Cloud Hidden Training
A complete path of tea training, from a first weekend through to teacher-level practice. The work is contemplative, hands-on, and deepens through years of consistent service. Practitioners come from across Australia and around the world.
The path moves through five levels, with one parallel specialty in gong fu tea. Each program stands as a complete experience in its own right, and each opens onto the next for those who want to go further.
A complete path
of tea training.
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Foundation
Completed through the Immersion in person at Cloud Hidden, or the Online Course at your own pace from anywhere in the world.
Foundational practice at your own pace. Anywhere in the world.
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Practitioner
The Six-Day Mentorship. An intensive in the deeper fundamentals of tea, working with heat, water, proportion, timing, and service.
A six-day immersive training, twice a year.
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Apprentice
A long-form training under Samuel’s direct mentorship at Cloud Hidden.
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Server
A living status, held by those continuing in active service after the Apprenticeship. Server is its own complete state.
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Teacher
By invitation, when skill, experience, and readiness align.
By invitation, for those serving in connection with Cloud Hidden.
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Gong Fu Practitioner
Completed through the Gong Fu Workshop. A specialty focused on gong fu tea and the teapot. Parallel to the main path, not a step within it.
Practitioners from
around the world.
Cloud Hidden draws practitioners from New Zealand, the United States, Europe, Russia, Japan, China, Malaysia, and elsewhere. The Online Course is the global-access entry point. The in-person Mentorship is designed to be reached as a single trip after completing the Online Course at home. Many practitioners combine the Mentorship with an Immersion or Gong Fu Workshop in the same visit.