Courage of Care

01/31/2026

Our annual compassion intensive starts tomorrow! We love the way in which it invites us to recommit to practice and to get more disciplined about our commitment to love.

The intensive is structured around four thematic weeks: foundations of care, receiving care, deep self care, and extending care.

Each day, for the month of February, you’ll receive a short guided meditation practice and reflection prompt in your inbox. There also are a number of bonus materials included throughout the course, as well as links to supplemental readings and podcasts.

We invite you to become a paid subscriber to participate in the intensive (It’s $8/mo and you can cancel any time—plus you get access to The Arrow Journal archives!) (Once you sign up, be sure to enable notifications for this specific “28 Days of Compassion” newsletter in substack to receive daily meditations directly in your inbox.)

We look forward to practicing with you! And we wish you lots of love and insight along the journey!

Join Our Annual 28-Day Compassion Intensive Beginning Tomorrow, February 1st, and Commit to The Spiritual Discipline of Love

01/20/2026

Returning from the most beautiful weekend in Vancouver supporting our Canadian Courage Kin during their team retreat. Navigating deep and uncertain waters with clarity and flow.

11/11/2025

Our latest issue is live!

Guest Editor, Dr. Sheryl Petty writes, “I am excited about Ocha Dharma and Courage of Care’s partnership to co-host this special issue on physical and energetic practices as pathways to full liberation. Many may not be familiar with such practices as full liberatory paths and may be more familiar with seated and/or visionary practice, and potentially the relatively recent somatics field, strands of which have a focus on social systems and what might be considered more “relative” benefits.

We are interested in supporting wider awareness of a broader spectrum of practices of body, speech/energy, and heart-mind, that can be engaged both individually and collectively. The body as a domain/site of liberation is not often spoken of in this hemisphere (to our knowledge), and the realm of non-dual Ta**ra (and Ta***ic Buddhism in particular) are also systems with which many are not familiar.

We hope this special issue and the accompanying symposium introduce readers to a range of lineage-based approaches for engaging our physical, emotional, spiritual, and energetic well-being, untangling the knots in ourselves and in our social systems and communities, so that a fuller range of our capacity, gifts, joy, and benefit can be experienced by all.”

11/10/2025

This Wednesday!

Join our annual symposium on Movement on Wednesday, November 12!

Explore lineage-based physical, martial, energetic, and subtle body practices for awakening your full capacity for responsiveness & presence.

This year’s annual symposium—co-sponsored by Ocha Dharma and presented in conjunction with The Arrow Journal’s forthcoming special issue of the same title—is designed to introduce participants to a range of lineage-based approaches for engaging our phaysical, emotional, spiritual, and energetic well-being, in order to help untangle the knots in ourselves, our social systems and communities and realize our fullest liberatory potential.

While many may be familiar with the field of somatics and the growing interest in embodied practices within our movements for justice and liberation, there may be less collective awareness in these spaces of the vast and various transformative lineages of movement-based physical and energetic practice systems that exist within various spiritual, wisdom, and martial traditions. Such transformative practices allow one to be utterly present and responsive to the moment and any arising condition or set of circumstances with vigor, potent capacity, enthusiasm, presence, love, and full commitment to the liberation of everyone and everything.

This symposium brings together wise and experienced practitioners and contributors to our special journal issue—many of whom are themselves grounded in movements for justice and equity—to make these lineages of practice more visible and accessible. Gratitude to Sheryl Petty, Ying-rig Dorje, Tanya Chung-Tiam-Fook, James Bae, Jesse Luckett, Norma Wong, Brooke Lavelle

The symposium will be held online and include a balance of curated conversations and practice-based breakout rooms with our guest presenters. Recordings will be shared with registered guests.

We expect the special issue of The Arrow Journal, “MOVEment: Lineage-based Physical and Energetic Practices for Liberation” to be released before the symposium. Subscribe to The Arrow to receive the digital issue upon its release!

*Special Issue Art by Soyalmaa Davaakhuu

11/05/2025

Next week!

Join our annual symposium on Movement on Wednesday, November 12!

Explore lineage-based physical, martial, energetic, and subtle body practices for awakening your full capacity for responsiveness & presence.

This year’s annual symposium—co-sponsored by Ocha Dharma and presented in conjunction with The Arrow Journal’s forthcoming special issue of the same title—is designed to introduce participants to a range of lineage-based approaches for engaging our phaysical, emotional, spiritual, and energetic well-being, in order to help untangle the knots in ourselves, our social systems and communities and realize our fullest liberatory potential.

