Anupama Bhattacharya

Hello Divine Mirror! My name is Anupama Bhattacharya, I am a realm explorer, soulful inventor, and expressive philosopher.

While studying Biomedical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Wisconsin- Madison, I had the exquisite honor of patenting our invention the Harameter, an Abdominal Breathing teaching device. Combining the spiritual wisdom of zen meditation with modern technology, we created a belt that communicates to an app allowing users to self monitor the state of their abdomen during breathing exercises. Deep breath lightens the soul by initiating the parasympathetic nervous system and balancing hormonally influenced emotions. Additionally, under the tutelage of my incredible mentor at the Center for Women’s Health Research, I explored and published Natural Language Processing findings, blending linguistics, psychology, and machine learning.

Throughout my time as a student at UW, I became deeply acquainted with my love of the arts. Performing and coaching through Yoni Ki Baat, a spoken word collective, I had an opportunity to express my surreal daydreams. I was a featured poet for Melanin Speaking, and the Winter Festival of Poetry, and I was published in Illumination, the University’s Humanities Journal. I experimented with painting and creating my own canvases from curbed furniture and natural wood, which were chosen in a peer’s Art History senior thesis showcased in the Chazen Museum. In addition to my childhood training in Bharatanatyam Dance, I was enchanted by Swing, Latin, and West African dance forms. Later, I studied Kathak, Bellydance, Bollywood, Hiphop, Heels, and Modern.

Following graduation, I worked industry positions as a software developer and data analyst, however I longed for spiritual depth and emotional expression. Thus, I began hosting art shows, community organizing, performing dance, and teaching. I co-founded a transition program that provided shelter, food, and guidance for houseless people in our community. I taught coding algorithms through an online academia, was a behavioral therapist for youth with Autism, hosted multiple art workshops, and was the lead STEAM curriculum designer/educator for BadgerBots’ outreach program.

My deepest spiritual learnings came in the last couple years as a mother and a daughter. During the five day homebirth of my daughter, I experienced how devotional meditation can self-induce the release of oxytocin, relieving and transforming pain into ecstasy. Soon after, my mother was born again too. She had a ruptured brain aneurysm, suspending her spirit between realms while her body was on life support. Over the course of the last 2 years, I have been witness to her incredible will to live and my father’s loving devotion to her. WIth God’s grace, my mother and daughter are learning how to walk and talk together. Miraculous, mystical, and simply divine.

Now, as a mother, I perform dance and poetry including being chosen as a DELVE choreographer for the Isthmus Dance Collective. I began my educational organization, SaradaSun, where I teach joyful multidisciplinary/multicultural curricula at Madison Libraries, check it out at saradasun.org! I feel a renewed purpose to blend my passion for the arts and technology in ways that inspire mystic philosophy and the sensation of unity.