rasa box research

http://rasaboxes.org/

The rasa box activity improves one as an actor by prepping the trainees to express eight different emotions. Rasa box activity believes in the "brain in the belly." idea. Rasa in sanskrit can be translated into juice or flavor which further supports the idea of making emotions something tangible. By making something abstract like emotions tangible actors are able to focus more on an individual emotion and focus on improving how to express that certain emotion for theatre.