07/09/2026
My first tea at our new RASA Yoga & Wellness space in Suffolk Park this morning and… a million yeses. 🤎
I’m incredibly particular about where I serve tea. I can usually feel it in my body the moment I enter a space, and this morning it was immediate, goosebumps, softness, that unmistakable full-bodied YES.
The space felt like a womb. Warm, nurturing, cocooning, the most divine light, no cars or human noise filtering in, just the sound of the rain and the birds outside. It felt like the kind of space you could disappear into for a few hours and emerge somehow more yourself.
And as we sat together over the bowls, something I’ve probably said a gazillion times in my yoga classes landed again, but this time as lived experience rather than something simply understood: Prana flows where attention goes.
Whatever we continually give our attention to, we feed. We give it energy, we give it life, we allow it to grow. So when something feels sticky or icky and we keep circling it, analysing it, talking about it, replaying it, giving it more and more of our precious attention, it can become enormous, the invitation isn’t always to solve the thing, but to notice what we are feeding. What else is here?
What is beautiful? What is nourishing? What is already working? What feels alive? What deserves more of our attention, our energy, our prana?
We were drinking a beautiful shou pu’er called Machines of Loving Grace, selected and prepared by my beautiful friend Leia Svoronos who created the tea space at Rasa and is currently out on the ocean with the whales, and as we drank, those words kept moving through me.
Tea as an initiator of loving grace.
Because this is what I experience again and again through a daily tea practice. We sit down, we stop reaching, we give our attention to something simple and beautiful, and somehow that attention begins to change the texture of our lives. Loving grace isn’t something we need to go searching for, instead we create the conditions for it.
A bowl, a little time, our full attention & then we notice how much grace was already here. 🤎🍃
