Tea Gong Academy
日本語

Curriculum

The Foundation Course

You can work through the lessons in order, or pick out only the ones that interest you.

  1. Chapter 1

    The Origins and Aims of Japanese Tea Culture

    Where tea came from, and where it is going

    6 lessons

    1. 01 The Dawn of Japanese Tea Culture
    2. 02 Tea and Zen, One Taste
    3. 03 Tea as an Everyday Affair
    4. 04 Tea Making in the Age of Information
    5. 05 Bancha, and What Tea Culture Aims At
    6. 06 The Way of Tea at a Turning Point

  2. Chapter 2

    The Foodways of Monsoon Asia

    Wisdom grown out of climate and land

    5 lessons

    1. 01 Introduction — The Climate and Cooking of Monsoon Asia
    2. 02 The Changing Shape of Agriculture
    3. 03 States, Religions, Commerce and Food
    4. 04 Food as Medicine
    5. 05 Cooking Techniques Handed Down from Antiquity

  3. Chapter 3

    The Fundamentals of Tea

    Tea as medicine, tea as chemistry

    8 lessons

    1. 01 Tea Was Medicine
    2. 02 Tea Is the Elixir of Long Life
    3. 03 Food for the Mind
    4. 04 What Is in Tea, Part One
    5. 05 What Is in Tea, Part Two
    6. 06 What Is in Tea, Part Three
    7. 07 Dietary Fibre and the World the Microbes Make
    8. 08 Tea and Water

  4. Chapter 4

    Beginning Tea Gong

    Brew a cup, return to yourself

    5 lessons

    1. 01 Preparing the Leaf
    2. 02 Bringing the Body to Neutral
    3. 03 The Four Basic Steps
    4. 04 What the Qi of Tea Actually Is
    5. 05 Tea Gong, for Rebuilding the Self

  5. Chapter 5

    Everything about Temomi, Hand-Rolled Tea

    The tea that hands were meant to make

    5 lessons

    1. 01 Temomi-Tea Will Change Your World
    2. 02 The Theory and Target of Temomi-Tea
    3. 03 The Key Points of Temomi-Tea Operations
    4. 04 The Settings of Temomi-Tea
    5. 05 The Spirit of Temomi-Tea

  6. Chapter 6

    Tuning Body and Mind with Sound

    Tune the voice before you brew

    4 lessons

    1. 01 Tuning Body and Mind with Sound
    2. 02 Beginning with Mantra
    3. 03 Practising Mantra
    4. 04 Mastering OM, the Most Basic Mantra