"Building to OBR Revolution" Series Continues with Jessica Montoya & Sohini Chakraborty
12/23/2014
We are pleased to present the latest in the "Building to One Billion Rising REVOLUTION" series.
This week we hear from One Billion Rising Global Coordinator and Family Specialist at Adelante Program in New Mexico Jessica Eva Montoya, and Sohini Chakraborty, Founder and Secretary of Kolkata Sanved Dance Movement Therapy (DMT).
With this series, we share the stories of extraordinary activists who embody the creative radical shift in consciousness required to bring about CHANGE.
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How I Finally Confronted My Abuser, and Found Peace
By Jessica Montoya
Two years ago, I stood in front of a crowd of thousands of people at the One Billion Rising in Santa Fe, and I told my story. The air was crisp and clean and I felt I didn't need to eat, or drink -- there was enough to nourish me right there, in that crowd of women and men who were preparing to dance. For so long, I had been ashamed of what I had been through. Now I could talk about it, and I had all these people cheering me.
There's a Force that Can Heal Trauma, and it's Not What You Think
By Sohini Chakraborty
Dance can set you free. It can liberate your body and liberate your mind. That is what I have learned in my own life and that is the lesson I remember while working with women who have been taught through violence to see their bodies as disgusting, shameful, or ruined. Every day I see dance undoing this shame and setting individuals free.