Honey Jinjunmei

Honey Jinjunmei is the ultimate comfort tea. Warm, sweet, centering: this tea feels like sitting under a blanket by the fire no matter where you have it. And it's equally comforting made with gongfu cha or as in a casual grandpa style tea (loose in a cup).

Known for its sweet and rich flavor, this gem of a red tea is made from carefully selected buds adorned with voluminous golden baby fluff that makes for a soothing velvety sip. The taste is like dark chocolate with macadamia nuts.

Peddler's Note: This tea is so easy to get to know. It shares it's sweet character from the start. When I'm at a loss as to what tea to drink, I often turn to Honey Jinjunmei, knowing that comfort tea is always a good thing—and I'm never dissapointed.

Label 5

Wasp 

Embodied Contemplation

A wasp comes into her own. Her dress, with its many pleats, shows a trail of the long hours of training that have gone into her current level of mastery. Now she must bring her dance to life when the pressure is on. In the heat of the moment, instilled principles of movement and spontaneous free-form improvisation combine and inform one another mid-flight. Feeling everything synching in a unified movement, the wasp turns her head with agility and grace to take aim at the target below. It may be an enemy, a lover, or an audience. 

The wasp demonstrates an embodied contemplation that incorporates her mechanical appendages, humanoid face, organic wings, and magical light-gathering antennae. She allows her awareness to receive nonconceptual open-ended communication from everything it contacts. 

Aware of the innate wisdom stored in your body, the wasp poses an inquiry: What does your body know that you aren’t honoring? What would it mean to support your body in its capacity for expression? 

When the wasp takes you as a student, she propels you beyond the limited responses that flat walls, computers, cars, and phones ask of us. Weary of the capacity of our modern interfaces to foment lethargy and inactivity, the wasp illuminates another question: How are we unknowingly training ourselves into shrinking shapes and stress-inducing responses? When you learn to move freely, act decisively on instinct, and incorporate the changing environment into your dance, the wasp affirms your progress with new pleats to add to your dress. When the time comes to perform under pressure, your training will be put to the test.