancient traditions
*Simple ways to create your own sacred tea ritual at home

From the mountains where ancient tea trees grow to the quiet moments of ceremony in our own homes, this conversation reminds us that sometimes the most profound spiritual experiences begin with something as simple as a cup of tea.

So put the kettle on, pour yourself something beautiful, and join us as we explore the healing wisdom of tea.

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Kasey Hodges

Hi, I’m Kasey Hodges—brand strategist, truth-seeker, and lover of meaningful conversation. With 25+ years in marketing, storytelling, and creative direction, I’ve built a career helping brands speak with clarity, integrity, and heart. I grew up in the Midwest, raised in a Christian lineage — the legacy of faith, fire, and spiritual discernment lives on in everything I do. That foundation taught me how to listen for what’s real, to seek what’s authentic, and to hold space for transformation. These days, I’m as passionate about soulful alignment as I am about strong messaging. Whether I’m guiding a guest through a vulnerable conversation or helping a brand uncover its deeper purpose, I’m committed to creating a clear and ethical channel for communication—one that helps people grow step by step, from the inside out. I believe in sharing what holds love, what carries weight, and what points us back to the heart of things—with mindfulness, intention, and just the right touch of magic. When I’m not prepping for a pod, you’ll find me outside—tending to the earth, the animals, and my own spirit. I have a deep love and respect for nature and the wisdom it offers. My little backyard farm is home to Bagel the pig, a flock of sassy chickens, three loyal and energetic dogs, and a cat who may or may not be in charge of all of us.

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Kathryn Camsey

I’m Kathryn Camsey—a soulful voice rising in the spiritual space. I’m a British-born TV host turned intuitive guide, and my journey from glittering red carpets to deep spiritual rebirth led me to my life’s true calling: helping others heal, awaken, and remember their magic. Though my life once looked picture-perfect, it was deeply shaken by unimaginable loss—my beloved niece was murdered, I faced a canceled wedding, lost my best friend to cancer, and experienced a health crisis that brought me to my knees. But I chose not to stay broken. I chose transformation. What followed was a decade-long soul journey of deep inner work, study, and spiritual expansion. I explored everything from chakras and crystals to astrology, the divine feminine, meditation, angels, affirmations, and the healing power of joy. These weren’t just tools I studied—I lived them, practiced them, taught them to my daughter, and now I share them with heartfelt purpose. I’m bringing my sparkle, wisdom, and fairy-touched spirit to the podcast. Blending practical tools with powerful storytelling, emotional honesty, and high-vibration energy, I aim to speak like a friend, guide like a mentor, and inspire like a muse. Every conversation is meant to feel like a cozy cup of tea with your wisest, most magical soul-sister.

Guest

Sarah Scarborough

Sarah Scarborough is a tea ceremonialist, founder of Tea Huntress, and a modern-day alchemist working at the intersection of ritual, wellness, and exploration. Recognized for her contributions to the evolving landscape of conscious luxury and integrative wellness, her work has been featured in Forbes and Harper’s Bazaar which named her retreats amongst the best in the world. Drawing on over three decades of travel through the world’s tea-growing regions, she has sourced, studied, and formulated teas as both medicine and ritual. An award-winning formulator, she creates high-vibration blends for leading wellness brands and experiences, guided by a mission to restore tea as a tool for healing and human connection. Rooted in a life shaped by nature—from growing up off-grid in Finland to formative years in Alaska and Montana—her philosophy bridges ancient wisdom with modern living.

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Fairy & Flame was created by Kasey Hodges and Kathryn Camsey, two kindred spirits from Leiper’s Fork, TN whose shared love of storytelling, creativity, and mystical curiosity brought them together. Kathryn and Kasey weave their unique backgrounds into soulful conversations on consciousness, creativity, healing, and ritual. Our mission: “Building up the collective consciousness of our world, one pod at a time.”

At its heart, Fairy & Flame is about connection—sparking curiosity, nurturing authenticity, and holding space for the magic that happens when spirit meets story.

Tea Huntress Audio File (00:01)
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And welcome to Fairy and Flame. My name is Catherine Kamsey. And I'm Casey Hodges, and together we're building up the collective consciousness of our world one pot at a time. Ooh, today is a good stepping stone in that build with our friend and tea huntress, Sarah Scarborough. Hi Sarah. Hi, so excited. Thank you so much for having me. I'm excited to be here. Yes. We've d we did this, we did this before.

We we did. We're doing it again. I think I was one of your first ever guests. Yes. Yeah, yes. And you've been a coming soon on Testing Ground the website for a while now. But we so much time passed, we were like we've grown so much and learned so much that we were like, I think it's not it wasn't like it would it would have still t standed the test of time. However, we've had more life together. Yeah. And we have more to talk about. We're gonna go deeper. So before we get started, I want to give you a proper introduction. Thank you.

Okay, today's guest is something both Fairy and Flame have had the pleasure of sitting in tea ceremony with. And we've experienced firsthand that for Sarah Scarborough, tea is about is about so much more than what's in the cup. Sarah is the founder of Tea Huntress, a tea ceremonialist, herbalist, educator, and lifelong student of nature. Her relationship with plants began as a child, spending summers in the forests of Finland, foraging alongside her grandmother.

And eventually led her around the world studying tea, ritual, and plant wisdom. And we also have to mention one of our absolute tea huntress favorites, moon milk, which has become a beloved ritual in both of our homes. Very true. Sarah's work is really about remembering how to slow down. We're gonna talk about that, listen and reconnect with plants, with nature, and ultimately with ourselves. So

Welcome, Sarah. Welcome, welcome. Thank you. With our cups of tea. Yo, we love having you here. ⁓ We always kind of start out these pods with learning a little bit about the background, and we're gonna get into tea and talk a lot about tea today, but it all has an origin story. Right. So we would love to hear your origin story with tea before we dive into some of the nuances. So, yes, I feel like my relationship with tea has always been really darn.

it feels like something I mean, I have loved plants since I was five. And I remember b like growing up in Finland and foraging with my grandmother in the forest and just feeling this like wonder of nature. Like, you know, growing up in the United States during the rest of the year and then feeling this connection and

Like abundance of my god, nature provides. Like I could live here in this forest. I could just live and it provides food for me and shelter for me and wood. And it was just this really safe, magical feeling. And all of growing up in Finland was like that. I remember getting lettuce from my grandmother's garden and we would pick the berries and squeeze them into juices and we would make medicine from the plants and it just really lit me up and it felt like life force. You know, it felt like life force.

energy it felt free it felt real it felt felt true and it felt in contrast to life at home where we were shopping at the whole at Whole Foods but that was before Whole Foods was really anything you know and that's just because my mom fed us like whole food but it wasn't the norm and it wasn't what people ate and that contrast of being really in tune with plants and nature and the forest and having a relationship with the lake and the sauna it just really imprinted something on me and

And so I really have always craved and longed for and followed this life in connection with nature, but then particularly with plants. It was always about plants for me. And I remember like putting my first seed in the ground.

