Arriving at the Fall Equinox to open our holiday season on September 22nd, XENIA is at once a study of the botanical medicines and the flavors of antiquity, and an invitation to practice its most enduring wisdom. With sweetness derived only from dates and dried fruit, XENIA is deliberately less sweet than our other creations, allowing the earthy jamminess to speak with unusual but harmonious clarity. Welcome, ChocoLovers, to our 2026-27 Holiday Season!
Read MoreRepresenting vitality, freedom, and indomitable will, the Fire Horse is a symbol of motion and awakening. Drawing inspiration from this force, let us recommit to courage, not as impulse, but as mastery, and to learning how to guide the fire that drives us forward. The ancient Chinese believed that when you honor the Horse’s spirit within, your greater self is stirred into motion. In tending this inner flame, your movement breathes life into all that surrounds you, carrying you toward horizons that once felt just beyond reach.
Read MoreWhen difficulty arrives, our minds rush forward—overthinking, catastrophizing, creating stories about how terrible things are. We make situations heavier by adding layers of worry and fear on top of what is already challenging.
But if we pause, if we become mindful of our breath in that moment, if we notice our thoughts without getting swept away—something shifts.
Read MoreHanami, the Japanese tradition of "flower viewing", is a practice of quiet reverence, a reminder that all things bloom and fade in their time.
Read MoreWe ask you to pause and ask yourselves… what IS pumpkin spice? Upon closer inspection… we might even travel to India to find the Ayurvedic truth to the magic of pumpkin spice!
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