Pacific Islander Leadership Retreats
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Rasa Facilitation Training
Rasa Trainings support you to bring Moving Rasa into your relationships and community!
Support the people and places you care about with culturally attuned, trauma-informed, movement-based facilitation.
Overview
Moving Rasa Facilitation Training builds grounded, responsive, culturally attuned practice. You’ll learn to read what’s happening with others and in a group, choose the next move with care, and adapt to different bodies, cultures, and contexts.
How we train
We center the Moving Rasa framework as a shared language for learning and relationships. Through simple movement, reflection, and feedback, you’ll examine how attention forms, how experience shifts, and how meaning (rasa) arises in the room.
Ways to apply the work
Use what you learn one-on-one, with couples, in groups, community spaces, organizations, or with optional tools such as Movement Tarot.
What this training is
A facilitation training rooted in embodied awareness, consent, and relational intelligence—not scripts or rigid methods.
By the end, you’ll be able to:
Perceive what’s happening in individuals and groups.
Respond with choice and care (de-escalate, re-orient, or deepen).
Adapt practices across bodies, cultures, and contexts.
Hold containers that are alive, ethical, and responsive—with or without tools.
Choose Your Offering
Pick the pathway that matches your time, goals, and setting. All offerings share core labs, access practices, and cultural humility.
Offering A — Orientation Workshops (1–2 Sessions)
Best for: First‑time coaches, facilitators, and community builders.
Format: 60–90 min live, online or in‑person. 2 session allow for homework in between
Pricing: $50/$95/$135 Access/Standard/Supporter rates per session
Trainees often leave with:
1-3 Moving Rasa practices you can take others through.
Consent language and expanded choices for movement in all bodies
A trauma-informed process-oriented framework to approach life stresses and questions.
Offering B — 6 ‑ Class Series (Skill Building)
Best for: People already holding space who want practice + feedback.
Format: Six virtual classes (1 hour each).
Pricing:
6 x 1 hour sessions = $50 per person (min of 3 ppl per circle)
Currently, Movement Tarot Circles regularly form
*Other Series are available upon request.
Trainees often leave with:
Improved motivation for regular practice, reflection, and skill development.
Deeper integration of Moving Rasa into their personal and relationships.
De‑escalation and facilitation sensitivity
Peer‑reviewed practicum and growth plan
Offering C — Retreats (Immersion)
Best for: Practitioners seeking deep relational practice and integration.
Format: Day, weekend and week-long retreats in community; movement, labs, rest, and reflection.
Pricing: The range for retreats varies widely depending on if administration is handled in-house with Moving Rasa or by the Community partner, or in some kind of hybrid. Pricing also varies depending on financial need and mission alignment.
Trainees often leave with:
In-depth hands-on, in-person responsive experience
A sustainable personal and/or collective practice
A plan to translate and integrate the work at home/org
A new network and potentially lifelong friends.
For Organizations & Community Partners
We co‑design intros, series, or immersions for schools, coalitions, arts orgs, and community hubs.
Outcomes: aligned agreements, trauma‑informed culture, staff capacity, and practical facilitation tools.
See samples of our Collaborations.
Outcomes You Can Expect
how to track group energy and nervous systems
how to establish consent and boundaries in real time
how to respond when things feel stuck or charged
how to adapt facilitation across bodies, cultures, and access needs
how to lead without over-directing or disappearing
how to translate your practice across 1:1, couples, groups, community, and org settings
Logistics
Delivery: live online, in‑person, or hybrid (varies by offering)
Capacity: small‑group learning for real practice time
Recordings: limited‑time access where appropriate
Materials: playlists, prompt cards, session planner, feedback rubric
FAQs
Which offering should I choose? If you’re new—start with an Intro. If you want reps and feedback—choose the 6‑Class Series. If you want depth and integration, apply for the Retreat.
Is there a certificate? Completion letters noting contact hours and competencies are provided for the Series and Retreat.
Can my org host a cohort? Yes—contact us to co‑design dates, access, and outcomes.
