Tea has long been revered as one of the premier herbal beverages, boasting an incredible history that spans continents and millennia. Now, tea has joined forces with another ancient herbal powerhouse: mushrooms.

An immersive mushroom ceremony can be an invaluable way of healing past trauma, reconnecting with nature and dissolving unconscious patterns. Furthermore, this experience presents itself as an invaluable journey into consciousness itself.

Preparation

The mushroom tea ceremony is a meditative ritual tailored to your specific intention, drawing upon the spiritual power of mushrooms for transformative healing. Participants often encounter various conscious entities that collapse the space-time continuum or merge dream world with three dimensional reality; other profound experiences may also take place. Like any psychedelic experience, however, it must be approached with reverence and mindfulness in order to maximize its positive results in everyday life.

As part of your tea ritual, the first step should be creating a peaceful and relaxing environment for your guests to fully engage in their experience. This involves setting an inviting and relaxing ambiance through music or incense that induces relaxation, as well as using only clean utensils and teaware for the ceremony. Furthermore, take time to set clear intentions with regards to every tool used and dedicate each one with meaning in advance of its use during the tea ceremony.

Once the atmosphere is right, your guests will enter and bow as they approach their host in their group. As they walk toward a temporary space where they’ll sit down to look at utensils such as a chashitsu (brazier, kettle and sunken hearth – Feng Lu Fu in winter and Ro Lu Fu in summer) as well as temaeza, your host’s working station; additionally it is customary to also appreciate any objects found within an alcove such as scrolls or flowers as part of this experience!

At a full tea ceremony, your host will offer thick and thin tea before creating a multi-course meal specifically tailored to match the season – which could include vegetarian or vegan dishes depending on guest preferences or dietary restrictions.

At this stage, your guests should have settled comfortably into their seating in the temaza and are experiencing all of the subtle nuances of tea ceremony. They’ll notice there is no idle chatter as every action taken by each participant is done with purpose and precision; they’ll feel their surroundings connect deeper than ever as everything embodies Zen philosophy’s “ichi-go ichi-e,” or “one moment, one meeting,” even heating water becomes an act of worship!

Steeping

Tea has long been part of human culture across continents and millennia. The warming comfort, revitalizing energy, and myriad health benefits it offers makes tea an invaluable asset. Additionally, its combination with psychedelic mushrooms has proven therapeutical in providing healing effects, along with other transformative potentialities.

When taking psilocybin-containing mushrooms, it’s essential to be mindful of your dosage and timing. A little goes a long way while overdosing can be dangerous – which is why mushroom tea offers an alternative that allows you to experience what you desire with reduced risk while preventing stomach upset that often follows whole psilocybin mushrooms in its raw state.

Brewing magic mushroom tea differs significantly from taking whole psilocybin mushrooms, which may taste of the ground (or tree) where they originated, in that other plants are added to make this powerful medicine more palatable and easy to consume. Furthermore, this process breaks down cell walls of mushrooms to make their active ingredient psilocybin more readily absorbable by your body – many people report feeling its effects quicker when taking this beverage than taking whole fungus alone.

There are endless possibilities when it comes to crafting delicious and nourishing mushroom tea, such as using Reishi mushrooms for their immune-enhancing and rejuvenating properties in Chinese medicine. Reishi goes wonderfully well with Chai tea spices as well as adaptogenic herbs Codonopsis and Astragalus that nourish and ground you.

Other options for tea include soothing blends of hibiscus, licorice and green tea or the delicious taste of genmaicha (a traditional mix of green tea leaves with roasted brown rice) which has an earthy, nutty flavor. You may even add flavor enhancers like honey or agave syrup to customize your cup! It is important to find something you enjoy as this ritual can become very personal.

Once your tea has brewed, take time to sit quietly and sip slowly, paying attention to each breath as you sip slowly and enjoying each sip. Take this time to appreciate its ingredients as well as its spirit – imagine mushrooms releasing healing energy into your body while helping you connect to spirituality in ways you couldn’t before.

Drinking

Tea has long been revered as an aid to health and vitality. Packed with antioxidants, regular consumption may help lower cholesterol levels while providing protection from heart disease and cancer. Many find that including tea in their daily routine also provides stress relief and anxiety reduction.

Mushroom tea offers similar healing properties as herbal tea, with additional psilocybin-rich mushrooms helping promote feelings of transformation and unity while the herbs used to prepare it serve as natural antidepressants. This empowering ritual is highly customizable to fit individual needs.

As each guest takes a deep sip of tea, when finished they should return all utensils to their original position before selecting a sweet from the tray between themselves and their host and saying, “Osaki ni” (thank you) before picking up the tray to present to another guest – repeat this pattern until all tea has been distributed.

The host will open the door, bow and greet guests before going back into the tamaeza to retrieve a second charcoal from it and place it into a tea bowl. He or she can then look at how much of this second charcoal they need to create an fire, before stacking it upon their tea pot as necessary.

Once the tea has been served, the host should return to his or her chaire. Wiping down with fukusa will then wipe down his/her chaire, take out their chakin and tea scoop from their respective places before wiping their chasen again with fukusa before returning them all to their respective spots and bowing before moving on with step two at Koshikake Machiai.

Before the first cup of tea is served, its host must purify all utensils that had contact with it. This step of the Tea Ceremony helps ensure delicious and hygienic tea that will satisfy both taste and sanitary standards. Traditionally this process was carried out using hot water from a traditional Satsuma Tea Stove; however in modern homes kettles can also be used.

Intention

A sacred mushroom tea ceremony offers an engaging way to connect with the spirit of mushrooms and cultivate inner spaces. As an effective ritual, it can be tailored specifically to your personal intentions and needs – whether used alongside taking psilocybin or another psychedelic, this ceremonial practice can deepen experience while helping incorporate its lessons more fully into everyday life.

Tea ceremonies can be an excellent way to prepare for mushroom or psilocybin experiences, combining meditation with mindful breathing techniques that can help relax and ground you before indulging in mushrooms or psilocybins. Setting an intention or prayer during this ritual and asking plants for guidance or support on your journey are other popular practices; divination tools like pendulums or tarot cards may even help align you more closely with their spirit.

Amanita Muscaria or “magic mushrooms,” an ancient healing herb and natural hallucinogen, has long been thought to help people on multiple levels – mental, emotional and physical. It can reveal unconscious psychological patterns and connect you with spiritual elements of life while healing long-held emotional wounds as well as giving an overall greater purpose to life.

If you are considering undertaking a mushroom or psilocybin ceremony, the first step should be finding an experienced curandera to guide the experience with you. At OMMIJ Healing Center we offer comprehensive high ticket in-home ceremonies led by Alexis who is both trained as a curandera and shaman and ready to dive deep into what is holding them back and move through trauma toward true liberation. These ceremonies provide people who want more than surface level healing to move through trauma into deep liberation.

These ceremonies draw upon Mazatec tradition and the work of Maria Sabina, who created a ceremonial framework for working with psilocybin mushrooms. The ceremonies feature elements of Catholicism as well as traditional indigenous culture combining together. Rituals begin with Limpia – or purification – where participants are smudged with copal and other herbal medicines before engaging in prayers to God, nature beings, Catholic saints in Spanish as well as indigenous Mazatec.