tea ceremony

Closing out our forest bathing walks with the sharing of tea allows us all a chance to recenter ourselves in our bodies before we leave the forest. This grounding exercise is an opportunity to collect our personal thoughts and connect with each other before we part ways. 

Ceremonies and rituals are also a good way to signify the importance and reverence of something and by offering up tea to the land during the ceremony we are communicating to it that we appreciate all that is has to offer us. The support during our time together, the food that sustains us, the environment that protects us, and so on. It is a promise that we take our commitment to our side of the relationship seriously and will continue to do our best to care for nature the way that it cares for us.