SELF CARE SATURDAY ✨ sip & love yourself ✨ Our intention this month is to strengthen connections with others. Learning to connect with yourself will allow you to connect even deeper with those you love! Here's how to incorporate a tea ritual into your self care routine. ⬇︎⬇︎⬇︎ BUILDING A TEA RITUAL Making time for self-care is essential for your mental health. Whether you meditate, take quiet evening walks, or focus on positive thoughts while enjoying your favorite tea, allowing your mind to rest makes room for more thoughtfulness, more joy, and more connection. If you don't do some form of self care at least once a week, start now because it's life changing! Try practicing a tea ritual to...
GINGER: One of the first spices traded on the Silk Road soothes nausea ∙ boosts digestion ∙ promotes metabolism Chinese have grown and used ginger as both a medicine and food dating back all the way to the Confucius time period. Ginger's value holds strong to this day, as it was one of the first roots traded on the Silk Road, a network of trade routes connecting the East and West. The Silk Road was the bridge of economic, cultural, political, and religious interactions between these regions from the 2nd century BCE to the 18th century. A MEDICINE AND FOOD As ginger found its way around the world, everyone knew one thing for sure about it - it is food...
CONNECTING THROUGH COMMUNITY 🌱 Better Together 🌱 together, we are better people. together, we are strong The handshake. The gesture of peace to demonstrate that the hand holds no weapon. To symbolize sincerity and peace when making an agreement, when coming to a conclusion, or when making an oath or promise. The gesture that represents connection and signals unity. The gesture humans are learning to get back in touch with. There are many courtesies whose meaning we take for granted, like the handshake, which was established to signal "we are friends, and you can trust me." Our evolutionary niche is our collaborative nature. We thrive as a species, not because we are the fastest, strongest, or fiercest animal on this planet,...
IMMIGRANT HERITAGE MONTH: Celebrating Tea Traditions Brought To America From Around The World June is Immigrant Heritage Month in the United States, and we love this month because our Old Barrel team is made up of people from all different walks of life from all different types of cultures! Celebrating culture and diversity is the very thing that inspires many of our tea blends, spices, and other products, and we think its pretty cool to fuse flavors in that special way. Immigrant Heritage Month is an initiative that seeks to celebrate our shared heritage as an immigrant nation, and the important contributions to our economy, culture, and common identity by immigrants from all around the world. To celebrate the beautiful...
SELF CARE SATURDAY 🌿 unwind after the week with this friend-date idea 🌿 The weekend is here! Time to incorporate some self care this Saturday. Self care is so important and can influence so many other things about your life. Self-care encourages you to maintain a healthy relationship with yourself so that you can transmit the good feelings to others-and we are all about having good energy, good auras and good skincare. Unwind with a friend this weekend with at-home spa day brought to you by us. ⬇ STEP ONE: THE STEAM This fragrant & therapeutic blend of flowers and oils makes your skin feel like new! By adding a handful of the mixture to hot water, the resulting steam will...
