Contacting Aliveness

This lab will be an orientation into the movement practice of Moving Rasa that underpins the Rasa Labs. Through guided movement, reflection, and simple relational exercises, we’ll explore Rasa in our experience with 6 Lenses of movement - from being in our body or place to what we imagine and connect with. No movement or improvisation experience is required.

You’ll be invited to move at your own pace, including resting or observing, while beginning to sense how Moving Rasa can support clarity, agency, and connection in any aspect of life.

*This orientation happens every 2nd and 4th Wednesday night. ‍

SPECIAL: Price of the Orientation can be applied to reduce the costs of all subsequent Rasa Labs from the standard single lab price.

Martial Arts

Kuntau–Silat is a shared traditional movement practice found across Maritime Southeast Asia: the Philippines, Indonesia, and Malaysia. Shaped by migration, trade, and everyday life, these practices were used for self-protection, communal celebrations, and embodied training, closely tied to music, rhythm, and social gathering.

Kumpul is an afternoon workshop on Kuntau–Silat through guided movement, footwork, partner-based exercises, and improvisation alongside traditional music from these cultures. Kumpul is a shared word across these regions meaning “to gather.” 

In this spirit, sessions draw from practices found across different areas, emphasizing shared movement principles rather than teaching a single fixed style. Participants will explore balance, coordination, rhythm, and timing, as well as how these movements shift between everyday, social, and ceremonial contexts.

This is a virtual exploration of Moving Rasa and mini-exercises sampled from some of our Rasa Labs. Participants will be introduced to our animist somatics and foundation principles.

‍SPECIAL: Price of the Orientation can be applied to reduce the costs of all subsequent Rasa Labs from the standard single lab price.

The Joy Of Feasting x Moving Rasa Collaboration

Indonesian Cooking & Feasting
This session explores Indonesian cooking and communal feasting as embodied cultural practices. Through shared food preparation and tasting, we’ll investigate how flavor, texture, rhythm, and attention shape our experience of nourishment and relationship.

Rather than focusing on technical cooking skills, the emphasis is on sensory awareness and collective process — noticing how smell, taste, timing, and coordination influence how we move, connect, and care for one another. Cooking becomes a site of inquiry, play, and cultural reflection.

No prior cooking experience is needed. Participation may include observing, assisting, or engaging at your own pace, culminating in a shared meal that honors slowness, presence, and togetherness.

Embodied Design Lab for the Future
This session invites participants to explore design and imagination through the body. Using movement, simple materials, and collaborative exploration, we’ll experiment with how futures are shaped through sensation, relationship, and choice — not just ideas.

Rather than planning or problem-solving in a conventional sense, we’ll practice embodied inquiry: noticing how posture, gesture, pacing, and proximity influence what feels possible. Design becomes a lived process of testing, adjusting, and responding together.

No design background is required. You’re welcome to participate through movement, making, observing, or conversation, with curiosity and adaptability guiding the process.

Spoken Poetry & Performance
This session explores spoken poetry and performance as ways of sensing, shaping, and sharing lived experience. Through guided prompts, rhythm-based exercises, and collective listening, we’ll play with how voice, breath, and timing carry feeling and meaning.

Rather than aiming for polished performance, we’ll approach poetry as movement through language — noticing how words arrive, how silence speaks, and how expression shifts in relation to others. Participants may write, speak, move, listen, or simply witness.

No poetry or performance background is needed. Sharing is always optional, and participation can be quiet, experimental, or expressive.

Movement Tarot
This session introduces Movement Tarot as a way to explore questions, patterns, and possibilities through movement and attention. Using the Open to Rasa cards, we’ll work with images, prompts, and simple movement invitations to investigate how meaning emerges in the body.

Rather than predicting outcomes or offering interpretations, Movement Tarot is approached as relational inquiry — noticing how you orient, respond, and choose in relation to a card, a question, or an image. The focus is on personal sense-making and agency.

No tarot or movement experience is needed. You’re welcome to engage through movement, reflection, observation, or journaling, at your own pace.

This is a Community Potluck and Fundraiser to celebrate Rasa Labs and support Moving Rasa, the non-profit.