Tea/Chado (茶道)

Michelle Liu Carriger, PhD has been studying the Urasenke tradition of chado (“tea ceremony”) since 1999, in various locations including Los Angeles, Colorado, Kansas, Boston, London, and in Kyoto during a yearlong Midorikai fellowship at the Urasenke Gakuen Professional College of Chado. She holds a second degree Urasenke teaching license and chamei (tea name) “Somi.”

Additionally, she researches and writes academically on tea practice and theory and spent two years in rural Ehime prefecture, Japan, studying in the Omotesenke lineage.

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She is the founding advisor and the current instructor for UTeaLA, a student club at UCLA focused on practicing tea ceremony.