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It was a pleasure to host “Manthan,” an in-house reflective workshop for the team at People Science Institute (PSI), Dehradun. With more than fifty participants living at Kaaya for three days, the team found space for genuine reflection alongside their structured sessions. Encouraged by the response, we continue to look for opportunities to host similar…

An NGO Retreat: Waste Warriors, Dehradun

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in Visit

Kaaya has been a popular destination for groups like Waste Warriors, a citizen-led organisation from Dehradun. One group of twenty young Waste Warriors spent three days in residence, receiving leadership training from their coach while based at Kaaya — combining structured learning with genuine time in nature. It’s one example of the kind of small-group,…

Kaaya — A Refreshing Experience

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in Visit

Ajita, who goes by the name Penning Silly Thoughts, spent ten days at Kaaya. “I stayed with Kaaya, which aims to offer a mix of urban-rural experience along with other learnings that wouldn’t normally come from the comfortable life of a big city. Life at Kaaya is slow, yet fruitful — relaxed, yet busy. There…

Learning to Up-Cycle

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in Exchange

Up-cycling is the process of reusing discarded objects or materials to create something of higher value than the original. It reduces waste while giving something useful back in return. At Kaaya, we’ve run this as an ongoing effort rather than a one-off campaign. The core idea is to bridge two different needs: the urban desire…

The Rural Mart — Where It Began, What It’s Become

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in Exchange

Not many people know it, but the roots of Kaaya can be traced back to a small initiative in the mountain district of Rudraprayag, where the seeds of a sustainable enterprise were first sown. That story has been told elsewhere — but its legacy lives on in the rural mart that now sits at the…

Empowering Neighbourhoods

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Nestled in the Himalayan foothills near Dehradun, Kaaya Learning Centre has long worked at the intersection of rural livelihoods, sustainable practice, and community development. The Rural Women Entrepreneurs Fellowship is a natural extension of that work — and connects directly to the UMSVY partnership now active on campus. Women in rural India hold real entrepreneurial…

Maker’s Space

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Kaaya as a physical space is designed to foster co-creation — activating the part of a visitor that wants to make something, not simply consume an experience. The Maker’s Space is evolving to support urban-rural collaboration on practical, sustainable solutions for everyday living. We believe there’s real value in the kind of work that happens…

Residencies at Kaaya: Writers and Stillness

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Kaaya has, at different points, become a residency space for people working in very different registers — writers seeking solitude, and practitioners exploring stillness and meditation. Neither was planned as a formal programme. Both emerged because someone asked, and the place turned out to be right for it. Writers in residence We had the pleasure…

Art-Eco 2019–20 — A Socio-Cultural Project

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Today we conclude a week-long journey with international plein air artists at Kaaya. Plein air painting means leaving the studio behind to paint and draw directly in the open air — and at a time when both climate and humanitarian crises loom large, these artists left the comfort of home to pick up brushes, paints,…

Artists’ Residency Programme

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