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Facialforum -

by Eric Shaw July, 2016

Facialforum -

In recent years a new kind of public square has emerged online — one dedicated not to politics or hobbies, but to faces. "FacialForum" (used here as a concept rather than a single site) describes communities where people gather to inspect, improve, and debate facial aesthetics: skincare routines, cosmetic procedures, photography angles, identity presentation, and the ethics of curated appearance. These spaces are at once practical marketplaces for advice and strange mirror-mazes where culture, technology, and selfhood refract.

Eric Shaw

by Eric Shaw

July, 2016

About Eric Shaw

Eric Shaw, MA.SE MA.RS MA.AS, has studied yoga and meditation for 30 years and taught both since 2001. He maintains a lively international teaching schedule and is the creator of both Prasana Yoga — a form that reveals alignment in movement — and Yoga Education through Imagery — lecture programming that teaches yoga’s traditions through archival imagery and new scholarship.

He is an E-RYT 500 with two degrees in Art, and Masters Degrees in Education, Religious Studies and Asian Studies. His essays appear in Yoga Journal, Common Ground, Mantra Yoga + Health

, and other publications. To learn more, please see:

www.prasanayoga.com



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