Today, we welcome Cohort 08 folks to our community!

They have kickstarted their learning journey today on the Stoa Platform built by our Engineering Team. C8 is a fun, diverse, unorthodox group that came together to make our first offline Orientation a wonderful experience.
And we'll get to meet all of them on this Wednesday's Community Night, so stay tuned!

Cohort 08 Initiation🥳

With 80 folks coming together along with the Stoa team, the 3 days were a super spirited gala.

Day 1: From getting to know each other and meeting their teams & houses, Day 1 was filled with overwhelming emotions. And to top it a notch, C8’s very first team activity hailed for a long night and several cups of coffee.

Day 2: Getting introduced to the kind of rigor, adaptability, and drive the Stoa program would require; Day 2 was a lot of frisk, frolic, and putting on thinking caps.

Day 3: Commitment and camaraderie were at their peak on Day 3. C8 came together as a Cohort and pioneered the Stoa House championship.

About Houses at Stoa 🦁

During induction, we also launched Houses at Stoa, with Cohort 08 being inducted as the first members of these respective houses:

House Seneca: Seneca the Younger is a Stoic philosopher who popularised many Stoic teachings and is probably the most well-known in popular culture.

House Marcus: Named after the 2nd century Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius, best known for his Stoic writings, which were uncovered & published after his death.

House Zeno: Zeno of Citium was the founder of the Stoic school of philosophy in Athens in 300BC.

House Diogenes: Chosen after two philosophers, Diogenes of Babylon who was the head of the Stoic school in Athens & Diogenes of Sinope, one of the most eccentric philosophers of the time.

Congratulations to House Seneca for being the inaugural winners of the Stoa House Cup!✨

Alums & C6, C7 fellows, I know you’re wondering how you get allocated to a house. We will share updates with you in the next few weeks :) - Shelton

🐝 Community Buzz 🐝

🔥🔥 Community Sneak Peak 🔥🔥

Bringing you all a power-packed week. Have a look, and DO NOT miss out on all the community fun.

First community night with Cohort 08, and we kick off with a community quiz hosted by Zoeb & Tanzeel from Cohort 06!

Tanvi from Cohort 06 is a certified 250 hours Asthanga Yoga Teacher, Practitioner & Student from Indeayoga Mysore. She has been in the field of fitness/Movement professionally for 8 years!

If you’ve been on the fence about starting yoga or sticking to it, this session is for you!
Kicking off on Saturday, 27th August @ 8 AM, We will learn a few beginner asanas that you can practice at home & couple of Pranayama tips & techniques to improve the overall quality of life.

This weekend, Kanika & Jigar from Cohort 06 are organizing a bowling & games meetup at SHOTT for the Stoa fam in Mumbai! It’s been a while since the last Stoa Mumbai meetup, so if you’ll be in town, you don’t want to miss this!

Until next week folks 👋