– find yourselfWhat people say at the end of my sessions surprises me every time.
By Angira Chakravorty Dasgupta · Founder, SVã flo
24 July 2026 · 1 min read
The words I hear most are: I feel light. I feel recharged. I feel like myself again.
When I ask what made them feel that way, the answers shift. After a moment of thinking, people say things like:
- I got in touch with a part of myself I had forgotten existed.
- Somewhere between deadlines and responsibilities, I had lost that version of me.
- I got in touch with the child in me.
Most participants find the opening activities unusual. Some find them a little silly. But soon they stop worrying about how they look; they stop performing, and they simply allow themselves to play.
What I have come to understand is that the joy people experience in these sessions is not something I give them. It is something they rediscover.
My job is to create a space where the body softens and the nervous system settles enough for that to happen.
The aliveness, the curiosity, the playfulness were always there. They were just buried under the pace of everyday life.
When did you last feel genuinely light at the end of something?
About the author
Angira Chakravorty Dasgupta
Founder, SVã flo
Angira is the creator of SVã flo – a Somatic Soul Integrated System that works through the body rather than around it. She is a faculty member at Kolkata Sanved, the TISS-affiliated institution where Dance Movement Therapy is taught in India.
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