Deep Refuge Groups

This deep refuge meeting provides a compassionate, Buddhist-centered approach to healing addiction. Utilizing the Eight Steps to Recovery framework (developed by Dr. Valerie Mason-John and Dr. Paramabandhu Groves), the group offers an inclusive space for individuals at any stage of their recovery journey.

This deep refuge group is for people who have ancestry in Asia (mixed race folks welcome!), and an established meditation practice (can practice without instruction) and foundation in the Four Noble Truths. We gather to build sangha and to support each other’s practice in a safe(r) space that allows us to explore the intersections of Asian Diaspora identity/experience and Buddhism.

Practitioners learn the principles behind each technique and engage in guided practice sessions to develop their meditation skills and deepen their understanding of different meditation approaches.

This is a peer-led deep refuge group for self-identifying Filipinx/a/o (including mixed) folks. Together we cultivate a special community space in the intersection of Filipinx/a/o identity + culture + history and Buddhist spiritual practice. We gather to support each other, heal, and walk the Dharma path.

Tendramos una meditación, tiempo para convivir/hablar sobre un tema budista y comunidad. “Deep Refuge” le invita a una reunión de Zoom programada.

The Multiracial Deep Refuge Group is a monthly exploratory Deep Refuge Group for and by people who identify as multiracial. Our meetings include periods of mindfulness meditation and sharing of narratives and perspectives as we come together to be seen and to see one another.

We are a peer-led meditation group for those of us who have a meditation practice and are queer and leather/kink-identified. Our group provides an accepting space where we can include the queer and leather/kinky parts of our identities and experiences when talking about how we practice both in community and in our daily lives.

The purpose of this refuge group is to provide a space for sex workers to connect with each other, build sangha, and to deepen our spiritual practices in community. Sex workers continue to be a marginalized group in society and this sangha is a place where we support each other in bringing our whole selves into our spiritual lives.