07/01/2026
Driving to my first tea ceremony of the year at Bluegreen, I found myself in a quiet moment of reflection. What is it that draws people to come and sit with tea? What are we really seeking, or remembering, when we pause like this And then it landed so simply. Coming to tea ceremony, or sitting with yourself like this in a group, is a little bit like going to the movies.
Only instead of watching a story on a screen, you’re coming to watch what’s now showing inside you.
You take a seat in the theatre of your own inner world. The inner garden. The landscape that’s always moving, shifting, revealing itself.
You don’t need to control the plot.
You don’t need to fix the characters.
You don’t need to make sense of everything.
You simply arrive, and you witness.
Some days the inner movie is soft and beautiful.
Some days it’s messy, loud, or unexpected.
Some days, hardly anything happens at all.
And all of it is welcome.
This is part of why sitting like this is so deeply therapeutic. When we give ourselves time to see what’s moving inside us, we don’t have to carry it unseen through the rest of our life.
By pausing and witnessing, we tend the inner garden.
And from here, everything else soften, our relationships, our responses, the way we meet the world.
During tea tonight, the Avatar themes felt especially alive for me. I’ve recently rewatched Avatar 1 & 2 in preparation for seeing Avatar 3, and in the stillness a beautiful vision arose.
I saw that scene where the Na’vi sit in meditation, arms around one another, chanting around the sacred tree, offering their prayers to Eywa.
And suddenly, I saw us.
Each person seated in gentle arcs around the tea table, the tea itself becoming the sacred tree. Hearts softening, nervous systems settling, a quiet coherence forming between us. Presence. Unconditional love. A frequency that ripples outward into families, communities, and the wider world in ways we may never fully see.
There’s nothing to achieve here.
No special state to reach.
Just arrive, take your seat, and let yourself watch what’s now showing inside you 🍿 🎥 🫖