Southeast Asian Diaspora Men
Spaces for Southeast Asian diaspora men to explore masculinity, culture, brotherhood, and healing through embodied practice and inquiry into Rasa.
What This Is
This is a space for Southeast Asian diaspora men to explore masculinity, culture, responsibility, and healing through embodied practice and inquiry into Rasa.
Together, we explore how to be with ourselves and one another in more grounded and conscious ways. We pay attention to how history, family, migration, survival, and longing shape the body, and we practice new possibilities for brotherhood, expression, care, and accountability.
Different gatherings may take up this inquiry through movement, martial arts, conversation, firearm safety, cooking, poetry, and other cultural forms. These are not separate tracks so much as different ways into the same question: how do we reconnect to Rasa and live in deeper relationship with ourselves, each other, and our communities?
Ways to Participate
Monthly Virtual Spaces
A recurring space for Southeast Asian diaspora men facilitated by Andrew to connect through reflection, conversation, and optional embodied practice.
Retreats
Collective, in-person gatherings where participants can slow down, build trust, and explore each other’s passions and deeper questions. We spend time cooking for one another, quite literally and metaphorically, and crafting this shared experience by practicing our authorship in relation to masculinity, healing, and brotherhood. Interested in helping to be part of the planning group for the next retreat? Sign up below.
Social Media: Austeronesian Fire
Austeronesian Fire is a shared Instagram channel by Southeast Asian Diaspora men to share about our collective experiences and joy. Started by @Moving.Rasa and @Phlavorphil, we welcome like-minded contributors seeking to cultivate conscious practices of masculinity that create the worlds that we can live in authentically and in creative relationship with others.
What Participants Have Said
“It was a wonderful experience!”
“Thank you to Andrew for creating this space for Southeast Asian men to explore what it means to be a man in a way that is embodied and connects mind to body. The thoughtfulness and care were felt throughout the session.”
“Movement of the body connecting to movement in the mind - this really changed how I think about shifting my mindset!!”