After changing many careers, Angira finally found her calling in Dance Movement Therapy and subsequently started a venture in the same field.

Angira Chakravorty Dasgupta is the Founder of Healing Rhyyithm.

Angira was born and raised in Kolkata. She spent the first few years of her life in Jamshedpur, but grew up mostly in Kolkata. She says that she comes from a culturally progressive family mostly of whom are educators. Thus, she says, she had a decent exposure to arts while growing up. She was trained in Indian Classical Music and also had a knack for dancing as well, which she started learning during her college time. She did a Diploma course in Dance Movement Therapy and Counselling after starting her career. She then got trained in Sound Therapy, Art Therapy, and Meditation later in her career. She is also a Master Practitioner of NLP.

Talking about her professional journey, Angira says that she did not join this profession right after college. She rather turned her part time job of teaching into a full time one as she belonged from a family of educators. She began teaching at an International School in Mumbai and had been doing well in it but always kind of felt that there was something missing. She never knew what she was missing so she left her job and entered into the corporate world. She says that despite it being a rather lucrative job, she still found it unsatisfying. She was then advised by her family to continue the job, thinking it was just her whim. She says that she wanted to continue her job along with learning Indian Classical Dance, which introduced her to Dance Movement Therapy. She joined it in 2014 and has been enjoying every day of it since then.

Talking about Healing Rhyyithm, Angira says that she prefers to be referred to as a Flow Facilitator due to the fact that she deals with healing through the help of various artforms. She says that she likes everything about it, from the science behind it to the fact that she can help people with it. She believes that there is rhythm in everything that has life and that is how she came up with this name for her venture.

According to Angira, mistakes are learning curves and she has had a lot of them which has made her what she is. She says that changing her career field was initially quite difficult as she was the first person in her family to become an entrepreneur, but she went forward with confidence. One of the mistakes that she is not really proud of is rolling out her services free of cost which created an impression among people that it was social work. She further says that you need to be responsible as a healing professional and can't afford mistakes as people’s lives depend on it, so you should keep upgrading yourselves and have mentors and therapists of your own. She also learned to take care of her own mental health as well.

Sharing her achievements, Angira says that everyday she has her moments of achievements as she daily gets to help people through their tough times. She says that once she was invited to deliver a Ted Talk as well.

Advising the people who want to join her field of work, Angira says that firstly you need to get trained at an authentic place, then you should focus on upgrading yourself constantly. She further adds that you should take up clients as per your capacity and refer them to another professional if you don’t feel confident. She reiterates that you must undergo therapy yourself.

Advising everyone, Angira says that it’s okay to not feel good. She explains that mental health problems are not a disease and rather more of a lifestyle issue as life in modern times has become fast paced and people don’t have anyone to talk to. She further advises that you should not brush your mental health issues under the carpet and should reach out to therapists without hesitation.

Talking about her mentors, Angira says that she is inspired by one of her mentors - Dr. Daisaku Ikeda, from whom she learned many life values, both personally and professionally. In the field of dance, she follows Shashwati Garai Ghosh, Sohini Chkraborty (from whom she learned dance movement therapy), and Tripura Kashyap. She is also grateful to Col. S. Mukherjee, from whom she got trained in NLP. She says that the list of her mentors who trained her goes on.