Impact & Approach
Moving Rasa is a movement-based, relational practice that supports people and communities in building awareness, consent, and connection through embodied experience.
Rooted in Southeast Asian philosophy and shaped through community-based practice, Moving Rasa also draws from trauma-informed approaches, relational frameworks, and somatic traditions developed across different cultural contexts. Moving Rasa creates spaces where people can reconnect with their bodies, their values, and their capacity to be with others in more honest, responsive, and culturally grounded ways. Through this process, people often begin to experience a deeper shift: they see themselves, one another, and the world around them differently.
Objects, environments, and relationships are no longer encountered as fixed or neutral. They become part of a living field of meaning, response, and possibility..
Why This Work Matters
What we are Building
Mission
Moving Rasa supports individuals and communities in reconnecting to their bodies, values, relationships, and capacity for discernment through movement, relational practice, and culturally rooted ways of knowing.
Many people are living with isolation, trauma, overwhelm, and inherited ways of relating that make connection harder. We also live in worlds that often teach us to distrust our own experience and adapt to systems that disconnect us from what we feel, need, and know.
These conditions affect how people move through family, community, culture, leadership, and everyday life. They shape whether people feel belonging, whether they can respond to harm with awareness, and whether they have the support to stay connected to themselves and others.
Moving Rasa creates spaces where people can slow down, sense what is true, practice consent, and build the capacity to be with difference, tension, emotion, and care. We believe healing is not only personal. It is relational, cultural, and collective.
Moving Rasa is rooted in Southeast Asian ways of knowing and shaped through relational, embodied, and community-based practice. Moving Rasa works toward both immediate relational change and a longer horizon of collective transformation.
Vision
We envision communities where people are resourced to navigate difference, respond to harm with accountability, and participate in more connected, consent-centered, and culturally grounded ways of living together.
What We Do
Moving Rasa creates pathways for people and communities to practice awareness, connection, and change in real life.
Our work currently lives in four main forms:
Tools: Discovery Cards
The Discovery Cards offer an accessible entry point into the practice. Through images, prompts, and guided reflection, they help people slow down, notice patterns, and explore their relationship with themselves, others, and the world around them. They can be used independently, in guided readings, or as part of shared practice.
Community Spaces
Moving Rasa is often practiced in shared spaces where people explore movement, reflection, and relationship together. These gatherings create room for listening, accountability, and discovery, and include both open offerings and spaces designed for specific communities.
Deeper Practice
For some people, the practice becomes something they want to carry into everyday life more intentionally. Through one-on-one work, dyad, and small group spaces, Moving Rasa supports people in shifting patterns connected to their bodies, relationships, choices, and sense of what matters.
Partnerships & Facilitation
Moving Rasa also works with organizations, leaders, and communities who want to bring embodied, relational practice into their own spaces. This includes workshops, conferences, collaborative programming, and pathways for learning to facilitate the work with others.
Across these forms, the work supports people in noticing patterns, building relational skills, and developing more choice, clarity, and connection in how they live. This includes community-based nonprofit work such as survivor-centered healing spaces, men’s circles, and accessible gatherings, alongside paid offerings and partnerships that help sustain the broader ecosystem.
How Change Happens
Moving Rasa is grounded in the belief that people change through experience, not only through explanation.
Rather than asking people to think their way into change, the practice creates conditions where they can notice what is happening in real time — in their bodies, in their relationships, and in the environments they are part of. Through movement, reflection, and shared practice, people begin to recognize patterns that were shaping their lives without their full awareness.
Change happens through a few core conditions:
Embodied awareness
People are invited to notice how patterns live in the body — in habit, reaction, pacing, tension, gesture, and attention. This helps make the invisible more visible and opens the possibility of responding with more choice. The site already describes the work this way: helping people notice and shift the patterns shaping how they inhabit their bodies, meet their values, relate to others, and move through the world.
Relational practice
This work is not only internal. People practice with others — through witnessing, conversation, shared reflection, and movement when desired. In community spaces, participants support one another in noticing patterns, repatterning habits, and building more conscious ways of relating.
Choice and consent
Moving Rasa does not depend on performance. The practice makes room for different levels of engagement, and movement is always optional. Choice is always central. This is one of the clearest ways the work creates trust and supports meaningful participation.
Personal integration
For some people, the work becomes something they want to carry into everyday life more intentionally. Through one-on-one work, dyad, and small group practice, people explore how the patterns shaping their bodies, relationships, and decisions can begin to shift so that more choice, clarity, and dignity become available in how they live.
Ongoing practice tools
The Discovery Cards extend the practice beyond a single session. They offer prompts, images, and pathways that help people slow down, notice patterns, and explore their relationship with themselves, others, and the world around them — on their own, in guided readings, or in shared spaces.
Together, these conditions support more than reflection. They help people practice new ways of sensing, relating, and responding so that change becomes lived, not just understood, and relational skill-building over time.
Sources & Lineage
Moving Rasa comes out of relationship—with culture, movement, community, and the lived experiences that have shaped the work over time.
