Our foundational programming caters to BIPOC, Asian and Pacific Islander individuals and communities that often exist on the margins. Our three core areas focus on cultural embodiment, survivor empowerment as well as health and wellness.
A TASTE OF HEALTH, HOME & HISTORY
While rasa means taste or essence in Indonesian, it is not just in reference to food. Rasa is our taste to any relationship we experience in life to place, objects, people and ideas. At the center of our tasting experiences is our connection to our body and our mutual respect for one another.
In a Taste of Health, History, and Home participants enhance their experience of these things through the Moving Rasa framework. We use movement games and facilitated explorations to invite the subconscious to emerge. Connection to rasa can bridge to experiences of the past and to possibility in profound and non-linear ways. No experience is needed to participate, just a willingness to try something new and build new relationships.
Explore each of the highlighted offerings by selecting what interests you :
Moving Rasa Community Relationship Labs
Note: Spaces intentionally center BIPOC participants and their lived experience. Allies are welcome.
BEYOND TRAUMA: MOVING TOWARD JOY & JUSTICE
Moving Rasa practice incorporates movement, personal and relationship development approaches to support survivors of violence, along with their allies, in reclaiming agency and reconnecting with their whole, authentic selves. Areas of focus include: mindfulness, boundary setting, and confidence building.
We facilitate transformational weekend retreats and establish a safe space to educate, empower and uplift survivors. We utilize movement, food, storytelling, and cultural practices as tools to assist participants in:
realignment of their mind-bodies to move into relationships with the world
releasing and expressing their innermost thoughts, feelings, and desires
exploring the possibilities of the present and the near future
You may register here: Moving Rasa Survivor Retreats once we have set the date for the next one.
MEN OF WATER Opening hearts to Flow with Life
As men of the Global Majority, we are conditioned to appear strong and confident by hardening up. We learn to hide our soft inner landscape so we can parade around and be served as “men.”
As a man of the Global Majority however, the status quo is not my narrative. I organize to author my own story. Men of Water is an invitation to open your heart to the flow of life. We provide individual coaching and group process spaces to cultivate empathy and understanding of others grounded in self-love and shared fulfillment.
Men of Water uses the Moving Rasa practice shaped by Southeast Asian philosophies to cultivate authentic relationships to all things. This is done not only with people, but with the world and objects that move concretely and abstractly around us. We use movement games and prompts to invite connection, empowering people to cultivate awareness and choice about how they experience their bodies, movement, consent, intimacy and relationship.
Tastes of the Arichipelagos
A Journey through Movement and Taste
Join us on May 24th to learn about and enjoy the cuisine from Bali!
It will be an unforgettable evening that brings together the rich culinary traditions of an Asian island nation and the embodied practice of Moving Rasa. This unique collaboration with Shandra Woworuntu, a renowned chef and cultural advocate, combines food storytelling with movement explorations that deepen our discernment of Rasa.
When & Where
Location: NYC TBD
Date: May 23rd 2025
Cost
$80
