Crossing the Threshold
A Seven-Day Tea Ceremony Journey
December 25, 2025 – January 1, 2026
On the Day of Christ’s birth, we begin a seven-day series of morning tea sittings titled Crossing the Threshold.
This is a step-by-step, drop-in journey offering a space of refuge, inner connection, nourishment, inspiration, and transformation as we consciously observe the holy passage between Christmas Day and the New Year.
This liminal gateway — the snake shedding its skin into the red path of the Fire Horse — marks a powerful turning of cycles.
For seven mornings, I open the doors of my temple and invite you into the teahouse to sit together in ceremony, meditation, and presence, in the spirit of preparing for the Fire Horse path ahead.
The Seven Sacred Days
Each of the seven days between Christmas and New Year is traditionally regarded as a divination of the year to come.
Each day reflects a stage of the year ahead
The themes, blessings, challenges, conversations, and activities of that day act as premonitions
What unfolds offers insight into the energies you may encounter throughout the coming year
Pay attention.
These seven days also correspond with the seven chakras:
December 25 — Root Chakra (Muladhara)
Grounding, safety, belonging, and the foundation of your pathEach subsequent day ascends through the subtle body
December 31 / January 1 — Crown Chakra (Sahasrara)
Full awakening, illumination, and the rising of Kundalini energy
This is an unfolding creation, shaped by special guests, spontaneous collaborations, and living transmission as the days reveal themselves.
Tea Kung Fu & the Mountain
Sitting at the tea table in meditation, illuminated by the spiritual influence of the mountain, we enter a shared field of stillness and awareness.
Like all martial arts, Tea Kung Fu is a doorway to higher states of consciousness. In the illuminating presence of Wollumbin, this ceremony becomes a journey through your inner landscape — awakening the senses, refining perception, and opening subtle states of bliss.
This ceremony & Singing practice will take you on a journey though your inner landscape, awakening your senses and subtle bliss states.