Moments of Mindfulness with Blooming Tea

We don’t know about you, but we’re arming ourselves with fresh tips and tricks for 2024 to add to our wellbeing repertoire. Tea is already such a beautiful drink to seek a few minutes of calm, though have you ever deliberately explored moments of mindfulness with tea? We tried it with chocolate once and extended the same approach to tea using our Blooming Moments Jasmine gift set; five perfect balls of jasmine green tea artistically tied with dried flowers that unfurl majestically upon contact with hot water. 

Moments of Mindfulness with Blooming Tea

You will need: 

+ An AVANTCHA glass twin teapot 

+ An AVANTCHA double walled glass 

+ A set of Blooming Moments Jasmine 

+ Boiling Water 

+ Optional: a candle and matches, pen and paper 

+ Prepare your space – you might like to create an uncluttered corner where you can sit quietly without distraction. Try to find a spot with good light so that you can really experience and see what you are concentrating on. You might like to light a candle, too. 

+ Slowly place your items in front of you, with the glass teapot at the centre. If you are lighting a candle, place this behind the teapot so that the illumination shines through the glass (but not too close!)

+ Fill your kettle, really listening to the sound of the water as it fills up inside. 

+ Set to boil and turn your attention to the box of tea, admiring the matte black craft paper from which it’s made, slowly opening the lid to reveal the tea inside. 

+ Admire each tea bloom in its box, before selecting the bloom you’d like to use. 

+ Study the bloom carefully: its colour, its shape, its scent, and the way it feels in your hands, remembering that someone somewhere carefully and skilfully handtied it together so that you could enjoy this moment. 

+ By now your water will be boiling, the sounds of which you can enjoy as the water rumbles in the kettle and steam appears at the spout. 

+ Place a tea bloom in the bottom of the teapot. Listen for and enjoy the sound the tea makes as it plinks onto the glass.

+ Add a little cold water first – about a cm.

+ Slowly pour the boiling water over the tea bloom and watch as it dances in the flow, twirling as the teapot fills. Fill to about three quarters full. 

+ Now sit back and admire as the tea ever-so-slowly unwinds in the water, releasing its fragrance and colour, sinking deeper into the teapot as the bloom of flowers unravels.

+ This will take around three to five minutes to fully open. Try to keep your attention on the unfurling bloom. If you find your mind wandering, gently bring it back to the tea, enjoying the calm feeling that spreads across your body, taking deep, slow breaths. 

+ When the tea is ready, you might like to lift it to the light to really study its intricacy. Then slowly pour the tea into your glass cup, feeling the weight of the teapot in your hands getting lighter as it empties, and enjoying the sounds and scents the tea releases. 

+ Once full, wrap your hands around the cup, feeling the warmth. 

+ Inhale the fragrance deeply and, when you’re ready, lift the tea to your lips and take a small sip. Notice the feelings: the heat, the sweetness, the way the tea moves through your body when you swallow, warming you up. 

+ Continue to enjoy the tea in this way. At the end, you might like to make notes on how it made you feel, or write a note of gratitude, or even a short poem. It doesn’t have to be eloquent – just something to remember the moment by.