06/18/2025
🌿We are just 2 days away from the 7th Annual UNPLUG + RESTORE Retreat🌿
✨️Kicking off our weekend with the most beautiful tea ceremony from favourite returning speaker, Karen Hartwick.
“Karen Hartwick, Canada’s Tea Sommelier and owner of Stratford Tea Leaves.
Karen is a certified tea sommelier whose life’s work passion is introducing people to the sophisticated, rich and varied world of fine tea – from Yunnan and Fugian in China, to Assam and Darjeeling, India, from Shizuoka, Japan to Sri Lanka—and beyond.
Since April 1992, Tea Leaves has been making premium teas accessible to Stratford visitors by sourcing and sharing the absolute finest loose-leaf teas—over 120 at last count—as an unforgettable ritual in embracing and savouring “the way of tea”— personally, memorably, deliciously.
Karen’s teas are presented with absolute care and attention to optimal brewing temperatures and infusion times, in sommelier-selected tasting cups, accompanied by a narrative sharing the origins, production methods, flavour profiles, aromas, colours, textures, health benefits and much more—all in aid of the quest for the sublime in tea.”
It is always an absolute honour + joy to have Karen start off our retreat with such a special evening 💗