Drishti House

09/08/2025

Join us for:
• Automatic Writing
• Poetry Creation
• Poetry Performance + Tea Service
• Creative Word Games
• & more!

Find the event RSVP link in our bio •

08/13/2025

In many spaces, only the polished parts of our lives are welcome. The light, the wins, & neatly packaged stories.

But here, we make room for it all.

Drishti Collective is a place to show up as you are and connect to the present.

We’ll be here, pouring tea.

Join us inside the Drishti Collective • link in bio •

08/04/2025

Tea lounge fans know that this will sell out fast. It is our most beloved herbal tea—Wild Gynostemma (also known as Jiaogulan).

Not only tasty, but incredibly rich with health-boosting benefits—there’s many reasons to love this tea. Get it now in the shop • LINK IN BIO • Local Pickup available in Montecito/Santa Barbara area 📍

07/31/2025

This Saturday, join us for an easy hike into the woods to settle in by the water for a beautiful tea ceremony in nature with community • August 2nd • 4pm • full details & link to book in bio (Events)

07/17/2025

Tea is so much more than just a leaf. For us, it’s a worldwide community of people from a wide range of diverse backgrounds that share a common love for a practice that cultivates stronger roots across boundaries and differences. They say tea is the great connector. It was our sincere pleasure to be able to connect with to stewards of tea from China, Taiwan, and Korea this past month at Drishti House.

Each sharing their sacred bond, tradition, wisdom, and unique practices with us and vice versa. In this way, tea becomes a great cultural exchange that passes on the teachings from all around the world. What a magical plant that has the ability to help slow us down and remember what is truly important in our lives.

This is why we’ve been working in the backgrounds on launching an online community to help connect tea lovers from around the world to share our collective wisdom and experiences together.

We look forward to sharing more about the Drishti Collective in the coming weeks along with launch dates. If you’re interested in being part of our beta pre-launch feel free to drop us a DM.

Happy brewing.

Deep bow,
Flowing River

07/10/2025

This weekend • Join us for Qi Gong (Level 1, Saturday & Level 2, Sunday) with Shifu Yantuo, a 34th-generation Shaolin master.

• Learn more & get your tickets at the link in our bio •

07/01/2025

This Saturday at Drishti House • link in bio to learn more & RSVP •

07/01/2025

06/25/2025

I’m going to share a little secret with you.

We have been reaching out to connect with various people in the spirit of collaboration, connection, and community building.

For whatever reason some people simply don’t get back to us, ghost us, or never respond in the first place.

For many this may feel like rejection, but to the wise it is protection.

Watch how the water flows gracefully around the rocks in a river. Slowly over time these sharp jagged rocks that once hurt you now become smooth and therapeutic to the touch. Understand the flow of life in so much that when one door closes another door opens. This is faith and trust that every single step you take is supported by the universal consciousness for your greatest good and personal spiritual evolution.

However, if one should get attached or set expectations upon others this is where you will swiftly be met with pain and suffering. The wise lower expectations of others but maintain high expectations for themselves.

They may be busy. They may be lazy. They may not want to connect. They may have missed the message. Whatever the reason we do not judge those that do not reciprocate our kind sentiments. We simply accept the moment as it is. This is a form of contentment which ultimately will lead you to a deep sense of peace.

You can’t buy peace.

Anyone that has truly touched the sanctuary of peace within would not trade it for anything.

It is a priceless jewel that shines deep within the one who gently tends to it daily.

You can not rush what will be.

A flower blooms in its time.

The sun rises in its time.

A child matures in its time.

Your greatness will reveal itself in time.

Be patient.

Stay aligned.

Everything.

In time.

Deep bow,
Flowing River

06/23/2025

Gradually, wisdom, clarity, and presence emerges as we show up to this practice. At the heart of Cha Dao, or the ‘way of tea’, we surrender to the flow and allow what wants to be arise in the moment be witnessed. This is your invitation to enter a space of pure presence, and to reflect upon yourself and the world around you with love.

• Upcoming •
June 29 — 9am — Sold Out
June 30 — 12pm — 4 spots remaining
July 6 — 9am — 4 spots remaining
July 13 — 9am — 1 spot remaining

06/16/2025

An evening to listen, share, and be held in conscious connection.

✨ June 26th @ Zula Den, Los Angeles
Link in bio to join us.

06/15/2025

Tea can get quite convoluted at times. You may need all types of teaware, processes, and techniques, this that and the other thing and certainly there is a time and place for all of that but there is also a time for tea to just flow as the river Ganges.

Naturally, unabated, except by the guard rails of the river bank as it makes its way down from the mountaintop and into your cup. Tea really doesn’t have to look a certain way. At its essence we find that tea pairs naturally with the breath and there is this unspoken cadence, a rhythm, a knowing, that it’s just right.

Right then and there.

No tools.
No measurements.
No degrees.
No weighing.
No time.

Yet everything is perfect.

Perfectly perfecting perfection as it has always been and forever will be.

If that’s too esoteric it means enjoy every cup of tea.

There is a saying in tea.

The man who critiques another man’s cup of tea doesn’t know the way of tea.

Deep Bow,
Flowing River