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I have a few students who can no longer sit seiza on tatami.  Some of them are sad because there are only a few table style temae you can do...

For the holidays, I have just put the portable mediation seats on sale at SweetPersimmon.com The price was $49.99, now on sale for $40....

SweetPersimmon .com now has beginning matcha sets. Tea bowl, whisk and tea scoop with a can of powdered tea and you can now make a good bow...

For those who study martial arts or are involved in sports, tea practice looks like it is sedentary, not a physical activity. After all, i...

Part of the beauty of chanoyu is the stately and graceful way that the host moves in and out of the room and the sound of silk on tatami mat...

Observing is much harder than doing in tea. Perhaps in life as well. When I began to study tea making procedures, I was very excited to mak...

When we first begin to learn chanoyu, it seems like all we can manage is to remember the order of things, and getting control of our bodies ...

One of the most difficult things about chado is sitting seiza for long periods of time. I have written about my struggles with sitting on m...

I just got an email from a person who ordered a Portable Meditation Seat from my online store: I suppose it wasn't the best planning in ...

I really don’t go to tea lessons or tea class at least I don’t call it that. It just seems inadequate to what I am doing. When people ask ...

Studying traditional chanoyu takes place in a tatami mat room. The proper way to sit is seiza. To sit in seiza, first kneel on the floor, ...