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Evening colors of Aarohi – music, masti and sunset.

Month of Ramadan brings fasting season at Aarohi, Some kids did for religious reasons, while some did for experiencing. It began with ‘i too want to do Fasting’. Soon it came as experience of temptations, control, understanding hunger and thirst and of course self. Some of us also shared various fasting rituals in our families.…

This is how we grow – self reflection learning to self discovery. Each week we reflect in many different ways. Often the doubts are raised ‘kids will rate 10 only’. But we have seen days after days that there is sincerity and truthfulness…they may not assess the way we look at them, they assess the…

Death of Bella was shocking for us. We felt that her absence left Pepper left alone. We have limited understanding of animals, we can only guess based on our experience. We took him to CUPA to find another partner for Pepper. Pepper (our dog) did not showed any need of making friends with anyone there.…

As the Aarohi community growing, we felt the need of more toilets. The question was what way?After connecting, debating, researching, surveying we zeroed down to UDD or dry composting toilet. (if you are wondering what it is – pl come over and try it 🙂 So we decided to explore some new materials / methods…

Anyone who visits Aarohi, brings learning opportunities for us in many different forms. Nayana, a homeschooler visited for a day with her two kids. She offered a session on making toys with simple thing available around us. Ramya joined with her son and mother. They repaired one mat using cloth patching, we learnt that anything…

Every occasions to celebrate reminds us of joy in our life. Every b’day allow us to practice compassion. This b’day celebration was different – Two kids together cerebrating their b’day, One of them self announced, took part in making own cake and celebrated together with the community.

Think of a global problem and wonder where and how do you express for any action to be taken? Think of any problem at nation level and wonder where and how do you express for any action to be taken? Think of anyneighborhoodproblem and wonder where and how do you express for any action to…

Love comes to Aarohi in many forms….thank you Malaika for this gesture. We loved this painting for its vibrancy.

Darkness has many hidden stories….many comes from inside us. Night brings darkness and darkness brings fear in some and fear creates many stories inside us. Some new, some old…wanted to share their hidden dark stories. We used drawing as a medium to explore those stories. Just started drawing what we see in dark…..moved on how…

Kids at Aarohi use internet widely as their learning source. One child was browsing how to make cake and reached ‘how to kiss’. Another child, who was sitting next, got hysterical ‘how can you watch such videos……….auntyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy, Oh my god, how can you do that, close it immediately, its bad, its………….The other child gathered his…

Harnan from Columbia, joined Aarohi as a volunteer for 10 days. A young adult who is sure he did not want to do what he did till now, travelling to different places to know what he wants to do. At Aarohi he offered to teach Spanish, some enthusiastic souls loved his classes and wanted to…

its a different fun in playing in the ground made by self – story of making of our play ground. We needed a playground to play football, some kids got together, called for JCB, got the clearance of one the patch, dimensions were taken, costing was done and repeated follow up with JCB uncle taught…

We see roses, some of us like smell, some of us also grow in our home gardens. Visited a rose garden farm to enjoy seeing them grow, to know what goes in growing at a larger scale, work in the farm, meet the farmers, understand their lifestyle and thoughts. Visit to Basavaraju’s farm just opposite…

Rang Bazar…Some of us who are interested in art, got together to learn and work more on art. We began with the question ‘how do we want this course to be? We had few choices – Conducted, or Facilitated or Organic or Online…..We choose Organic. Each one took the responsibility to bring one new technique…

Active me at Aarohi: after our morning exercise routine and glass of milk and some biscuits we start active-me time: Play outdoor, play in sports field, work in garden, climb trees, do bird watching or just admire the beauty of nature. Some of us adults get indulged into gardening, kids would play. Last week some…

Inspiration visits Aarohi in many different forms. Last week Murali, home schooler, home maker and a coconut shell craftsman joined us to experience Aarohi. Different age of people joined him in exploring making articles from coconut shell … from 5 to 35 yrs … we didn’t find any difference in skills, perseverance, enthusiasm or commitment.…

While freedom is dream, belief about freedom also brings anxiety for some who hear about Aarohi. As a open learning community or homeschooler / unschooler or alternate learning system we face this question. Query – I like the aspect of freedom, child led, Open earning; I’d want to know more about the child’s transition from…

Community get together are joyful. Kids at Aarohi not only have their own families but a larger community family to enjoy. Various parents have bonded with children at different levels and there is joy in community get together at Aarohi. We eat together, cook together, clean together and laugh together and enjoy each moment. Thanks…

Nothing stays still at Aarohi, nothing stays same at Aarohi…it evolves, it grows. Like a river who never stays at one place, keep flowing Aarohi keeps flowing with the flow of people who makes this community. It was time to review our schedule and reflect what we want to add and what we want to…

Each parent at Aarohi brings value and joy to the community. Few new, few old…we met together to know each other. We hugged…knee hug, feet hug, elbow hug, head hug and just simple hug.

Each desire, each dream gets attention. Nothoughtsor ideas are waste. We spend time on each dream,dream more and think in manydifferent.Nothing is impossible, we try each things which comes in our dreams and wish list. Whether we succeed or make products to show to the world is not important, what is important is that we…

We are beginning to learn about food, growing food and plants around us at Aarohi. Often we care for the plant which we know are useful for us, what we think are not useful (ignorance) we take them out as weed or throw out…..As we grow our own understanding we start looking value in weeds…

They designed a car, they took part in a competition, they won the award, they shared their journey. Four engineering students joined Aarohi for a day to share their journey of making a car from scratch. They began with sharing the learning from this project ‘experience of joy’. It was not only making of car…

Madhabi joined Aarohi to explore community living. She inspired some of us to explore Bengali language. Initially her accent was new for some at campus, as they have not met people from East part of the country but soon she was part of our life at campus. Bengali language session was fun and experiential for…

Birthdays reminds us to celebrate life and purpose of our being here. Each b’day celebration is different….because its for different person. What person likes we cook specially, what kind of decoration person likes, we try to decorate, what music person like we try to play….community come together to make person feel special on this special…

Birthdays reminds us to celebrate life and purpose of our being here. Each b’day celebration is different….because its for different person. What person likes we cook specially, what kind of decoration person likes, we try to decorate, what music person like we try to play….community come together to make person feel special on this special…

Akkas joining in adding beauty to Nector courtyard…..I invited them to join in paining. First response was ” we don’t know painting”. I just gave brush and paint in their hands. Soon they started adding designs and one of them expressed ” I love designing, call me whenever doing and design work.” We got more…

Phil and Laura from Canada, spent one week at Aarohi to understand open learning. They shared their joy of music and videography and made a vi doe on life at Aarohi as a gift.

Lost GAMES …. they are called folk games also..they were part of our growing up. We did not realized that how they added to our growth. Simple games which we could play any place, using any kind of available material (stones, seeds, twigs, broken bangles). Challenging games to work on our body and mind. No…