What Is Moving Rasa?
Moving Rasa is a movement-based practice for exploring how we meet what we carry—our questions, relationships, histories, places, pressures, and possibilities.
Rooted in Indonesian philosophy and lived movement practice, it offers simple ways to reflect, converse, move, play, and make meaning together.
People enter through Discovery Cards, readings, events, coaching, and collaborative work with communities and organizations.
You Might Notice This
Small moments often reveal more than big explanations.
We arrive with different stories.
A family habit.
A language half-remembered.
A place we miss, or are still learning to call home.
A question we inherited before we had words for it.
Sometimes what we carry brings us closer.
Sometimes it makes us careful.
Sometimes it asks to move, be spoken, laughed with, or held differently.
Moving Rasa is a place to explore these moments—
with ourselves, each other, our histories, our communities, and the places that shape us.
Not to force an answer.
To make room for what wants to be known, shared, and practiced.
Pick a card. Begin there
The Discovery Cards are image-based cards that invite reflection, conversation, movement, and play. There are no words on the cards—only images to meet, interpret, question, and respond to.
Use them on your own, with a friend, in a classroom, at a gathering, or around the table with family. A card might open a story, shift the room, bring a question into the body, or invite laughter, memory, and a different kind of attention.
There is no single right way to use them. The Moving Rasa framework offers circles and practices to help you explore the cards with care, depth, and play.
Explore the Practice
Gather with Us
Moving Rasa comes alive in shared practice—through retreats, circles, potlucks, workshops, and community experiments.
Come with a question, a curiosity, a story, or just a willingness to be in the room.
What This Practice Can Support
People often come to Moving Rasa with a question, a stuck pattern, or a desire for deeper change.
Through practice, they may discover how to:
notice what is happening in their body before it becomes overwhelming
shift familiar ways of relating and experiment with new choices
build more honesty, consent, and care in relationship
reconnect with parts of themselves shaped by culture, memory, and imagination
move through the world with greater awareness, trust, and agency
“I appreciated the way that the embodied feeling matched the card feelings to get out of my head and into my body. I have never seen anything like this before, and I know a lot about Tarot.” -Recipient of MR Discovery Card Reading
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Participants
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Workshops & Gatherings
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Community Partners
Support the practice
Moving Rasa’s nonprofit work helps sustain community healing spaces, survivor-centered gatherings, and accessible ways for people to engage the practice.
Paid services and partnerships help support the work, and contributions from individuals, partners, and funders make it possible for these spaces to keep growing and reaching new communities.
Your contribution helps keep community practice accessible.