Tea Lifestyle Journal

Tea Docents of Chado-En and Ceres Community Project Partner to Sow Seeds of The Wellness Gardens.

Senior Shinto priest Rev. Koichi Barrish will conduct a blessing and purification ceremony for garden site on Aug. 27

BODEGA BAY, Calif., Aug. 16, 2011– Wellness should be a way of life, sown and grown as tenderly and conscientiously as the most delicate of gardens. That’s why Nozomu (Nez) Tokugawa and Donna Tokugawa, co-founders of Chado-En (http://www.chadoen.com), have been planting the roots for the non-profit The Wellness Gardens (http://www.thewellnessgardens.org) along with a new partner, Ceres Community Project (http://www.ceresproject.org).
As importers of fine Asian teas, Chado-En has always followed a broader mission to spur and sustain healing, wellbeing and peace. Likewise, Ceres Community Project, an award-winning nonprofit based in California’s Sonoma Valley, works tirelessly to restore local, organic whole food (read the entire PR)

100% of the Profits from specially created Sakura Karigane tea from the Tea Docents of Chado-En support victims of Japan’s recent disasters

BODEGA BAY, Calif., March 24, 2011 — As the cherry trees bloom throughout a devastated Japan this spring, so, too, should a renewed sense of hope. To help nurture that hope, Tea Docents of Chado-En, cultivators of fine Asian teas, are branding an honorary tea with the cherry tree’s symbolic, sacred blossom and selling the beverage to raise relief funds for those affected by the recent earthquake, tsunami and power plant disasters.

A full 100 percent of the profits from sales of the tea, called Sakura Karigane, will go (read the entire PR)

Tea Docents of Chado-En to Demonstrate Shinwa at NYC’s Norma Kamali Wellness Cafe

BODEGA BAY, Calif., Sept. 22, 2010 — On October 6, 2010, New Yorkers will get to experience the convergence of beauty and wellness from the inside out when the tea docents of Chado-En demonstrate Shinwa at the Norma Kamali Wellness Cafe in midtown Manhattan.
Shinwa, a Japanese word meaning “the way of the earth in the spirit of a very long time ago,” or “the way it once was,” is pure, organic Karigane, a Japanese green tea grown in the unspoiled hills above Kyoto. High in antioxidants and the stress-relieving amino acid L-theanine, Shinwa has a naturally sweet taste as a beverage. But, say the Tea Docents of Chado-En, Shinwa is much more than a beverage — and they’ll demonstrate that at the Norma Kamali Wellness Cafe. (read the entire PR)