🌿 TIRTA & TEA

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. 🍵

We’ll return together to Dragon Tea Temple by early afternoon, with an optional community lunch at Zest for those who wish to continue the circle.

✨ This is not a performance or a show — it is an experience of presence, shaped by ritual, water, and tea.

📅 Mark your calendar:

DATE: Friday, November 7 | 8 AM to 3 PM
PLACE: 🐉Dragon Tea Temple

🕊️ Schedule

• 8:00 a.m. — Gather at Dragon Tea Temple, Ubud

• Travel to a sacred water temple

• Offerings workshop (canang sari) with Putu Mahagiri

• Water cleansing ritual (Melukat) at the temple springs

• Sacred water meditation & collection

• Tea Ceremony with Barry Boullon, using the holy spring water

• 2:00–3:00 p.m. — Return to Dragon Tea Temple

• Optional lunch at Zest Restaurant (not included in ticket price)

PRESALE: 1.08M | AT THE DOOR : 1.2M

Tickets available at Dragon Tea Temple & Megatix

🌸 Facilitators

🪷 Putu Mahagiri
Born and raised in Ubud, Putu carries the living traditions of Bali. A cultural practitioner and guide, she preserves the depth of Balinese philosophy and ritual — through offerings, storytelling, and temple ceremonies. Her guidance is simple yet profound, rooted in authenticity and devotion.

🍃 Barry Boullon
With over 25 years in the world of tea, Barry is a lifelong student of the leaf. Having studied with tea masters across Asia, he now curates the sacred tea experiences at Dragon Tea Temple, guiding others into presence, silence, and connection through tea.

✨ Social Media Short Description

“Tirta & Tea is a meeting of water and leaf. Guided by Balinese ritual, we enter the temple springs for purification before gathering holy water for a sacred tea ceremony — simple, quiet, and alive.”

🪷 Flyer Short Description

“Traditional Balinese offering-making, water cleansing ritual, and tea ceremony — a day of presence, guided by water and tea.”