With all the turmoil and chaos of the modern age, it is timely to give attention to emotional health. In this 3-session, 7-hour course, the astounding Carolina Prada–performer of Indian dance and martial arts forms, helps us out. She gives us a road map, exploration, demonstration and coaching around the nava (nine) fundamental rasas (emotions), according to the Indian rasa theory. We explore and experience them through guided reflections, introspection, meditations, breathing exercises, the practice of gestures and gesticulation, as well as movements of the body as a whole, and its various specific parts– like the eyes, eyebrows, lips, cheeks, hands, shoulders, chest, etc.
This course may be a good choice for you if:
- You are interested in a fresh way of looking at emotional reality and exploring options to interact with it.
- You would like some tools for observing, uncovering and activating emotions in and through your own body.
- You would like new insight into the layers that constitute our feelings and emotions; to reflect on their causes, determinants and results from the aesthetic experience point of view.
- You would like a space to creatively FEEL, UNDERSTAND, EXPRESS emotions.
- You would like guidance in techniques, body language and exercises to strengthen your mind and body.
- You would like to explore creative and physical ways to help us embody, digest, and transform the energy of emotions.
Learning Outcomes:
- Develop more sensitivity and awareness towards your emotions,
- Remind yourself that there are creative ways of expressing thoughts and feelings.
- Move, activate and de-stress your body, mind and emotional body.
- Understand concepts related to the experience of aesthetics in India.
- Awaken awareness of being an outside observer of your emotions–an experience that can aid you to express and manifest emotions fully by going into the space of “the actor”, knowing that your mental states and conditions are temporary, ever changing and will eventually come to a state of peace.
- Start opening an active inner space that allows observation of the dynamics of emotions and how they manifest within you, as well as how you externalise them.
- Practice efficient exercise routines that can help you to mobilise energy from traditional practices.
Registration and details for Nava Rasa – Exploring the Nine Flavors of Consciousness here.
