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Best way to teach
Is there any one best way to live life? If no then can there be one best way to teach. Children are dynamic and they need dynamic facilitation. Breadth of facilitation will provide depth to understand a child.
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Learning Utsav – Celebrating Learning
A day at Aarohi to celebrate diversity in learning! The beauty of the event is the openness of the format, it allows one to participate in sessions of ones interest. It allows all ages to be equal, because everyone can teach and everyone can learn. It gives space for everyone from all ages, gender or…
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Perseverance
Imagine when you get up in the morning you see a map on our mirror – a map of habits of mind. You randomly choose one of those, say perseverance. Now whatever happens during the day, in your life you focus on perseverance. You voice your thoughts aloud, “I wish I was more perseverant with…
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12 commandments by a parent
You pursue other interests as they rise and till they hold interest. Try and follow through a task you have undertaken till it’s finish line even if you will discard pursuing it. You are in Aarohi with a purpose. The main purpose is to discovering the real you. Also what the real you finds lasting…
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My Journey – Self Directed Learning
As of today, I am 21 years old. I am an Entrepreneur, Artist, Facilitator, Earth activist, and self-directed learner. I am going to share my journey as a self-directed learner. As a little girl going to school and playing was what my life revolved around. I went to school because that’s what children do. I…
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Gratitude in abundance!
There was an announcement on mic “come and experience magical journey”. It was a gathering of more than 1000 people in LSUC, Bangalore. Some people joined – some of us knew each other just for last five days. But the experience was truly magical to see the energy of gratitude and appreciation flowing in the…
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Culture and History
History brings kings, queen, war and palaces in one’s mind. But ever wondered the history of music, how and when football started, where did clothes came from, what is the culture of our home? Where did they get originated? What caused changes in any culture or how cultures evolved? This week theme was “culture and…
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Teen club – POP culture
Pop culture means Popular culture. We experience POP culture around us through words (like Damm, Bro, Dude), Music, Dressing, Movies, Books, sports, politics, ideas – anything that is in the current trends on a mass level. We explored POP culture in our teen club and started with pondering. From where does this whole concept of…
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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Rammed Earth Wall
Will add our rammed earth wall journey in words soon. Till then enjoy the slide show.
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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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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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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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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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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…