I think was something I could do better than my sister, who did everything better than me. And she was like her plants didn't grow and mine did. And I was like, finally, something something that I can do better than her. She's was better than me at everything. ⁓

So yeah, so I've always had this relationship with plants and and I think truly it, you know, when I was in high school, I worked for the Warner Parks here in Nashville and I did like ⁓ research on trees and then I did a self-designed major in college that was around agroecology and then I didn't get the job in the city that all my friends got that maybe I was supposed to have gotten and gone down that path. I moved to Montana and I lived and worked on farms and then I moved.

To California and lived and worked on farms and just dove into plants and agriculture and sustainability and lived in tents and teepees and yurts and you know spent time under the moon and the stars, and it definitely wasn't like maybe my path I should have been following, or like what my friends back home were doing, but it always felt very alive to me, and then eventually that path led me to.

And it was really, you know, I'd been with plants for so long. And I ⁓ actually had been back in Nashville and I was hired to start Thistle Farms, if you know that company that you know, I developed all their products and started the business. And it was a really hard chapter of life because working with the women and being back in Nashville, and it was all just really challenging. So I kind of ⁓ went through a big

spiritual crisis of my own and got in my car, drove back to Montana, left everything here, and then when I got back there, I got a job at a tea house. And then I started playing with teas. And then I fell in love with tea. And then I started making my own blends. And then the tea house closed and then I started my first tea company. And it was like the universe just opened. It was all these doors flew open. All these people came to like, let me make you a website.

Me, you know, put your tea in my shop. Let me, and it was this feeling of you know, when you fall in love and like everything feels aligned, like that. Yeah, whether you're falling in love with a person or like you're just finding your path, you're like clicking into your alignment. And I was like, it was so elevated, it was so light and bright and free the way it feels when you find anything in your path that is aligned for you.

And and that was like 30 years ago and it's just been like that. Like and there have been, you know, maybe I won't bore you with all the details of like my tea journey, but there have been so many iterations and so many pivots and so much magic and so many moments of ⁓ like where I thought, okay, well that tea company ended or

whatever happened, like that road ended, but then tea would come back and she would come back. And it you know, I was always realigning on this tea path until one time when this had happened three times already and I thought, you know what, I'm just gonna go like be a farmer. I'm not gonna do another tea business. Like I am done with all of that. And then

Tea came back again and I was like, okay, got it. Like you're in charge. I'm gonna stay in the passenger seat. You just tell me where we're going and tell me what we're meant to do. And and it's really just been like that. You know, even with Tea Huntress, when because I've started so many different tea companies, I've had so many different

experiences with tea and business, but there was one point where I had a different tea company and I was sharing tea ceremony and I was leading retreats and I was just sitting in my car one day and the words tea huntress came out of my mouth and I looked around like, who said that? And then I was like

tea huntress and I was like that's what I'm doing that's what I'm doing and all these people had been like you need to start a business you need to like and I was like no no no no I'm not you know it's just just passion project and then you know eventually got the website eventually built the website like got the Instagram handle and it just rolled from there but it has been truly such

And now because I trust it and I know that me and T have this kind of ⁓ dharmic relationship, I talk to her. I talk to T Spirit and I let her guide me. And I always like, you know, tune into what I'm meant to be doing next and like where we're going. And I really do have a lot of trust and it's not been easy. I mean, there have been

A lot of blood and sweat and tears on this journey. It has been ultimately so challenging, ⁓ in a way that ultimately has been so evolutionary and so amazing, but I trust tea and I trust our relationship. And ⁓ even now, like starting Stardust Teas, which is only happening because moon milk, which was concocted under Tea Huntress.

became so popular. I feel like I'm just rambling. Is that fine? Okay, I'll just Stardust Stardust teas. I'm in my mind it's already like fairies and glitter and all the Well totally. So I created the moon milk and it the recipe it was this ⁓ women's autumn gathering and

I was like, I wanna create something to enchant them and delight them and open their intuition and something that's gonna be magical. And like it was a full moon autumn equinox or something gathering. And so I was like, it has mugwort and blue butterfly pea flower and it has ginger and it has oat milk and milky oat flowers. And I did this concoction and everybody was

It's so into it. It's so good though. And also kids love it as well. My daughter loves it. And it's great and it's great. It's hot and it's great hot. It's great cold. It's it's just yeah. And that was just that. So just to let everyone know, moon milk is your it's like a it's a it's a powder it that you kind of like It's almost like a chai. It is or I feel like it falls with the chai matcha round. Yeah. It's delicious. Yeah. So the reason it actually became

I feel like it's such a culmination of everything that I have learned and know and all of my kind of T intel from all these years.

Because when I was making it, I wanted it to be really like fun and delicious, like a chai. And so I put in the ginger and then I put in the milk. But you would never normally put those things together, right? Like you wouldn't just think about it. So it really was inspired by chai. But it was also inspired by this season of enchantment and the full moon and well it's magical as well because of the colour. I mean that's why chai you it's it's it's so it's so fun. It is a fun experience. Because you know, tea is such a you know, as as you know, anyone that loves tea.

It's a process. It's the boiling the water. It's the getting together. It's having the nice spoon and the beautiful and and when I ever have me milk I always have a glass cup with it because and I'll have it with my daughter and it's like woo I mean every time the moment you pour the milk in, I call that the magic moment. The magic moment. I always make a wish every time. We we make a wish every time. I call it the wishing tea. I've got I've got a whole other having the berries out, yeah. Which is great. It's you have it your way. It's like your own experience. It's beautiful.

But moon milk has so much magic. And it's funny 'cause my friend who's an astrologer, she ran the chart, the birth chart on moon milk and on Stardust T's. And she's like, it has a direct placement with Jupiter on the sun. So Jupiter is like magic and abundance and luck. We're like, of course. Yeah. And ruled by Jupiter. So Yeah. Yeah. So the moment that that moon milk was born, it like sold out and everybody loved it. And then I've

Like, put it on the website the next week, and it has been our number one best selling product ever since. And then coffee shops wanted it, and I was like, I don't want to brew it and bottle it and get into shipping liquid. And so I spent like a year trying to formulate a powdered version that would taste like the liquid version, which was another moment of

Pulling on this like 30 years of knowledge because I was like, I can't get that fresh ginger taste. Like I can't use regular dried ginger. And then one day out of nowhere, like months and months later, I was like, my God, there's that product that I found at some trade show in Asia back when. And so I went down this rabbit hole and I sourced it.

