Building Balanced Teas: The Basics of Herbal Blending

Tea blending is both an art and a science. Learn how to formulate herbal teas for specific goals, from supporting digestion and sleep to calming the nerves or boosting energy. Explore the structure of a well-balanced tea, understanding how to combine base herbs, support herbs and accent herbs for both flavor and function.

Learn how herbal actions –such as relaxing, stimulating, drying or moistening – work together in a blend and how these qualities affect the body. Touch on the basic concepts of energetics and constitutions, showing how simple energetic awareness (warm vs. cool, dry vs. moist) can fine-tune your tea formulas to match individual needs.

Practical formulation skills are emphasized and plenty of hands-on work is included. Design and create several small tea blends, and gain confidence in herbal ratios, flavor balancing and therapeutic synergy.

Price: $48, $43 member

Location: York Street

Instructor: Akil Kelley

Akilkuumba Kelleyis a trained clinical herbalist with over a decade of clinical practice and a deep commitment to holistic healing. For more than 10 years, he has refined his therapeutic offerings and the medicine formulas he creates, crafting a wide range of herbal extracts designed to support health, vitality and overall well-being. Akil is also an experienced meditation practitioner and ceremonialist. His approach blends plant medicine with somatic awareness, energetic presence and intellectual understanding to create healing experiences that are both grounded and transformative. Akil integrates mindfulness and ritual as essential companions to herbal practice.