The Roots Method Rituals: Medicine for the Slow Moments

It started in my kitchen

When my house gets sick, I don't reach for something in a box first. I reach for the jars. Rosehip, rose, clove. The same things the women before me reached for, measured by hand, steeped slowly, and carried to whoever needs them most.

For years I did this quietly. A pot on the hob for my children, a cup for myself at the end of a long day. Standing in my kitchen, measuring and waiting, I noticed something. The making was part of the care. Nobody was rushing me. My breath slowed. My shoulders came down from my ears.

That's when I understood that this belonged in The Roots Method too.

"Care is a practice, not a product."

What The Roots Method Rituals is

The Roots Method Rituals is a small collection of loose leaf herbal teas, blended and packed by hand in small batches. Each blend is made to go with one part of the work I teach: rest, breath, the womb, and coming home to yourself.

Hearth is the first. Rosehip, rose and clove. It's a warming winter cup for slow evenings, sick days on the sofa, and the moments you need something to hold.

In time, three more blends will join it:

• Rest, for evenings and winding down
• Breathe, for heavy days and long exhales
• Womb, for coming back to centre

The ritual inside every pouch

Every pouch comes with a small card and a simple practice:

That's it. It takes less than a minute. But in that minute your body gets a message it rarely hears: you're allowed to slow down now.

I've spent twelve years teaching movement, and the biggest shifts I've seen never came from pushing harder. They came from pausing long enough to feel what was already there. This is that pause, in a cup.

Small batch, on purpose

The first batch is only 30 pouches. I'm making every one myself, in my kitchen, around school runs and classes and life as a solo mum. It's slow, and I want it to be. That's the whole point.

Later, I'll open The Ritual Box, a monthly delivery of blends, a ritual card and a short breath and movement video from me. More on that soon.

Launching 1 November

Pre-orders open soon. If you'd like to be one of the first 30, follow along on Instagram at @therootsmethod_ or keep an eye on the Apothecary page here.

Thank you for being part of these roots. I made this for you.

with love, L'a Tesha

your roots still hold