Candlelight Tea Ceremony
December 12, 2025 •
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
111 Saranac St
Elen Courtemanche
Elen is a ceremonialist & healing arts practitioner who has cultivated a decade long relationship with plant medicine. Tea ceremony is one of her foundational community offerings. While navigating healing severe nervous system dysregulation, childhood trauma, and chronic illness, tea ceremony came into her life when she wasn't looking for it but absolutely needed it. The art & ritual of cha dao tea ceremony offered her a doorway into silence, stillness, and peace. All of which she previously greatly struggled to experience. With each tea ceremony she was able to meet herself more deeply & experience physical, emotional, and mental healing in a soft & gentle way. Through over a thousand tea ceremonies and years of daily devotional practice with Tea, she has cultivated an embodied relationship with this plant. She has had the honor of witnessing Tea support many others on their healing path and is excited to share this beautiful practice with Dust Off Yoga.
She has a passion for weaving in the plants & natural world to support people in navigating their healing journeys, integrating from trauma, coming into their power, and cultivating a deeper relationship with themselves. Her path into the healing arts started from personal struggles with trauma and nervous system dysregulation. She has studied with somatic mentors, shamans, medicine women, and various plant spirits. And has cultivated rich wisdom from her own personal journey.
When she is not pouring tea & supporting clients, you can find her sitting with the trees, connecting with the plants, making pottery, and reading fantasy novels.
4 spots available
Description
Join us for a candlelit evening of Tea Ceremony~ a dreamy, grounding way to bring your week to a close and ease into the weekend with intention and quiet beauty.
Enter the studio sanctuary and feel the world grow softer. Candles casting their golden glow, salt lamps shimmering along the walls, and the fireplace flickering in a slow, steady rhythm. Beneath it all, the sound of the river threads through the space, inviting you to settle into something quieter, slower, and deeply restorative.
Elen will guide us through a traditional Cha Dao ceremony — the Way of Tea — a meditative practice that invites us into silence, simplicity, and an inner landscape of stillness. Tea spirit moves subtly through each bowl, offering a gentle yet profound invitation to settle, listen, and rest more deeply within ourselves. During our time together, we will sip multiple bowls of hot tea from wild-growth tea trees. These ancient trees have been shaped by wind, rain, sunlight, and shifting seasons, carrying a living Qi that moves through the ceremony and offers the medicine of nature in every bowl. In this practice, we drink tea not simply as a beverage, but as a form of earth-born nourishment. All evening teas served in ceremony are naturally caffeine-free. (You may learn more about this tradition at elen-rose.com/tea-ceremony.).
This intimate 90-minute ceremony is limited to 8 participants. Meditation chairs, cushions, and supportive props provided so you can settle in with ease. Comfortable clothing is suggested, and a light meal an hour or two prior can be supportive, we recommend not arriving completely empty.
**This ceremony reflects our studio’s commitment to keeping meaningful practices accessible, a value shared by Elen. For any questions about pricing, please contact the studio. Unlimited members receive a discounted rate.
Enter the studio sanctuary and feel the world grow softer. Candles casting their golden glow, salt lamps shimmering along the walls, and the fireplace flickering in a slow, steady rhythm. Beneath it all, the sound of the river threads through the space, inviting you to settle into something quieter, slower, and deeply restorative.
Elen will guide us through a traditional Cha Dao ceremony — the Way of Tea — a meditative practice that invites us into silence, simplicity, and an inner landscape of stillness. Tea spirit moves subtly through each bowl, offering a gentle yet profound invitation to settle, listen, and rest more deeply within ourselves. During our time together, we will sip multiple bowls of hot tea from wild-growth tea trees. These ancient trees have been shaped by wind, rain, sunlight, and shifting seasons, carrying a living Qi that moves through the ceremony and offers the medicine of nature in every bowl. In this practice, we drink tea not simply as a beverage, but as a form of earth-born nourishment. All evening teas served in ceremony are naturally caffeine-free. (You may learn more about this tradition at elen-rose.com/tea-ceremony.).
This intimate 90-minute ceremony is limited to 8 participants. Meditation chairs, cushions, and supportive props provided so you can settle in with ease. Comfortable clothing is suggested, and a light meal an hour or two prior can be supportive, we recommend not arriving completely empty.
**This ceremony reflects our studio’s commitment to keeping meaningful practices accessible, a value shared by Elen. For any questions about pricing, please contact the studio. Unlimited members receive a discounted rate.