Update: This gathering has been adapted.
After listening to community interest and recognizing the fullness of Pride weekend, we’ve shifted this from a weekend retreat into a more spacious one-day experience centered on the Discovery Cards and the practice of the Animist Reading.
Discovery Cards at Crissy Field
An outdoor introduction to a movement-optional card practice for play, reflection, connection, and meaningful conversation.
Sunday, June 28 • Crissy Field, San Francisco
Join us for an afternoon exploring how movement, place, imagination, and conversation can help us engage life’s questions in new ways.
The Moving Rasa Discovery Cards are inspired by rasa, an Indonesian understanding of how feeling, meaning, and relationship move through our lives. Rather than rushing toward answers, the cards invite us to slow down, listen, and discover what becomes possible when we engage our questions through the body, the landscape, and one another.
What is an Animist Reading?
An Animist Reading is a guided process that invites us to learn from our relationships—with place, objects, images, memory, one another, and the more-than-human world.
Using the Discovery Cards, participants will explore simple practices for reflection, movement, listening, and place-based connection that can be used with or without the cards. Together, we will experiment with how a shoreline, a pathway, a stone, a tree, a card image, or another person can become part of the conversation.
The reading helps transform a question from something to solve into something to explore.
Participants will learn simple practices for reflection, movement, listening, and place-based connection that can be used with or without the Discovery Cards.
Main Event: Discovery Card Animist Reading Experience
2:00 PM–5:00 PM
This interactive afternoon gathering is the heart of the day.
Participants will:
• Learn the foundations of a Discovery Card Animist Reading
• Explore how the cards inspire movement and embodied reflection
• Practice connecting with the natural world as a source of insight and meaning
• Experience meaningful one-on-one and small-group conversations
• Learn facilitation techniques that can be used with or without the Discovery Cards
• Spend time outdoors engaging with the landscapes of Crissy Field as part of the practice
As a thank you for joining this early Bay Area experience, participants will also qualify for a discount when the first edition of the Discovery Cards is released.
Optional Morning Experiences
Movement & Place Exploration
10:00 AM–12:30 PM
Before the main event, participants are welcome to join us for a gentle movement-optional exploration of Crissy Field.
Together we will walk, notice, play, and explore our relationship with the land, the shoreline, and the questions we carry.
No movement experience is necessary.
Community Picnic Lunch
12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Bring your own lunch or potluck to share for informal conversation, connection, and cultural exchange before the afternoon gathering.
Who Is This For?
This gathering is open to BIPOC community members, organizers, healers, facilitators, educators, artists, and anyone curious about embodied learning, meaningful conversation, and connecting with the world in new ways.
No prior experience with movement, facilitation, or the Discovery Cards is required.
About the Discovery Cards
The Discovery Cards are a movement-optional practice that uses image, place, imagination, and relationship to support reflection, dialogue, and exploration.
Each card offers a different way of perceiving and engaging with the world. Together, they create opportunities for deeper listening, unexpected connections, and fresh perspectives on the questions we carry.
Participants in this gathering will be among the first people to experience and help shape this emerging practice before the public release of the deck.
About Moving Rasa
Moving Rasa helps people break free from harmful patterns through place-based, playful movement.
Drawing from movement, embodied learning, consent practices, and cultural traditions, Moving Rasa creates experiences that help people reconnect with themselves, one another, and the places they inhabit.
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Space is limited. We invite you to join us for an afternoon of exploration, connection, and discovery at Crissy Field.