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Bruno from France, calls himself a plumber with pride. He was at the campus to make a solar water heater. few kids joined him and it was done in a day, including work in the moonlight.What appeared to be done in a day, took a month’s groundwork. Bruno contacted Aarohi when I read that we…

Small hurts, scratches, throat pains, cough, cold, light fever, and light headaches are part of our living at the campus. We all get sick or get hurt, and that becomes a learning opportunity to connect with our bodies. Whenever someone is feeling sick, Or campus medic (child on job) first collects the data – when…

We wished for a Telescope. We asked people to contribute. Our wishes were fulfilled by Asher-Simi, Kanchan, Mini, Navdeep, Nimmi, Poornima, Rajani, Rohini, Rupa, Sangitha, Sonal, and Srikanth. We ordered the Telescope – Skywatches added a bonus of free delivery just for Aarohi. On Thursday (18th feb16) children assembled it. Then these excited children got…

Fitness Routine Warm up -10 minutes – any music any dance 2 times Tabata workout – 10 minutes, squats, hop and back, push up, mountain walk, plank walk, crunches, fish out of water Surya Namaskaer- 4-5 rounds Relaxation – 10 minutes (start with chanting a, u, aa and then relaxing each part of the body).…

Every year Sankranti or Pongal comes at Aarohi O-campus to bring joy. The celebration creates space for all – to play, to cook, to decorate, to play music, to sing, to eat and laugh together. Priyanka and family joined us to add magic with their music. While we explored some simple musical instruments from Rajasthan,…

There are many different ways of looking at anything, including our soap:) Yes, few years back, we never questioned “are there other ways that I clean my body? or why do I need soap? what goes in soap? what else? Well, presence of people from different walks of life allows us to re-think. Ramji shared…

It was more about using the same material in different ways than making mask. Ramji shared about making mask using papier mache – soak paper, make pulp add Methi seeds and mix it and make creations. This sounds simple! It took 2-3 days to process the papier mache, mix it, and make a dough and…

Anil joined Aarohi for a week to experience Aarohi. His presence inspired us to look at things differently. He has been working on converting vehicles into pedaled vehicles. He shared how he worked on converting a truck into a truck which can be pedaled by three people. Apart from his vision of working on making…

Liza and Anya from Russia, passionate about movie making, announced about their wish to make movie. Soon the movie enthusiastic team was in place. It began with making a story with collaborative efforts. We came to consensus that we will make a horror movie. Script was made after many if’s and but’s. Then it was…

We started with saluting in different ways…..Then we took partners and each partner worked as a mirror to the other and repeated the actions of their partners… and then partners interchanged their roles.. Was interesting to see kids doing it with enthusiasm.. This session was to let kids choose a goal, think & plan different…

We started with raising our collars, ears, eyes, nose, lips, face, hair, shoulders, hands and legs. Kids participated enthusiastically. Then kids were asked, what is confidence? Few said it is a strength, and some didn’t know, some wanted to know… Then when I asked, what are the things that you think you are sure that…

One child or three years wanted to make painting on the wall. She took paints and brushes and made some blobs. After making it she wanted to rub as it was DIRTY. Mother took another brush and just made few outlines and took the child at a distance. The child exclaimed with joy “its looking…

Liza and Anya, two sisters from Russia, passionate about movie making apart from music, construction and drawing, painting and observing. Travelling alone to India to inspire kids to look at life beyond obvious. Travelling on shoestring budget, working in different places in India as volunteer to fulfill their dreams, etc. Thank you Liza and Anya…

Ramji introduced Jin Shin Do (body mind accupressure) to us. It began with first knowing our own body and then understanding how the acupressure works on us. Few continued with longer session, while others choose to continue with some other works. Kids and adults both took part with the same curiosity and interest. Thank you…

Nora from Germany likes to move…she likes to build and create…sculptures, construction, landscape gardening and exercising are some some of her interests. Casper from Denmark was wanting to make his own music, carried some recording devices as experiment, drumming, mixing music, bouldering (climbing rocks without ropes) and cooking are some of his passion. It was…