While many may be familiar with the field of somatics and the growing interest in embodied practices within our movements for justice and liberation, there may be less collective awareness in these spaces of the vast and various transformative lineages of movement-based physical and energetic practice systems that exist within various spiritual, wisdom, and martial traditions. Such transformative practices allow one to be utterly present and responsive to the moment and any arising condition or set of circumstances with vigor, potent capacity, enthusiasm, presence, love, and full commitment to the liberation of everyone and everything.

This symposium brings together wise and experienced practitioners and contributors to our special journal issue—many of whom are themselves grounded in movements for justice and equity—to make these lineages of practice more visible and accessible. Gratitude to Sheryl Petty, Ying-rig Dorje, Tanya Chung-Tiam-Fook, James Bae, Jesse Luckett, Norma Wong, Brooke Lavelle

The symposium will be held online and include a balance of curated conversations and practice-based breakout rooms with our guest presenters. Recordings will be shared with registered guests.

We expect the special issue of The Arrow Journal, “MOVEment: Lineage-based Physical and Energetic Practices for Liberation” to be released before the symposium. Subscribe to The Arrow to receive the digital issue upon its release!

*Special Issue Art by Soyalmaa Davaakhuu

10/29/2025

Two weeks away!

Join our annual symposium on Movement on Wednesday, November 12!

Explore lineage-based physical, martial, energetic, and subtle body practices for awakening your full capacity for responsiveness & presence.

This year’s annual symposium—co-sponsored by Ocha Dharma and presented in conjunction with The Arrow Journal’s forthcoming special issue of the same title—is designed to introduce participants to a range of lineage-based approaches for engaging our phaysical, emotional, spiritual, and energetic well-being, in order to help untangle the knots in ourselves, our social systems and communities and realize our fullest liberatory potential.

While many may be familiar with the field of somatics and the growing interest in embodied practices within our movements for justice and liberation, there may be less collective awareness in these spaces of the vast and various transformative lineages of movement-based physical and energetic practice systems that exist within various spiritual, wisdom, and martial traditions. Such transformative practices allow one to be utterly present and responsive to the moment and any arising condition or set of circumstances with vigor, potent capacity, enthusiasm, presence, love, and full commitment to the liberation of everyone and everything.

This symposium brings together wise and experienced practitioners and contributors to our special journal issue—many of whom are themselves grounded in movements for justice and equity—to make these lineages of practice more visible and accessible. Gratitude to Sheryl Petty, Ying-rig Dorje, Tanya Chung-Tiam-Fook, James Bae, Jesse Luckett, Norma Wong, Brooke Lavelle

The symposium will be held online and include a balance of curated conversations and practice-based breakout rooms with our guest presenters. Recordings will be shared with registered guests.

We expect the special issue of The Arrow Journal, “MOVEment: Lineage-based Physical and Energetic Practices for Liberation” to be released before the symposium. Subscribe to The Arrow to receive the digital issue upon its release!

*Special Issue Art by Soyalmaa Davaakhuu

10/10/2025

Learn about your protective style or “shape”under pressure. Gain more comfort in conflict and charged encounters.

Establish your sovereignty. Become a source of protection for yourself and others.

Saturday, October 18. 1:30-5:30pm

10/09/2025

A most beautiful Rosewood Session with “Queens Kids” Tenzin Lama and Kendra Danowski. Their conversation on lineage and place made us fall in love with NYC all over again 😩🌹

Join us for our final session of 2025 on Sunday, November 9. Link in bio. and stay tuned for this episode!

09/15/2025

Sunday!!!

Climate week 2025! Join us for a day-long resourcing retreat on September 21st designed to nurture and (re)inspire!⁠
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Together, we will engage practices that help us:⁠
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🌱resource and strengthen our resilience and felt sense of relationality or interconnection;⁠
🌱address climate anxiety, overwhelm, and burnout;⁠
🌱find ways of slowing down and sensing without succumbing to toxic urgency;⁠
🌱envision and embrace complexity and multiple futures; and⁠
🌱embody a stance of courage and risk to carry forward with grounded, wise hope.⁠
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This retreat is scheduled right before the start of Climate Week 2025 in NYC and is open to any and all engaged in climate and environmental justice work. No prior experience necessary; if you feel called to a day of reflection, practice, and community, please join us!⁠
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The event includes a vegetarian lunch at our community house and garden in Brooklyn.⁠
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Registration link in bio! Or: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/beyond-fear-or-optimism-towards-sustainable-ecological-activism-tickets-1359706491719?aff=oddtdtcreator