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Be Bold For Change: International Women's Day (Mar 8, 2017)

3/9/2017

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International Women's Day celebrates the social, economic, cultural, & political achievements of women.  The day also marks a call to action for accelerating gender parity.  In honour of this year's campaign theme "Be Bold For Change", I taught workshop style classes which focussed on how to utilize and align one's body within exercises / poses to feel empowered and achieve sustainable well-being.  The hands, shoulders, core, legs, and feet received lots of empowerment coaching!

I also encouraged increasing one's awareness of how social political justice is a determinant of personal mental & physical health.  In support of this perspective, I recommended reading the recently published books by Vancouver based former lawyer, law professor and gender expert Maureen Fitzgerald, PhD.    I highly recommend the following books:

Motherhood Is Madness: How To Break The Chains that Prevent Mothers From Being Truly Happy by Maureen Fitzgerald, PhD

Occupy Women: A Manifesto for Positive Change In A World Run By Men
by Maureen Fitzgerald, PhD


I would also recommend watching the following movies:

What Happened, Miss Simone? A 2015 documentary about the life and legend Nina Simone, an American singer, pianist, civil rights activist labeled as the "High Priestess of Soul."

Mustang A 2015 internationally co-produced drama film directed by Turkish-French film director Deniz Gamze Erguven.  The film is set in a remote Turkish village and depicts the lives of five young orphaned sisters and the challenges they face growing up as girls in a conservative society.

Thank-you to Marianne Lehnart for recommending that I watch these movies!
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