Core Values

Leadership is relational, transparent, and holds power with care and humility. We learn from one another across generations, honoring lived experience, community insight, and the cultural traditions, particularly the Asian lineages that have carried the Dharma through generations.

We center marginalized voices as a practice of justice and belonging. Inclusion is embodied through intentional structure, cultural accountability, and the recognition that deconstruction of oppressive paradigms takes consistent awareness, effort, and resources.

We cultivate a culture of care where safety is co-created and an imperfect process, where harm is met with compassion, accountability, and restorative action. Relationships are nurtured through honest dialogue, feedback, and direct connection.

We emphasize intuitive knowing over form, encouraging one’s inner discernment to choose how and when to practice.  We trust the body’s wisdom, the process of emergence and flow. We honor the rhythmic nature of life that invites us to practice meeting what is arising, internally and externally, with sincerity, kindness, and play.

We root our spaces in awareness of systemic harm, cultural context, and intergenerational trauma. Through consent, co-regulation, and continuous learning, we shape containers that honor agency and support collective healing.