Welcome!

Every individual needs the capacity to manage moments. Parents of neurodivergent children and adults face ongoing challenges in managing moments while helping their child naviagte systems not designed for them.

Our message to parents is to take a few minutes daily to FILL their cup. Enjoy a few minutes of silence, be in nature, go for a relaxing walk, or try theater activities (dance, music, storytelling, drama, and arts and crafts).

Explore activities for learning and holistic growth for your child that can relax and energize you, and help you grow your connection with your child.

Join us for 100 Day Lab and explore our seven step FILL process:

1. Include calming activities in daily rhythms (parent and child).

2. Enjoy experiences together.

3. Evolve healthy rhythms.

4. See what is taking shape.

5. Explore structured theater arts activities.

6. Practice theater arts activities.

7. Include structured theater arts activities in daily rhythms.

We invite you to explore our content and join us for the 100 Days of Holistic Development as a Practice Lab.

Dr. Dasaratha Rama

The 100 Days of Holistic Development as a Practice project emerged from Ananth’s explorations with Ujwal Jagadeesh, Senior Faculty and Artiste at the Ramana Maharshi Center for Learning (RMCL). Ananth started lessons with Ujwal in 2022 after completing his Bharatanatyam arangetram in 2020.

The large dance hall in Ramana Maharshi Center for Learning (RMCL), Ujwal’s gentle, low demand guiding style, extensive use of imitation and repetition, and other factors revealed a set of variables that create a feeling of safety, increase engagement, and create the conditions for learning for all learners.

Join us for 100 Days of explorations! Learn about Learning Softer practices as you explore the FILL process. Implement these practices with your child.

We will share seven e-books during the 100 Day project. Read our e-books and join us for this project!

Ramana Sunritya Aalaya (RASA) and Ramana Maharshi Center for Learning (RMCL) are eco-systems that enable us to practice learning softer daily.

Theater Arts for Holistic Development (TAHD) is a framework and structured approach that we use to implement learning softer daily.

While learning softer can be implemented in many ways, we are able to implement it and make it a part of our lifestyle because of the RASA/RMCL eco-system and TAHD.

Read a draft of our e-book on Family Immersion for Lifelong Learning.

our overarching theme is Holistic Development as a Practice . Our vision is to help families implement a simple, theater-based practice for holistic development.

There are seven e-books in the series. Each e-book corresponds to one step of our Family Immersion for Lifelong Learning (FILL) process. The first e-book addresses the first step of FILL:

1. Include calming activities in daily rhythms (parent and child).

2. Enjoy experiences together.

3. Evolve healthy rhythms.

4. See what is taking shape.

5. Explore structured theater arts activities.

6. Practice theater arts activities.

7. Include structured theater arts activities in daily rhythms.

Each e-book presents ideas, activities, tips, techniques, and links to resources.

1. Join us for parent meetups on zoom on Saturdays at 10am.

2. Explore Learning Softer through RAISE (Ramana Art-form Interventions for Self-awareness and Excellence) practice sessions on Sundays on zoom at 10 AM for a learning softer experience.

3. Join us for the 100 Days of Learning Softer Together project.

4. Contact us for Learning Softer Together conversations and explorations! Learn how you can implement Learning Softer with your family or students.

Discovering the Doable is our first keystone habit. Discovering the doable implies that we focus on what is doable for parent (guide) and child (learner) at a given time.

When we are focused on what is doable right now, we are setting the stage for being in the now, being present, and enjoying experiences. We are setting the stage for learning softer by tuning into what is possible for guides and learners at that point in time.

Lying low and other practices build on this first practice. Making discovering the doable the keystone habit makes learning softer easier to implement.

Lying low is our second keystone habit. Lying low means focusing on enjoying experiences together.

Guides can practice lying low by reducing performance expectations, instructions, and corrections.

Lying low is a change in mindset. The guide's focus shifts from teaching specific skills to enjoying experiences toogether.

Ananth’s Adventures is a content development initiative. We create content to help parents, educators, and others use theater and other tools to facilitate holistic development. We create videos, ebooks, and other resources.

Our content development activities are rooted in TAHD (Theater Arts for Holistic Development), and follows the FourEEEEs method.

Our content development philosophy is "From Silence Blossoms Speech." Our immersion in RAISE (Ramana Art-form Interventions for Self-awareness and Excellence) has led us to explore the interplay of silence and communication since October 2022.

Ananth Raghundan is a RASA/ TAHD student ambassador. Dr. Dasaratha Rama is a parent ambassador for RASA/ TAHD.