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Healing with Zenona
“Body is self correcting – it heals by itself” this was one of the learning Just the possibilities that there are many ways of healing ourselves – Illahi, Reiki, Ayurveda, Homeopathy, Flower therapy, Unani, Pranic, Acupuncture, Acupressure, Naturopathic, Yoga, Sound, Aroma, Hydro, Angel therapy, Fish… Anupriya shared her journey, her insight and her wisdom which…
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A day of Handloom
Experience in Handlooms: Silk thread Silk thread where do you come from? I come from the sacrifice of life of silkworms Pulled and Yarned and Made into bundles.. Silk thread bundle says roll me into bobbins without knots Thread says i am colourful, silky, shiny. Machine calls thread to form pattern “X,V, and I” knotted…
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Graphic Designing with Paolo
We draw, we paint, we create – A session with Paolo gave a direction to our skills of drawing, painting, and sense of colouring. Graphic designing with Paolo was to know more about the skills of designing – lines, colors, typography, alignment…so many things play a role while composing and giving a shape to our…
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A day spent Bird Racing
Bird race is an annual event , where a number of Aarohi members participate to see most number of unique bird species in a single day of 12 hours. For people coming from campus that means extra cooking the previous day, starting at 4am from campus, driving about 120km and reaching back at 11pm. You…
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Possibilities
I spy my eyes on “something green, something starting with X, something ending with M, something slanting, something oval, something possible, something….” a very simple game but brings lots of possibilities! Yes, possibility was the theme this week. You can be whatever you want to be – “10,000 hour rule”. The author of outliner, Malcolm…
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Travel and Growth
Travel at Aarohi means GROWING. Each travel at Aarohi has a story and this was no different. If you are travelling from the campus for the first time – keep a day or two to understand the whole dynamics of travelling including – which train, what all stations, timings, understand travel from camps to railway…
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Paolo from Peru
The thought of OPEN TO ALL, brings people from all walks of life to Aarohi – Each space is different yet so same. Each person is same, yet so different. Paolo, 43yrs, a graphic designer, from Peru, worked in advertising agencies as an art director and creativity, a teacher of advertising and graphic design, an…
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Slice of Life with Emotions
Someone asked ” so what about positive space?” We say it’s only a Space and that’s all – no negative, no positive. Just a simple space. Someone asked so how come anger? We say it’s all around us. No negative or positive emotions, all are just emotions and flow within us, changes every second. Someone…
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Visualization
Start the day with imagining Walking on clouds Swimming in cold coffee Giraffe in your pocket Talking to your feet Riding on a moving chair Raining chocolates And and and Close your day with visualizing colours in your day…green helpful, adaptable yellow, confident blue, awareness orange, cheerful red, brown focus and and and Visualize doing…
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Toy Designing
We all see toys around us, – ever wondered how are they designed? At Aarohi we got an opportunity to design toys for a cause. And this brought an opportunity to understand the design process. Ritika, a Graphic designer took us through the design process – and she began with “what is the difference between…
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Rammed Earth Wall
Will add our rammed earth wall journey in words soon. Till then enjoy the slide show.
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in the midst of…
It’s not an easy journey to stay strong with one’s beliefs. The clouds of self doubts keep popping up. I t’s not easy to give a message to each visitor, each child, each parent that Aarohi is a DOING place. Since Aarohi is open for people to come, we also open up ourselves for all…
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Home Learning
We all do different things at home during weekends/ and break week – some do cooking, some go to church, some learn language, …We shared this week in Thought club Helping at home in household chores and cooking at home were highlight for some. Fitness missing or very rare in most routine at home. Get…
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Family Satsang at Banavasi
Family Satsang…families coming together with the need of deeper social connection through some activity of mutual interest. This Family Satsang was no different. We met, we traveled together and we pondered on “religion”. Sleeper Bus, Fun, Togetherness, Families, children, parents, grandparents, seat allocation, Night travel, humpty dumpty roads, sleepless night, laughing and laughing for nothing…
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Stone Balancing
Watch this video to wonder and admire “wow!” Now watch video – this happened in front of me “LIVE” and I just said “wow”! He says “I took few random stones, and just balanced them, simple!”
