Moving Rasa Discovery Cards
A 33-card movement-based oracle deck for exploring questions through body, place, imagination, and relationship
The Discovery Cards invite you to explore questions through image, movement, reflection, and relational awareness.
You might sit quietly with a card, place it in space, notice your breath, journal, or respond through movement. The goal is not to find the “right” answer, but to notice what becomes possible when you relate to a question differently.
Small shifts in posture, attention, emotion, or perspective can reveal something that thinking alone may miss.
Why They Exist
The Discovery Cards emerged from a search for reconnection—to culture, relationship, and ways of being that honor difference rather than erase it.
Inspired by Indonesian philosophies of relationality and years of movement practice, these cards invite people to explore questions through image, space, movement, and relationship.
Rather than providing answers, they help us discover new ways of relating to ourselves, each other, and the worlds around us.
Step 1
How it Works
Begin with a Question
Bring a feeling, relationship, tension, transition, memory, or curiosity into the practice.
The question does not need to be fully clear. Sometimes the exploration begins simply by noticing what is asking for attention.
Choose and Place a Card
Draw a card, select one intentionally, or create a small spread in space.
Notice what images, environments, gestures, or sensations stand out. You may feel drawn toward a card, resistant to it, curious about it, or unsure.
Step 3
Step 2
Explore Through Movement or Reflection
You might:
notice your breath
shift posture
move toward or away from a card
journal
imagine an environment
explore through gesture
sit quietly with the image
witness another person’s experience
Movement can be subtle or expansive. Reflection can happen alone or in relationship with others.
Step 4
Notice What Changes
The goal is not prediction or finding the “right” interpretation.
Sometimes meaning appears as:
a bodily shift
a new perspective
a feeling of direction
emotional release
deeper curiosity
greater spaciousness
a different relationship to the question
A small shift in relationship can change how a question is lived.
Movement Can Begin in Many Ways
The Discovery Cards support many forms of participation — from subtle shifts in breath, posture, and attention to expansive movement, reflection, journaling, imagination, and relational exploration.
You do not need dance experience to engage with the practice.
Inside the Moving Rasa Discovery Cards
Three Ways of Exploring
Lens Cards
Shift how you notice your body, movement, and environment
Animist Cards
Explore your relationship with places, objects, and the living world
Suwung Cards
Invite pause, stillness, and spaciousness
33 Image-only cards
Each card offers a doorway into awareness, relationship, and discovery.
One shared village ecosystem
The cards live in one world of paths, thresholds, homes, waters, fields, trees, and gathering places.
Ways to Experience the Discovery Cards
There are several ways to begin your journey with Discovery Cards.
Early Support Pathways
Bring the Practice Home
Prepare to receive the Discovery Cards and continue exploring questions through image, reflection, and movement-optional practice in your own space.
- Physical Discovery Cards deck
- Guidebook and reflection prompts
- Early supporter access
- Launch updates and behind-the-scenes process
Join a Discovery Circle
Experience the Discovery Cards in community through guided reflection, witnessing, conversation, and movement-optional exploration.
- Live Moving Rasa Discovery Circle
- Guided card exploration
- Shared reflection and witnessing
- Resources for continued practice
Receive Personal Guidance
Explore a meaningful life question through a one-on-one Discovery Card reading with spacious, personalized support.
- Guided Discovery Card reading
- Virtual or in-person option
- Personalized movement prompts
- Integration resources for reflection
What This Practice Can Support
People use the Discovery Cards to explore questions, transitions, relationships, and experiences that may feel difficult to name, untangle, or approach through thinking alone.
The practice creates space to slow down, notice patterns, reconnect to the body, and discover new possibilities through movement, imagery, reflection, and relational awareness.
Times of Transition
Life changes, uncertainty, identity shifts, and crossroads.
Relationships and Boundaries
Exploring connection, distance, consent, conflict, and care.
Community and Witnessing
Practicing relational awareness, listening, and shared exploration.
Overwhelm and Burnout
Creating space to pause, notice, and reconnect with yourself.
Grief and Emotional Complexity
Staying present with experiences that do not have simple answers.
Creativity and Imagination
Finding movement where you feel stuck or disconnected.
Beyond the Cards
The Discovery Cards can be used on their own, or as part of a larger practice.
One of our hopes for this project is to create The Rasa Field — a virtual companion space with guided audio practices, video explorations, and community resources for working with the cards.
Support through the Discovery Cards launch and Kickstarter will help bring this next layer of the project to life.
It's a place to return to whenever you want support, inspiration, or new ways of engaging your questions.
Impact
“Wow, It was the type of experience where I felt my inner insides. ”
“It wasn’t what I expected, but it was what I needed.”
“It helped to understand how to push people away and make boundaries.”