upcoming events

Caleb will brewing and pouring tea + tea knowledge from 4 'till 6. $15 bottomless teacup 🍵

This month we will be tasting...

🍂Sweet Lamentations

This is an oolong tea that reminds me a lot of the double fermented chocolate water, for those that remember. But this cousin takes on a much more bready feel that reminds me of a German chocolate sweet bun (schokobrötchen). Fresh baked bread, cacao powder, raisens with cinnamon and nutmeg, I've come to think of this one as the late bloomer, every steep being more satisfying then the last.

🍂2021 Brown Shoumei

"Brown" shoumei is a relatively new processing style intended to recreate what aging will naturally do, similar to the invention of the "ripe" puer process. While there is a lot of debate on how well this style of tea will age, it's a great example of how innovation continues. This tea is mellow and leathery with some rumors of figs and dates on the low end.

🍂GABA Ruby oolong

This tea comes to us from Taiwan, likely the Alishan region, and is a heavily oxidized oolong earning it the monacre "ruby" for its red liquor. Normally sweet and cherry like, the GABA processing transforms it into a more cacao-like expression with a brooding black cherry note, making it perfect for stormy afternoons.

🍂Violet Crown

This is a tea that gets me super excited, and is as unconventional as it gets! We start with gushu plants, ancient trees, that have the purple phenotype. Then we process this tea into a red tea, fully oxidized and sweet. Then take that finished tea and inoculate it with jinhua mold to ferment it into a fuzhuan. The result is startlingly fruity, the hot leaves smelling like maraschino cherries and frosting. The flavor is deeper still with the woody, nutty notes that I love in a fuzhuan. This is the type of tea I want to covet and hoard like a dragon. All the more reason to share it.

see you soon~ 🍵

note: we are now capping this event! you can pre-reserve a cup online at: houseofwakinglife.com/participate 🌿

E C S T A T I C D A N C E
every First Sunday @ HOWL
$20 | register online
floor open at 6:30 | circle begins at 7:00

***note!!!*** there will be no dances while we are closed this summer. the next ecstatic dance will be on September 7th!

Ecstatic Dance is a journey of sound + movement for healing, celebration and communion. We begin with a circle to set the guidelines of the container and initiate a 90-minute journey through sound and movement. Some guidelines include no-talking, staying for the duration, releasing judgement of self and others, and being in your own journey. There is no guidance aside from your inner world. Follow You.

This is a substance-free event; let the music + the dance be thy medicine~

Arrive at least 30-minutes before circle if you would like tea, cacao, or other beverages. An altar will be formed in the space, so please feel free to bring an item you would like to be charged in the energy of the dance!

See you at the HOUSE