Moving Rasa

Drawing from Indonesia’s indigenous animist worldview, we honor consciousness in all things—animate and inanimate. If you are registering for this as a Rasa lab through this portal, it is for the 2-5 slot, and most likely, you are planning on taking one or more Rasa Labs. From 2-3, we will meet fellow cohort members who will take more than one Rasa Labs, set intentions for our overall experience, and resource and plan how to best prepare to engage with the upcoming Labs. During this time, you will also be introduced to Moving Rasa concepts that will be used in every Rasa Lab. From 3 - 4:30 p.m., we will begin the Becoming Human workshop. Please click on the link for Becoming Human to learn more about that offering. From 4:30p to 5pm the cohort members will convene to reflect on what Moving Rasa concepts.

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.

The workshop is designed to be accessible to first-timers and people with varying movement backgrounds. Emphasis is placed on listening to the body, adapting movements to individual ability, and building confidence in one’s own body through repetition and exploration. Participants are encouraged to find how the movement lives in their own bodies, supporting self-trust, presence, and a grounded sense of agency.

The Joy Of Feasting x Moving Rasa Collaboration

The goal of this session is to take the word Rasa which means feelings or taste in Indonesian, and apply it to the foundation of Indonesian culture, its food ! Miranti will take you on the flavor palate journey that defines the foundation of Indonesian cooking. In particular with the comparison of the flavor palates of other asian nations and cultures. After this session you will come back with knowledge of recognizing authentic flavors and its building blocks so you can apply that to home cooking. Spices and aromatics will be introduced to create traditional combinations as well as method of flavor building. Miranti hopes that this will provide basic understanding of what makes Indonesia THE spice archipelago and why it became so well known and colonized.

“Not everyone knows how to cook, but everyone knows how to eat”

- The Joy Of Feasting

Embodied Design Lab for Future Ancestors

Explore PLAY as embodied imagination for world-building across generations, cultures and contexts. Co-dream with Kimberly of Bambulawan about golden bamboo playgrounds, inspired by Filipino childhood games and tropical ecologies, that choreograph resilient ancestral futures. 

What kind of world do you want next generations to inherit, Future Ancestor? 

Our creative work today becomes the culture, traditions and possibilities of tomorrow.

We will tell our life stories through poetry and movement, using improvisation and experimental wordplay to create provocative stories that exemplify our resilience. Be prepared to move,  vocalize, and write as we examine poetry in its shortest forms and fuse our Rasa in a spoken word text.  

Learn to read Movement Tarot to deepen intimacy with community, friends, and family. Each card offers rich imagery and metaphors that welcome your questions—and invite you to move. We’ll let the designs guide us into simple, fun, accessible movement and into relationships with the places we live. Together we’ll hold life’s questions with care, wonder, and embodied wisdom, moving through stuckness or fear, to consent-based living and being.

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