On Breath & Emotion

From : January 19, 2026

To : January 20, 2026

Start time : 11:00 AM

End time : 4:00 PM

Theatre Group : Adishakti

Faculty : Vinay Kumar

Venue : Prithvi House
20, Juhu Rd Janki Kutir, Juhu
Mumbai - 400049, maharashtra, India

Breathe and Emotion: Adishakti has evolved a purely physical craft for the stimulation of emotion and psychological expression. As breath is the physical expression of thought and emotion, it implies that a particular emotion has a particular pattern of breath. In Koodiyattam practice there existed the knowledge of 8 patterns of breath corresponding to the 8 emotions mentioned in the classical Sanskrit treatise on performance, the Natya Shastra. It is apparent that this codification emerges from a study of breath behaviour in everyday life.

In this session, participants would be taught the 8 patterns of breath for the 8 emotions of Koodiyattam and to explore the various degrees of emotions to communicate even the subtleties of heightened emotions. The participants would start discovering the movement of the facial muscles, eyes for every emotion and learn how to naturally shape or carve the face with a backing of pure breath.

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