TI YA RA TEMPLE

Where the practice begins.

Sacred. Sensual. Sovereign.

Tea is a teacher. She requires nothing of you but presence.

TI YA RA TEMPLE is built around one living practice: Yangsheng Cha Dao, a method rooted in classical Chinese medicine and Daoist lineage, 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.

The Method

Yangsheng Cha Dao

The only living tea methodology adapted specifically for women's constitutions in tropical climates. Rooted in classical Chinese medicine and Daoist Yangsheng philosophy.

This is not a practice you add to what you already do. It is the practice that makes everything else make sense.

The Teaching

  • Tea is a teacher. She requires nothing of you but presence.
  • The body responds to alchemy, not effort.
  • Restoration is not passive. It is a living practice.
  • What you wear to the table changes what is possible at the table.
Enter the Tea Path
Yangsheng Cha Dao tea practice

What happens when you enter TI YA RA TEMPLE

Not all at once. Not dramatically.

The body.

Natural linen breathes differently than anything synthetic. The nervous system begins to let go. The silhouette moves with the body, not against it. Nothing competes with what is happening.

The morning.

You reach for the piece that holds something rather than the piece that performs something. The cloth becomes part of how you enter the day. This takes less time, not more.

Presence.

Over weeks, you move more slowly. The cloth becomes a threshold. On one side, performance. On the other, yourself. Tea teaches the same thing from the inside. Together, they build something cumulative.

This is not optimisation. It is recognition.

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The Temple

The Adornments

Made in small batches. Never repeated. Each piece is ritual equipment, not fashion.

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, not how they photograph. 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.

Not accessories. Anchors.

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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 only

Linen, TENCEL™, silk, and carefully selected natural materials. Nothing synthetic against the body.

Tended for life

Every TI YA RA piece is covered by The Tending Rite: free restoration for as long as it is worn.

Tiyana Ti

The Founder

Tiyana Ti

Tea priestess · Founder of TI YA RA TEMPLE · Creator of Yangsheng Cha Dao

Six years of daily living tea practice, without a single day missed. A lineage rooted in Daoist Yangsheng philosophy, classical Chinese medicine, 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 unbroken daily practice

Lineage: Global Tea Hut, Classical TCM, Daoist Yangsheng

Based in Ubud, Bali

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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, and then nothing shifted at the level you were seeking.

Not because you are doing it wrong. Because the tools were stimulating you, not restoring you. The body responds to alchemy, not effort. That is not philosophy. It is a clinical observation.

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, not another purchase.

Explore TEMPLE WEAR
  • Tea is a teacher. Twenty minutes at the table shifts what an hour of effort cannot.

  • The garment should support practice, not perform it.

  • Restoration is not additive. It 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.

A visitor to the Ubud sanctuaryUbud, Bali

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. It did not give you a way home.

Yangsheng Cha Dao is the practice that restores.