What to Expect

Traditional Balinese Water Cleansing & Tea Ceremony
In Bali, tirta means holy water — water that carries the essence of life, purification, and blessing.
In tea, water is the silent companion that reveals the leaf’s true voice. When the two meet, ceremony arises naturally. 🌊🍃

This gathering is an invitation to step into both traditions: the Balinese ritual of Melukat (water cleansing) and the Chinese-inspired practice of tea ceremony.
It is a meeting of cultures — and beyond that, a meeting of elements: spring, offering, silence, and taste.

We begin the morning at Dragon Tea Temple before traveling together to a sacred water temple.
With guidance from Putu Mahagiri, we’ll prepare traditional Balinese offerings (canang sari) — weaving leaves, flowers, and fragrance into gestures of gratitude. 🌸
With these offerings, we will enter the temple springs for Melukat, a ritual of cleansing and renewal in flowing mountain water.

From the spring, we will gather holy water and return in stillness.
With this tirta, Barry Boullon, Tea Curator of Dragon Tea Temple, will guide us through a tea ceremony — where tea becomes more than taste: a reflection of water’s purity, earth’s patience, and the human heart’s reverence. 🍵 This is not a performance or a show — it is an experience of presence, shaped by ritual, water, and tea.