Immerse yourself in the Japanese tradition and learn how to make a matcha tea at home
Chado, known as the Japanese tea ceremony, involves more than just drinking matcha tea. The tea room is a space where you can experience mindfulness.
What you’ll learn
- 1. Understanding the basics of chado including its roots and purpose..
- 2. Virtually experience what it is like to be in an actual ceremony and feel the spiritual benefits..
- 3. You can learn about the utensils necessary for making matcha tea and the room settings for practicing chado..
- 4. Learn how to make a nice bowl of matcha tea in the chado manner to ease your mind at home with minimized utensils..
- 5. Gain the health benefits of drinking matcha tea as well as refreshing your mental condition by performing this meditative tradition..
Course Content
- The Chado Experience with Mika Soka Haneishi –> 5 lectures • 50min.
Requirements
Chado, known as the Japanese tea ceremony, involves more than just drinking matcha tea. The tea room is a space where you can experience mindfulness.
Through the practice of Chado, one can master not only good manners and a beautiful deportment but also cultivate self-esteem and a sense of inner peace.
This self-learning video course is for people who would like to study the basics of chado in a short period of time. Also, the instructor demonstrates the section of the main ceremony so that you can experience what it is like to be a guest during the ceremony. Moreover, it introduces how to practice the concept of chado during daily tea time at home with minimized utensils. You can exercise a tea-making process in the chado manner under this instruction.
This course is divided into five lectures:
Lecture 1: An introduction of the instructor and the self-learning video course.
Lecture 2: An introduction video on chado and its history.
Lecture 3: An introduction to the tea room and a demonstration of the main section of the tea-making ceremony for you to participate in it virtually.
Lecture 4: Introduction of the utensils and room settings required for the basic tea-making process.
Lecture 5: Instruction on how to conduct the tea-making process in the chado manner.