New year, new energy
![[ IMAGE Having tea at Shambhala teahouse ]](http://www.yayateahouse.co.nz/blog/wp-images/Shambhala.jpg "Teahouse scene")
I know it’s been a while since my last post, but Diane and I just were ready for some holidays after an eventful year that saw us closing our beloved teahouse and moving into a quickly growing online-based tea business. After a busy Christmas season (which saw many of you equipped with exciting new teas and teaware), we took a couple of weeks off to stay at home, tend the garden and get started into the new year.
Then, in the beginning of February, we went on a little holiday up to Takaka Hill & Golden Bay, where we had many tea sessions with really cool people and in really beautiful settings. Canaan Downs up on Takaka Hill is an amazing place and celebrating gong fu tea up there was definitely special. Down in Golden Bay, we stayed at the beautiful Shambala, a hostel/yoga retreat with the most stunning purpose-build teahouse I’ve seen in New Zealand (see the picture at the beginning of this post).
![[ IMAGE Drinking tea by the sea ]](http://www.yayateahouse.co.nz/blog/wp-images/Tea-at-Charleston.jpg "Tea by the sea")
But now we’ve got plenty of energy to put back into Ya-Ya. So it was quite fitting that 2 shipments of some fantastic Chinese green teas and oolongs just arrived last week, including a spectacular organic Dancong Oolong (to which I want to devote a detailed post in the near future), an organic Autumnal Tie Guan Yin from AnXi, more of our popular organic Wuyi Oolong, as well as new supplies of both, organic Nonpareil Jasmine Pearls and Dragon Pearls, and a few other new green teas.
Have a browse through our updated price list, we have marked down some of the teas considerably to move existing stocks and make room for the new spring harvests which will be arriving in the next 2-3 months.