09 Apr Quotes from ‘Reflections,’ the Hanifl Centre Reader
Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley. -Theodore Roethke ...
Outdoor Learning
18 Mar What Students Imbibe On Woodstock’s Outdoor Learning Weekend (OLW)
"Never give children the chance of imagining that anything exists in isolation. Make it plain from the very start that all things living is relationship. Show them the relationship in the woods, in the fields, in the ponds and streams in the village and the country around it." - Aldous Huxley We...
04 Mar Latest From Hanifl Centre
See The Latest Photos Of Wilderness First Aid and Trek Leaders' Courses Here http://bit.ly/Hanifl_Centre_courses_outreach...
18 Feb First Batch of First Aid Instructors Graduate Under New Partnership
After a demanding 10 day course ending a week ago, 13 individuals from all over India, including four Woodstock staff are now qualified to teach Wilderness First Aid and CPR. This was made possible by Hanifl Centre’s new partnership with Aerie Backcountry Medicine of Missoula, MT, USA to teach 2 ½ day first aid courses in...
16 Feb Quotes from ‘Reflections,’ the Hanifl Centre Reader
It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe. -Robert W. Service ...
20 Nov Quotes from ‘Reflections,’ the Hanifl Centre Reader
Water is the one substance from which the earth can conceal nothing. it sucks out its innermost secrets and brings them to our very lips. – Jean Giraudoux...
05 Nov Lasting Impressions Of Woodstock’s Activity Week
It was Henry David Thoreau who said “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not...
10 Oct Pushing Pedals For A Project In Spiti
This activity week some 12th Graders are combining their cycling trip with a fundraising project thanks to the initiative of their class mate Kheytsun. She tells us more about their plans here. “Our Activity Week group, led by Mr Yousuf and Mrs Kaplan, will be cycling from Kaza to Manali. In addition to the “Self-Propelled Journey” tag,...
26 Sep Hanifl Centre’s New Exploration Map. Why Every Trekker Should Have One.
Hanifl Centre puts to paper the footprints of Woodstockers in the last 160 + years in a map for all seasons. If you love exploring the hillside around Woodstock, wanted a map that didn't require you to have any special map reading skills; a map that you'd love to keep or gift because it's...
19 Jun Hovers Like A Hummingbird, Looks Like A Bee?
The Return Of The Hawk Moth To Mussoorie If you’ve seen a hawk moth hovering in your backyard and wondered whether it is a bird, don’t berate yourself. This particular moth is also known as the humming bird moth for this very reason. It belongs to the moth Family Sphingidae and...