How to Make Your Own Tea Blends: A Beginner’s Guide to Herbal Tea Blends
There’s something beautifully grounding about making a cup of tea from herbs you blended yourself. The process asks you to slow down, choose ingredients with intention, and create something that supports how you want to feel. Whether you want something calming, refreshing, or soothing, learning how to make your own tea blends is one of the simplest ways to bring more wellness into your daily life.
At ULUM Moab, tea blending is more than a hands-on workshop. It’s part of a wellness experience shaped by the desert landscape and meaningful connection to nature. Surrounded by red rock, wide-open sky, and Looking Glass Arch, guests are invited to explore the restorative power of herbs while creating a custom blend to take home.
Here’s how to get started with tea blending and why it’s worth trying.
How to Blend Your Own Tea
A simple herbal tea blend usually includes three elements: a base herb, supporting herbs, and accent ingredients. The base creates the body of the tea, while the supporting herbs add flavor, aroma, color, or a specific wellness intention. Stick to three to five ingredients.
Choose herbs that are vibrant in color and fragrant when opened. Dried herbs lose potency over time, so store them in a cool, dry place away from direct sunlight.
After choosing your herbs, mix them gently in a small bowl. Start with small quantities, smell the blend often, and adjust as you go. Tea blending is both creative and sensory. If one herb feels too strong, soften it with something floral or earthy. If the blend feels flat, add citrus, spice, or a brighter botanical note.
Herbal tea can be a rewarding wellness ritual or gift to share, but it should be approached with mindfulness. Always make sure the herbs you choose are safe for you to consume.
What You Need for Tea Blending
Ingredients
- 2 parts base herb, such as chamomile, rooibos, mint, lemon balm, or nettle
- 1 part supporting herb, such as lavender, ginger, lemongrass, or rosehips
- 1 part accent herb or botanical, such as citrus peel, rose petals, cinnamon, or hibiscus
Tools
- Small mixing bowl
- Spoon
- Airtight jar or sealed tin
- Reusable tea filter, tea infuser, or loose-leaf tea bag
- Label for noting the ingredients and date blended
- Your favorite reusable tea cup or mug
How to Brew Your Tea Blend
When you’re ready to brew, use about one tablespoon of herbal tea per cup of hot water. Steep for five to ten minutes, depending on the ingredients and your preferred strength.
Tea Blending Recipes Inspired by Moab’s Desert
Here are three easy tea blends to inspire your own creation.
Calming Desert Bloom Blend
Create a soothing blend with chamomile as the base, then add lavender, lemon balm, and rose petals. This gentle, floral tea is made for slowing down, easing into the evening, or relaxing after a day in the desert.
Refreshing Citrus Sage Trail Blend
Combine peppermint, lemongrass, nettle, citrus peel, and a touch of sage for a bright, refreshing herbal tea inspired by desert trails and sun-warmed herbs. This blend is crisp and uplifting, making it a great choice for mornings, warm afternoons, or a post-hike reset. Try it over ice.
Cozy Red Rock Spice Blend
Start with rooibos as the base, then add cinnamon, ginger, orange peel, and a touch of licorice root. The result is warming, lightly sweet, and comforting, perfect for sipping after dinner or winding down beneath the stars.
Benefits of Blending Your Own Tea
Making your own herbal tea blends creates a deeper connection to what you consume. Instead of choosing a pre-made tea from a shelf, you’re creating something personal for yourself or to share with family and friends.
Tea blending also encourages presence. Smelling herbs, feeling their texture, and watching them steep brings you into the moment, turning a simple cup of tea into restorative time.
It also invites creativity. You begin to notice how botanicals work together: mint refreshes, ginger warms, hibiscus adds color, and rose brings softness. Each cup becomes an expression of taste, season, and mood.
Tea blending can also become a way to carry a memory with you. A custom blend made during this Utah wellness retreat brings back to mind quiet mornings, starlit evenings, and the feeling of being in a desert landscape shaped by sandstone, sky, and stillness.
Join Us For a Tea Blending Workshop at ULUM Moab
Guests can enjoy daily programming at the resort, including tea blending, homemade soap making, painting, guided nature walks, yoga, and more. These experiences invite presence, whether that means noticing the textures, scents, and traditional uses of desert plants or simply taking in the beauty of the surrounding landscape. Without trying, they encourage you to put your phone away, slow down, and focus on wellbeing.
During the tea blending session, guests are invited to immerse themselves in the world of tea and unlock the secrets of creating their own unique blends. You will learn about natural herbs, explore the traditional wellness benefits of different botanicals, and discover how each ingredient can shape the taste, aroma, and feeling of an herbal tea. Using a combination of five different herbs, you will walk away with your very own custom herbal tea blend.
The workshop gives you time to engage your senses, learn something new, and create a personal wellness ritual you can continue long after your stay.
Restore With ULUM Moab’s Wellness Offerings
ULUM Moab makes it easy to shape your days around whatever kind of restoration you need most. You might begin with guided yoga framed by views of Looking Glass Arch. Later, you can soak in the hot and cool dipping pools and enjoy the benefits of contrast bathing. A cosmic sound bath meditation offers another kind of reset, where you lie back and gaze up at night skies filled with stars. For even deeper relaxation, book a massage in a restored historic settler’s cave, a setting that feels both grounded and unforgettable. Together, these offerings create a Utah wellness experience that feels rooted in the landscape.
Staying at ULUM Moab
At the end of each day, retreat to your safari-inspired Suite Tent, where a king-size bed, soft linens, a stylish indoor lounge area, and a private deck overlooking the desert create a stay that feels both refined and connected to nature. Thoughtful details such as heated mattress pads, rain showers, in-tent coffee and tea, and Aesop bath products add comfort without diminishing that sense of immersion. At ULUM Moab, wellbeing, elevated accommodations, full-service dining, and access to some of the American Southwest’s most captivating landscapes, like Arches and Canyonlands national parks, come together with ease, allowing your days to unfold at a gentler pace beneath a wide desert sky.
