Gathering Cycles

A Gathering Cycle is a facilitated, multi-session container offered by Moving Rasa for groups who want to explore a shared question, theme, or practice over time.

Rather than a one-time workshop, a Gathering Cycle creates continuity. Participants return to the same people and practices across several sessions, allowing trust, curiosity, and relational awareness to deepen at a pace shaped by the group.

Gathering Cycles are grounded in consent-centered, movement-based inquiry and are adaptable to different communities, intentions, and access needs.

What a Gathering Cycle Is

A Gathering Cycle is:

• Facilitated by Moving Rasa

• Held across multiple sessions (often 3–6)

• Designed as a small cohort or closed group

• Rooted in choice, pacing, and relational presence

Cycles are not about mastering content or reaching a fixed outcome. They are about creating conditions for people to explore, notice, and make meaning together.

How Cycles Are Held

Each Gathering Cycle is shaped by the people involved, but commonly includes:

• Embodied movement and somatic inquiry

• Story, imagination, and reflective practices

• Clear invitations with opt-in participation

• Movement and perceptual skill building

• Time for integration, rest, and observation

Practices may be seated, lightly moving, or adapted for different bodies and capacities. Stillness and witnessing are always valid forms of participation.

Tools & Approaches

Gathering Cycles may draw from a range of Moving Rasa tools and practices, including:

• Cooperative storytelling games (such as Once Upon a Rasa)

• Movement improvisation and embodied attention

• Cultural practices and forms of collective inquiry

Tools are used as supports—not prescriptions—and are adapted to the context of each cycle.

Who Gathering Cycles Are For

Gathering Cycles can be offered for:

• Community groups and cohorts

• Survivors and survivor-adjacent communities

• Men’s and gender-expansive groups

• Artists, cultural workers, and educators

• Intergenerational or place-based communities

No prior movement or somatic experience is required. Cycles are designed to meet people where they are.

Different Applications

While the core structure of a Gathering Cycle remains consistent, cycles are adapted for specific contexs and communities.

Examples include:

• Survivor-Informed Gathering Cycles

• Men’s Gathering Cycles

• Artist or Cultural Worker Cycles

Each application carries the same commitment to consent and care, while responding to the needs and realities of the group.

Partnerships & Context

Many Gathering Cycles are created in collaboration with partner organizations. These partnerships help shape cycles that are culturally grounded, community-informed, and responsive to context.

Some cycles are open for public registration, while others are offered as closed or referral-based groups.

Explore Specific Cycles

Learn more about how Gathering Cycles are adapted in specific contexts:

• Survivor-Informed Gathering Cycle

• [Men’s Gathering Cycle] (when available)

• Tarot Reading Gathering Cycle

Interested in Hosting a Gathering Cycle?

If you’re curious about bringing a Gathering Cycle to your community or organization:

[Contact Moving Rasa]

Virtual Movement Mingler

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Movement Minglers is our open door. In 30 calm minutes on Discord, people from across the Moving Rasa ecosystem—curious newcomers and seasoned friends—meet, breathe, and share simple words and movements that help us feel at home in our bodies. If you are new to Discord, we will help to get you started. Light connection, zero pressure. Movement is invitational; resting counts.

*This facilitated gathering happens every Thursday at 12 p.m. EST in the #Rasa Lounge on the Moving Rasa Discord Server. It is easy to join us. If you have a Discord account, just click the link below at 12 p.m. on Thursday. If not, you will be guided to another webpage to set up a Discord account. A pop up should arise.

The title “create an account” will be at the top and a few questions

below. Feel free to explore asynchronous invitations for Moving

Rasa interaction, also available on the server. We will also be there to help you set it up

Hope to move with you soon!

- Team at Moving Rasa

Badminton Tournament

Hearth

Men of Water (Seasonal Gathering)

Join with men of color throughout North America in a seasonal ritual of reflection, movement, intention setting to reconnect to nature and our story.

Winter: Hibernation, Rest, and Reflection

Spring: Emergence, Renewal Possibility

Summer: Vitality, Connection, and Heat

Fall: Harvest, Loss, Mourning

Offerings

Programs and practices to sustain community care, with space to breathe and build.

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Movement Mingler: Indonesian Food Bazaar

An informal time to come hang out with Moving Rasa in a Southeast Asian diaspora space. We play Once Upon a Rasa, our cooperative movement storytelling game, get movement tarot readings, talk about possible collaborations, and just ngobrol-ngobrol (mingle and chat) about Rasa in our lives. We call it Movement Mingler because it is a casual, low-stakes way to meet and connect with others through movement.

4 players engaged in Once Upon a Rasa: A Cooperative Movement Story Telling Game

This is a multigenerational public space with Christian and Muslim Indonesian vendors selling their delicious food. You will see other non-profits building connections with the community, and if you're lucky, things like an occasional horse dance during an Indonesian holiday or a traditional Balinese dancer performing on stage.

Upcoming dates below: