Camellia Teas of Ottawa

CAMELLIA TEAS: VISION

Camellia Teas of Ottawa is strongly engaged in supporting the traditional arts of Japan.

Our main Vision is to promote the preservation of these ancient teachings in order to foster an appreciation for the beautiful values and incredible art a that East Asian Art and Culture can provide us all.

Our Mission has a special emphasis on the traditional Japanese Tea Ceremony known as Chanoyu. Our Tea practitioners permit guests to experience the tranquility of this ancient practice.

Camellia House allows practitioners to maintain and develop their Chanoyu skills in one of our Five cha-shitsu (Indoor Tea rooms: Winter, Summer, Floating and our outdoor Tearooms Tsubaki-An and the portable Tea Cube).

Camellia House has offered Tea lessons, Private Tea Ceremony Events, demonstrations and Open House Introductory sessions (Ochakai) since 2005.

CAMELLIA TEAS - OUR OFFERINGS: We can provide instruction, demonstrations, courses and more celebrating World Tea Cultures, Kimono, Ikebana, Painting and more.

Camellia House is located in the Mooney's Bay area of Ottawa, ON.

In a private residence, we provide our precise location to visitors upon reservation only.
Thank you for your understanding.

Contact us at info[at]camelliateas.net
or by phone at 1-613-739-4649

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CAMELLIA TEAS: HISTORY

Camellia Teas of Ottawa was established in 2005 by Rebecca Lyn Cragg (nee Benoit) of Ottawa, ON, Canada. The name comes from the Camellia Sinensis plant, which produces most of the World's Teas. Although we have a special interest in Japan's Chanoyu, Camellia Teas is equally interested in the Vietnamese Lotus Tea Ceremony, The Korean Tea Ceremony, Gong-fu Cha, Puerh Teas and other Chinese Tea Cultures. For this reason, we didn't want to identify ourselves solely with Chanoyu. We are constantly researching, studying and preserving these ancient and evolving Tea practices and their related artforms.

About the Founder and President
For seven years, Rebecca was trained in the Omote-Senke Way of Tea by Mrs. Eiko Kuwayama at a Zen Temple called Sango-ji in Wakayama City, Japan. She continues her studies of Tea in Omotesenke through NY and Japan and Omotesenke-Seiha in Ottawa. She has an M.A. in Cultural Anthropology, as well as B.A. and B.Ed. with focus on art, education and museology. She holds cerification in Sodo Kimono Dressing, Sagagoyu Ikebana and is also a Japanese Brush Painter. You can find her free painting and kimono-dressing videos online at youtube under 'camelliateas'. Rebecca authored 6 books in 2009 and plans more for 2010.

To learn more about our practices nad how you might participate: info[at]camelliateas.net

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Tea [Ceremony] satisfies a spiritual thirst.
~15th Urasenke Grand Headmaster, Sen Soshitsu.