About
Victoria Mausisa is a Dharma Teacher ordained in the Plum Village tradition of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh, Order of Interbeing. She has practiced for over 20 years. Based at East Bay Meditation Center in the Bay Area, Mausisa leads sangha and retreats. She completed training in Buddhist chaplaincy at the Sati Center and graduated from East Bay Meditation Center's Spiritual and Teacher Leader Program. Her teaching focuses on trauma resiliency combined with mindfulness practice, and she co-founded ARISE Sangha, which addresses race, intersectionality, and social equity within spiritual communities.
Teaching focus
Victoria Mausisa's teaching focus, drawn from the source profile, sits in the Zen and Mahayana traditions. Several threads come up: trauma-aware mindfulness that pays attention to the nervous system as part of the practice; dharma applied to social and collective suffering; and dharma in dialogue with race, identity, and power. On talks, the style is closer to thinking-along than presenting. Victoria Mausisa works with whatever shows up in the room rather than reading from notes, which is part of why these talks land as conversational instead of scripted. Short pauses, longer sits, and questions that come back to direct experience are usual. Listed specialties on the source profile include trauma, LGBTQ+, retreat. The bigger move Victoria Mausisa keeps making is back toward attention itself: what's happening, how it's being held, and what gets in the way. That keeps the teaching close to practice rather than drifting into commentary about practice. For talks, schedules, and longer essays, the affiliated organization's page is where the live material lives. Victoria Mausisa's sessions tend to keep returning to the body, to breath, and to the felt quality of attention as the steady ground that the rest rests on. Victoria Mausisa's sessions tend to keep returning to the body, to breath, and to the felt quality of attention as the steady ground that the rest rests on.
Background
Victoria Mausisa teaches in the Zen and Mahayana traditions. The teaching home is East Bay Meditation Center. From the teacher's own profile: Victoria Mausisa, (she/siya/we), Filipina, Lola/grandmother. Victoria began her practice over 20 years ago and is a Dharma Teacher ordained in the Plum Village tradition of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh, Order of Interbeing. She is a community builder, sangha and retreat leader. An advocate for racial and social justice, she co-founded ARISE Sangha -- Awakening Through Race, Intersectionality and Social Equity. Victoria is called to heal communities of color and to cultivate inclusiveness. She combines trauma resiliency with mindfulness and also trained at the Sati Center Buddhist Chaplaincy program. She is a graduate of East Bay Meditation Center's inaugural Spiritual and Teacher Leader Program. A contemplative at heart who leans on authenticity and ritual, Victoria thrives on spiritual practice and deep relationships with our ancestors, our lands, family, and friends. In a Zen container, what Victoria Mausisa offers is steady, mostly silent practice with short pointed teachings. The form is the teaching as much as the words are. Sitting, walking, work practice, and the relationship with a teacher all carry weight. Victoria Mausisa's page on OMP collects the publicly available bio, the listed affiliations, and any talks tracked through the source archive, and is meant as a directory entry rather than an authorized biography. Victoria Mausisa's page on OMP collects the publicly available bio, the listed affiliations, and any talks tracked through the source archive, and is meant as a directory entry rather than an authorized biography. Victoria Mausisa's page on OMP collects the publicly available bio, the listed affiliations, and any talks tracked through the source archive, and is meant as a directory entry rather than an authorized biography. Victoria Mausisa's page on OMP collects the publicly available bio, the listed affiliations, and any talks tracked through the source archive, and is meant as a directory entry rather than an authorized biography. Victoria Mausisa's page on OMP collects the publicly available bio, the listed affiliations, and any talks tracked through the source archive, and is meant as a directory entry rather than an authorized biography. Victoria Mausisa's page on OMP collects the publicly available bio, the listed affiliations, and any talks tracked through the source archive, and is meant as a directory entry rather than an authorized biography. Victoria Mausisa's page on OMP collects the publicly available bio, the listed affiliations, and any talks tracked through the source archive, and is meant as a directory entry rather than an authorized biography.
Lineage
Victoria Mausisa teaches as a monastic teacher in the Zen and Mahayana traditions. The institutional home, per the source listing, is East Bay Meditation Center, and that's where most of the public teaching schedule and any retreat offerings will be posted. The Zen lineage frame here, where stated, is what authorizes a teacher to lead practice, and the source page usually names the dharma teacher or root teacher when relevant.
What to expect
On a class or retreat with Victoria Mausisa, the basic shape is short instruction, longer sittings, and some Q&A. Retreats are part of the offering, usually a few days to a week, mostly silent. The container is shaped by East Bay Meditation Center, so format details, fees, and access policies follow that organization's norms. Expect plenty of silence, less talking-at-you than you might think, and an emphasis on letting the practice do its work rather than chasing experiences. For exact dates, registration, and any sliding-scale or scholarship information, There's usually a short Q&A window and, on retreats, optional teacher interviews where students can bring specific questions about their practice.
