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Angira Chakravorty Dasgupta, founder of SVã flo. Biographies, facts, photographs and a media contact for journalists, editors, event hosts and producers.
Biographies
Her story, at three lengths.
One line
Angira Chakravorty Dasgupta is a life coach and the founder of SVã flo, a Somatic Self Integrative Therapy practice based in Kolkata.
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Angira Chakravorty Dasgupta is a life coach and the founder of SVã flo, based in Kolkata. A M.Sc (Tech) in Bioinformatics who taught Biology, Physiology and Anatomy, and an Odissi classical dancer for more than twenty years, she founded Healing Rhyyithm in 2015. She has since worked with more than 10,000 people across individuals, academia, corporates, schools and NGOs. SVã flo is her Somatic Self Integrative Therapy.
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Angira Chakravorty Dasgupta is a life coach and the founder of SVã flo. A M.Sc (Tech) in Bioinformatics who taught Biology, Physiology and Anatomy at an international school, while training and performing for more than twenty years as an Odissi classical dancer, she has had an unusual journey to where she stands today.
In 2015 she founded Healing Rhyyithm, to provide a non-discriminatory therapeutic space for people across all socio-economic and cultural spectrums, and has since worked with more than 10,000 people across individuals, academia, corporates, schools and NGOs. SVã flo is the outcome of her search for a deeper, more integrative approach built on everything she had learnt along the way. It combines Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Expressive Arts Therapy, Sound Therapy, Dance Movement Therapy, somatic practices, coaching and counselling.
Angira holds a diploma in Dance Movement Therapy from Kolkata Sanved and the TISS Centre for Lifelong Learning, where she is now faculty, and is a Master Practitioner of NLP. She is a council member of WICCI’s Uttar Pradesh Mental Health Council, India’s first creative-arts mental health council. Her TEDx talk is Willingness to Wellness. Her clients include Dabur, Tata Steel Downstream Products, Aditya Birla Group, RBL Bank, BITS Pilani and Jadavpur University. She works in English, Hindi and Bengali.
Fact sheet
The facts, and how to write the names.
- Name
- Angira Chakravorty Dasgupta
- Role
- Founder, SVã flo; life coach
- Practice
- Somatic Self Integrative Therapy
- Based in
- Kolkata; works across India and online
- Studio
- SVã studio, 21/E Deodar Street, Ballygunge, Kolkata 700019
- Languages
- English, Hindi and Bengali
- In practice
- Since 2015, as Healing Rhyyithm; now SVã flo
- Her name
- Angira Chakravorty Dasgupta at first mention, then Angira
- The practice
- SVã flo: capital S, V and ã, then flo in lower case. Never all capitals. Where the ã is not available, SVA flo
- What it means
- Sva, Sanskrit for “one’s own”; flo, a state of deep focus and ease. Read together, “The Flow of the Self”
- The therapy
- Somatic Self Integrative Therapy
For editors and hosts
What she can speak to.
Each subject is one Angira has already written about in the SVã flo Journal, so the angle can be read before the conversation.
- Burnout at work
- If you lead a team in India, your employees are more burnt out than almost anywhere else in the world.14 June 2026
- Teams and psychological safety
- 1 team-building day once a year cannot build psychological safety.7 July 2026
- Stress the body carries
- Why do you lose your temper at home after a hard day at work?26 July 2026
- Sound as a healing tool
- I have used sound as a healing tool for over a decade.30 June 2026
- Young people and mental health
- Young people today know the words for mental health.14 August 2026
- Life online
- How’s being “chronically online” actually affecting your brain18 September 2026
- Children and the adults around them
- What happens in a child’s body when adults fight around them?10 June 2026
- Therapy and self-help in India
- Self-help books outsell therapy in India.23 September 2026
Formats: interviews and podcasts · panels · talks and keynotes · live sessions online · experiential sessions with a whole audience, where the room takes part rather than listens. In English, Hindi and Bengali.
On stage and on air
Talks, panels and conversations.
Selected appearances
- TEDx
- Talk, Willingness to Wellness
- 2026
- Guest, Bridging Ideas podcast with Supriyo Chowdhury, on emotional exhaustion and disconnection
- 2026
- Panel, Big Leap, for Autism Awareness Month
- 2026
- Artist of the Evening, DHAARA Season 8, Kalashristi School of Fine Arts: a lecture-demonstration on movement therapy
- 2026
- Mentor, Flibbr® Brand Intelligence Bootcamp, Bengaluru
- 2025
- Talk and panel, Kolkata Sanved 5th Biennial Summit, Lucknow
- 2025
- Flow to Lead, HR Boost 2025, for 180 HR professionals
- 2024
- Speaker, GSLC SPARC 2024, Jaipur
- 2023
- Faculty Development Programme, BITS Pilani Innovation Hub
- 2022
- Global Home Entrepreneurs Summit and Awards
- 2020
- Dance To Heal, Instagram Live, Sancheti Healthcare Academy, interviewed by Dr Radha Bhattad
- 2020
- Rhythm of Healing, Facebook Live, Sonali’s Cubo, in conversation with Vayjayanti Pugalia
- 2020
- Guest, Bhalo Thakar Paathshala, Wild Strawberry and Arts4Change
- 2020
- Yi YUVA Conclave, Young Indians with CII, Kolkata
Roles and recognition
- Faculty
- Kolkata Sanved, the TISS Centre for Lifelong Learning
- Council member
- WICCI’s Uttar Pradesh Mental Health Council, India’s first creative-arts mental health council
- Task force
- CII IWN West Bengal, from 2025
- 2026
- Acknowledged at the CII IWN Annual Day, West Bengal
- 2023
- Award, Rotary Means Business Fellowship Group
- 2022
- Felicitated by Rotary Benevolence for contribution to society




