🧧 Member Perks

Once a season, our community decides where we should serve free tea. Votes are collected via email and Instagram and then we randomly select one from the submissions.

Previous community-decided locations include:

• Baisley Pond Park (Jamaica, Queens)
• Seward Park (Lower East Side, Manhattan)
• Brower Park (Crown Heights, Brooklyn)

This perk serves as a way to encourage community participation, explore the diverse neighborhoods of New York, and serve free tea all around the city.

Receive discounts at the following small businesses and tea shops:

🇨🇳 Grand Tea & Imports (10% off)
🫖 Brooklyn Tea (15% off)
🍃 Leafhopper (20% off)
🌿 Anima Mundi (15% off)
🇮🇳 Raazi Tea (15% off)
📖 The Other Alamanac (20% off)
📚 Eighty Degrees (10% off)
🇹🇼 Dae Tea (10% off)
⛰️ The Ridge (10% off)

Please note that several discounts have restrictions, e.g. online orders only, specific products, and order minimums.

Members, access your discount codes here.

Town Halls are virtual livestream sessions where we share seasonal reflections and open the floor for Q&A. We host a Town Hall every solstice & equinox (4x per year).

During Town Halls, we highlight recent events & collaborators, practice financial transparency, and set intentions for the upcoming season.

If you have questions about our programming, philosophies, and/or membership program, this is a great place to ask away!

Members, view previous Town Halls here.

bōcha is a quarterly zine published by The Tea Stand and delivered to Steepers on every solstice + equinox.

Each issue contains writing about our philosophy & practice, fun illustrations & visualizations, and plenty of local resource sharing.

Members, access bōcha archives here.

A 12oz green & brown enamel mug with "free tea for all" etched on its side. Perfect for tea in the park and the wild!

We ship your enamel mug with your first bōcha shipment.

You'll receive 3 tea bags of curated, loose leaf teas along with each bōcha shipment (4x/year). Each tea will be unique, meaning you'll get to try 12 new teas per year. We'll include brewing suggestions for each tea.

You'll also receive custom, stackable tea canisters to store your teas with labels designed by local illustrator Arnie!

Receive 25% off on all items on our online merch store. Plus free shipping!

Our merch store is not open year round, but generally opens in the weeks leading up to each equinox and solstice.

Members, access your discount codes here.

Attend small-group, educational tea ceremonies led by local tea practitioner Tim Chacko once a year. Ceremonies take place virtually and in-person.

During the tea ceremony, you'll be invited to bring your own teaware and learn how to brew tea gongfu style, a Chinese method with a focus on skill, ritual, and mindfulness. But you can also just show up and enjoy some tea!

Each tea ceremony features 3 different teas and is about 90 minutes in duration.

Note: tea ceremonies typically take place in September (in-person) and February (virtual). To partake in either tea ceremony, you must become a member 3 months in advance (June 1st and December 1st, respectively).

Receive a hand-embroidered tea towel with custom Tea Stand designs. The towel is 22cm x 22cm, made of linen, and comes in both green and purple — the choice is yours!

Embroidered by local artist Clare Cullinan.

For any Ambient Church event, you can enter into a random drawing (of other Big/Mega Steepers) to win 2 free tickets to the show. Winners are selected and notified one week prior to the event; requests must be submitted a week in advance of the event.

Ambient Church hosts deep listening experiences in churches with site-specific light projections. Past performers include Laraaji & Ana Roxanne.

Members, request your tickets here.

Receive 50% off on all items on our online merch store. Plus free shipping!

Our merch store is not open year round, but generally opens in the weeks leading up to each equinox and solstice.

Members, access your discount codes here.

An artisanal "easy gaiwan" teapot made by local ceramicist Lilian Wu, designed with The Tea Stand in mind. You'll receive your teapot approximately 3 months after becoming a Mega Steeper.

These teapots are perfect for beginners & experienced tea brewers alike. Their unique design offers a pouring experience which is comfortable even for heat-sensitive folks.

Each teapot is one-of-a-kind!

Every year, around the winter solstice, you'll receive a locally made tea accessory, like a pair of ceramic tea cups or a glass fairness pitcher.

Each tea accessory will build toward a bespoke, cohesive tea set :)

Note: to receive the given year's teaware, you must become a member by August 8 of that year. Previous years' teaware is not available retroactively.

Experience a guided tour of DONA, a Brooklyn-based tea distributor, at their tea warehouse in Bushwick. The 60-minute tour includes a tea tasting!

When prompted to share info relevant to the tour, share that you're a member of The Tea Stand and any other relevant info.

Members, book your tour here.

Every item on our online merch store is 100% free (limit of $100 per year). Plus free shipping!

Our merch store is not open year round, but generally opens in the weeks leading up to each equinox and solstice.

Members, access your discount codes here.