The Art of Sacred Living is a practice of orientation.
It exists to help people see clearly and live coherently in a time of cultural, ecological, and narrative unraveling.
This work is grounded in the understanding that humans once lived in meaningful relationship with time, land, and one another — and that the loss of those relationships has shaped much of our modern dislocation. Remembering them is not nostalgia. It is a necessary act of cultural repair.
Through writing, seasonal frameworks, and long-form initiation, Art of Sacred Living offers ways of practicing orientation: toward cyclical time, toward embodied presence, and toward responsibility that extends beyond the individual self.
HELLO THERE, I'M TIA TUENGE
A writer, teacher, and cultural steward working at the intersection of deep history, ecology, and lived practice.
My work is shaped by long study of cultural history and partnership societies, as well as decades of engagement with seasonal living, herbalism, council practice, and embodied disciplines. What began as personal inquiry became, over time, a way of understanding how individual experience is shaped by much larger cultural patterns.
I do not offer solutions or prescriptions. I offer frameworks, practices, and language that help people orient themselves within the world they are already inhabiting.
How This Work Is Expressed
Art of Sacred Living is carried through several forms:
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Writing and essays that explore deep history, cultural memory, and the long arc of change
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A Year of Sacred Living, a year-long initiation into lived rhythm and coherence
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The Center for Sacred Living, a regenerative education project rooted in land and long-term stewardship
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Mentorship and foundational tools—such as the Sacred Living Guidebook—that support discernment, energy reclamation, and daily practice.
Each expression serves the same purpose: helping people live with clarity, steadiness, and integrity in their time.
Context + Training
My work is informed by long-term study and lived practice across several intersecting disciplines. Over the past two decades, I have engaged deeply with cultural history, mythology, and partnership societies, alongside seasonal and cyclical frameworks for living that predate modern industrial time. This foundation is complemented by formal and informal training in herbalism and plant-based medicine, council practice and group facilitation, and embodied disciplines including yoga and somatic practice.
If you are feeling the weight of our current 'cultural unraveling' and are ready to begin your own practice of orientation, I invite you to start with The Sacred Living Guidebook. It is a 16-page compass designed to help you clear the noise and return to the steady rhythm of your own life.