About Us

Vision – To create a world where love is not just a feeling – but a way of living – where people, art, and action flow as one.
A world where 1Ness is not an idea, but a lived experience that moves us to care, to create, and to contribute.

Mission – To inspire individuals, organisations, and communities to operate from a space of love – every day, in every way, in everything they do.

Raison d’être

Returning to Love reflects a simple yet profound truth – love is our natural state of being. Yet, in the pursuit of progress, productivity, and performance, we have slowly drifted away from it.

The COVID-19 pandemic brought this reality sharply into focus. Fear, anxiety, isolation, grief, and uncertainty deeply impacted our collective mental and emotional well-being. We especially saw how fear-based communication was considered effective. And while the pandemic has passed, its emotional residue remains – shaping how we relate to ourselves, to work, to relationships, and to the world.

Our work is an invitation to return – to consciously shift our inner response from fear to love, and in doing so, nurture mental health, emotional resilience, and a deeper sense of belonging.

At RTL, we create safe and compassionate spaces – through the arts, dialogue, and community – where people feel seen, heard, and held. These spaces support emotional expression, self-reflection, and healing, making mental well-being not an outcome, but a lived experience.

At the heart of RTL lies the belief that Love and 1Ness can be Goal Zero of the UN Sustainable Development Goals – the inner alignment, the how, through which all other goals can be meaningfully realised. When we live from love and 1Ness, care for mental health and well-being (SDG 3), the planet (SDG 13), peace (SDG 16), partnership (SDG 17), and equity arise naturally.

Founded in 2022, and registered as a not-for-profit Foundation in 2024, RTL creates safe spaces for heartfelt exchange, reflection, and transformation through the arts and community dialogue. Our growing community today includes 3,000+ seekers, artists, leaders, and changemakers.

The Three Aha Moments – Pillars of Our Work

Each pillar emerged organically from lived experience, collective reflection, and the emotional and mental landscapes we witnessed across our community. Together, they form the foundation of RTL’s approach to well-being, leadership, learning, and social change.

Aha Moment 1: Returning to Love by Celebrating our Gifts

Across multiple RTL gatherings, a powerful insight emerged – one of the most natural ways to return to love, and to strengthen mental and emotional well-being, is by living, honouring, and celebrating our gifts.

Our gifts may be talents, attitudes, ways of serving, ideas, or defining life moments. When we recognise and express them, we experience joy, purpose, and connection – and enable others to do the same.

This became the guiding theme of RTL in 2023 and 2024: Returning to Love through Celebrating Our Gifts. Performers and storytellers – called VOYCEs of Love – shared not only their art, but the courage it took to listen to their hearts. Their presence transformed audiences from spectators into self-reflective participants, awakening many to their own gifts.

Aha Moment 2: Returning to Love by Returning to Learning

Another insight followed – learning itself is an act of love.

When we enter learning spaces, something softens. Curiosity replaces judgement. Humility replaces defensiveness. Wonder replaces fear. Learning reminds us that growth is always possible.

In 2024, this understanding led to the first RTL Conscious Leadership Retreat at the TIEEDI Forest Garden in Darjeeling – India’s first zero-waste village. Artists, young leaders, and seekers came together to pause, realign, and return to nature and to love.

This pillar also inspired the launch of Seekers & Seers, an online community for spiritual seekers and learners, lovingly co-created with Shivpreet Singh and DhunAnand, offering a shared space for reflection, inquiry, and discovering 1Ness. RTL also collaborates with nurturing spaces like the Green Apple Learning Centre, which supports children of migrant labourers through education rooted in care, dignity, and love. Through these co-learning experiences, we create simple, meaningful moments of connection – where learning becomes a shared journey and 1Ness is lived in everyday life.

Aha Moment 3: Returning to Love by Returning to 1Ness

At the heart of all our work lies a deeper realisation – to return to love is ultimately to return to 1Ness.

1Ness is not just about one humanity. It is inner alignment – when what we think, say, and do come from the same place. It is feeling connected to people, nature, and life itself. Joy and pain, clarity and confusion, success and uncertainty – all belong to the same whole.

When we live in 1Ness, love becomes effortless. And when love guides our choices, development stops being an external target and becomes a natural expression of who we are.

