Conversations about slow living and reconnecting with nature have been in talks for quite a long time now. While professionals continue to juggle work pressure and personal commitments, working parents have now started expressing concerns about bringing up kids in an increasingly fast-paced and urbanised metropolitan city.

Starting a series of monthly retreats to the less-populated and serene outskirts of the city, Vasai-based Aayushi Kalpavruksh aims to push a change in this lifestyle pattern. “Mumbai is too congested these days. Whenever we step out with our daughter, we are worried about the pollution and the construction work everywhere. You cannot even let your kids run freely because the roads and pavements are unsafe,” the young mother tells us.