And it's not even available in this country to the point where the people I import it from are like, what are you doing with this over there? And I'm like, don't worry about it. Just don't sell it to anybody else. Is it powdered ginger? It's a dehydrated ginger juice powder. ⁓ And it's from a specific region where they make it extra kind of sweet and fresh. ⁓ It's really secret. It is a sec it is a secret. I can't say where it's from because it's

I love it even more now. It's like a little secret wish. I bet it is it made by fairies. You probably. It tastes like it. But the thing is the other day, so I ran out of the ginger the other day and I was like, certainly I can find some. So I've been scouring the internet to try to find it. It is nowhere. You cannot find this stuff. So we are back orders. Probably facing a little bit of a backwards. It's okay. Everybody wants what they can't get. So it's a good and we're transitioning. So moon milk.

so all this about moon milk and then it came to be where tea huntress really started to become more about like the education and the live experiences, the retreats, and not so much about selling just mass amounts of tea.

And then meanwhile moon milk is like, but I am hot and fun and spicy and I wanna be on every grocery store shelf and I wanna be at every coffee shop and everybody loves me. And then it turned into this like, you know, angsty teen situation where she's like, Mom, I've gotta get out of this house. Like you are so boring and I cannot survive here anymore. And meanwhile I'm like, I can't just pack moon milk all day long. So you need to go

Get your own apartment and like here's your credit card. She's definitely in Leah. She's like, Mom, like stop meditating for once, okay? Like I can and she's like all the energy and essence of Tea Huntress, but in this like fun, spicy, like trendy way. Yeah. Enchanting. She's a twin. Right. And so she's shareable. She's like, I can make them feel

Calm and meditative and I can shift their vibe. And they don't need to sit for an hour with your like very special expensive teas. Like we just add water, Mom. It's like doesn't need to be so hard. So

I'm like, fine, we're gonna do you a capital raise. We're gonna start you a whole new business. And so we've done that. And so Stardust Tease was created. ⁓ at this point everyone watch watching this thinks you have a daughter named Moon Milk. Right. You're she's electronic to everyone. I love that name. I mean, what a brilliant name. So Stardust be any better. Right? So Stardust is g is you is like the new umbrella.

Of and then moon milk's one of the two So what I realized is I can't trademark moon milk because here's another magic moment of moon milk is that it

is something that already exists. So moon milk is an ancient Ayurvedic remedy from India, just like masala chai, just like matcha from Japan, just like kombucha from you know all the farmsteads that made it in Europe all the years. And so it has this history as being like a calming, adaptogenic,

evening milky beverage. And when I named it and made it, I called it moon milk and I didn't know any of that. So when I went to trademark it and I did all this research, I'm like, ⁓ moon milk's a thing. I didn't make it I mean I made it all, but it's like in the you know, You're literally leading a tea trend right now. Right. That's going to be similar to that of what matcha has been totally recently.

Right. And so we're creating a new beverage category, just like whoever created matcha, whoever cre not created, but like brought it to mainstream culture. Let me ask you this question because n not to of this is a spin-off of the conversation, but I will say this. So you've traveled the world for tea. Tea's taken you all over the world. So you've been able to experience teas that are thousands of years old coming from their origin. And then you've probably also experienced teas that have been on farms that have

a different like experience. Yeah. Can you explain to us real quick? Because I do want to kind of get into the conversation of sustainability around especially with matcha being so trendy right now and that being a whole issue. Right. ⁓ because that's what is important about your story is that you are so aligned with the plants that this isn't just about you making money. This is a this is part of your soul. 100%. So tell us a little bit about what it means to

for tea to be like where it's from and how it's sourced and you go so deep with your products. I want people to understand kind of your cr your cred around that. Yeah. I have just always visited the tea. It's always been in me. It never even was a question. So when I was younger and in tea, I would save all my money and I would go travel. I would bike around Sri Lanka. I have been like I could tell some stories about

Being in India, being in Taiwan, being in Japan, meeting the people, learning the culture, walking through the gardens, you know, and it was always really important to me to do that and to meet the people and to feel the land and to like meet the plants because it's maybe hard to describe when you haven't done that, but you could you could liken it to like wine or bread or anything that we consume on a daily basis. And so

The difference between this tea and this tea is like, you know, you can buy a $5 bottle of wine and a $5,000 bottle of wine. You can buy a loaf of bunny bread that's been made from like overly processed grains that were grown in depleted soils. ⁓ and you can also buy a loaf or make a loaf of bread that was made from locally grown hearth milled wood-fired local yeast bread, and the one will sustain your life.

other one will clog up your system. So the there's such a vast difference from tea to tea to tea to tea. And it really is, you know, tea is the world's number one most consumed beverage. It is ⁓ Earth's number one like original plant medicine. So tea is like so storied and so deep and so ⁓ ingrained in humanity and culture and it's wars have been waged over tea and people have smuggled tea and

Nations have formed over T and T is this

You know, she is an embodiment of the divine feminine. She is a gift from the feminine divine. She embodies all the nourishment, all the connection, all the like subtle, sweet healing healing energy that the feminine embodies. And that's her frequency, that's her energy, that's her purpose. And every plant has one, but she has always been known to be like the empress of the plants, the original spirit medicine that could heal not only our bodies, but also our minds and our spirits. And so

She's been revered as a goddess in her homeland in China for millennia. And can can I just ask a quick question? When you say tea though, is tea the action of adding or making something versus the plant? Right. Such a good question.

Such a good question. So tea is the tea plant. Just like coffee is a coffee plant or all wine is made from a grape. So there is a plant, Camilla Sinensis is what it's generally known as and called. there's all kinds of different varieties of it across the planet, but its home place is Yunnan, China. So when I talk about tea, I'm not talking about chamomile or peppermint or spirent or moon milk or any other herbal concoction. So all of those plants have their own energy frequency medicine, right?

like moon milk is about intuition and calming and revitalization and chamomile is like a warm hug and hibisca is about passion and the heart and roses are beauty and balance and so they all have their own stories but tea is about connection and it's about healing and it's about nourishment and it is this one specific plant and so we call any herbal infusion a tea but it's really like a misnomer. It's

like properly a tea is just ca black tea oolong tea a green tea a canal sinensis and anything else would be properly called like a herbal infusion. But we just call them teas 'cause that's what we call them. Got it. Okay. ⁓ but tea, the

The plant tea, the original tea, the one that comes from China, was so loved and so revered and prayed to and ⁓ incorporated into families. And even today, like in Yunnan China, I have been with families that have these, you know, multi-hundred to thousand year old tea plants in their garden and they will sell a cake, so like a pound of this tea from this ancient tree that was harvested thirty years ago.

