Origins of Movement Tarot

For years, Moving Rasa’s deepest work lived in two-to-five day retreats. We watched people soften, clarify, and reconnect to themselves and one another. Then we met the same truth again and again: transformation doesn’t matter if people can’t access it.

Over a two-year development period, we affirmed the impact of our approach—especially with Southeast Asian and Pacific Islander men who might be survivors of sexual assault, and with community organizations supporting survivors. The biggest hurdle wasn’t the work itself. It was building a doorway that everyday people could actually step through—and a way for the practice to live beyond one special weekend. If learning requires multiple exposures, and the only doorway is a retreat, then the method stays held by facilitators instead of being shared among the people.

So in 2025, we shifted our flagship from retreats to a tool that travels. Movement Tarot is that tool: a portable, embodied practice you can experience in one sitting—and return to over time—opening a path toward depth, belonging, and collective change.