{"id":622,"date":"2011-08-10T17:41:57","date_gmt":"2011-08-11T00:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.riseupmassage.com\/?p=622"},"modified":"2016-04-15T03:51:48","modified_gmt":"2016-04-15T03:51:48","slug":"for-somali-women-health-program-eases-the-pain-of-war-exile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riseupmassage.com\/new\/for-somali-women-health-program-eases-the-pain-of-war-exile\/","title":{"rendered":"For Somali women, health program eases the pain of war, exile"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_623\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-623\" style=\"width: 296px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.riseupmassage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Daryel.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-623\" title=\"Daryel\" src=\"http:\/\/www.riseupmassage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Daryel.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"296\" height=\"197\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-623\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ERIKA SCHULTZ \/ THE SEATTLE TIMES: Harborview nurse Bria Chakofsky-Lewy, in turquoise, practices yoga with a group of Somali women. The program, called Daryel or &#8220;wellness&#8221; in Somali, is designed to improve health and well-being. It also offers massage, health education and opportunities for socializing.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>By<\/strong> <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/search.nwsource.com\/search?searchtype=cq&amp;sort=date&amp;from=ST&amp;byline=Andrew%20Doughman\">Andrew Doughman<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Special to the Seattle Times<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Somali women who fled their war-ravaged homeland are finding compassionate, &#8220;culturally competent&#8221; health care at Daryel, an exercise, massage-therapy and social support group in Seattle.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Harborview Medical Center nurse faced a conundrum.<\/p>\n<p>Several doctors had told Bria Chakofsky-Lewy that a group of Somali women patients had aches and pains they could not treat successfully. Chakofsky-Lewy, who supervises a program for immigrants and refugees, reasoned the trouble could be a combination of physical trauma and emotional pain from fleeing war and relocating thousands of miles from their homeland.<\/p>\n<p>One solution could have been a regimen of pills.<\/p>\n<p>Chakofsky-Lewy had another idea: massage therapy.<\/p>\n<p>So, on a Sunday morning in 2009, about a dozen Somali women in loose-fitting Islamic garb arrived at a South Seattle community center. They drank tea. And volunteer massage-therapy students kneaded the knots out of their backs.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Seattle Times Article\" href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/health\/2014740317_somaliyoga11.html\">read entire Seattle Times article here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am so happy to be a part of this amazing and inspiring program. If you are interested in helping in any way with ideas, funding, time or massage, please let me know!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Andrew Doughman Special to the Seattle Times Somali women who fled their war-ravaged homeland are finding compassionate, &#8220;culturally competent&#8221; health care at Daryel, an exercise, massage-therapy and social support group in Seattle. &nbsp; The Harborview Medical Center nurse faced a conundrum. 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