the water is my body, my father, my culture, my Rasa
Emergent Retreat for the BIPOC Community
Connect to your Rasa—Join our BIPOC Emergent Retreat. BIPOC stands for Black, Indigenous and/or People of Color. Explore the wisdom of your body through movement improvisation, dismantling internal and external oppression. This weekend workshop empowers us to lift up our cultural wisdom in our shared movements as we build unity through diversity. No experience needed. Register now to transform your work and community. Learn more."
Free Emergent Retreat for AAPI Community
Unveil the transformative power of Moving Rasa at our AAPI Emergent Retreat—an immersive experience for the Bay Area AAPI community. Explore the wisdom of your body through movement improvisation, fostering connections and celebrating diversity. No prior experience required. Register now for this free workshop and join us on a powerful and culturally resonant journey. Learn more
To the Collective Radical Imagination:
Come as you are, disheveled, broken, and not enough.
Those words do not the hold the weight we are interested in here.
We want you. Your living self in spirit, in body, and in mind.
Our hand outstretched, our bodies leaning in, to be in relationship. To make contact.
With your consent.
The what, the how, the where dances in a sensitive anarchy that allows for emergence and transformation.
Lean into what moves you, what gives you breathe and life.
Moving Rasa is an antiracist improvisational movement form and contemplative practice that explores our relationship to connecting to our own body wisdom, others, objects and the environment. It can look like dance or play and it may be practiced anywhere. Rasa is the Indonesian word for taste or the discernment of feeling by the heart. Moving Rasa centers BIPOC people across ability, age, gender, class and profession and embraces our diverse cultural histories and ancestral ways of knowing, to help us show up as our full selves and resource a sense of wonder and embodied curiosity for how we might move in and engage the world around us.
Jazalee explores the smooth textures of a metal sculpture through her foot @ the Norman A Rockefellar Park, NYC NY.
Carmen discovering a new way to mobilize and pivot on the bench with Richard’s support. (Seniors at La Corsi Sr Center in East Harlem.)
Andrew being a puma w/ East Harlem kids for the Cada Paso program
Marlon body surfs at night upside down atop Kimberly’s hip in connection with the line of the sculpture pointing at the sky behind him.
We are the proud contributor to this e-book for AAPI Survivors of Sexual Assault with a small group of AAPI cultural bearers, healers and artists!
Gallery Shot of participants from Virtual April 2020 Intensive sharing their presence through a gesture or share of their place or object of meaning. Event sponsored by Ohio State University and Livable Futures.