THE MORNING POEM
What I have been looking for all my life is already deep within me, always has been and always will be. I AM what I have been looking for.
Nigel Lott teaandzen.org
Come now, aching heart, you have carried enough for one day.
The human body does not know what the word global means. It knows only near and far, safe and threatened, held and exposed.
Trauma is not only what happened — it is what the body could not release. When overwhelming experience is suppressed, it lingers in the nervous system, shaping how we feel, think, and live.
Tea & Zen is an institute of advanced contemplative and relational practices, informed by decades of experiential inquiry into psychophysiology, trauma imprinting, nervous system regulation, and the dynamics of human consciousness. They emerged not from abstraction, but from walking through devastating suffering, studying the mechanics of nervous system regulation and