For forty thousand dollars for a pound. So it's also right. And then you compare that

to a three dollar pound bag of, you know, breakfast tea at the grocery store. Right? So it's like really hard for me to sometimes share with people that this is a plant spirit medicine. This will guide you. This will change your life. Like tea has such big spirit and we know 'cause we've sat in tea ceremony how that feels and how it's like you go on this journey and you receive this wisdom and you your heart opens and you get clarity and you get peace and you see yourself and

You know, it's the experience of plant medicine, it's ineffable and it's a gift of the earth. And when somebody's maybe been drinking just like, you know, British breakfast tea and putting their milk and sugar in it, they're like, Huh? I don't get that. Like what are you even talking about? So it's like we have to rewind the clock and go back and see how tea was a plant medicine and she was revered, but then her journey

When she left China, she went to Japan and became a meditation aide. The Zen Buddhist monks brought her out of China for the first time and they loved tea because of the L-theanine for focus and the ⁓ GABA for relaxation and the caffeine for alertness, which put them in this Zen mind state, which was their whole goal in life, because they were meditating Zen Buddhist monks. And so they then revered her as like a meditation aid. And so then the cultivation of tea changed, more nitrogen, more Ltheanine.

Like more shading, different growing conditions in order to achieve what they wanted from T. So now T is like this feminine.

energetic, right? Shapeshifter. Let me please you. Let me be this for you. What do you need me to be? How can just because I love you and just because I want to heal you, I'll shift and change for you. And you know, then the trading roots came and the Moroccan mint tea where she got blended with all these healing herbs from the Berber tribes in the Maghreb region of northern Africa. And so now we have Moroccan mint tea which embodies that land and it's like all the sensuality and all the like

you know, the Sufism, the whirling dervishes, the energy of like Morocco gets embodied in this cup. And then when we go to like

India masala chai, like all these tropical spices and sugar and milk and the chai walas and the chaos and the color. It feels like India, it tastes like India. Yeah. You know, you go to the UK and you're having this very proper afternoon moment. Such a big moment there. Like a glass of bubbles and there's like the beautiful sandwiches and it's very British. It's like this embodiment of that culture. And so T has loved humans so much that she has shifted. You know. And she fits everyone as well. That's what I

That's what love about it, like you were saying about you know, you've got those very expensive teas, but down to the English tea, you and you you literally call it builders' tea in England because you you offer it to builders, like when they come round or your gardener or I mean whoever walks in your house, you have a cup of tea. So what I love about it is they don't realise, you know, they're having a cup of tea with milk and sugar and all of those things, but really the story's in there and it's connecting and then you'll sit and you'll talk to your builder.

And you're and you have a rel you suddenly it sparks a conversation. So even though it's this common ground you know, common ground, exactly. Even though it's really, you know, a basis it's not an expensive tea, it's got all those things in it, it's it's still c making that connection. Right. And, you know, having tea with your mum. I mean that's w I did a meditation once and it was like, you know, think of your favourite sound and my favourite sound was the sound of a kettle going on. 'Cause that is synonymous with walking in a house

And somebody offering you a cup of tea. So all of that history, everything that you just explained into that, you know, one pound little cup with milk and sh milk and sugar is still is it's all that history in it because it was a gift initially to the Queen. That's how it first entered the country. And then, you know, people, it sort of filtered its way down. You know, the posh people didn't have milk in the tea, but the the poor people had to because it was a much lower quality quality.

That's where it came from. I mean there's so much There are themes of royalty and there's themes of spirituality and there are themes of marriage and dowries. Yeah. These themes and then there's the experience. So whether you're sitting in a sacred tea ceremony that's come through lineage like yoga, where we have like certain mo movements and ethos and tools in the practice, or if we're sitting here with our, you know, mu warm mug, it's still there's this embodiment that's the

Earth, water, wind, and fire. There's this like heat. There's this water moving through the body. It's like somatic. It's relaxing our whole body. And it's so small in a way. It's one of these like tea has this magic of being so subtle and so little in a way. But then

It's so profound, right? It's like we all can s it's accessible. Anybody can sit and make a cup of tea. And you can choose if you wanna have a you know, some mornings I'll just make a London fog. And some days I wanna sit in like a three hour sit with tea 'cause I've got some stuff I need to work out, or I'll, you know, sit and have a session with my friend T, who's the wisest teacher. And so it's

Like I can't obviously imagine life without tea, but I do feel like my purpose here is to share her medicine with everybody. And it is like she will meet you where you are. So whether that's a London fog, a cup of builders' tea, if it's a deep ceremony, if it's a Moroccan mint or masala chai, it's it's it's she just loves you. Yeah. You know, it's like the feminine divine. She just loves you. She just It's healing. It's it it's so healing. It's the first thing that people say, like, Well, we had a big trauma in our family.

And it's you the kettle's just it's constantly going on and people are bringing you tea and it's like or if you've got a decision, everyone's like, we'll have a cup of tea first. Right, right. And it's it it we they don't even really know what they're doing with that, you know. So well, tea was was my first plant medicine. It was my ceremony with you. That was that was very my very first what I would consider plant medicine. What was our first ceremony? Was it the cabin on the river? It was the cabin at the river. Girl, and I was seeing you trance

Warm. I was gonna say, I think it it was you know what it was for me though? It was when you say the word subtle, I needed that subtle to be cracked open. Some people need to go straight into the big plant ceremonies and I've done that now. But T definitely was the like kindergarten teacher in a way. Just come on in, I'm gonna take care of you. There's nothing you need to do. Yeah. You know, and it's not scary at all. It wasn't scary at all, but but so surprising.

What happened and how I I purged. I purged so much during that ceremony. Cried and I cried and I cried. And at the time I didn't realize it was a purge. And then afterwards, now that I've gone through more ceremonies. Bigger purges. Right. I would take that purge any day. So let's talk a little bit about the ceremonial piece of tea. You have these tea ceremonies. We have friends who also

Hold tea in ceremony. A lot of people that are maybe listening have never even don't even know that you can have tea in a ceremony. So can you tell us a little bit about tea ceremony? Right. So because tea was revered as a goddess, and because she was able to heal body, mind, and spirit, and because people recognize this divine quality about tea, and because it is a universal truth about tea.