‘It Starts With A Seed’ as we began with Ramji for making jewelry with seed. The workshop began with to ponder “What can you one do with a few humble seeds, some wire, and bits of paper?” A lot! we made jewelry that we treasured and most important now every seed looks precious! We created…

Bouldering is about climbing rock without rope or any other safety tool!!! Does that bring excitement and also apprehension? We too had that mix of expressions when Casper announced bouldeirng session. He began with ‘this is not entertainment, this is serious’. This was enough to set the tone of the adventure we had signed up…

Write 100 questions about any topic…this brings shiver or also an apprehension at the back of the mind. When we started writing 100 questions about our next outstation trip with theme of water, we also began with the same shiver or statement ‘its difficult’. Well, we listed the way we can make questions We can…

UNDERSTANDING is a very ACTIVE paradigm. First its a realisation that other person is in a DIFFERENT state then mine. Second while the behaviour might not be acceptable – we need to establish that The person and his or her feelings are unconditionally acceptable. And thirdly I need to actively create a connection that gives…

Annual bird race was less of a race and more of a pure joy of bird-watching. Its an event where we spend 12 hours – 6am to 6pm – looking for as many different species within Bangalore.The event ended with a get together, different birders sharing their experiences and some small speeches by eminent birders.…

One of the adult at campus announced ‘session on naturopathy’. One child asked what it is? Another one said, “Food without salt”. And that was enough to close minds…no one came for the session. Few adults including visiting parents joined the session. We talked more about our own roadblocks for food habits than the naturopathy…

One week is just one week….but many things happens in one week. The week begins with reviewing different teams which runs campus – what to cook in kitchen to how to wash toilets – all teams review their working, suggest changes and make plan for the week. Campus training every week is essential part of…

Partner yoga with Praveen tested our body on all the aspects and we realized how much more work we need to do If we wish to see ourselves FIT -:) Body and fitness are very less talked about topic in any learning journey.​In homes, regular exercise routine seldom find a place. Sports is looked as…

Imaginea learning community for children (and adults) where there is no curriculum – because we believe that children can decide what they want to learn, how much they want to learn. So children effectively choose what they want to do or learn from whatever is worth doing or learning in this world. Journey of making…

Richard is a magical story teller. He tells his own childhood stories and mesmerized not only kids but also adults to share the joy of living. Sunitha and Richrad both joined us for a day to share the joy of singing … to motives our inner self. ‘This is the moment’…was the song we could…

Jacques(Jack) and Emmanuelle (Manue) who are travelling with their family for past one year to learn from life joined us at campus for two weeks. Jack built his home in 8 yrs by himself in France, likes to play flute, and drumming. Kids at Aarohi enjoyed learning French with Jack and Manue. Jack took a…

To plan for forest fire we needed contour map of the campus, the first question was WHAT is CONTOUR MAP? Well, we began with making our own contour map….just noting down the heights of the table and chairs we were sitting on. We saw some images of contour map and one of the child exclaimed…

​We call is ‘su-su park’. Our new Urinal, connected to cluster of tree-pits. All the urine, diluted after we pour (flush) water, helps us grow bananas and papayas. All we did was to buy a Urinal pot, connect a pipe to the tree pits, added a dry grass wall for privacy and EUREKA! our Urinal…

Every camp brings an opportunity to learn while living. It often begins with knowing each other in many different forms – we meet as we come, we meet when we work together, we meet when we learn from each other.We are blessed to get exposed to different cuisine at campus, as visitors of different walks…

​Christmas is much more than Santa and Gifts. Thanks to Shyna, Shaji, Divya, Diya and Davin to bring ‘joy of giving’ to campus on the occasion of x’mas. The campus was colored with spirit of giving, making, enjoying and being there – the real spirit of the festival. We cooked together, we created many things…