What is Abheek?

Abheek Academy is an Alternative Education Co-operative -- a Learning Centre and a forum for homeschoolers. It aspires to provide a support system in a friendly, warm and relaxed atmosphere. Our ambience is essentially fluid and informal. It is a space where children can be themselves and direct their own learning goals. Abheek invites all those who can share their skills with us to be a part of our day. Children are invited to experience Abheek activities with us.


Abheek began with group homeschooling. In that journey came an opportunity for more to join. 

Abheek is a learning space for alternative education. The alternative education movement is an attempt to free our thinking from the educational paradigm imposed on us. One of our many priorities is to allow the child some say in what he or she learns, and how he or she learns it. 

We are tired of philosophies! So, we don't follow a particular one. 

The school provides a stimulus for exploration and thinking and play. We want to create a space for children where they feel safe and relaxed. We slow down life for them, where everything isn't a race. Academic learning happens as a result of having fun and play. We devise activities, along with the children, that lead to 'learning'. Our rhythm for music and craft for the year is guided by our seasons and festivals.

We want to be fearless (the real meaning of 'Abheek'), and the children of our school to be fearless. We don't want to blame society, but add to the society thinking individuals, who will be capable of bringing about change.


Founded in 2011, our learning space is located in Bengaluru and reflects the various backgrounds and cultures of the area.

Why do we do what we do? 

Because we know that the idea of schooling, education, is changing with the current generation of parents. Most of us have been brought up in schools where we were merely a roll number, a person to be moulded and shaped according to our surrounding adults' whims. We were not given too many opportunities to develop our own personality. Activities and ideals about our success were thrust upon us from the outside world, and our parents and loved ones succumbed to that pressure. 

What we do at Abheek is for the children. Children have a personality, and should be allowed to explore the positive facets of it. We do not want to contain, restrain or 'train' our children. We want to show them that they are equally important and therefore responsible in shaping their own futures.  

We hope you join us at Abheek for explorations and reflections, activities and opportunities, to discover the boundless potential of children.