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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…

We laughed, we talked, we ate, we played and we also discussed- Yes! that was Manthan this time. Here are some notes. and some photographs of the event Growing together, the living together is bringing dynamic of ‘peer pressure’. Very nicely brought by Vidhya to look at it positively, we call it good news. Every…

We started the session with super brain Yoga…..Kids practiced with involvement. Then kids relaxed few moments in silence… Kids were asked, “where is air?” Few said everywhere, few said outside, few said up….. Then we experimented the presence of air by waving our hands. Everyone were able to feel the air.. Then kids were asked…

This session was to explore strengths. We greeted with arms lifted and bent at elbows… First with Right arm, then with left and then with both. Played connexions….. We start with a word and the next child tells another word that is some way related to the previous word. for e.g. sugar- white- color –…

We tapped our shoulders with crossed hands and clapped to greet. Then we sang a tribal song….”guma lali guma lali vesta………” Kids repeated after me. Then we sang the same song in different speed… from slow to fast. Kids were excited to sing the song and they enjoyed singing it in different speed. Then kids…

It began casually a child saying ‘ we should have a rope to cross over from Ambrosia (our kitchen) to Mud house our tools room). The experience of crossing Dhuandhar falls in Jabalpur was very fresh in our mind. Both together gave birth to zip line project at campus – distances were measured, ropes were…

Any music, any ground, any instruments…no limits of exploring music. We dance on Sufi and also on Hard rock. Each one is different, each one bring a different music to life at campus, we dance in many forms.

​​​​Can a campus teach? Can a small constraint of ‘no geyser’ teach us anything? Yes, we have been exploring many things – began with simple Chulha (wood fired stove), sometimes some of us spending hours to make fire happen. Then one day one of the nearby villager showed us how simple it can be, we…

HUman pyramid….. found it interesting to understand each other’s body. Never knew that body balance can be so exploratory. Overall fun.

One Aarohi Child initiated to share her skill of making loom bands. She joined to visit Govt school and shared her skill with many other children. We had various responses from the children. At school few children shared they already knew and few shared they did not know, few shared they can do different things…

​ We are blessed to get exposed to different cuisine at campus, as visitors of different walks of life come to Aarohi. In winter camp we got a food request ‘Jain food’. On day one, in our dining room, there was a curiosity ‘what is Jain food’. By day three, curiosity was high, so we…

Often when it comes to teaching we look up to someone ‘expert’, we forget that we carry a huge resource inside us. Here is an attempt to list down various things which parent can do… One is ​​ working with children – You could share anything that you are passionate about – could be playing…

Ask a teenager about wet dreams or confusion in their life or crush….and tell them it’s all natural! When we shared this with kids, they really felt RELIEVED that there is nothing wrong with them and it’s all natural. They were fine to share all those tiny winy thing they feel inside, have self doubt…

Young adults bringing joy and leaning with their experience at Aarohi campus. Preeti, an architect, her heart is in eco architecture. She sharing her skills with kids, making adobe mud bricks. She so naturally connected with kids. Guiding them to make bricks, sharing layout of our resource area, and sharing many different ways we can…

Living together allow us to experience life as it is. Revenge, hatred, greed and jealousy are part of living together. We read the first paragraph of the poem IF by Rudyard Kipling. Some kids immediately related “waiting and not get tired while we line up for food or cake distribution”. Some related to “If someone…

I could never thought of making video from speaker’s point of view. Amazing comparison of parks of city and forest. Never thought that ‘parks’ are same, but they are different. The END is beautiful. Liked ‘question’ way of documentation. Liked the questions and self explanations (thoughts and self exploration) and observations. I have heard basic…

Each entrepreneur has a story behind…some success to celebrate, some mistakes to learn from. Visit to KidKen factory was with many learnings for us. It began with knowing the story behind making of KidKen – the journey is inspiring, starting from a small place and nowhere, reaching to a place where one is producing complete…

Imagination is good, its creative………we nurture it in many ways at Aarohi, we also nurture structure!!! Well, we worked on making things using step by step instructions. The theme was ‘how things works’. We looked in various resources which gave us simple steps to make things . Some kids wanted to just read and watch…