Our Story
Andrew Suseno’s path into Moving Rasa began through movement. By bringing together Parkour and Contact Improvisation, he became interested in how people relate to gravity, surfaces, one another, and the environments around them. Over time, he also began to notice that spaces described as open and free did not feel that way for everyone. As a Southeast Asian American practitioner, he felt the tension between what his body was picking up about race, belonging, and exclusion and the ways he had learned to adapt, achieve, and stay disconnected from himself. That tension raised deeper questions about what kinds of spaces people need in order to feel trust, choice, and connection.
Parcon grew out of that questioning. By weaving together Parkour and Contact Improvisation, it created more room to explore what is possible through movement and flow in space and with others. Walls, rails, surfaces, and partners became part of an ongoing process of sensing, responding, and discovering new pathways. As the work continued, it became clear that movement alone was not enough. The conditions around the movement mattered too: who felt welcome, how people were relating, what histories they were carrying, and whether there was enough support for care, reflection, and honesty in the room.
Today, Moving Rasa builds on that foundation by grounding movement in connection to rasa: lived experience, feeling, inner sense, and essence. Rooted in Indonesian philosophy and shaped by ongoing embodied research, it now lives through workshops, community spaces, coaching, partnerships, and the Discovery Cards. Across these different forms, the work supports people in exploring awareness, relationship, consent, expression, and belonging in ways that are experiential, relational, and community-based.
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What Rasa Means
Rasa is an Indonesian word that can mean feeling, inner sense, taste, or essence. In Moving Rasa, it points to the lived intelligence of experience — the way we sense meaning in the body, in relationship, and in the world around us. Rasa is not only an emotion or an idea; it is a way of knowing that helps us connect more deeply to ourselves, one another, and what matters.
Our Lineages and Source Influences
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Moving Rasa draws from a range of movement traditions, including Contact Improvisation, Parkour, Pencak Silat, somatic practice, and improvisational dance. These influences shape how we explore relationship to gravity, space, touch, flow, attention, and one another. Rather than preserving any one form as fixed, Moving Rasa learns from these traditions as living sources of inquiry, helping people connect movement to awareness, culture, consent, and collective meaning-making.
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Moving Rasa is especially shaped by Indonesian cultural roots, including ways of understanding relationship, feeling, collective life, and the intelligence of lived experience. The practice draws from the meaning of rasa as feeling, inner sense, taste, and essence, as well as from cultural values that recognize the body, community, environment, and spirit as deeply interconnected. These roots do not appear as fixed symbols or claims of purity, but as living influences that help guide how Moving Rasa approaches presence, consent, belonging, and collective meaning-making.
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Moving Rasa is shaped by thinkers and frameworks in somatics, improvisation, trauma-informed practice, consent, racial justice, disability justice, and community-based healing. These influences help us understand the body not as separate from the world, but as deeply shaped by culture, history, relationship, and environment. Alongside these influences, Moving Rasa is also developing its own relational and animist framework — one that recognizes people, places, objects, and forces as part of how meaning, experience, and connection are formed. Rather than following one fixed method, the practice brings these ideas into conversation through embodied practice, experimentation, and collective meaning-making.
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