deirdre summerbell
GRITtv: Bodies as Battlefields: Yoga in Rwanda
In Rwanda, the bodies of women were too often the site of battles--rape and abuse were used as weapons of war. Trying to overcome that trauma, the women and children -- many of whom are HIV-positive -- have an almost unimaginable struggle. When Deirdre Summerbell was approached about teaching yoga to the women in Rwanda, she was skeptical, but she decided to try it. "Yoga is slow medicine but it is medicinal in character," she says now of Project Air, where she helps women and girls reconnect with their bodies and heal their spirits. Summerbell joined us in the GRITtv studio to talk about her project and her plans to expand it into the Congo and other areas of the world, like Gaza and Afghanistan.
Email this pageGRITtv: Nov. 12, 2009
Why aren't reporters asking the real questions? That's what our media panelist Rose Aguilar asked today, and it's a valid question. Rose Aguilar, John R. MacArthur, Dan Gross and Hendrik Hertzberg discuss this and other media questions in our Thursday segementt. "Yoga is slow medicine but it is medicinal in character," Deirdre Summerbell says. She's the founder of Project Air, where she uses yoga to help women and girls in Rwanda, survivors of the genocide, reconnect with their bodies and heal their spirits. Summerbell joined us in the GRITtv studio to talk about her project and her plans to expand it into the Congo and other areas of the world, like Gaza and Afghanistan. And more news.
