Kimono
$280.00
Tea is a teacher. She requires nothing of you but presence.
TI YA RA TEMPLE is the House of Cultivation, built around one living practice: Yangsheng Cha Dao, a method rooted in Daoist Yangsheng lineage, the classical Chinese tradition of nourishing life, adapted for women's constitutions in tropical climates.
The templewear, the ceremonies, and the sanctuary in Ubud are expressions of that one practice. Nothing here is separate from it.
Three ways in
Three ways into one practice.
The garment, the method, and the sanctuary are three doors into a single practice.
The Garment
Templewear
Natural fibres made for ceremony. Linen that knows how to wait. TENCELβ’ that disappears against the skin.
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The Methodology
Yangsheng Cha Dao
The only living Daoist tea method adapted for women's constitutions in tropical climates. Six years of daily practice before a single teaching was offered.
Enter the Tea PathThe Sanctuary
Ubud, Bali
A physical temple in the heart of Ubud. You will not be greeted by a salesperson. You will be offered tea.
Visit the SanctuaryThe Method
Yangsheng Cha Dao
The only living tea methodology adapted specifically for women's constitutions in tropical climates. Rooted in Daoist Yangsheng philosophy, the classical Chinese tradition of nourishing life.
This is the practice that makes everything else make sense.
The Teaching
- Tea is a teacher. She requires nothing of you but presence.
- The leaf does the work; presence is all it asks of you.
- Restoration lives in daily practice: the table returned to, the tea poured again tomorrow.
- What you wear to the table changes what is possible at the table.
Tea is a teacher.
What happens when you enter TI YA RA TEMPLE
Slowly, and without announcing itself.
The body.
Natural linen breathes differently than anything synthetic. Something in you begins to let go. The silhouette moves with the body. Nothing competes with what is happening.
The morning.
You reach for the piece that holds something, and dress a little slower for it. The cloth becomes part of how you enter the day. Somehow the morning takes less time.
Presence.
Over weeks, you move more slowly. The cloth becomes a threshold you cross into yourself. Tea teaches the same thing from the inside. Together, they build something cumulative.
This is recognition.
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Most Loved
Made in small batches. Never repeated. Each piece is ritual equipment.
Kimono
$160.00
Most Loved
$160.00
Kimono
$160.00
The Adornments
Worn close to the pulse.
Each piece is made to be worn in contact with the body. The stones, the metals, the proportions: all chosen for what they carry. Women leave the Ubud sanctuary with an adornment still on their wrist six months later. The reason for choosing it has blurred. Only the knowing remains: it does not come off.
Anchors, worn daily.
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Jewelry
$165.00
Jewelry
$165.00
Ancient Mysteries
$140.00
Made by hand in Bali
Every piece is made in our in-house production space, by artisans we know by name.
Small batch. Never repeated.
Each piece is made in a limited run. When it is gone, it is gone. This is how we make things with care.
Natural fibres at heart
Linen, TENCELβ’ lyocell, silk and cotton, favoured over petroleum-based synthetics.
Tended for life
Every TI YA RA piece is covered by The Tending Rite: free restoration for as long as it is worn.
The Founder
Tiyana Ti
Tea priestess Β· Founder of TI YA RA TEMPLE Β· Creator of Yangsheng Cha Dao
Six years of daily living tea practice. A lineage rooted in Daoist Yangsheng philosophy, the classical Chinese tradition of nourishing life, and the Global Tea Hut tradition.
Tiyana Ti created Yangsheng Cha Dao as the only living tea method built specifically for women's constitutions in tropical climates. The templewear followed from the practice. The sanctuary in Ubud followed from both.
Creator of Yangsheng Cha Dao
Six years of daily practice
Lineage: Global Tea Hut, Daoist Yangsheng, the way of tea
Based in Ubud, Bali
In Conversation With
The practice that reaches what nothing else has.
You replaced coffee with matcha. The gym with yoga. You meditate. You have done the breathwork. The retreat left you inspired for a week.
What was missing was never your effort. The tools were built to stimulate, and restoration asks for something else. The tradition has observed it for centuries: the body answers to alchemy, and alchemy arrives on its own terms.
Yangsheng Cha Dao is what restoration actually feels like. The templewear is how you carry that quality of presence into the rest of your life.
This is where you come when you are ready for a practice.
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Tea is a teacher. Twenty minutes at the table shifts what an hour of effort cannot.
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The garment should support practice, quietly.
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Restoration is alchemical.
In their own words
The whole experience felt like shopping, entertainment, meditation, gratitude and humbling at the same time. You created a niche gem.
Enter the TI YA RA Circle
You found your way here for a reason. Some people arrive through a garment. Some through tea. Some through stillness they cannot explain. However you arrived, you are now close to the temple. Enter the Circle and receive your welcome gift: an introduction to Yangsheng Cha Dao and the world of TI YA RA TEMPLE.
You will receive an occasional letter from TI YA RA TEMPLE. You may leave at any time.
The wellness industry gave you more to perform. The house offers a way home.
Yangsheng Cha Dao is the practice that restores.