Peace, PURPOSE & Presence Shaped by Tea, Kominka & Japanese Wisdom
Stop Chasing Abundance, Clarity, Peace, and Presence. Start Living With Them.
Clarity. Purpose. Joy. Connection.
We all have qualities we want to experience more fully. The challenge is learning how to live with them in the midst of everyday life—full of demands, interruptions, relationships, work, uncertainty, and pressure.
The Kominka Method™ teaches you how to bring the qualities you value into the way you experience and respond to everyday situations.
From Wanting to Living
We often know what we want more of:
Peace. Presence. Purpose. Abundance. Joy. Clarity. Confidence. Connection.
But knowing what we value is different from being able to live with those qualities when life becomes demanding.
You don't have to wait for circumstances to become ideal before experiencing what matters to you.
The work is learning to recognize what is happening within you, create space around your reactive patterns, reconnect with what matters, and bring those qualities into how you experience and respond to real life.
This is the shift from wanting to living what matters to you.
The Kominka Method™
A practical system for bringing what you value into everyday life.
Kominka Method™ is a practical system for bringing the qualities you value—such as peace, joy, clarity, abundance, purpose, confidence, compassion, and connection—into how you experience and respond to everyday situations.
It begins with understanding how attention works.
When attention is captured by urgency, threat, emotion, habit, or reward, our awareness can narrow. We may react before we recognize that we have a choice.
The Kominka Method™ teaches you to:
Notice → Allow → Discern → Align
Notice where your attention has gone.
Allow what is happening within you without judgment.
Discern what matters.
Align your attention and action with your intention.
The goal is not to escape difficult circumstances or manufacture a positive state.
It is to develop the capacity to meet real life with greater awareness—and to live more consistently with what matters to you.
Four Ways Into the Practice
PQ Mental Fitness
Train the capacity
Recognize reactive patterns, strengthen awareness of where your attention has gone, and learn to relate to your inner experience without judgment.
Tea Ritual
Create the internal architecture for presence
Through deliberate movement and the senses, tea ritual gives your attention a place to land and creates a sensory doorway into presence.
Kominka Method™
Understand and integrate
Learn how to expand awareness, recognize what matters, and bring the qualities you value into how you experience and respond to everyday situations.
Create environments, rituals, and experiences that unlock human potential and foster lasting change.
3.5-Day Kominka Retreat
Immerse and embody
Step into an environment designed for the practice and experience the Kominka Method™ through tea, reflection, conversation, nature, and the rhythms of a kominka.
Why Kominka?
A kominka is more than an old Japanese house.
It is a physical place where invisible values have been given form—through craftsmanship, materials, rituals, hospitality, relationship with nature, and generations of care.
The Kominka Method™ takes this idea inward.
What if the qualities you value could have a place to live within you—and become visible through the way you experience, decide, relate, and act?
Zen House Kominka is where this philosophy becomes tangible.
This Work Is For You If…
You know what matters to you, but find it difficult to stay connected to it when life becomes demanding.
You notice yourself reacting before you have time to choose.
You want greater clarity—not simply more information.
You want peace without withdrawing from the world.
You want purpose that is lived, not merely defined.
You want to experience qualities such as confidence, compassion, joy, connection, presence, or abundance without waiting for circumstances to give them to you.
You are ready to understand your mind—and learn how to live differently within the reality you already have.
Meet Kiyomi Koike
Kiyomi Koike is the creator of the Kominka Method™, a practical framework for bringing awareness, intention, and values into everyday life.
A lifelong practitioner of Japanese tea ceremony, Kiyomi has spent more than two decades working in tea education and wellness and is the founder of Yu Tea. Her work began with tea as nourishment—exploring its physical and nutritional qualities—and gradually evolved toward a deeper question: What nourishes the mind?
Today, she brings together the science of attention and mental fitness with the wisdom and practice of Japanese tea ceremony, along with her experience restoring and living with a traditional Japanese kominka in rural Oregon.
These experiences led her to develop a way of working that goes beyond understanding what we value. The Kominka Method™ explores how we can bring those values into the way we experience, respond to, and engage with everyday life.
At the heart of her work is a simple question:
How do we evolve from wanting what matters to actually living with it?
