Created to bring the world of adventure and wilderness closer to the common person, Natura creates unique experiences to introduce the urbane individual to the pleasures and insights inherent in the great outdoors.

Natura Outdoor Education & Training Solutions (NOETS) is primarily an organisation that uses the wilderness and adventure as tools for Learning & Developmental as well as Recreation.

>Along the way Natura added to its core capabilities, a flair for adventure-themed event conceptualisation, planning and implementation; along with an acumen for manufacturing and trading in adventure-related infrastructure and equipment.

Natura was formed by the amalgamation of the Natura Outdoor Education Trust (supported by noted adman and adventure enthusiast, Mr. Prahlad Kakkar as Trustee) with several individuals and businesses that hitherto operated in diverse adventure-related services. Therefore, today as an organisation, Natura represents the sum total of the experience, expertise, knowledge and passion of a prodigious few from the fields of Adventure Sports,  Experiential Learning, Offbeat Travel & Ecology. Each of them have been decade-old professionals in their industry and have together lent Natura a reputation and client relationships that pre-date its existence by several years.

Directors and Trustees

Avishkar Tendle

Avishkar was 10 when he participated in his first high-altitude Himalayan trek and has been hooked ever since. Today, he is an Outdoor Educator. He has been a professional in Adventure Sports and Travel for the past 12 years. He has travelled and trekked extensively in the Himalayas and the Sahyadris. He has taught at the prestigious Voyageur Outward Bound School in Montana, USA – an international organization for Outdoor & Experiential Education.

Avishkar decided he’d be happier with qualifications that weren’t too academic and promptly dropped out of junior college. He did graduate though from the Himalayan Glacier Mountaineering Course conducted by the National Outdoor Leadership School, USA. He’s a certified Wilderness First Responder from Wilderness Medical Associates, USA and a Grade - An alumnus of the Mountaineering Course at the Directorate of Mountaineering and Adventure Sports, Manali. A Rock Climbing Course from the Girivihar Foundation, a Solo Para-gliding Course from Rush Adventure and a one-year certificate course in Ornithology (Bird Study) (BNHS,Mumbai) made sure his hobbies and passions turned into solid skill-sets.
Avishkar has completely dedicated himself to the Outdoors in all aspects and amongst other things, is the Manging Director of Natura and also, Managing Trustee for NOET. He strives towards to explore and understand every facet of the environment he is working in, initiate’s curiosity in the groups he is working with and has an insatiable appetite for learning.

Prahlad Kakkar

Prahlad Kakkar has been the Advertising Film Director for Genesis Film Production Pvt. Ltd., India’s oldest and one of India’s foremost Ad film production houses since its inception in 1977. Prahlad Kakkar has ruled the advertising world with his brand of irreverent humor and has created award wining commercials for the most reputed corporates and agencies in India and the Asia Pacific region. He is also a worthy recipient of the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award for his contribution to Advertising and Film Art (2000). The Abbys, held in Bombay recently, conferred “Recognition of Distinction” for Prahlad’s contribution to Indian and Asian advertising. A staunch believer of living large, Prahald Kakkar has given shape to his myriad interests and effectively converted many into profitable ventures.



A connoisseur of cigars and fine food, he owns a thriving business of his personal brand of cigars. His passion for food and people has proved instrumental in his association with a variety of restaurants, enabling him to introduce diverse tastes and styles of dining to the city of Mumbai. Not without a social conscience, he is also the co-founder member of Reef Watch Marine Conservation, involved in creating marine awareness, education, scientific research and data collection.
He is a certified Scuba Diving Instructor, successfully running ‘Lacadives’, the first scuba diving school in the Kadmat and Bangaram islands of Lakshadweep. Realising that Outdoor Education is an incomparable medium for a better future; Prahlad supports and plays an important role as the Chief Advisor & Trustee of Natura Outdoor Education Trust.

Subhash Tendle

Subhash Tendle is an alumnus of Sir J.J. Institute of Applied Arts, Mumbai. He has more than 35 years of brand communication and advertising experience. He has worked as Creative Director for FCB-Ulka for more than two decades. In the last 15 years of his long stint in FCB as a creative director, he was largely involved in training creative people to be more effective in their idea generation work. Therefore, after formally retiring from FCB, the next logical step was to begin a new career—teaching advertising communication at the Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad (MICA), first as visiting faculty for three years, and now on a permanent basis as faculty teaching Creative Communication. At MICA, he is responsible for the success of one of its courses, Crafting Creative Communications, a specially designed course for budding art-directors, copywriters and ad-film makers. He is also a partner and creative think tank of Sixth Sense, a corporate communication and design boutique based in Bangalore. Many industry heads have openly acknowledged the effectiveness of this course. Three years, ten batches and over 20 international awards won by students - the facts speak for themselves Realising that Outdoors and Adventure is an incomparable catalyst for learning, Subhash also designs and executes, Creative Workshops combined with Outdoor Management & Development Programmes for Natura Outdoor Education Trust.

