Essence of MANA

12/05/2025

🌊 Journey to Empowerment presents: GRIEF 2 GROWTH 🌺
A space to honor our loved ones, share stories, and find healing together.

Join us TONIGHT for an evening of mental wellness, creative expression, and community as we reflect on the past and envision our future.
Bring a cherished photo of someone who has journeyed with you, and let’s hold space for each other through storytelling, memories, and breaking bread as a community.

✨ FREE + Open to all ages
✨ Food • Raffles • Good Vibes • Great Company

📅 Friday, December 5th, 2025
⏰ 6:30pm
📍 Asian American Recovery Services
1115 Mission Rd, South San Francisco, CA 94080

For more information, contact Lu Masina @ (415) 243-6328 | lmasina@aars.org

🌊 Journey to Empowerment presents: GRIEF 2 GROWTH 🌺
A space to honor our loved ones, share stories, and find healing together.

Join us for an evening of mental wellness, creative expression, and community as we reflect on the past and envision our future.
Bring a cherished photo of someone who has journeyed with you, and let’s hold space for each other through storytelling, memories, and breaking bread as a community.

✨ FREE + Open to all ages
✨ Food • Raffles • Good Vibes • Great Company

📅 Friday, December 5th, 2025
⏰ 6:30pm
📍 Asian American Recovery Services
1115 Mission Rd, South San Francisco, CA 94080

For more information, contact Lu Masina @ (415) 243-6328 | lmasina@aars.org

12/05/2025

Join us tonight!!

🌊 Journey to Empowerment presents: GRIEF 2 GROWTH 🌺
A space to honor our loved ones, share stories, and find healing together.

Join us for an evening of mental wellness, creative expression, and community as we reflect on the past and envision our future.
Bring a cherished photo of someone who has journeyed with you, and let’s hold space for each other through storytelling, memories, and breaking bread as a community.

✨ FREE + Open to all ages
✨ Food • Raffles • Good Vibes • Great Company

📅 Friday, December 5th, 2025
⏰ 6:30pm
📍 Asian American Recovery Services
1115 Mission Rd, South San Francisco, CA 94080

For more information, contact Lu Masina @ (415) 243-6328 | lmasina@aars.org

11/27/2025

🌊 Journey to Empowerment presents: GRIEF 2 GROWTH 🌺
A space to honor our loved ones, share stories, and find healing together.

Join us for an evening of mental wellness, creative expression, and community as we reflect on the past and envision our future.
Bring a cherished photo of someone who has journeyed with you, and let’s hold space for each other through storytelling, memories, and breaking bread as a community.

✨ FREE + Open to all ages
✨ Food • Raffles • Good Vibes • Great Company

📅 Friday, December 5th, 2025
⏰ 6:30pm
📍 Asian American Recovery Services
1115 Mission Rd, South San Francisco, CA 94080

For more information, contact Lu Masina @ (415) 243-6328 | lmasina@aars.org

11/26/2025

11/26/2025

Talanoa Tuesday with Kelera!

11/26/2025

Tap in with us!

11/26/2025

Talanoa Tuesday with Kelera Vuiyale

11/25/2025

Kelera W. Vuiyale is a storyteller and community advocate guided by ancestral tides. Her journey is shaped by her experience as a first-generation Fijian American Vakasalewalewa and her work with the Samoan Community Development Center’s Pacific Islander Youth Alliance (PIYA), Samoan Solutions, and Pacific Islanders Organizing Nurturing Empowering Everyone to Rise and Serve (PIONEERS). Across these spaces, she has helped nurture the Va between Pasifika youth in the diaspora and their cultural roots through Love, Respect, and Optimism.
She continues this calling through the PIONEERS Leaders in Training Council, where she cultivates leadership, engages in self-healing practices, and serves the Pacific Islander community through collective action and service. In every space, Kelera offers what she, too, is learning: that in healing others, she continues to heal herself. Rooted in the wisdom of her bloodline, she carries a grounded, poetic presence—reminding others that transformation is a tide we rise with, not against.

Tune in to Essence of MANA at 7:00 PM PST as we welcome the amazing Lela to the Talanoa Tuesday virtual fala!

11/19/2025

11/19/2025

Tap in with us’

11/19/2025

Happy Talanoa Tuesday with Talavou Aumavae!

11/18/2025

Talavou "Vou" Aumavae is a USC Price School public administration graduate student and newest member to join the Asian American Recovery Services family as Case Manager, supporting the PIONEERS program through outreach, education, prevention, and referrals for NHPI youth and young adults. With over a decade of experience in civic engagement, nonprofit leadership, and Pacific Islander advocacy, he also serves on the Board of Directors for Samoan Solutions, strengthening organizational development and culturally rooted community initiatives. His work centers relational leadership, cultural grounding, and building healthier pathways for Pacific Islander communities.

Tune in at 7:00 PM on Essence of MANA, as Talanoa Tuesday welcomes the amazing Vou to the TT virtual fala to share more about his heartwork!