People have ceremonialized tea, just like other plants become ceremonialized. And the reason we ceremonialize things is to like bring more energy to them, to turn up the volume, to be able to experience the feeling, the healing, the energy, the frequency more by applying our intention, by bringing in the earth, the water, the wind, the fire, our intention, by cleaning our space, by practicing these movements, by holding these ethos, like there are four pillars in.

Teaism, which rolls into tea ceremony, and we can deep dive on this. And people deep dive in tea ceremony their entire lives. So it's like yoga. You can never stop learning about the Upanishads or about the Vedic texts and the learnings. So tea is the same way. There's a lot of wisdom built in that humans have written about and practiced and created these ceremonies about, but essentially the ceremony.

And whether there are different kinds of ceremonies. They all hold different energies. So the one that there's Moroccan tea ceremony, the most famous one is Japanese tea ceremony, which is around matcha, which is very devout and very serious and very practiced. The one that I share that a lot of people in modern day are sitting and practicing is the bowl tea ceremony. And that one was created through Wu-Da, who's a teacher in Taiwan, who ⁓

brought together various ceremonies that he learned from various teachers of tea into this one ceremony that people love because it's so grounding and it's so casual and it's so accessible and it just is really beautiful. Is what a your tea teacher? He's who I learned this tea ceremony from. Yeah. ⁓ and he teaches it's his teachings that a lot of people are learning and

Teaching and he has done a really good job of ⁓ taking a lot of the ancient tea texts and translating them into English and then creating these ceremonies and teaching people so that we can experience this ceremony. Because before he really brought tea ceremony out into mainstream Western culture, it was ⁓

Japanese tea ceremony, which was not that accessible to us, right? Or like we didn't know the language or we couldn't study the old texts or we weren't gonna spend seventy-five years of our lives like some people do in Japan, like really studying all the ways of Cha Dao, the way of tea, the tea practice. And so, you know, I had been with tea for so long when I all of a sudden ceremony started creeping into my field of awareness and I started sitting with tea.

in a different way. I started buying different tea wear and it was just really intuitive. And I would invite friends over and I would get my kettle and I would pour many rounds of tea. I would have sessions with tea. And it wasn't any longer like make a London fog, make a cup of tea. It was like sit with tea. Have your kettle next to you, pour multiple infusions of the same tea and let it let it guide you, you know, drop in with it, light some incense, some music, have a conversation. And so in that

period of my life, which was probably like 2016, I think. ⁓ I started sort of naturally coming into what I wouldn't have called ceremony then, but just sitting with tea. And it was sort of just my own thing, and I would invite friends over. And then one day somebody was like, there's this guy that was on a podcast, some monk in Taiwan, and sent it to me. And I listened to it and I was like, ⁓ he's teaching ceremony and he's in Taiwan. So

obviously booked a ticket to Taiwan and spent ten days and he w used to run these like ten day silent meditation trainings. Did that, loved it, fell completely in love. You know, the ceremony broke me open. I also cried, like had massive purge during that chapter of my life. And it felt like I don't know if you all watched the movie Moana, but you know when if you've watched it, when she like puts the heart back in Taekw and Taekaa like is like

sees the heart and is like, give me more of that. I felt like that where I was like sitting my first time, like maybe you felt in tea ceremony, there was something inside of me that was like, I have to have more of that. You know, I have to that I remember that. I know that. That's ancient in me. Like that's why I'm like and it cracked me open. And I've seen so many people crack open the in the exact same way, sitting with tea. ⁓

And still it cracks me open. Just the other day I sat for tea and I just cried and cried and cried and but it's so beautiful and healing. ⁓ so yeah, so I went a couple of times and trained with Woodah and then went to some other workshops and then met people in the global community who are learning and teaching and sharing this. ⁓ so it's definitely growing and growing. and then I have a course that I've put together, which is basically like everything that I

know about tea with like agriculture and tiroir and travel and types and steeping and how to make matcha and chai and also everything I've learned for 30 years of practicing yoga and meditation and ceremony. And so it brings in ritual and work around your dharma and how to create ceremony. And then in the course you also learn this bowl tea ceremony that I teach, as well as Moroccan ⁓ and one other type of ceremony. So that is

kind of my offering, which is ⁓ a way that I can help other people learn tea and how to bring it into their We have s you have so many offerings. That's probably part of it. It's like part of the problem. You have so many things that you can do so well with tea. I'm not gonna ask you what your favorite teas are, but I know you've said that you talk like you have a kind of a spirit guide relationship with teas. So the t the teas are your part of your spirit team. Just like fairies are part of cat spirit team and

And my own spirit teen. So what teas do you talk to the most? What are your I would say what are the top what are your top three teas that I sit with? That you sit with the most, yeah. Rewilding always comes up. That's the original Tea Huntress tea. So she That was my original tea ceremony with you two. ⁓

primitive region region like a primitive plant so it's not been cultivated it's not been planted it's growing wild ⁓ in Yunnan and then the other one I would say is alchemy probably alchemy is a Liubao so has a lot of the beneficial bacteria for longevity and health but also is very good for like a longer sit. It's a Liubao which is like a shop so for people who

are deep in their tea knowledge. ⁓ Chopur is one of the ancient styles. Well, that's not true. Choor is actually a more modern style, but it's modeled after Liubao, which is an ancient style of processing tea. but again, it has like a lot of it's from an old tree, has a lot of plant and earth medicine and was How old of a tree? Tell people how old these trees are. They're like eight hundred years old. Wow. Really, really old. Yeah. ⁓

And they grow all along like Yunnan and northern even northern Thailand and Vietnam and Lao have some of these trees that have migrated across the border from China. But China's the homeland, like in Yunnan. And so let's see, alchemy and rewilding, and then I really love White Dragon. That's a red tea from Yunnan too. And then Forest Queen. Everybody loves Forest Queen. She's really great for she kind of embodies

the forest energy, the the Artemis, the Mialiki who's like the goddess in Finland of the forest and of the bear and the moon and of women and of wild herbs. And so when I sit with Forest Queen, I always get a lot of clarity. You know, you kind of you've sat with Forest Queen, I think. I think we had it once together. At the fr on the front porch. At your house, I think. Yeah. ⁓ but you get a lot of clarity of self where you're like, ⁓ there I am.

