Soft Landing A small teacup, steaming gently, descending beneath a parachute.

A long quiet drink on a loud playa.

Soft Landing is a teahouse, a lecture hall, and a place to put your shoulders down for a minute. We pour cup after cup, day and night, and host the kind of speakers who’ll make you want a second one.

Find Us
6:30 & F
a few blocks in from the Esplanade
The Teahouse
Open 24 · 7
Sunday gates open through Monday after the burn
The Lectures
Mon–Thurs
Palenque Norte · afternoons & evenings

The Full Circle Teahouse

Hundreds of gallons of hot tea and clean water, given freely, in the small hours and in the dust storms. We don’t pour alcohol. We do pour samovar after samovar of black tea, green tea, herbal & mint — whatever’s on the boil.

Come in dusty. Take off the goggles. Find a cushion. Stay as long as you need. See the full 2026 tea menu →

Letterpress-style poster reading PALENQUE NORTE LECTURES, BRC 2026 · AXIS MUNDI, with a four-day schedule: MON Roots That Cross / TUE Deep Time at the Table / WED The Plant We Drink / THU What Holds Us. Bottom band: 6:30 & F · SOFT LANDING · NIGHTLY 7PM. Cosmic-tree-from-teapot ornaments flank the title.
This year · nightly at 7 PM

The Palenque Norte Lectures

A fifteenth season of visionary, scientific, and contemplative talks. One hour a night. Bring a cushion. We brew Bodhi straight after.

Mon Roots That Cross — opening conversation. The cosmic tree across cultures.
Tue Deep Time at the Table — a contemplative on attention & the long now.
Wed The Plant We Drink — tea biology, ethnobotany, the politics of camellia.
Thu What Holds Us — closing circle. Community & what we walk home with.
Speakers · lineup forthcoming · full bios at the camp lantern board
“Tea is what makes the landing soft. Bring your dust. We’ll bring the kettle.”
— the camp, every year since 2011
Long wooden shelf at the teahouse holding fifteen varied vintage tea tins and canisters in a row at golden hour.
The Menu
A Year of Teas

Fifteen teas for 2026, five favorites with brewing specs and origin notes, and the favorites from the four years before.

See the teas →
Open dark tea-brown gift box of five copper tea tins labeled YGGDRASIL, CEIBA, CRANN BETHADH, BODHI, COTTONWOOD SHADE, with a letterpress brewing booklet and a 23/200 hand-numbered card.
Take it home · $95
The 2026 Tea Collection

A boxed sampler of all five 2026 favorites in hand-labeled copper tins with a letterpress brewing booklet. Run of 200.

See the collection →
Overhead view of the Full Circle Tea Service Set: brass samovar, copper teapot, cream-glaze cups, walnut tea box, and letterpress booklet on a walnut tray.
Fundraiser · $425
Merch & Fundraiser

Stickers, embroidered patches, the teal sherpa-lined Tea Hoodie, and the camp’s premium fundraiser: the Full Circle Tea Service Set.

See the merch sheet →