
About this episode
Robert Coons discusses tea as a medium for meditation and health from a Daoist perspective.
After nearly a year hiatus from releasing new episodes, and nearing what's hopefully the end of a worldwide pandemic, we're very happy to welcome back Robert Coons to talk with us about tea as a medium for meditation and health, from a Daoist viewpoint. Robert is a well-known teacher and writer on Daoist meditation, a tea vendor, an acupuncturist and practitioner of qigong and martial arts, and was our guest two years ago in our episode "Tea & Daoism: Adjacent Connections". He's about to launch an online course on tea meditation, so we took this opportunity to get an overview of Robert's perspectives on tea as a meditation practice. We begin looking at the origins of tea as herbal medicine in China and possible historical roots for tea meditation, and we also look at tea meditation as a novel practice built on older influences. Robert chats with us about how our setting and intention in preparing, serving and drinking tea can lead to the generation and movement of qi, or energy, and we discuss the roles mindfulness, physical movement and tactile sensations, as well as our choices of tea, play in this process. We talk about why tea meditation is gaining a lot of attention at this…
People in this episode
Host: Ken Cohen
Guest: Robert Coons
Topics covered
- tea meditation
- Daoism
- health
- mindfulness
- qi
- meditation practice
Keywords
- tea
- Daoist meditation
- health
- mindfulness
- qi
- meditation
- tea mastery
- acupuncture
- qigong
- martial arts
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Daoist
Books & works: Tea & Daoism: Adjacent Connections
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