That's what's true about me. Why am I pretending to be like that? Or why am I acting like this? This is what's true about me and it's beautiful. So it's like this truth serum of like inner clarity. but I love them all. Yeah. And I think I more than like I sit with various teas, of course, but when I like tune in to tea as guidance, it's more like this spirit of tea, this energy of tea that's more like.

you know, holistic I guess than one particular tea. And all those teas that you mentioned, by the way, can be found on your website. They're they're your tea names. Right. For the different tea. And they explain I love your website 'cause it goes into such depth about what they do and you know what it what it can bring you. So that's that's really nice to you know, if you don't know that much about tea or obviously you know, it's it's nice to go on that deep dive to see yeah all the different things and I love that the healing and the the magic tea is my favourite.

Do do you sit with tea with your children? Have you done that a lot? They come in and out. So I I always offer they're used to it. You know, they're used to sitting, whether it's front porch or by the fireplace. And you know, I used to try to keep my practice really sort of devout when they'd be around and then I realized that this is about enjoyment of life. This is not about my perfection. This is about us. And so then when they were little they'd come and they'd you know, I'd let them pick a rock or

pick a crystal and I might stop the practice because they wanted to chat. Or I'd offer them some tea and let them kind of be in it how they wanted to, or, you know, pull an oracle card. Yeah. And take it so seriously. Yeah. Like break break the like I have I may have made a decision to kind of with them to not always keep it so proper because it's more about just being with them and the enjoyment of them and

having it be fun and accessible for them. And if I'm like, no, you're sitting wrong. You're holding it wrong. Yeah. You have to sip like this. You've got to sit here and look like then they're like, forget it. Yeah. Your kids aren't gonna do No, forget it. I don't wanna be here. And so ⁓ it's more for me about like we used to actually sit at the kitchen table a lot in the evenings. Yeah and me I do with my daughter as well. Yeah, make pots of tea and make a piece of toast and yeah. That's our moment. And they know their teas and

My older one has like his concoction. He'll go in the tea room, the like apothecary in the back and make his winter tea or his you know, and the little one loves chamomile and then there's one they've always called like dinosaur tea, but it's medicine chest and ⁓ so they have their own relationship and they have their own little steeping pots and their own cups and they they know how to make it. And it really is such a gift.

I feel so yeah. It is it's like Both both of our daughters are obsessed with teas. Delta was I'll never forget Delta was shaming me for using my ⁓ rechargeable spinny thing to make my matcha and Delta's got the but Delta has a whole matcha set upstairs that she does with her her brush. Yeah, and then Delta taught me actually and now Delta now I now Delta has taught Bliss.

How to make it. So now Bliss makes me my matcha. And it's better than you know, because she's she goes on filling it with love and then you you gotta do the little W of the like she's it's it's it's lovely and we've done the same. Like Delsa's got her matcha thing. So Bliss was up when we moved, she was like, I want have a tea station. So we created this whole like tea station and we went and painted

teapots together with the little cups on and she does the same, you know, we have everything in. It's all pretty. Tea, you know, like your rose tea that we've got. I've got a beautiful glass jar for it and we have a special silver spoon with a little rose on it. I mean I go I go pretty hard on tea. It's pull on. Pull on, yeah. Well what a moment in a day. Whenever you keep it. It's amazing. She asks for it. It's it's it's great. And

I was saying I I was sort of saying earlier about my friend Erica that's staying with us and I'm having a tea ceremony every morning. It's like unbelievable. You know, having this whole thing and Bliss has been asking so many questions about it and she wants to sit with us. Yeah. And I was like, this that's amazing that she's so fascinated about it and so excited. Well, especially because it calls for so much stillness. And we talked about that before the cameras were rolling, especially with mom's yeah, you know, pulling

a mom into a space of stillness is really hard. And then being able to pull the kids into the same space with you, detach you know detach from all the screens, all the schedules, all the things that are competing for your attention and to come into a moment seems harder and harder and harder for people to do. What do you where do you land when it comes to this idea? We've talked about it before on this pod that we ha we live in a society that feels really addicted to the

energy of go go go go go and produce produce produce produce but then when you go back to the wisdom of the plants it's calling for the exact opposite mm-hmm don't don't do so much sit and stillness listen be quiet unplug so ⁓ my gosh you're running a business my gosh I'm like with

I'm so guilty. I'm so guilty. I'm not trying I'm not trying to bring up anything clear. No judgment, PTST. It's it is in every conversation with every person in my life because I'm so guilty of just hustling, you know? Like I especially now, like post divorce, I have a lot more financial responsibility. I've been rebuilding my life. I'm like

trying, you know, when when I was always at in tea before, it was always an act of listening and surrender and flow. And I have lived my whole life that way. I didn't do hustle culture. I didn't move to the city. I didn't care about money or any of those things. I just wanted to save the world. I wanted to do tea and be on land and play with the flowers and so waking up in this version of me that's like

I'm like, this is not who I am, but I feel like I feel that the universe or T maybe is giving me this very ⁓ palpable experience of what I'm here to heal because I'm living and breathing hustle culture because I am running a business. I don't I just don't like that word. Right. Like and I have kids and I have a house to look after and I have a dog and a cat and friends and things and it's like I am

so spread thin and and so I actually think about it a lot I talk about it lot and and the one thing I know it is an addiction it is something that we need to try to break in little bits so I go back to my tea practice here's another fun fact is that I am finished and I love coffee and

When I built my first tea company, I was drinking coffee. And then one day I was like, I'm gonna stop drinking coffee. So I just stopped drinking coffee. And I didn't drink coffee for over a decade. And then in this last chapter I've been in in the last couple of years where I've been really like maybe operating out of fear, which is I think what drives a lot of that busyness and a lot of that I can't stop. It's fear based. It's not surrender and love based. ⁓

But it I also feel more of a desire to drink coffee. Like it's matching my energy. Cause it's like this. Right? And so so I have to stop myself and just be like, no, that's like it's a bad relationship. It's like and I will drink coffee sometimes, but

I do it, it's like a I joke that coffee's like my the the hot lover that's like you're like, it's gonna feel bad. I shouldn't no, I shouldn't, no, I can't, but then you're like, you know, and then the next morning you're like, I feel so bad, why did I do it? Like, why'd I do it? My stomach hurts, I don't feel good and then it just like it smells so good, it's like so alluring, you know. But you have to Is coffee masculine? Yeah.

Okay. Coffee's like a very young masculine energy. ⁓ Right? Yeah. Where tea is this very like soft feminine energy and ⁓ and so you drink all the tea all day and you never feel all jacked up like you do with coffee. ⁓

So it's I'm not gonna make any more jokes about that, which you just said. I drink TLD today. It's interesting. We don't need to say anything more about that. No. We'll just put that right there. We'll just leave that. I'm not having any funny thoughts about that at all. Right. It does smell so good though. I I don't like coffee. I've never liked coffee, it gives me an instant headache. But the smell of it, there's just something it smells

And the more you drink it, the more you want it. ⁓ here we go. Coffee energy. When you break. So we don't need to give any more time to that. But coffee can also be a ceremonialized ceremonialized medicine in its own culture. It does hold a very potent energy. But I have two things I love to share about coffee and for coffee drinkers. And one of them is if you're gonna have your coffee and you're just non-negotiable, like I'm gonna drink my coffee, nobody's gonna ever stop me.

