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🧧 A Lunar New Year CommuniTEA Gathering for Chinese Diaspora 🧧 [public]
🌿 About Event
You’re invited to gather with Chinese diaspora community to say goodbye to the Year of the Snake and welcome the Year of the Fire Horse through facilitated conversation, ritual, calligraphy, and shared tea and osmanthus wine. This is our final CommuniTEA Gathering: Taster of the Ancestral Homecoming Journey this year, offered before the Ancestral Homecoming Retreat in China (May 24–30).
The Snake invites reflection, shedding, and quiet transformation. The Fire Horse carries momentum, courage, and bold life force.
Together, we will explore:
How Lunar New Year traditions have been passed down, lost, adapted, or longed for
What it feels like to be in a room with other Chinese diaspora folks and speak from lived experience
How we might consciously create rituals and traditions that actually feel true to who we are today
Hosted by Tian Tian & Xuel, co-creators of the Ancestral Homecoming Community, this gathering weaves tradition with lived experience.
🕰 Flow / Schedule
9:30 – 10:00 AM Doors open, arrival & settling in
10:00 – 10:30 AM Opening Circle + Year of the Fire Horse energetic update
10:30 – 11:30 AM Facilitated CommuniTEA conversations & reflection ~~ break while enjoying osmanthus wine, tea, and snacks ~~
11:45 AM – 1:15 PM Calligraphy: learning the meaning of Fu & practicing writing
1:15 – 1:30 PM Closing Circle
👥 Facilitators
Tian Tian
Tian Tian is a 1.5-generation Chinese American Holistic Coach and Facilitator. She holds healing and transformational individual and group containers for Asian diaspora communities through somatic and ancestral practices that reconnect people with body wisdom, ancestral and cultural memory, and a felt sense of home. She is a 25th-generation lineage holder of Complete Reality (Quanzhen) Dragon Gate Daoism.
Instagram: @tiantian.wellness
Website: www.tiantianwellness.com
Xuel Sun
Xuel Sun is a China-born, California-trained psychotherapist and facilitator, experienced in holding transformative individual and group spaces across clinical, community, and ceremonial settings. Her path bridges East–West healing, lineage repair, and collective care. In 2024, she began a new chapter moving back to Asia, devoted to integrating healing, ecology, and the arts in service of collective transformation.
Instagram: @xuelsun
Website: www.xuelsun.com
💫 Who This Is For
This gathering is for you if:
You are part of the Chinese diaspora (1.5 gen, 2nd+ gen, mixed heritage, adoptee, etc)
You’re curious about Lunar New Year beyond surface celebration
You long for ritual, community, and meaning that feels embodied and real
No language fluency or calligraphy experience required.
🎁 Special Offering
All attendees entered into a $300 raffle to the Ancestral Homecoming Retreat
💛 Suggested Donation / Exchange
Bring yourself: $18.88 Supports space stewardship, calligraphy materials, tea, osmanthus wine, and snacks.
Bring your favorite Asian snack: $8.88 Supports space stewardship and calligraphy materials.
No one turned away for lack of funds.
🏛 About The Commons
The Commons is a community-based “Fourth Place” devoted to authenticity, aliveness, and full self-expression. By day, it is a playful co-working space. By night, it becomes a gathering house for meaningful connection and shared inquiry.
🚪 Arrival Info
📍 550 Laguna St, San Francisco (corner of Hayes & Laguna) Enter via the stairway under The Commons sign at the basement level.