Sip with Intention: The Art of Creating Your Own Tea Ritual

Tea is more than a simple beverage, it can also be a practice that grounds, restores, and inspires. In this 45-minute session, tea ceremonialist Linh Le will share how to transform your tea practice into a personal ritual of mindfulness and meaning. You’ll walk away with practical tools for creating ritual in everyday life, inspiration for finding beauty in the simple, and new ways to let tea support your body, mind, and spirit beyond the cup.

Jane Yang

With over 15 years of experience in the art of Gongfu cha, I have a deep appreciation for tea's history and cultural significance. I've had the pleasure of attending the Northwest Tea Festival on four separate occasions (2017, 2018, 2019, and 2023) and have enjoyed sharing my passion by organizing the Chinese Tea Party in Arizona.

HARIO USA

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HARIO has been crafting high-quality heatproof glassware in Japan since 1921. With over 100 years of experience, we are the only manufacturer in Japan with our own heatproof glass factory. Originally known for laboratory glassware, we’ve since become a global name in beautifully functional products for the kitchen—especially for coffee and tea lovers.

Best of Health Tea

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Best of Health! inc., a Seattle herbal tea-crafting company, creates the finest True Herbal Pu-erh and Oolong teas, using local wild-harvested plants from the Cascadia Mountains of the Washington State.

Our pu'erhs are crafted through the full, traditional multistep process of fermentation, aging, etc., using wild local botanicals instead of Camellia sinensis. Every leaf is hand-harvested from the untouched wilderness, ensuring a purity no certification can match. 

Trudy Ann's Chai & Spices

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Trudy Ann was born and raised in Bombay, India. Her company is based in Vancouver, BC

Trudy Ann’s Chai & Spices means mouth-watering, deliciousness. Try her traditional masala chai, healing flu season or digestive teas, aromatic oven roasted cooking spice selections. She blends all organic products with no added essential oils.

Additionally, she offers online cooking classes to help people heal from various metabolic diseases using food as medicine.

Enthea Teahouse

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Enthea Teahouse has travelled directly to China for the last fourteen years, building family style relationships with farmers and tea producers to source exclusively hand-made, small batch tea. We value whole spectrum trade from tea plant to tea pot, where the experience of brewing is enhanced by that intimate line of connection through quality and care. We emphasize hand-made tea culture for community connection and personal cultivation.