VIP Class Notes (George) [W / R]

Vocabulary

Doubling/Tripling- Making something double or triple.

e.g. When you touch the tips of your toes, you can double or triple your fat rolls.

canons- Another word for rules.

e.g. The canons of law say you cannot kill anyone.

aesthetic- The idea of beauty

e.g. I think that Lulu lemon’s aesthetic is really interesting.

Please don’t forget to return the props to where they belong.

Today we might go into cobra pose, in general, in back-bending we want to create a bigger circle and more space inside of your body,  we bring the shoulder blades up and roll back to distribute the space among each vertebra / across your vertebrae, without any compression or jamming of the lower back.

Dead bugs

Cross and press your hands in front of your thighs pushing your hands against your thighs to create resistance, and then exhale, stabilize your core and torso. Consciously / purposefully extend one arm up and reach your opposite leg out and ahead of you, while keeping your core muscles engaged.

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Body-positivity campaigns are becoming increasingly popular on social media worldwide, thanks to the support of numerous brands and influencers, In China, however , idealized beauty still dominates the narrative and continues to set unrealistic standards for women and girls around the country, To a great extent, the trend is driven by the ultra-popular Wanghong( digital influencers) whose success is related to the fact that they are considered” conventionally” beautiful.

For anyone fairly familiar with Chinese social media, it’s not difficult to picture the beauty canons impersonated by many wangling, spotless, pale skin, soft pink lips, big’ rabbit eyes” and perfectly symmetrical face all traits. Many of them, however, have undergone plastic surgery to get their perfect” wangling face”and exclusively take picture with just the right filters,There is , in fact, a specific formula for taking a good selfie in China, Among other things, it includes using an app that filters your skin to improve it and make it ” digital-ready” With a few clicks , these selfie- editing apps have functions to touch up almost any”flaw “you
can think of.

In China, the wangling are particularly successful and influential because they ride the tide of what’s happening in society at large, while ‘ the young and affluent have many more financial possibilities than previous generations, their desire to look attractive has increased exponentially
Contemporary Chinese women in particular, fueled by the aesthetic promoted by brands and consumerism, are even more obsessed with centuries-old beauty standards and their predecessors, in ancient China, for example, a woman’s white skin was a symbol of wealth and status,

With millions of followers, HoneyCC is one of the most popular wangling in China, like all the other influencers, she get gifts and requests for product-placement posts and videos. But unlike most of there counterparts, her pages doesn’t focus on fashion, travel or wellness, she mostly shares shot self-taken videos of her dancing, lip-syncing, eating and doing mundane activities, Last year HoneyCC, born Lin Chuchu, told The New Yorker that she never takes or posts a selfie or a video that isn’t edited with the most popular filter.