What if I miss a session? Policies vary by offering; we provide options to remain in a relationship with the work.
Ready to step in?
Beyond Survival
Beyond Survival is a practice series for survivors to connect with movement and relationships.
2025/2026 Projects for Survivors
In November/December of 2025, Moving Rasa partnered with Womankind to provide a 4-part series on Movement-based cooperative Storytelling Card Game called, “Once Upon a Rasa,” with 6-8 survivors of Domestic Violence. In addition to learning how to play the fun card game, participants cultivated self-awareness and agency to set intentions, boundaries, and make new connections with others. During this series, we learned to trust our bodies and movement as sources of wisdom and creativity. No experience is needed - and it works across languages!
We will continue this programming twice a year. For more information about the card game, click here.
Testimony:
“I had a great time learning about my body and connecting it with my mind.”
“Honestly, at first I was in a shell, but I’m really glad I stuck with it!”
-from survivors of DV in partnership with Womankind
In the Spring of 2026, we acquired a city contract through the Department of Mental Health and Hygiene to work with caregivers and community partners in East Harlem, NYC. We will use the Moving Rasa Movement Tarot deck to facilitate 2 four part series of workshops with caregivers to come up with collective solutions for addressing their pain points. These findings will all go into a shared Zine for distribution.
Become a MR Discovery Card Reader
Become a Movement Tarot Reader! Bring your intuition to life and join a loving community of learners!
Beginning is simple! Sign up for as little as 2 session with Andrew today! Virtual ongoing practice circles are available once you learn the basics!
Our entry-level facilitator training is as a MR Discovery Card Reader. Readers will learn how to layer the Moving Rasa Lenses to inspire movement using the three different types of MR Discovery cards. And they will also learn how to de-escalate and co-regulate with others using the OPEN sequence to guide their intuitive process.
Graduates of our entry-level programs gain access to the Reader practice groups.
Badminton Tournament
Every Fall we host the Moving Rasa Badminton Tournament where contestants pair up with other members in the community in costume, fun constraints are placed on the winner’s to support balance, and fun raffles are had!
Men of Water (Seasonal Gathering)
Join with men of color throughout North America in a embodied seasonal ritual of reflection, movement, intention setting to reconnect to nature and our story.
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.
<h2>Rasa Lab: Breathe Again</h2>
<p>First Sundays · 8:00–9:30 PM ET — A gentle reset for organizers. <a class="rasa-link" href="/breathe-again">View details</a></p>
BIPOC Community Spaces: Breathe Again!
VIRTUAL: First Sundays 8-9:30p EST. These are trauma-informed spaces for BIPOC people to find belonging and move in a healing community together.
These spaces are for BIPOC people to be in culturally specific somatic healing community with one another.
Breathe Again! has been a sustained weekly/monthly practice group for BIPOC since March 2020.
This is a collective virtual space to discuss and move through personal, social and/or political issues that impact non-white people of the Global Majority such as:
* institutionalized practices surrounding race, gender, class and culture
* disability and environmental justice
* and other topics as per members interests and/or need
Video Testimonial View the accompanying video of a Breathe Again! participant sharing their firsthand experience on a transformational and expansive journey of self-awareness and community connection.
Upcoming Schedule
Southeast Asian Men’s Healing Space
VIRTUAL: Second Thursdays 8:30-10p EST. A Virtual healing and consciousness space for Southeast Asian diaspora men.
This is a virtual affinity space for Southeast Asian diaspora men where we get to lean into community with shared life experience to better understand who we are, lift one another up, and co-dream together about what is possible. You will be invited (but not required) to move and dialogue with us.
Testimony:
“It was a wonderful experience!”
“Thank you to Andrew for creating this space for Southeast Asian men to explore what it means to be a man in a way that is embodied and connects mind to body. The thoughtfulness and care were felt throughout the session.”
“Movement of the body connecting to movement in the mind - this really changed how I think about shifting my mindset!!”
Upcoming Schedule