This session explores navarasa as a lived aesthetic and healing experience through nāda (music), Āyurveda, and the Śaiva – Tantric vision articulated by Abhinavagupta. Emotions are approached not as disturbances to be controlled, but as movements of consciousness that can be refined, balanced, and transformed. Drawing from aesthetics, Śaivism, and Tantra, the session reveals how rasa becomes a bridge between art, inner awareness, and human well being.

This session explores how rasa is present in everyday suffering. In stress, sickness, anxiety, grief, irritation, and emotional fatigue. Instead of pushing these states away, the session invites participants to recognise them as distinct rasas that colour the mind, shape behaviour, and affect the body. Drawing from Āyurveda and rasa theory, the session looks at how emotions move through digestion, sleep, breath, and energy, and how healing often begins with clear seeing. Through simple daily practices such as mindful listening, breath, rhythm, and small lifestyle shifts, participants will learn how rasa can become a practical guide for emotional balance and recovery.

This session brings rasa to life’s deepest threshold, and to the many smaller thresholds within daily life. Endings, losses, separation, ageing, and letting go. Through navarasa, participants will explore how fear and sorrow arise alongside love, devotion, courage, and wonder, each as a lived flavour with its own intelligence. Drawing from the Śaiva Tantric vision, the session reflects on how emotions can be held without denial or collapse, and gradually refined into insight. The movement of rasa toward śānta becomes a way to understand transcendence not as escape, but as steadiness and clarity within change. The session invites participants to see how living with rasa each day can prepare the mind for transition with depth, dignity, and peace.