Southeast Asian 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 to connect through reflection, conversation, and optional embodied practice. Together we explore identity, masculinity, culture, and healing while building relationships with one another.
Retreats
In-person gatherings where participants can slow down, build trust, and explore deeper questions around masculinity, responsibility, healing, and brotherhood through shared practice and community.
Why This Work Matters
Many Southeast Asian men inherit complicated relationships to masculinity, silence, protection, survival, and belonging.
Some of these patterns come through family history, migration, war, racism, or the expectations placed on men to endure without support.
This work creates space to slow down, listen more deeply, and explore how we want to show up for ourselves, our families, and our communities.
Through embodied practice and shared inquiry, participants begin to reconnect with Rasa — the felt sense of meaning, relationship, and life moving through us.
Part of a Growing Pathway
This work has included:
• monthly virtual gatherings for Southeast Asian diaspora men
• retreats and in-person gatherings
• listening sessions to better understand community needs
• future possibilities for deeper leadership and community development
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!!”
We Look Forward to Meeting You!
If you are a Southeast Asian diaspora man curious about this work, you are welcome to join us.