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Our Team

Gaurang Swarge

All of 24, Gaurang has been the backbone of Natura ever since its inception. Hardly surprising, considering the range of achievements that he has to his name already; from developing software for the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), to being the Joint Secretary of Girivihar, one of India’s oldest non-profit Mountaineering clubs.
After a post-graduate (M.Sc.) in Computer Science, Gaurang pursued qualifications of a different kind by completing his Basic Mountaineering certificate course from the Nehru Institute of Mountaineering, Uttarkashi. Having already completed the Girivihar's rock climbing course and Advanced level of the Sport Climbing course at an early age, Gaurang later went on to be a professional rock climber and an integral part of Girivihar's course as an instructor and an organiser.
As Joint Secretary of Girivihar, Gaurang has been at the forefront of organizing the Girivihar Open International Climbing Competition, the prime international Rock Climbing event in India, since its launch 6 years ago. The last few years have also seen Gaurang grow as an Outdoor Educator, helping children and youth explore themselves through the medium of adventure sports.
Currently, at Natura, Gaurang oversees the day-to-day functioning of the business and plays the role of the financial custodian of the organisation. As the administrative head of Natura, Gaurang is often the unsung Mr. Dependable for most unseen, yet crucial administrative affairs that form the bedrock for Natura’s diverse ventures.

Shubhi Mehta

She is armed with a degree and diploma in hospitality management, has flair to travel, a heart to accept new ventures, and is inclined to learn and grow everyday. An extrovert by nature, a quality required for healthy public relations on and off the field.

A talented and trained dancer choreographer, a skill she showcased as a professional on stage. A natural at talking and leading the audience on stage, her work as a Master of Ceremony includes a vast variety, from fashion to corporate and even family functions. She has hence worked with a number of elite companies in India and abroad like Accenture, Microsoft, Dell, Samsung, Met life, Intel, to name a few.

Her penchant for outdoors started with a chance in the hit reality television series ROADIES season 3 where she emerged a finalist. Her tryst with outdoors led her to be an obvious choice in the first sports bollywood movie CHAK DE INDIA (2007). She has been a part of many other projects that have brought her acclaim as an artist in the industry. ( Mere Khwabon Mein Jo Aye, 2009; Aamras 2009, Char Mulaquatien, unrealeased and the current television prime time serial Bairi Piya on Colors).

She has been actively working as an anchor and a support to Natura. Believing in the fact that learning comes from doing and from moving away from ones zone of comfort Shubhi is now heading the public relations for natura and lending her expertise and experience to the company.

Dilip Jadhav

Dilip Jadhav has a long and varied experience in a multitude of Outdoors-related commercial ventures.

An avid Rock-climber and a snake-rescuer in his free time, Dilip has, at different points in his career, been a part of recreational high-altitude Himalayan treks, Corporate Outbound training programmes and Adventure-based TV production.

Dilip has worked as Adventure Task designer, technical expert and adventure safety consultant for Ad-films, Television and movie productions, notably: MTV Roadies (Seasons 3, 4, 5, 6 & 7), MTV SplitsVilla (seasons 1 & 2), Nat Geo’s Apollo Flight of the Hawkz and even helped simulate the rock climbing scene from the movie Lakshya for Hrithik Roshan, among others.

Dilip has also led high-altitude Himalayan treks and Children’s camps for respected adventure organisations like Countryside, Idiscoveri and India Outdoors among others. He is a wilderness first aider, certified by the National Outdoor Leadership School, USA.
At Natura, Dilip plays the role of a Site Manger and also manages operations for most production-related adventure activities under the aegis of Natura Adventure Crew.

Rohit Pote

Rohit Pote has spent close to 10 years in the field of Adventure and Outdoor Education.

Rohit has manged to create, over his long career span, a strong niche for himself as a flawless adventure activity support for Outbound Training programmes. His ability to execute and manage operations for outbound programmes has given him an enviable reputation with senior facilitators and trainers who design and run these programmes.

A pure outdoors man at heart, Rohit has rock-climbed and trekked extensively throughout the Sahyadris. Along with Dilip, he is also a wilderness first aider, certified by the National Outdoor Leadership School, USA.

Rohit is the Operations Manager at Natura and superbly manages almost all the aspect of Natura’s Outbound Operations.

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