Petals & Tea: A Mindful Floral Workshop

Our quietest offering. A slow-paced floral session paired with artisanal tea — part creative practice, part restorative ritual.

Mindful floral arrangement alongside a teacup in soft light
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Petals & Tea is our most unusual workshop — a deliberately slower-paced session that pairs floral arrangement with artisanal tea drinking. It’s not a class you come to because you want to learn florist technique efficiently. It’s a session you come to because you want 1.5 hours of quiet creative focus in your week.

The Format

Unlike our technical workshops, Petals & Tea runs to a different rhythm:

  • Arrival + tea service (15 min) — we start seated, with tea selected for the season
  • Quiet flower walk (10 min) — you select your own flowers from the curated palette
  • Arranging (40 min) — slow, intentional, minimal instruction
  • Second tea service + reflection (20 min) — a quieter tea pairing, space to reflect on the arrangement
  • Close (5 min) — you leave with your bouquet and the tea notes

There’s no demonstration video, no step-by-step. We provide technique guidance if you ask, but the session is designed to let participants find their own pace.

Tea Selection

Each session features curated tea selections — typically:

  • Opening tea: a quieter, meditative tea (green tea, Silver Needle, or a seasonal special)
  • Closing tea: something slightly richer to mark the end of the session (oolong, Earl Grey, or a seasonal fruit tea)

Teas change with the season. Past sessions have featured:

  • Jasmine pearls with cherry blossom florals
  • Silver Needle with delicate ranunculus
  • First-flush Darjeeling with white garden roses
  • Tie Guan Yin oolong with autumnal palettes

Who It’s For

People processing something

Clients often book around significant life moments — grief, major transitions, burnout recovery. The slower pace and quiet intentionality lands differently.

Wellness-focused groups

Some of our regulars book as a monthly practice — part of a broader intentional-living rhythm.

Small groups seeking a quieter activity

Birthdays, anniversaries, small milestone celebrations where a rowdy activity isn’t the register.

Corporate wellness offsites

Senior-leadership retreats or wellness-programming offsites sometimes include Petals & Tea as the “quiet activity” component.

Solo practitioners

Individuals who want a weekly or monthly grounding ritual.

Membership Model

Petals & Tea is our members-only workshop. Members get:

  • Priority booking — sessions are limited to 6 people
  • Monthly newsletter with the season’s tea + flower pairing
  • Member-only sessions at preferential rates
  • Hosted retreat access (quarterly extended-format days)

Membership: S$180 per year. Includes one free Petals & Tea session at signup + member rates thereafter (S$180/session vs S$240 non-member rate).

Private sessions are available without membership for groups of 4–6.

Session Pricing

  • Non-member session: S$240 per person
  • Member session: S$180 per person
  • Private session (4–6 guests): S$900 total + tea-service customisation available
  • Corporate wellness session (up to 8): S$1,400 + travel if off-site

Included in all sessions:

  • Curated seasonal flower palette (20–25 stems per participant)
  • Premium tea service (2 pourings per session)
  • Take-home bouquet
  • Vessel (for some sessions — ceramic piece included)
  • Quiet ambient music (selected per season)
  • Printed season notes — tea pairings, flower origins, arrangement tips

Format Variations

Standard Petals & Tea

As described above. 1.5 hours, small group, public or private.

Extended Retreat (quarterly, members-only)

A 3-hour retreat format with:

  • Extended tea service (3–4 tea pourings)
  • Full centerpiece (larger arrangement)
  • Guided reflection prompts
  • Hand-written season notes
  • Price: S$420 for members, S$560 for non-members (limited capacity, members get priority)

Wellness Corporate Retreat

Customised session for corporate wellness programming. Longer-format (2.5 hours), includes:

  • Intentional pacing + facilitator-led reflection
  • Seasonal flower + tea pairings
  • Take-home arrangement + tea sample
  • Typically booked as part of company wellness offsite days
  • Price: quote on request, typically S$300–S$400 per participant

What Makes It Different

Most floral workshops prioritise technique efficiency — teach you to build bouquets fast. Petals & Tea deliberately slows down:

  • Minimal instruction — space for your own creative instincts
  • Tea as punctuation — breaks arrangement into contemplative phases
  • Ambient music + lighting — quiet, seasonally curated
  • Reflection time built-in — not an afterthought
  • Smaller groups — 6 max vs 8 in our technical workshops
  • Member-community context — regulars form a recognisable community over sessions

Booking

Public Petals & Tea sessions announced monthly via:

For membership signup: email us with subject “Petals & Tea Membership.”

For private sessions (groups of 4–6): email us with date + group size + any tea/flower preferences.

For corporate wellness bookings: email us with programme objective + date + group size.

Practical Notes

  • Dietary restrictions for tea — let us know (we can substitute caffeinated teas with herbal)
  • Dress comfortably — comfortable clothes you don’t mind getting slightly damp
  • Arrive on time — session opens with tea service; late arrivals disrupt the rhythm
  • Leave devices away — we gently ask participants to silence phones and be present

Next Steps

Not ready for Petals & Tea? Our Floral Arrangement 101 is our more technical beginner session — a better fit if you’re primarily learning. Seasonal Centerpieces is our intermediate class. Team-building workshops are for corporate groups.

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