Yogi Tea
Yogi Tea is the name of a range of herbal teas manufactured by the Golden Temple Company in Eugene, Oregon. The recipes use cardamom seed, cinnamon bark, clove bud, ginger root and black pepper as the basic ingredients, and the packaging informs that the recipes were formulated along the principles of ayurvedic medicine.
History
The Yogi Tea Company was founded in 1982 as an outgrowth of the Golden Temple Vegetarian Restaurant in West Hollywood, California. Restaurant would prepare a blend of tea containing cinnamon, cardamom, cloves, ginger and black pepper (the basic ingredients found in chai a popular south-Asian tea) which the Bhajan's yoga students and Restaurant devotees dubbed “Yogi tea”. The tea was so popular at Golden Temple Vegetarian Restaurant that they started packaging it.
Over time the company introduced new blends and lines, such as Healing Formula teas in 1991. Also in 1991, the company started making its teas from organic ingredients. The company eventually expanded from herbal teas to include blends of black and green teas, too.
Since 2000, the boxes have featured illustrations by Seva Kaur. The illustrations are based on a devotional poem or prayer found on the inside of the box. The illustrations found on the Chai, Woman's, and Exotic Teas, are done by Latvian artist Anita Kreituse. The boxes use vegetable based inks and dyes, and non-irradiated recycled carton materials.