LITERATURE + LECTURES

The Jung Center of Houston presents 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. He is an Assistant Professor at the John P. McGovern, M.D., Center for Humanities Ethics at the U.T. Medical School Houston and has a joint appointment at U.T. M.D. Anderson Cancer Center's Integrative Medicine Program where he teaches Tibetan meditation to cancer patients, their families and caregivers and is involved in researching the effects of Tibetan mind-body practices with cancer patients.

Thia McKann is the owner of The Path of Tea. It is the only totally organic tea shop in Houston. Thia is also the only certified Tea Master in Texas. For the past three years she has been teaching people about the amazing benefits of tea for the body, mind, and spirit. She has a unique way of taking the sacred information from tea rituals around the world and making them fit in our modern busy lives.