Looking to honour that sentiment – and to connect like-minded people – Australian actor Nathalie Kelley recently co-founded Ritual Community, an online platform that brings together teachers from across the globe to host live Zoom classes and workshops.
Dubbed a “virtual temple”, Ritual Community offers a range of classes and livestreamed practices, including tea ceremonies and Indian Ayurvedic massage; breathwork and beauty routines, such as the Chinese skin scraping technique of gua sha; activism classes including indigenous allyship and zero-waste lifestyle.
Los Angeles-based Australian actor Nathalie Kelley – pictured here at Coqui Coqui Mérida L’Epicerie in Mexico in 2018 – is a co-founder of the new online Ritual Community. Jordan Burrow
Monthly new and full moon ceremonies are duly celebrated too, helping us make the time to set new goals, redirect any misspent energy and express gratitude.
What makes anything sacred or ritualistic is, of course, the intention behind it, which is good news for the time poor. With enough mindfulness applied to it, almost everything can become a ritual, from cooking dinner and taking a bath, to washing the dishes or brushing our teeth.
It’s simply about bringing greater reverence and care to whatever we’re doing, and allowing a bit more space into our days to do that.
Make a Living Living: Be Successful Doing What You Love by Nina Karnikowski ($30, Thames and Hudson) is in bookstores now. Her “writing as ritual” class is available online at ritualcommunity.mn.co
Tea party
Two Rivers where three varieties of green tea are grown chemical-free on the small 12 hectare plantation.
“I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea,” Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky wrote in Notes from Underground (1864). Tea has been long celebrated for its calming influence, and a visit to one of Australia’s tea plantations takes the whole experience next level.
NERADA
Located in the big sky country of Queensland’s Atherton Tablelands, Nerada is one of the country’s oldest tea plantations, having started in 1958. Today you’ll find 445 hectares of planted tea, producing 1.5 million kilos of tea a year and accounting for 9 per cent of the domestic market. See neradatea.com.au
Where Nerada is near the small town of Malanda, 85 kilometres south-west of Cairns. Some locals say the word means “waterfalls” in a local Aboriginal dialect. The town is downstream of the Malanda Falls on the North Johnstone River.
Stay Malanda has quite a few options; try Sharlynn by the River or Malanda Manor Guesthouse.
MADURA
Tamil for “paradise”, Madura bills itself as the nation’s only sub-
tropical tea estate, with 250,000 tea bushes set among rainforest and farmland. It’s operated since 1978 and blends its homegrown tea with leaves from around the world. See maduratea.com.au
Where Located at Clothiers Creek, NSW, a little hinterland town 45 minutes’ drive north of Byron Bay. Picturesque Murwillumbah on the Tweed River (home to the Tweed Regional Gallery) is nearby.
Stay Heartwood Cabin – an architectural-style, eco-chic, off-grid cabin in the nearby hinterland town of Burringbar – is surrounded by bush.
A Queen Room at the Alexandra Hotel.
TWO RIVERS
Grown on a family farm in the Acheron Valley in north-east Victoria, Two Rivers Green Tea has been running since 2001, when 170,000 cuttings of Japanese tea plants were transplanted there. Three varieties of (impressively authentic) green tea are grown chemical-free on the small 12 hectare plantation. See tworiversgreentea.com.au
Where At the junction of the Acheron and Goulburn rivers, near Alexandra, 130km north-east of Melbourne. The actual estate isn’t open to the public, but it’s a beautiful area to explore, and Two Rivers tea is sold at Grant St Grocer in Alexandra.
Stay The fully renovated heritage Alexandra Hotel is all old-world character with a stylish makeover. The ensuited double and queen rooms are cosy but nice.
– Nina Karnikowski
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