What Is Moving Rasa?
Moving Rasa is a movement-based practice for exploring how we relate to 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 alone or together.
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.
One way to begin this practice is through the Discovery Cards.
Begin with a simple practice.
Draw a card with a question, topic, or feeling in mind.
Instead of answering only with words, the card gives your body and imagination something to relate to. You might sit with the image, place it in your space, or let it guide a breath, a gesture, or a few minutes of movement.
Even a small shift, a glance, a change in posture, or a feeling of pull or resistance can reveal what thinking alone might miss.
You don’t need experience. Just a willingness to notice, move, and listen.
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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Workshops & Gatherings
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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.