Soul Roots: An Asian Community Gathering

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Soul Roots is an Asian-centric community gathering to seed a culture of empowerment, healing, purpose and awakening as the next generation of Asians in America. The intention of this gathering is for those of us who identify as Asian and have common interest in spiritual and personal growth to come together and explore our collective and individual identities in a space where our experiences can be seen and reflected by other asian bodied humans. The gathering will explore ancestral healing, embodiment, community building, contemplative/healing practices, celebration and creativity. 

The name Soul Roots reflects our multidimensional journey towards wholeness that accelerates when we find the ground of our being: that includes healing our family systems and ancestral traumas, landing our souls in our bodies, and deepening in the radiance and clarity of pure awareness.

The gathering will be hosted at Chesapeake Temple, a mystery temple founded in early 2021 near Washington, D.C., that was envisioned by a Vietnamese immigrant as a “Democratic Temple” which embodies the principles of feng shui and egalitarianism in a design inspired by Buddhist pagodas. Chesapeake in Algonquin means “Great Water” and the temple stands as a sanctuary for healing and integration in connection with the Soul of America and the current of power that runs through the capital.

- 4 day/3 night residential gathering

- Maximum 20 participants

- dorm/double accommodation (2-3 beds per room), limited camping available

- Sliding scale donation of $350-450 per person covers meals, accommodation and temple donation

Daily Schedule (tentative)

8am - Breakfast

9am - Movement/Meditation

10am - Group Circle

11am - Session

12:30p - Lunch

1pm - Rest/hangout

3pm - Session/breakouts

6pm - Dinner

8pm - Temple/creative space

Transportation

The closest airports are DCA (Reagan National) or BWI (Baltimore), both about 1hr from the temple via Uber. IAD is also an option, about 1.5hrs away. Carpooling is recommended.

Your Hosts

Marcus Woo co-founded Chesapeake Temple in 2021 as a call to find home on American soil after decades of doing spiritual/polarity/embodiment work around the world in containers where almost no one looked like him. After a deep soul activation at Highden Mystery School in New Zealand in 2019, he has been on a journey in service to the reemergence of the mystery schools and the revelation of a new culture based on the soul’s innate capacity for love and freedom.

Mark Tanaka is a teacher and coach that specializes in helping people with nervous system regulation, somatic attachment/developmental trauma repair and inner child work. He has a unique and diverse background in 25 years of Eastern self-healing and self-regulation practices such as yoga, qigong, meditation and Buddhist practice.