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Just Three days!
Someone said “just three days in this week”! After the break week we began our sixth term on Wednesday, that left only three days at campus. Well, the three day week began with term planning. Pondering over – What interests to fire, what to leave and what to continue. What to explore new and try…
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Entrepreneurship for Happiness!
Jaatre with Ishani tofacilitate a process where children can convert their true callings and deepest passion into a business.Sometimes, a child’s most weird habit can translate into a profession. For instance, if a child loves to crack jokes, we can have that child exploring stand-up comedy. So the discussion began with “What you do yourself…
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Case of loosing note book!
Good News – He loses his notebooks every one hour, so he decided to use paper. Another Good News – we rejected his idea and insisted on notebook/ drawing books We bought new notebooks for him – he paid the cost and exclaimed “oh this is costly”. We thought “now that he knows the value…
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Open Learning Resources
Sometimes the anxiety of unknown comes from unknown. Many of us may be anxious “what after few years?” How to go back to conventional? Is going back to conventional is the only answer? Here are some examples of places – “ecoversities: learners and communities reclaiming diverse knowledges, relationships and imaginations to design new approaches to…
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Manthan – Making of Community
Manthan at Aarohi means community coming together – living together with parents, grandparents to bring joy for all. This Manthan was no different – a big family coming together – play, laugh, churn, and participate in making of a community. The path of open learning is new for many – and new path, new idea…
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Unique Restaurant
Welcome to the Aarohi hotel paradise – A uniques place came alive at Aarohi for one of the lunch. It’s was an unique restaurant – fix the rate for your food, calculate the cost of your meal. Buy your lunch and take loan from the bank to pay your bill, Restaurant manager worked hard to…
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Marketing
The theme of marketing brought light to the concept of marketing. Marketing is about communication, identifying what sells, exchanging services or skills. It’s not only about producing (products or skills or services), but also identifying what is required and how to convert your passion into sellable products which can add value for others (so they…
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Teen Club : Self Acceptance
Getting teased is commonTeasing others because others are teasing is commonTeasing just like is also commonFeeling low, lonely, is common Feeling are common Teasing because it fun, teasing because that what my friends do, teasing because the other person teases me, teasing because I dont like the person or I am angry with them. but…
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E-commerce
Online business or e-commerce with Fatima and Shoaib. They shared their story of getting into e-business, their life and their learnings. Regular professional for eight years on ship, Fatina a CA in investment banker, decided to change a profession which gives them flexibility of place or rather not place dependent. First started learning and making…
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Music with Roopak
Satisfactory music week with Roopak, was enough to kindle musical chords of some of us. Some us of like music, but may be not giving enough thought or time or attention. The presence of Roopak at campus for a week began with drumming course. Few interested in drumming began with the course and willingness to…
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Teen Club : Flow Game
The Flow Game is a powerful tool for creating an interactive reflection, dialogue and action space for groups, teams and individuals. I became a Flow game host after a three day training in March 2018. 13th Dec was the lucky day for me when I got to host my very first flow game with the…
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Learning – a way of life
This week we experienced math in living, while we also continued with maths club – Four meals a day, On average 25 people at campus. 60% reaching late for the meals or finishing late. That makes it 15 each meal, 60 each day, 300 each week (5 days a week) – hmmm the number looks…
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Science or Scientific thinking?
Scientific thinking is not limited to science and knowledge and it’s beautiful! Scientific thinking is not limited to studying to science (physics, chemistry and biology) Scientific thinking is also not limited to me being “good or bad” in science. Scientific thinking is a process, which is not about knowledge but about a skill, a way…
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Product making
We buy things in our daily life We are also choosy about what we buy and why Ever wondered what goes in making of any product? Series of sessions with Kanchan on product making gave us an experience of making of product – started with drawing, developing skills, taking feedback, costing, packaging..making necessary changes to…
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Making Breakfast
Making a meal is unknown process – often it reaches to our kids plate and then they just need to consume it. “Make your own breakfast”, was the announcement and the platter was displayed with choices – all we needed to do was to make breakfast for our own breakfast”. And that’s all! Rest is…