Survivor Pathway

(or: Survivor-Centered Work — naming optional)

This Path Exists Because…

All Moving Rasa offerings are survivor-informed.
Consent, choice, pacing, and embodied agency are foundational to how we practice across all programs.

This pathway exists for moments when survivors may need additional focus, privacy, or shared lived context to explore healing and repair more deeply—together.

Survivors are part of every Moving Rasa space.
This pathway is for when being among other survivors is itself part of the support.

How This Fits the Rasa Journey

The Rasa Journey is shared—how people enter and where they linger may differ.

Survivor-centered work at Moving Rasa draws from the same foundations as all of our offerings: movement-based inquiry, relational awareness, cultural memory, and collective care. What changes here is where attention is placed and how the container is held.

This pathway is one part of a broader ecosystem that also includes men’s accountability spaces and shared community practice—each shaping the conditions for the others to exist.

What You Might Experience in Survivor-Centered Spaces

Survivor-specific offerings are designed with care and intention. Depending on the container, participants may experience:

• Movement practices that prioritize agency and choice

• Clear boundaries around touch, witnessing, and participation

• Slower pacing and more integration time

• Language that names harm without requiring disclosure

• Collective meaning-making rooted in dignity and self-determination

No prior movement experience is required. Rest, observation, and imagination are always valid forms of participation.

Survivor-Centered Partnerships

Some survivor-specific work at Moving Rasa happens through long-term partnerships with organizations that already hold trusted relationships with survivors.

Working in Partnership

Moving Rasa’s survivor-centered work has grown through long-standing relationships with organizations rooted in survivor advocacy, cultural specificity, and community care.

Over the years, we have collaborated with and supported survivor-centered initiatives alongside organizations such as NAPIESV to create a Wellness guide for Survivors or with organizations like the Guam Coalition to provide embodied training approaches for providers of survivors.

From 2023 to 2025 Moving Rasa was the recipient of the American Rescue Plan capacity grant to work with AAPI survivors in culturally specific ways. Some community partners that we worked with along this journey were Kilusan, Laal, and others working at the intersection of healing, justice, and cultural organizing.

These relationships have transformed how we practice.
Core to the mission of the Moving Rasa non-profit, we will continue to pursue partnerships that allow survivor-specific work to emerge with integrity, care, and shared responsibility.

Current partnership

Womankind × Moving Rasa

A survivor-centered cooperative storytelling series developed in partnership with Womankind, offered twice yearly for participants in their community.

This series uses movement-based inquiry and cooperative story practices to support agency, voice, and collective meaning-making within a survivor-specific container.

These offerings are facilitated through partner organizations and are not open public registrations.

Emergent Survivor-Specific Offerings

At times, survivor-specific retreats or focused containers arise through additional funding and partnership support.

When the conditions are right, Moving Rasa creates spaces that prioritize rest, embodied repair, and collective care—often in residential or closed-group formats.

Example:
A survivor healing retreat bringing together movement, ritual, and shared presence to support reconnection and agency.

These offerings are not always scheduled, but they remain an integral part of Moving Rasa’s long-term commitment to survivor-centered practice.

Staying Connected

If you are a survivor interested in future survivor-centered offerings, you’re welcome to stay connected or reach out with care.

• Stay connected → (newsletter link)

• Reach out → info@movingrasa.com

We do our best to respond with clarity and respect for boundaries.

Return to the Journey

This pathway is part of a shared movement toward healing, accountability, and cultural change.

→ Explore the Rasa Journey in practice