MR Retreat supporting AAPI Sexual Assault Survivors in NYC
This three-day residency is designed as an affinity space for Asian Pacific Americans Survivors of Sexual Assault and their communities. In collective, we will co-create a safe and nurturing space for healing, empowerment, and play. Disclosure is not required. You do not have to have "it" figured out or have any experience with creative movement.
This three-day residency is designed as an affinity space for Asian Pacific Americans Survivors of Sexual Assault and their communities. In collective, we will co-create a safe and nurturing space for healing, empowerment, and play. Disclosure is not required. You do not have to have "it" figured out or have any experience with creative movement.
This three-day residency is designed as an affinity space for Asian Pacific Americans Survivors of Sexual Assault and their communities. In collective, we will co-create a safe and nurturing space for healing, empowerment, and play. Disclosure is not required. You do not have to have "it" figured out or have any experience with creative movement.
Expect voluntary story sharing and natural cross-pollination among participants, fostering a collective learning experience. Participants will be introduced to the Moving Rasa framework through guided exercises and reflections, both indoors and outdoors, with a focus on creating a playful and trusting community that is able to openly address and move through our relationships to sex, sexualities and sexual violence in a healing, culturally specific and empowering way.
Moving Rasa: Grounding Knowledge and Social Justice
The term "Rasa" means taste or essence in Indonesian, and Moving Rasa connects participants to their Rasa, embracing their cultures, histories, and spirituality as vital for authentic relationship-building and creating unity through diversity. Participants will learn to trust their interconnectedness with others and the world around them, navigating obstacles to self-expression and expanding their capacity to improvise in changing and challenging environments. You can hear from a prior participant from August here.
How is this possible?
This opportunity is possible thanks to the American Rescue Plan for Culturally Specific approaches to Survivors of Sexual Assault. This inclusive workshop is free and open to individuals of the local New York AAPI community, embracing all abilities, ages, and classes. The cohort size will be limited to 10 people with priority given to marginalized identities within the AAPI community especially who are Southeast Asians, Pacific Islanders and non-Brahmin South Asians. That said, all AAPI are encouraged to apply.
Location: Wildheart, 183 East Road, Wallkill, NY 12589
Basic Itinerary (Subject to shift as needed by the group via consensus)
Transportation, Lodging and Culturally specific meals are all included.
Friday Nov 15th
6-9p Introduction to Moving Rasa, the Container and the Theme: Addressing Sexual Violence in our Communities
Saturday, Nov 16th
10-1p Embodying Community Agreements and Consent Labs
1-3p Break and meal co-creating and sharing
3-6p Exploring Core Values around Intimacy and Connection
Sunday Nov 17th
9:30-12:30p Active Witnessing and Improvisation
12:30-2:30p Break and meal co-creating and sharing
2:30-5:30p Collective Design and Synthesis