LITERATURE + LECTURES

The Jung Center of Houston presents Cooling Off: An Evening of Tea and Meditation.  Experience the venerable relationship between tea drinking and contemplative practice with Thia McKann and Alejandro Chaoul.

Join Thia McKann and Alejandro Chaoul in an engaging lecture, meditation and tea tasting. The practice of drinking tea can be deeply contemplative and a complement to a meditative practice. Along with learning and experiencing the different varieties and benefits of tea, participants will learn a simple, take-home technique for a meditation that can become an everyday practice, especially to cool down mentally and emotionally. Meditative tea drinking offers an easy opportunity to integrate a calm and aware state of mind into your daily activities.

Note to students who attended previous Evenings of Tea and Meditation: This Evening will be similar but not a repetition. Different teas and different aspects of meditation teachings will be presented.

Alejandro Chaoul, PhD, has been a student of Tibetan Buddhism since 1989 and has studied with His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, and Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche, among others. He teaches for the Ligmincha Institute in various locations in the U.S, Latin America, and Europe. His is author of the book Chod Practice in the Bon Tradition.

Thia McKann is a certified Tea Master and the owner of The Path of Tea, the only totally organic tea shop in Houston. For the past three years she has been teaching people about the benefits of tea for the body, mind, and spirit.