Try to have tea first. Try to have even hot water first. Try to have something first. And then after ten o'clock, like don't go straight into it in the morning because the feeling of that is so different than like easing into it with your tea first, time to acclimate to the day, and then you have your coffee fine. But

When you wake up and straight go to the coffee, it's like jolting yourself, you know, it's just really a harsh edge. People will come at you if you talk about their coffee. I know. Just so I know. You're not trying to create any. I know. But then the other thing is ⁓ I think just staying and this is maybe like not doable for but staying in control of the relationship. So for me, I feel like I will have some coffee, but I won't have it if I need it. If I feel like but I really want if I get into that weird, like addictive headspace.

I'm like, I want a coffee, I shouldn't have a coffee. I'm gonna then I just don't do it. But when I feel like I could take it or leave it, then that's when I'll have a coffee. ⁓ that's a good way to actually take your temperature on whether or not it's matcha and chai masculine, or is that feminine? Well, that's what's so great about matcha and chai because they are the bridge. Okay. They are the bridges, and so you can have your matcha, but you don't get jacked up like you do on coffee. It's not the masculine energy, it's tea. It's just really

you know, imagine like the divine feminine in like the ⁓ now I'm thinking of Jennifer Mazley. Like, you know, she's like fierce and she's like divine feminine, but she's got this like potency about her. And so Would she be Macho or Chai? She's Macha. Okay. Who's Chai who's Chai? I think I might be Chai. I have a deep connection with Chai. Yeah, I I can run a lot of like colorful chaos too, you know, and I can sit in my ceremony. ⁓

But yeah, I think have a lot of chai energy. But it's feminine too and it's sweet and it's milky and it's like got a lot going on. ⁓ my gosh. it would be moon milk. Okay. I just have a whole new thing to add to your repertoire. I know. Who's your tea who's your tea personality? yeah. Yeah, it's the astrology of tea. Yeah, we can be moon Casey's. I know. I'm thinking what is. I think they have to come organically.

I I I would I would I could suggest one. Okay, go. I would I would call you Rose T because she's so full of love and she just gives back all the time in your like this little and you also help people bloom. So that's what I would that's what I'd say about it. And I receive that. I love rose with all my heart too. I love rose every day. But I don't know if I'm thinking rose. Or Sarah, that's what I think. I know, I know. I think it's I can see it for sure. And I'm

There's something a little She's spicy as well. She's a little spicy. But you know, rose can be a little spicy and it does have that like Thorns. Rose with some thorns in there. Like I love to know. The balance. The balance. So maybe you're yeah, okay, I'm on board. Casey being the rose. Yeah.

But yeah, it's an interesting Yeah, it depends which part of the rose that you get. Like are you gonna sit the petals or are you gonna hold her? Right. Try to hold her. Yeah. Try. Just try. See how that goes for you. ⁓ interesting. And that's a whole I mean it's such an analogy. It's now it's the new thing we have to develop the software for for your for the tea huntress website. Find your tea. Like find your fairy name, it's find your tea. Your tea quiz. Yeah.

I'm everyone loves the quiz. It's my brain just I love it. Like I love to dive into that. I do custom formulations for people. So it's more about like what are you working on, what are you calling in, what plants can match that. I need a custom formulation. Yeah. That sounds well when you think of it in the way that it's medicine, you would be the doctor, so it's just your subscription or prescription. Your prescription. Right. To get your subscription. Right. ⁓ make sure you subscribe to this channel. That was a good segue. ⁓

I have a so I think we're I we say our our tagline, I said this yesterday in the pod is building up the collective consciousness of our world one pot at a time. And I've I do want to change it because I think we're there. And building is such a word of it reminds me a little bit of hope, and I think we are there. We're being called back to nature now, and you can't deny that this conversation around

Taking care of our earth being and and taking care of ourselves by taking care of the earth is happening all around us. I wanna know if T could send a message to the collective right now, what would it be? Mm, it brings me back to our surrender conversation, and I think that's such a deeper one. ⁓

You know what's coming up for me right now with there's so many messages, but the one that is coming up for me right now when I sit with tea and what feels like

the pathway, like the highest pathway to s consciousness to ascension to spirituality is joy and playfulness and fun and lightheartedness. And I think that as our world gets increasingly hot and fast and loud, tea really is the antidote we seek. And there is this part of tea that is so still and quiet and meditative. And maybe this is because I'm in like a stardust mindset lately. But what I'm really feeling and what does come up a lot is

actually playfulness and joy and just laughter and not taking ourselves so seriously. Amen. And not being so perfect and not having to be so devout, but meeting ourselves where we are and just allowing ourselves to be imperfect and allowing, you know, allowing ourselves to be a little hustly sometimes, but acknowledging that and being like, ⁓ really need to work on that. Or like

But letting it be laughter and fun and you know, there's so many pills and programs and protocols that we are all being fed all day long to be like smarter and funnier and richer and skinnier and more perfect and more beautiful, and they're accessible. So we're all just consuming, consuming, consuming. And I think the message of tea is really this holistic message of nature, which is like

you're fine just how you are and life is short and just have fun and love your people and if you wanna have a coffee have a coffee and if you're like hustling a little too much just you know turn it down a little bit and like be like let yourself be fun and playful and childlike and free and just you know have your martini if you want to have your martini. It just doesn't need to be so serious.

You know, and the meditation is there and the wisdom and the plants. And of course we all want to evolve and we can evolve and we all want to be our best selves and we all want to exercise and be beautiful and like be smart and have an impact and leave a legacy. But you know, and this is something that I feel like is really ingrained in culture in Finland, which is where I feel like I can taste it so much because there is more of an understanding of

I'm good. I'm accepted. I'm loved. Like that I think is the message. It's like you're just everything's fine. You're fine. You're good. Sure. Ascend, grow, do the thing. But you're not in hurry. You know, you've got lifetimes. Just take your time and ⁓

Yeah. So I think that's the one just I love that. Yeah. It's perfect. So funny. This I'll tell this little quick story. This is while you were out of town. I hate taking medication, like Tylenol Apple, any of that stuff. It's just not what I like to do. And I take it really seriously. Like, my god, I have to take one. I can't get rid of this headache. So we were some friends, our friend Angie Arkin, and she's like, Just take a Tylenol. And I was like, Okay. And she grabbed the Tylenol, she went like this.

