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What is life education? What is open learning? Is it all about “what I want to learn, how want to learn and when I learn”? Is it so simple! Just the life…making a name plate using cross stitch, making bird house, cooking for all in the community, harvesting Ragi, going for film making workshop, attending…

Our first crop – we got the sack of hay in bonus along with the Ragi. After cutting it the hay sack was veryinviting to jump and play and just connect with. We have never touched a sack of hay or jumped into them. It was softer, it was bouncy, it was pure fun playing…

Ever since we started the journey of open learning, few questions are often asked, one of them is “If kids are allowed to learn on their own then they may miss learning everything?” Yes, one cannot learn everything at once and that’s not the idea also. But one can learn when the need arises. Our…

Carpentry with Murali…He creates wonder with coconut shells. He came to the campus to share his skills, joy and connection with coconut shells. He patiently guided each child who wanted to create with coconut shells. He shared the usages of various carpentry tools with passion and enthusiasm. He says “it’s not important what you do,…

14 adults from Russia to understand learning/ unlearning, visited Aarohi. They stayed for a week toexperience Aarohi. They were on their learning journey to India. Each one brought a different energy – While we continued with our life at the campus, they became part of us. Some joined us, some held themselves while some shared…

Bird race experience What is bird race? Bird race is an event that happens every January from 6am to 6pm it is a twelve hour event where anybody can join and do bird watching in Bangalore for the whole day. This event happens in many cities. The whole concept of the bird race is for…

A Jatre on Indus civilization with Advik.His first presentation.He was nervous to do in front of 14 guests at the campus, along with other kids.He planned for an hour but it got over in 20 minutes. But the topic of “Town Planning” triggered the curiosity to explore further more. We dealt with understanding our own…

Outdoor to planetarium We went to planetarium to watch a show about stars and our solar system. We left in the morning and caught the 8:40 train in the train we had lots of fun playing cards taking playing games reading etc. After the train journey we got off at Hebbal railway station and took…

We observe thing around us, what about observing inside us! Observing my thoughts, my feeling, my actions, my needs, my wants … just observe. No need to analyse what am I observing.

Just pause and Wonder! Just stop and Wander! Spend five minutes on wondering and wandering on the topic/task you start with. Why there is hurry to just start and stop the work? Let’s spend some time in wondering and Wandering. I wonder If my heart was outside my body! I wonder If mud was available…

We do Yoga. We do breathing. We have Yogasana in our environment. But when we hear more from the people who practice it daily and with devotion, it gives us a different perspective, sometimes reinforces, sometimes gives us direction. A session with Vikas from Isha Yoga was no different. Our breathing changes when our emotions…

Corrie sharing about her journey.Born in Philippine, lived in Canada, travelling to India since last year. She has been part of the various competition in swimming and boxing. Meeting a professional lady boxer was an event itself for most of us at the campus. Sports was an answer to not get into a destructive path.…

A session on brain and behaviour with Prashanth from Rishi Gurukulum Pune. The first question was “what is a brain? This was enough to explore inside/ outside of the brain, nodes, neurons, connections, various parts of brain, senses and so on. To understand our behaviour we needed to understand our brain. When we were Reptilian,…

His first presentation.His attempt to throw himself in front of the audience.He worked hard to know more about engines.He worked on himself to come out of his own inhibitions ( I can’t, I don’t, mistakes means others laugh).He worked on making the presentation.He worked on composing his flow of the session. An hour session where…

We do music to add value to our lives as well other’s life.Write something of your own and sing in your own voice. Lyrics give you something to connect. Why do you like music? Happy, peaceful, soothing, expression, changes mood, transformation, help to make more connections in brain, meditative, nostalgic, connection, synergy and just simple…

We visit exhibitions, we meet artists who have their own style, we see art in our homes, we see it in many different forms. Understanding about any art firms brings a different connection with the art form. A session on Madhubani or Mithila painting with Lakshmi brought step by step understanding about this art form.…

Monday with Chandu to explore Wikipedia. What do we use Wikipedia for?Have you ever wondered who put information in those Wikipedia pages?Why is in any research the first page is Wikipedia?Who is this Mr Wikipedia?Have you tried anything besides reading articles? The birth of Wikipedia came to establish the authentic knowledge-based as much authentic as…

Basic flow of Aarohi A typical Aarohi day starts in the morning at 6am we get up freshen up brush wash our faces and do all that stuff. After that we go for sunshine from 6:30 am till 7:30 am *sunshine is a session were we take care of our body and do fitness. In…

Doing is an integral part of Aarohi. We learn when we do, We fail when we do. We grow when we do. We explore when we do. We get feedback when we do. We assess when we do. Doing is all around us. Doing at Aarohi comes to us in many different forms – observing…

His first presentation.His attempt to throw himself in front of the audience.He worked hard to know more about engines.He worked on himself to come out of his own inhibitions ( I can’t, I don’t, mistakes means others laugh).He worked on making a presentation.He worked on composing his flow of the session. An hour session where…

Life of me at Aarohi Hi my name is Dhrupad and I am going to talk about my life at Aarohi and what i feel about it my different experiences and so on. My feelings about Aarohi is good like whenever I am in aarohi i have the feeling that I am welcomed there and…

The session on understanding theatre began with a question “Why one does theatre?” Apart from being profession, joy and living our interest, theatre tells stories, live that character, and maybe carry a message. Understanding ingredients of theatre gave an understanding about what all is theatre.. body, stage/set/space, costume, make up, voice, music, lights, dialogue, props,…

This began with a question what is “NEW”? Everone around was wishing “happy NEW year”. Well, the question was what is new? A look into dictionary gave us a new perspective on NEW- different, fresh, discovery, invention, regenerate, unfamiliar, first, fresh….this made a lot of sense to look into the new year! The year began…

He likes aeroplanes. He wonders how aeroplanes fly? He also likes watching videos on “how the stuff works?”So both together became a session on “aeroplanes”. He took an hour session with the community and explained all about aeroplanes. How airlines works?How aeroplanes works?How does the engine works?What is thrust?How does turbine works?How does the aeroplane…

Story of breaking own boundaries Story of power of visulaizationStory of tryingStory of failingStory of peresverance Standing on the board, riding the wave a rush of glory hit me. I landed smoothly on the shore and shouted out a victory yell. I looked out into the ocean and gave a huge smile to my instructor.I…

Mr. Sarvanan, a certified snake rescuer shared his understanding of snakes. The topic itself has the huge number of questions. Can dry bite kill you? How do you identify the dry bite? Do they coil you when you rescue them? What all colors of a snake? Does the venom get over? Do they have unlimited…

Anyone coming to the campus and joining us for any duration is nothing but an opportunity interacting with more children/adults and creating a space of mutual learning. No plans, no activities, no classes. It’s just the same mantra – No CURRICULUM – because we believe that children can decide what they want to learn, how…

It began with a little spark “let’s make a movie”. Few came together and a made script. The script was highly influenced by their love of NERF guns and the books they read and video games they play. Well, then came the decision to choose actors – audition happened, voting for the best actor happened.…

Musical Concert at Aarohi Each one presented a small piece of music of one minute. Some practiced for 10 minutes, some knew it already. When the show began none wanted to start – “I am remembering the rhythm, I will do it next, Not now, After some time….”. 2-3 of us played the music and…

Jatre with Mr. Narasim, a session of stories, not made up stories, but real life stories. It was blessing to spend time with Mr. Narasim Katary, a young at heart 77yr old. He is a retired state judge of Canada elected by people for three consecutive terms (each term is 5years) with amazing narrative skills…