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This herbal tisane from Ayurvedic tea company, Yogi Tea, really wants to take care of me. Serve your spirit, they tell me on the packaging, promising that this tea will stimulate my inner resources and help me recharge my batteries.
In the spirit of all-embracing wellness, they include a yoga position on the box. This encouraged me to sit cross legged, hold my arms above my head, focus on my breathing and – rather bafflingly – keep my eyes one tenth open, forcing me to consider exact degrees of eye-openness that I’ve never really thought about before.
They even put an inspiring message on the tea bag tag! Be you, be great. Be together. Thanks inspiring tea bag tag! Will do.
This is only one of a range of female-focused teas that Yogi Tea produce. There’s also Women’s Tea and Women’s Balance Blend. (And yes, before you ask, they make Men’s Tea as well.)
With the pretty pink inspiring empowerment vibes going on, it’s rather a shame that this tea is absolutely disgusting. Hibiscus, liquorice, peppermint, raspberry leaves, black pepper, angelica root, cinnamon, ginger, cardamom and cloves all fight for attention here, and honestly is not pretty. Liquorice is always a terrible idea in a tea blend. The shouty attention-seeking liquorice root stomps all over the other flavours, making its presence known.
I’m always complaining that herbal teas don’t have any flavour. But in this particular instance, Yogi Tea’s Women’s Energy has plenty of flavour and it’s horrible. Luckily, the inspirational packaging also tells me that everything you require is already within you. So it turns out that I don’t actually have to drink any more of this concoction in order to achieve my full womanly potential. Like Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz, I had the power within me all along.
Today’s featured book is The Ascent of Women: The History of the Suffragette Movement and the Ideas Behind it by Melanie Phillips. I bet the suffragettes weren’t knocking back disgusting hibiscus and liquorice-based herbal beverages while they were busy changing the world.
