Date & Time: February 2, 7:00–8:30 PM
Location: Performance Café
Capacity: 25 participants (limited seats)
Format: Embodied tea practice · sensory awareness · guided reflection
Space is limited. Submission of the registration form confirms your participation.As tea utensils and materials are prepared individually for each participant, please register only if you are able to attend. Thank you for your understanding.
Infusions of Thought
An Experiential Series on Tea, Reflection, and Embodied Learning
This session invites participants into an embodied exploration of tea, stillness, and the senses—where attention slows, perception deepens, and experience unfolds through the body.
This event is part of Infusions of Thought, an ongoing experiential series that uses tea as a medium for reflection, attention, and embodied learning. Through carefully designed tea experiences and guided reflection, the series explores how learning can emerge not only through discussion, but through the body, the senses, and shared moments of stillness.
In this session, participants are invited to step out of habitual modes of doing and into a space of presence and sensory awareness. Tea is approached not simply as something to be consumed, but as a practice of attunement. Breath, gesture, temperature, and silence become part of the experience, allowing meaning to arise through sensation rather than explanation.
Rather than centering performance or instruction, the tea practitioner serves as a facilitator of rhythm and flow—responding to the moment and allowing each infusion to unfold naturally. In this shared experience, boundaries soften between movement and pause, sound and quiet, self and surroundings.
This is a moment of return: returning to the body, to sensory awareness, and to a calmer way of being present—carried gently through a cup of tea.
For more information, please contact:Lianyun.Pang@dukekunshan.edu.cn