I go, what are you doing? She goes, I'm putting light codes in it. And now you'll take it. I'll take it now. Do you know what I mean? It's just, it was funny. But it's also too, it's like the intention you pour into something. Don't beat yourself up over having to eat, you know, whatever a bag of Cheetos if that's all you've got in the in the cabinet. But also don't do it every day. But it's just we you're right, we're in this.

place of just taking ourselves way too seriously. Enjoy is my middle name, literally. And Catherine is the essence of the fairies and it's something that she's brought into my life to remember like this is about having fun. Right. Period. Yeah. Right. So if you're not having fun while you're doing it and you're all it's all about making the book, then it just it's you're doing it for the wrong reason. Create for creation's sake. Yeah. Yeah, and the rest of the full life. Yeah. And you know, I have to say I love what you all have created in with community because I think what's

Desperately lacking in our culture is something that I found living on the farms where I lived and the wineries where I lived, and living on land is that I had this built-in community. And so I naturally felt good and fine and accepted, right? And I wasn't there wasn't so much competition. And I think that in modern American culture, there's so much need for money, like private health care, private education. We don't trust our government, we don't trust our doctors. So we're

kind of ushered into this hustle culture where we have to do so much for ourselves and we have to make so much money to just get by. It's not Finland where you trust your doctors and you trust your educators and you trust your government. And so you rest in that. And so then your life becomes in playing your part and being a good human and like taking care of your people and you have more of a sense of relaxation and ease. It's like we're in this greater American culture that is

moving towards more hustle and more speed and more need for money and valuation and celebration of money. And the real truth that we were just talking about is that we are fine how we are. And we are, we should be here to be happy and to love and to be free and to be more playful. But it's really hard when you don't have community. And I see now like what you've created here and what you all are creating and what I see possibly

Popping up in Montana and popping up in other places where I go is people creating more of these smaller pods, these pockets, these communities where they feel this is my family, you know, this is my community, these are my people. And so within that community, you have someone who will take care of you if you're hungry, and someone who will value you for what you bring that isn't just about how much money you make and what kind of power you drive. And so there's this: I love you for being you, and I've experienced that literally.

living in Finland, living in a little community in Alaska, and a little community in Northern California or Montana where I feel like I'm valued and seen and celebrated and loved because I'm me and because of who I am. And in the more I've spent time in bigger, faster, hotter cultures, I feel not celebrated for who I am. I feel unseen. I feel more like I have to keep up. I have to prove something. I have to ⁓ have more in a way. And

It just isn't true. So I think that what really helps this maybe new way of being, this new new world that we're kind of birthing is

Finding your tribe, finding your community, creating it and really like being accepting and open in that way. And to create it and to be part of that is such a gift. It really is. And it's it is so important. And actually tea played a part in us building that community 'cause we sat in ceremony with ⁓ Erica. Yeah and that's where we met Molly. Yeah. And I was with I was sat there with it's me and Kate K I rang Casey last minute, let's go get down do this tea ceremony. And I think it was my first actually it's my first ever tea ceremony.

And then we went there and there's only two other people and we were packing up to leave and Case was like, I think it's important that I go and speak to that girl over there. Yeah. To talk to Molly. And I was like, okay. And then that was Molly. And then that's you know, that's the was the start of this unbelievable

And that wasn't even a year ago, was it? Was it a year? Yeah, yeah. I know. Yeah, yeah. We a year in January or February. So Yeah. But it happens fast. You like you said, when that alignment happens, it's click, click, click, click, click, click, click. And all of sudden you've got your

All the and all a sudden you have your people and you've got here. We just had to detect to remember who we were who they were. Right. Yeah. But then we found purpose and meaning in that. And really that's the base of what humans want is to feel purposeful and to belong and to feel like they have purpose and meaning. And that is the fundamental disconnection that

tech and the screen addictions is creating. So well tech is the opposite of tea. Yeah. Well thank you so much, Tea Sister, for being with us today. We made it we did it. We did it. Thank you. ⁓ and if anyone wants to find Sarah, they can go to the teahuntress dot com. Teahuntress dot com and On Instagram. ⁓ yes new home. Is it gonna be for a new flat? ⁓

⁓ very happy. Is it just moon milk or is it gonna be a whole other sun chai. So moon milk and sun chai. What is this new sun chai that I don't know about? And then star matcha coming soon. ⁓ did you just say Star Maja? I mean everything's got sparkles of stars on. So I'm dying I'm dying to see the packaging. Sun chai illumin you know, the sun illuminates the moon. And so the sun chai, the moon milk, and then

Three families. That is the trifecta. I know. That is the holy grail of tea right there. The chai, the matcha, and the and they're the instant, you know. Tea huntress will always be doing the deep long meditative ceremonies and the rewilding retreats. But I see sparkly stickers. I was seeing gold.

Tattoos. ⁓ yeah. Stardust. ⁓ I see like little pots of glitter. Wait, are you gonna do a launch for this? Okay, we need to this doesn't need this needs to be an off camera conversation. Okay. I said that's the time to launch a hype I'm coming. ⁓ We're going into we're going into maybe some top secret tea territory. No, we launch on October twenty first. my gosh, that's right around the corner. Yeah. You're all invited for the holidays. ⁓ December ninth moon milk activation. the day after your birthday. Yeah. There's a lot.

Okay. We're excited. We're invited to all of it. We're all invited. And everyone's invited, by the way, to all of it because you can get it on the website. Get it online. Yeah. So well, thank you so much, Sarah. We love you. Thank you. As always. It's been a pleasure. I'm gonna sign off with l one of these. That's what you say in England. You're like, that's that's this. It's this though, right? well posh people, so no one I know.

⁓ interesting. Isn't it that interesting? That's how you drink. So you're meant to do this for ten minutes a day to increase your happiness. It lowers inflammation. It helps all the It's like this. Your thumb with all your three fingers. If you're listening, just go to YouTube. a little pinky. Yeah, that's how you that's how posh people drink tea. I forgot the name of the mudra. ⁓ but this is

Ten minutes a day on both hands. ⁓ it's like the tea mudra, but it's ⁓ and I suppose it's like Yeah. And it increases it does so many good things for your body. really? I mean you try it's like the pinking out is not an easy Yeah. ⁓

You kinda to breathe into it, right? To build up your pinky muscles. A new thing for us to put on our list of things. Another thing to add to all the other things. Well thank you, Sarah. Thank you. Till next time. Till next time. Bye. Cheers.