T Ching Featured Writer – February 2020
Dharlene Marie Fahl has long been connecting tea and spirituality with an inner journey of self-discovery, self-healing, and self-love. She began by writing healing prayers to enjoy while slowly sipping tea in sweet surrender and now has 101 of them. Her first book “Sereni-Tea: Seven Sips to BLISS,” is available on Amazon which includes a Foreword by Dan Robertson. Dharlene Marie is a Level 3+ Certified Tea Specialist with the Specialty Tea Institute of America, and traveled to China as a delegate in the China Tea Tour with the Tea Association of the USA in 2007.
Dharlene Marie was also a participant in the first American Tea Masters Association program in San Diego in 2008 and a featured guest speaker at the first Indian Tea Forum in October of 2010 in Siliguri, India. She was hosted for over a month by Rajiv Lochan of Lochan Tea and Shiv Saria of Rohini Tea Estate and traveled to many parts of the Darjeeling tea-growing areas. In 2011, Dharlene Marie spent time in the tea fields and factories of the Shizuoka tea-growing area in Japan. She has also visited our own American Tea Plantation in Charleston, South Carolina.
Ms. Fahl is an inspirational speaker with several heartfelt presentations and tea demonstrations that she offers to companies, organizations, women’s groups, churches, as well as appreciating our seniors by bringing tea into their communities and spoiling them just to make their day.
Her message is simple: “In the time it takes to mindfully sip a cup of tea, you can calm your mind, change your life, and claim your bliss.” In her books and meditations she explains how easily this can be done. She will soon be introducing her tea poetry in a book called A Passion for Tea.
You can find her on most social media platforms. Email at [email protected]
Posts by Dharlene Marie Fahl
- Kanchenjunga Tears – Part 2 (9/11/2019)
- Kanchenjunga Tears – Part 1 (9/9/2019)
- Still Into the Blue & Distilled With the Blue (4/15/2019)
- The Blue Butterfly Pea Flower (3/19/2019)
- Spilling the Tea: Behind the Tea – Part 2 (1/9/2019)
- Spilling the Tea: Behind the Tea – Part 1 (1/8/2019)
- Smoked Exotica – Part 2 (12/12/2018)
- Smoked Exotica – Part 1 (12/11/2018)
- Ave Tea (11/27/2018)
- Tea Desire (8/13/2018)
- Tea Rituals (7/11/2018)
- Our Routines and Our Rituals (6/11/2018)
- Tea for Generations (5/9/2018)
- In Three Cups of Tea (4/10/2018)
- Blast From the Past: Stress, stress, and more stress! (3/30/2018)
- Blast From the Past: A Tea Love Potion (3/23/2018)
- The Olive Tea (3/6/2018)
- A Nice Cup of Tea (2/5/2018)
- Tea, In a Big Way! (1/17/2018)
- Blast From the Past: Chi and Tea? (1/12/2018)
- The Teapot (12/18/2017)
- Thankful Thoughts from First to the Last Sip of Tea (11/22/2017)
- Blast From the Past: Holiday Spice (11/3/2017)
- A new TEA Meetup! (10/18/2017)
- Nitro tea (8/29/2017)
- A Sip of Ceylon (7/17/2017)
- JusTea: A Passion for Purple & A Passion for People (6/12/2017)
- Is This The Best We Can Do? (5/15/2017)
- The Healthy Happy Hibiscus (4/12/2017)
- Immortali-Tea (3/29/2017)
- How To Meditate With Tea (3/2/2017)
- Partners in Tea (2/8/2017)
- Brought Together by Tea: A Tea Poem (12/21/2016)
- No Desire for Tea – A Tea Poem (11/8/2016)