This insight shaped the theme for RTL Festival in 2025 and 2026: The Returning to Love Annual Festival – Celebrating 1Ness Intelligence, Love, and UN SDG Champions.

Held every year on the Sunday on or before 15 January, the festival brings together artists, thinkers, leaders, and changemakers to experience how alignment, love, and purpose can create real shifts – within us and in the world.

RTL Talks – Conversations that Return Us to Love

Born from the reflections and emotional shifts witnessed at RTL gatherings, RTL Talks extends these safe, reflective spaces into the digital world – making conversations around love, leadership, resilience, mental well-being, and 1Ness accessible to a global audience.

To take these reflections deeper and wider, we launched RTL Talks – a podcast and video series exploring the lives of extraordinary individuals who consciously choose love as their way of being.

Each conversation dives into our guests’ journeys, their gifts, their challenges, and how they continue to return to love – and care for their inner world – amidst both inner and outer chaos.

Guests on RTL Talks include inspiring voices such as Shivpreet Singh, Dr Manulani Aluli Meyer, Rakesh Khatri (The Nest Man of India), Utsow Pradhan, Kailash Kher, Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Amy Singh, Harinder Singh, Dr Jagriti, Rajesh Prasanna, Swami Sarvapriyananda, Ian Maksin, and leaders from the UN SDG Action Campaign – each offering lived insights into love as practice, choice, and intelligence. RTL Talks reminds us that love is not passive – it is a daily practice and a courageous choic.

Our Work in Action

RTL’s initiatives contribute directly to:

SDG 3: Good Health & Well-being
SDG 4: Quality Education
SDG 16: Peace, Justice & Strong Institutions
SDG 17: Partnerships for the Goals

Key Activities

The Arts: Poetry, music, dance, and storytelling as pathways to healing, awareness, and social change.
Inspiring Conversations & Podcasts: Dialogues that spark reflection, compassion, and purpose-driven action.
Events & Festivals: Immersive experiences celebrating Love, 1Ness, and collective consciousness.
Community Engagement & Learning: Workshops and co-learning spaces that nurture mindfulness, emotional intelligence, and social harmony.

About the Founder

Anika Singh is a social artist and public health communication expert who works at the intersection of arts, behaviour science, and social change. With over 20 years of experience across India, South-East Asia, the Western Pacific, Europe, and Australia, she has collaborated extensively with governments, UN agencies, hospitals, educational institutions, and community organisations to design communication that moves people – emotionally, intellectually, and behaviourally.

Her academic journey began with Sociology and Conflict Transformation & Peacebuilding at Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi University, grounding her in a deep understanding of people, relationships, and social systems. She went on to pursue a Master’s in Business Economics, followed by advanced training in Strategic Communication from the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs (USA). Over the years, her learning has continued through Applied Behavioural Science at Ashoka University; Advanced Creative Facilitation in the USA; and formal training in education and assessment in Australia – shaping her ability to hold spaces that are both deeply empathetic and strategically sound.

Anika’s commitment to service began early. At the age of 14, she was selected to represent India at the World Youth Congress in Hawai‘i (1999), contributing to the young people’s voice in shaping the Millennium Development Goals. A defining moment in her journey was being invited to Rashtrapati Bhavan to meet Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, who encouraged her to continue her work in Art for Activism – a philosophy that continues to guide her life and work.

She is the Founder-Director of VOYCE (Vision and Opportunities for Youth and Community Empowerment), a platform where art becomes a verb – creating films, publications, trainings, and events that translate complex public health and development messages into human, accessible stories. Under her leadership, VOYCE has produced over 50 publications and more than 250 advocacy productions, collaborating with a wide network of artists across disciplines.

Anika is also the Founder-Director of the Returning to Love Foundation (RTL) – a non-profit born from her lived experience during the COVID-19 pandemic, when she witnessed both the fragility and resilience of the human spirit. RTL reflects her core belief that love is not a soft ideal, but a powerful intelligence – one that can guide leadership, healing, decision-making, and systems change.

“Returning to Love was born from a deep desire to create a sanctuary – a space where people could truly belong. A place to learn, unlearn, dance, dream, and spark ideas together. More than anything, I want RTL to be a reminder that love isn’t abstract – it is a way of being, a way of responding, and a foundation for how we live our lives.”

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