Uttaran - A 2 Days Camp on Yoga and Life Skills Training in Unexplored Places of North-East India | #OKTravel

WHAT IS UTTARAN?

Uttaran - The Two Days Camp on Yoga and Life Skills Training

Powered by OK! North East and an initiative of The Open Window Forum and Anubhuti Gosthi, Uttaran is an experience specially designed for people looking to escape into the woods and farmlands away from the noisy buzz of the daily routine. Uttaran is a two days camp on yoga and life skills training. By joining the camp, one can get the taste of a various unexplored regions of North-east India with interesting histories, geography, landscape, ethnicity, culture and endless stories.

The prime focus of the camp is to understand the harmony between nature and self, using music, yoga and certain life skills based education to detoxify self with all negativity and thereby say hello to a new beginning with new thoughts and positive perspective towards life and self.

No walls to confine learning, no boards to restrict imagination, no time table to hinder creativity...! Just the endless horizons of nature, serenity, peace and an opportunity to be with oneself and understand and visualize life and its complexities from a more composed lens....!

UPCOMING CAMP DATES

Our upcoming trip is now full. Next dates To Be Announced soon...

UPCOMING CAMP LOCATION

Meghalaya.
Next locations To Be Announced soon...
(But we promise it will be at an exotic, untouched location in North-east India you probably haven't been to.)

GROUP

We take along with us a maximum number of 25 people (both male and female). Children not allowed.

WHAT DOES UTTARAN OFFER?

Uttaran offers you a platter of a campsite stay amidst nature with an unbelievable off-road drive experience amidst the hills and the rocks, with a series of activities which includes:

✔️ Early morning yoga sessions
✔️ Meditation
✔️ Life Skills based workshops
✔️ Creative podium
✔️ Playback theatre
✔️ Community involvement and interaction
✔️ Musical evenings with bonfire
✔️ Team building activities
✔️ Trekking
✔️ Nutritious diet
✔️ Detoxification activities and an endless coaster of fun and learning.

AIM / FOCUS

The prime focus of the camp is to understand the harmony between nature and self, using music, yoga and certain life skills based education to detoxify self with all negativity and thereby say hello to a new beginning with new thoughts and positive perspective towards life and self.

Uttaran as an initiative focuses on certain pivotal aspects as prime objectives:

✏️ An attempt to understand the harmony between nature and ‘self’
✏️ Also to understand the essence and meaning of Life Skills and their significance in our daily lives.
✏️ Introducing creativity, critical thinking and music to indulge in community work with the local communities
✏️ Using Music, Yoga, Meditation, Drinking Water, etc as techniques to detoxify the stress from both our physical and mental beings, thereby adopting a positive mental and physical health.
✏️ Saying ‘NO’ to any form of substance during the days of workshop
✏️ To explore the underlying natural charisma of various enchanted and unexplored areas of northeast.

At Uttaran, the participants also tried to have introspection and address certain curious questions like

🔑 What are certain issues that we face?
🔑 Why do they worry us?
🔑 Where do these issues come from?
🔑 Who can help you/us?
🔑 Who am I?

Benefits

🔎 Impact on the Tourism sector of northeast via education and training
🔎 Generation of livelihood opportunities, revenue and recognition of various villages and communities of northeast on an academic paradigm
🔎 Creating natural avenues as platform for learning and grooming
🔎 Inculcating the value of protecting and treasuring nature amongst the next generation
🔎 Life skill development
🔎 Visualizing yoga from a wider and different prism

ACTIVITIES

✔️ Early morning yoga and meditation sessions
✔️ Life skills based workshops
✔️ Community work
✔️ Creative Podium
✔️ Playback Theatre
✔️ Musical Evenings with Bonfire (Musicallyptus)
✔️ Team building activities
✔️ Trekking
✔️ Pot-Luck Dinner (Vah-War-Che)
✔️ Team Building Game and activities
✔️ Campsite Stay

SESSIONS ON LIFE SKILLS

⏩ Self-awareness
⏩ Self-Belief
⏩ Gender and sexuality
⏩ Personality Development
⏩ Character Building
⏩ Inter-personal Relationships
⏩ Empathy
⏩ Stress Management
⏩ Anger Management
⏩ Creative Thinking
⏩ Critical Thinking
⏩ Communication Skills
⏩ Being Assertive

PAST TRAINERS AND GURUS

Rulee Phukan
Life Skill Trainer,
An alumni of Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Former Research Scholar, TISS-UNICEF Project.

Pragati Kalita
Life Skill Trainer,
LGBTQ Activist.

Mallika Adhikari
Life Skill Trainer,
Consultant, United Nations Development Programme, Guwahati Chapter.

Plabon Phukan
Life Skill Trainer,
Founder & Counsellor, The Open Window Forum.

Mrinal Sharma
Yoga and Meditation Trainer, Simanta Shankardev Yogashram, Guwahati.

CONTACT FOR MORE INFO

📞 (91) 94018 30380 | (91) 75780 13817 | (91) 99865 73253
📧 info@oknortheast.com

ONLINE BOOKING

Coming soon.

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Uttaran is supported by Society for Sankardev Yogashram College and Hospital Research Centre (NGO).

 to know more about The Open Window Forum and Anubhuti Gosthi.