Sean Ongley

Tag: Yoga

  • Winter 2023 Photo Collection

    Winter 2023 Photo Collection

    Last year, I was hooked up with a Panasonic G-85 DSLM camera for the dual purpose of taking product shots for Held Gear, and to revive the old Thru Media dream with plans of publishing new original video content. As things have gone, I’ve taken to photography and have had the support of Philly friends in providing me some gigs. The pictures below are a combination of shots taken for hire and others I’ve volunteered for.

    I don’t get out enough to shoot for the sake of it, I always tie it to something else, in part to maximize my time. Giving away photos for someone who can use them while gaining experience is a good tactic, although one stands the risk of making negative impressions with sub par results.

    The photos below are a small collection of some favorites from the winter of 2023. Events represented here include Solar’s dance party series Oblivion, Great Circle’s live ambient music series Passages featuring a visual experience from Klip Collective, and Yolo Ono’s sober evening of DJ music called Club Connection.

    Please read the captions for context to each photo, and if you want to know more intimate detail about it, please follow my instagram and you’ll see the same batch of images with a story and tags to the people involved.

  • A Hot Flow with Madison

    A Hot Flow with Madison

    Madison is a new yoga instructor based in Orlando, Florida. Her practice has become a core aspect of her life and she will very likely make it a larger aspect of her livelihood. We met through an online community.

    Over the last seven months, we’ve developed a long distance friendship, and she is truly an honest person, logical and compassionate at once. She prefers not to discuss topics or expose more details about her personal life than what I’ve given, at this point. Maybe another time.

    I ain’t gonna lie. This was a tough session. I turned off my AC because on a summer evening it converts into a hot yoga room in no time, but actually because I was afraid of the noise in the background.

    I was correct. And I needed to mix my mic down, but not turn it off. To hear the breath of the student is a good thing, if they are breathing well. I am pretty good. The big problem I had was mic quality. It was atrocious.

    I apologize for the audio on this video.

    However, if you can get used to it and follow Madison’s lead, then we have provided a valuable document. You can come back to this and master the lesson. I haven’t yet, but I plan on it. Of course, I learned from it, and she offered pointers after the session.

    Again, it is a tough session. I am an intermediate yogi and I fell apart on the last pose. Part of that is trying to do this with bad perspective to the computer and her camera I guess was mirrored, but really, she brings a complex series of poses together with a lot of double work.

    She said that I wanted a power workout but I never actually said that. This is my blog and I’m going to say my side. I told her what I have learned and stressed that she do what she does, no more. When she rehearsed this flow, she told me it went fast and easy. So that’s a lesson as a teacher.

    I love to learn and I am willing to air my mistakes. This blog is all about that.

    I hope you enjoy it.

  • Career and Karma with Emily

    Career and Karma with Emily

    Emily is a Los Angeles based yoga instructor and much more. She runs a fashion startup for athletic/dance/yoga gear. She has developed a complete internet persona that promotes her virtual teaching and coaching as well.

    Despite all of these things typically associated with liberal communities, she is more conservative. She is like myself however, kind of post-liberal and definitely post-post Republican.

    Libertarians are not MAGA. Sometimes they intersect, but there is a major distinction, and from my experience, they have much more alignment with the traditional liberal.

    In this discussion we talk about finding our careers, loving all people and respecting a diversity of views, growing up in California, and living in communities where our views could be taken the wrong way.

    Her following on Twitter @astateofEmily became a phenomenon because she was courageous enough to speak defiantly about what many of us have considered a scam these last two plus years. Like myself, we are growing there within the conservative side of things, but she being independent in thought has to take shit from all sides.

    As it is becoming more typical of my approach, I tried to dig into her biography and get to know her.

    Our talk is what I would call sweet. It was like getting lunch with someone new in your life. I suppose that I set that intention with the original title of the livestream.

    I thank Emily for joining me on the Not-a-Podcast Show and I hope we can to work together again soon.

    The easiest way to discover all of her projects is via Link Tree.