Chicago (WLS) – Friday was the first day of the black mother's health.
A woman from Chicago uses dance to bridge the gap on the differences that black women face during and after pregnancy.
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Kemera Nimhat is the CEO of Mama Gama for Mother Dance and Wellness.
“My movements are designed to help balance muscles and tissues, and help to create space in the body,” Nemihat said.
Mama Gama's dance category deliberately moves with the body of the postpartum holder in mind.
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“I feel that it makes me stay like, I am still myself at the same time that I carry another person,” said Amiri Reese Gilani, a dance agent.
Under the leadership and dance teacher, Kemera Nimhat, the classrooms are actually taught and a person to help rewrite what it means to be a black mom.
“What we feel throughout the period of pregnancy is completely translated into our children,” Nimahat said. “There are a lot of shocks that are stored in the hips and in our uterus. In my way, we open these things and start launching these things.”
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According to Illinois, black women in the state are three times more likely during pregnancy, and most times more than a year after birth. But at the Ingalls Hospital, the shock stops at the door.
“This is often often expensive seasons of our residents, and we are sometimes talking to people to decide whether they will keep the lights or food on the table,” said Changi -Williams, who runs the health network of the Uchicago Medicine Ingalls Hospital.
Williams said that each chapter could cost between 50 and 60 dollars on average. Its partnership with Mama Gama allows mothers to take two chapters for free and move away with more.
After finishing mothers, they walk away with a good backpack, with things like children's books, shampoo and drilling, and open up to a changing pillow for mothers while moving.
Williams said: “Walking in a system knows that my doctor looks like me, their team looks like me, and this creates a different level of comfort,” Williams said.
The classrooms give space and mothers to be more than themselves because they start a new chapter of their lives with joy.
The celebration is not planning to stop in Chicago.
Nimahat said: “My final dream is that Mama Gama is a world dance.” “My dream is for everyone I face to leave better because they met me.”
More information about Mama Gama for dance and wellness can be found on its website.
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