It is rooted in Southeast Asian ways of sensing, feeling, and understanding relationship, and in diasporic experiences of navigating belonging, adaptation, and cultural memory.
It has also been shaped by trauma-informed and survivor-centered practice, relational frameworks, somatic and movement traditions, and the work of Black and Indigenous thinkers, artists, organizers, and healers whose work has helped illuminate the body’s relationship to power, land, care, and collective life.
These are not used as interchangeable methods. They are lineages of thought and practice that continue to inform how the work is held, adapted, and shared.
Specific influences include, Javanese dance, Pencak Silat and other martial arts practices; movement practices such as Parkour and Contact Improvisation; somatic frameworks such as Laban Movement Analysis, the Feldenkrais Method, Authentic Movement, and Martha Eddy’s Dynamic Embodiment work; relational frameworks such as Nonviolent Communication and Indigenous Family Therapy; and liberatory thinkers such as Resmaa Menakem, Paulo Freire, and Audre Lorde.
Moving Rasa continues to evolve through practice, partnership, and the communities it is in relationship with.
What Makes This Work Distinct
While Moving Rasa shares elements with somatics, facilitation, and personal development work, it is distinct in how it integrates embodied practice, cultural grounding, and relational learning into a lived, ongoing practice.
It is not only reflective. It is experiential.
People do not only talk about patterns. They get to notice them in real time through movement, relationship, sensation, reflection, and practice.
It does not separate personal growth from collective conditions.
The work helps people explore their own bodies, habits, and relationships while also attending to culture, power, belonging, and the environments they are part of.
It is culturally rooted, not culturally neutral.
Moving Rasa emerges from Southeast Asian ways of sensing, relating, and making meaning, while remaining in active relationship with other lineages that shape the work. This gives participants access to a practice that honors specificity rather than assuming one universal way of healing or learning.
It treats relationship as practice, not just content.
Consent, choice, witnessing, boundary, responsiveness, and care are not only discussed. They are built into how the space is structured and how people engage with one another.
It changes how people perceive and relate.
Participants often begin to see themselves, others, and the world around them differently. Objects, environments, and relationships are no longer encountered as fixed or neutral, but as part of a living field of meaning, response, and possibility.
It extends beyond a single session.
Through ongoing community spaces, one-on-one support, and tools like the Discovery Cards, the practice can continue in everyday life rather than ending when the workshop is over.
This work is not confined to a single discipline.
It draws from movement, relational practice, cultural knowledge, and lived experience to create conditions for change that are felt, practiced, and sustained over time.
Moving Rasa offers more than insight. It offers conditions for people to practice new ways of being—with themselves, with others, and with the worlds they inhabit. This work is not only about helping people cope. It helps them perceive, relate, and participate differently.
Who We Serve
Moving Rasa is especially committed to communities navigating disconnection, harm, identity, belonging, and relational change.
Our work has grown in deep relationship with:
Southeast Asian communities
Pacific Islander communities
BIPOC communities
survivors of sexual and relational violence
men, especially men of color, exploring masculinity and connection
We also partner with:
educators
facilitators
community-based organizations
cultural institutions
healing justice and survivor advocacy spaces
While our work reaches multiple audiences, its heart remains rooted in building more humane, consent-centered, and culturally grounded ways of being together.
Impact & Reach
Moving Rasa has engaged 3,000+ participants through workshops, community gatherings, virtual spaces, affinity spaces, and partnerships across a range of settings.
The work has taken place in:
community-based organizations
educational institutions
survivor advocacy spaces
cultural and arts environments
virtual and hybrid formats
Programs have included movement-based workshops, men’s groups, survivor-informed healing spaces, affinity spaces, and ongoing community practice.
Across these settings, participants have built greater awareness of patterns in their bodies and relationships, strengthened their capacity for consent and responsiveness, reconnected with cultural memory and belonging, and practiced new ways of relating in real time.
Moving Rasa has collaborated with partners including the National Organization of Asian Pacific Islanders Ending Sexual Violence (NAPIESV), ManForward, Womankind, the National Education Association (NEA), and the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.
These partnerships reflect the adaptability of the work across survivor advocacy, men’s healing spaces, education, and public health contexts.
The work continues to grow through partnerships, community practice, and tools such as the Discovery Cards, which extend the practice beyond a single session into everyday life.
Partnerships & Collaborations
Moving Rasa has collaborated with partners across survivor advocacy, education, arts, and community-based practice.
These collaborations help bring embodied, culturally grounded, and consent-centered learning into a range of contexts and communities.
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Organizational Snapshot
Moving Rasa emerged in 2022 from the evolution of Parcon Resilience, a practice developed through the intersection of Parkour, Contact Improvisation, survivor-informed work, and culturally rooted community practice.
Moving Rasa is led by Andrew Suseno, Doctor of Physical Therapy, Feldenkrais Practitioner, and Certified Laban Movement Analyst. His work brings together movement improvisation, somatic inquiry, cultural consciousness, and community-based facilitation.
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