February 4, 2009

"Fashion Magazines: What's Up?"
Students arrived for Opening Circle with great enthusiasm for being together again after our snow day last week. Everyone remembered to return their cameras. We'll have photos developed for our next class art project exploring " The Many Sides of Me".
This week our MLP creative project and discussion centered on analyzing the Fashion industry messages to women through the types of advertising found in current, popular fashion magazines. Using a list of thought provoking questions to explore gender stereotypes, idealized beauty, woman as leaders, healthy body image, etc.the girls worked in pairs to discuss , collect pages and collaborate to build a wall mural of imagery. The results show that most of a fashion magazine is devoted to advertising, not articles about leadership, extrodinary action in the world and natural beauty.
In our Yoga class we practiced Sun Salutation Series for feeling our power. We learned a new standing pose- Triangle. We practiced rest pose for nuturing our well being.