- Friendship Tea (10/10/2016)
- The Camaraderie of Tea: A Poem (8/29/2016)
- Darjeeling Tea Hills (8/4/2016)
- Riding the Wave of the Tea Tide (6/15/2016)
- Tea with the Elderly (5/11/2016)
- Twisted Leaves: Tea for Today (3/22/2016)
- The NecessiTeas (3/8/2016)
- Spills and Thrills: Tea-Time Theatre (2/10/2016)
- A Christmas Eve Poem (12/24/2015)
- The Bridge – A Tea Poem (11/3/2015)
- Senna: Silent and Dangerous (10/5/2015)
- Sip Safely: Diet Teas (9/1/2015)
- Product Review: Magic Teafit (8/6/2015)
- Tannic Acid–Again! (6/23/2015)
- One book = many books (5/28/2015)
- Ten years of tea lovin’ (5/11/2015)
- Expo excitement! (3/19/2015)
- The twists and turns of taking tea (2/16/2015)
- Adding a family tradition of tea! (1/19/2015)
- Fire and water for tea (10/14/2014)
- The travelling teacup (9/15/2014)
- China 2007: memories for a lifetime! (8/4/2014)
- Keep calm and carry on (6/24/2014)
- Tea in your veins? (5/21/2014)
- Only in Canada, you say? Pity. (4/14/2014)
- Water, water, everywhere (3/10/2014)
- Shades of red – red kimono (2/7/2014)
- In with the new; out with the old (1/1/2014)
- The weakest link (11/18/2013)
- Historic house of tea (10/22/2013)
- Thai tea – from opium fields to tea fields (9/18/2013)
- My San Diego senior sippers (8/9/2013)
- Tea of a Kind (7/10/2013)
- Vegas is hot, but tea is hotter! (6/12/2013)
- Toxic stress (5/13/2013)
- Chronic stress? (4/17/2013)
- Stress, stress, and more stress! (3/20/2013)
- Tea and memories (2/26/2013)
- Slimming with tea (1/23/2013)
- The end of time? (12/26/2012)
- Amidst the openings and the closings, the dream lives on (11/23/2012)
- Builder’s tea (10/26/2012)
- The Wu-Wo tea ceremony (8/14/2012)
- A sip of Sereni-Tea (7/17/2012)
- Seven sips to bliss (6/19/2012)
- Dr. Yukihiko Hara – the catechin answer man (4/11/2012)
- Green tea coming out of the faucets? (3/12/2012)
- A family in harmony with tea (2/13/2012)
- Tea friends, tea trends (1/16/2012)
- Tea that you drink and then eat (12/12/2011)
- Tea trails and tea tales (11/18/2011)
- The artist’s “way of tea” (8/18/2011)
- It’s a small tea world after all (7/21/2011)
- More delightful tea-and-cheese pairings (6/24/2011)
- The meaning of tea? (5/26/2011)
- Tea Appreciation Day: A celebration of tea and humanity (4/28/2011)
- Going home to Darjeeling (3/30/2011)
- A gateway to tea (2/22/2011)
- I am tea (1/25/2011)
- Promoting tea excellence (12/29/2010)
- The Darjeeling experience (11/23/2010)
- Indian tea (10/25/2010)
- Every teacup has a story (9/24/2010)
- Teacup memories (8/27/2010)
- Love came for tea (7/26/2010)
- Real men drink tea! (5/21/2010)
- Virtual tea? (4/23/2010)
- A tea love potion (3/26/2010)
- Grabbing the tiger’s tail (2/22/2010)
- Chi and tea? (1/28/2010)
- Self-success (12/30/2009)
- Holiday spice (11/26/2009)
- Afternoon tea (9/18/2009)
- Love in a cup (8/18/2009)
- Three cups of tea (7/27/2009)
- Is there a tea meet-up group in your community? (6/29/2009)
- How the vast world of tea just keeps getting smaller (5/15/2009)
- Spring has sprung (3/26/2009)
- Relief, hope, and inspiration through tea (2/2/2009)
- take up the cup for lean teens! (6/18/2008)
- A Visit to the Fourth International Scientific Symposium (10/18/2007)