About

Via Tiempo

Tea makes time for you.

Tea Sourcing

Via Tiempo sources teas from traditional farmers with an emphasis on sustainable and cyclical practices. These teas come from the same mountains of China and Taiwan where tea has been harvested for generations—each season bringing new selections to explore.

Herbal Blends

Via Tiempo's herbal blends include hydrating, soothing, digestive, and other blends designed with the help of Jem our Tea Elf and community herbalist, and made by our friends at Blend Bee using organic ingredients. If you're interested in more herbal teas, check them out and you can even design your own custom blend.

Packaging

All of our packaging is chosen with environmental impact as the primary concern. Most comes from EcoEnclose, a company dedicated to supporting businesses in deeper relationship with the earth.

Meet the Tea Peddler and Cartomancer

I started Via Tiempo to share my love of tea. For me, tea is a bridge to the elemental world and a companion for a contemplative and artful life. As a qigong teacher in the Daoist lineage, Xiantianwujimen, I also experience tea as a way to nourish vitality and harmonize with the seasons. When you have tea with me, you’ll notice that I tend to emphasize the feeling of the tea, the way it affects you, more than the flavor. In my letters, I welcome the imaginative, evocative, or poetic quality of the tea. Lately I've been using the phrase Elemental Poetry to describe the feelings and visions tea can evoke.

My Tea Oracle deck, completed in 2024, has extended how I welcome people into contemplative life. Its archetypes hold my reflections on fifteen years of wandering through imaginal and ritual practices, reading philosophy, learning from the elements, brewing endless pots of tea, and teaching Doaist qigong and Buddhist meditation retreats. Whether sharing tea or giving a Tea Oracle reading, the timeless space that opens up in these contemplative environments is the heart of Via Tiempo.

We're in this together, choicelessly so. As such, I hope my teas foster connection and collectivism with one another and with the elemental world—as they brew in pots accross many regions. There is alchemy that happens in a teapot. Cheers to health, harmony, appreciation, care, and solidarity.