I was planned to do a yoga photo shoot and yoga video for my professional website. I already think about this 2 months ago and the problem is i don't know where to start and i just find the information piece by piece so it leads me to nowhere but frustration. Now this idea popped again and i know what to do now, by breakdown the production and start listing from the most important. To making an outstanding production of photo shoot and video, i need to start with a concept.

Concept

Concept means to what target do i make this video, is it an tutorial, instruction, promotion or just having fun with transition? everything should be clear in order to construct the idea of it. After know what is my concept, i should know what content should be in the video, how many detail of hand transition, face close up, transition and where do i take the inspiration from? from the inspiration, study how they shoot the video and how they put the sequence in the line.

Content

Detail of the content, list all of the specific Asanas that want to be appear on the video, in how many second the video appear, the music being used, either use microphone for instruction video or background music (licensed), how long the duration, the brightness condition, the harmony between the vinyasa and the background music if possible that this technique require advanced video editor, the person in the video, the cloth match with the environment, shooting angle during transition, the lightning used in the video (either use a natural light from window which require the shot in the morning or from other source of light), the place as i know outdoor in the morning consider the best to shot yoga video, or other static place with no people at all, in the temple, near the river, on the cliff, do the imagination on how you do Asana in that place.

Talent

The team or single fighter, who shoot the video and direct the movement, in this section i call it the talent. This step is important since it makes the shot more varies and has different combination from different perspective. Imagine if you only shot video from the camera hold by tripod, then the viewpoint is static, only on one view point. If you only have one option to shoot by yourself, no need to worry since you can make the good video too. If this is your choice then the most important point is getting the right angle, show the surrounding perfectly from photography perspective with you in the video.

Tools

Last step, the tool for recording the video, do we need to use tripod or drone, all of it depend on the budget. Not to mention about the special effect which require special equipment but for my project i will not use that except i have a close friend with lightning or stage specialist. The next tools is the editing video program, do you need and have the ability to run a complex video editing software or not since to learn again requires time and effort and if you short of time you will got frustrated.

All the point that i mention is just the basic to record a good yoga video, even it possible to record your video from your phone, i recommended to find a static object to avoid the shakyness during recording. The easy way to make a video is by study the video maker sneak peek and learn how do they shot the video.

So here is the example of my project next month and hope i could finish and published in this blog:

Concept: Having fun with Asanas. The outcome for viewer (yoga teacher and practitioner) is to give them an idea about the new transition

Content: Example: Ashtanga Advanced flow, variation from HS to A, i will go deeper and make the timeline of the video. I will use instrument as background music, the duration around 2 to 3 minutes, enough light as long as the model is not covered in shadow, if possible i will match the move with BGM, i can slow or speed the pace of video in particular sequence, the uniform of the model can be half naked with short or training pants, i will find a good place  (you know my country is too crowded and a bit hard to find an empty building or place)

I will try to shoot single so if my project is successful, i could find another talent to do the next project. In the next yoga article i will write down my detailed content and the time i will shot the video. Wish the best for my project, thanks.

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I just realized that today already new Sunday again, it is fast and already in the middle of March, which if i really need to stick on my first plan to Canada, i should be well prepared on my IELTS next month, and today i have the mood again to talk about Canada since my other two plan has not working right now, though i just work on them for just two weeks. The best plan for me is to accept which road considered best for me, i am learning IELTS in my own pace, not rushed while i also need to prepare my teacher training in upcoming month and after that i should be ready to teach yoga in the next two months. In a rough draw it will become like this:

Now- Middle of March - Busy job searching, learning IELTS, find new circle in church
.Contact with Tsuzhi to organize voluntary yoga training
.Contact with neighbor about Island plan
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Beginning of April - Abandoned all plan below if i got the job in local sport field
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Middle of April - Start teacher training on 16, Saturday
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Beginning of May - Start IELTS test, should be on peak performance
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Middle of May - Result of IELTS test, green light to Canada if all marks above 6
.If green light to Canada, talk with relative and apply the express entry program (wait for half year and more to complete), If not consider other solution by certificate program or abandon the plan
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.End of yoga teacher training 50 hours on 20, Saturday apply the job to Wiwied or Billy for audition
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Beginning of June - Should be teaching yoga to increase the teaching experience
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Beginning of July - More holiday happen in this month, consider to talk about neighbor plan to Island if satisfied with first experience

So this is my timeline for the upcoming three month. I will quit my current job if i got a better job and all the upcoming plan will be cancelled, also my plan to study or work in Canada will be halt. All of three plan is good and i feel comfort in mind, which is the right way to go. I have read an article that our body serves as compass which give us a guideline through our feeling. All intention, even it just a plan the feeling will react according to my whole feeling.

So in this week i just focused on helping my sister looking for the best university and future prospect with the choices chosen. The method i used for this research is using rank of the selected university or program, start from 0 indicate the worst possibilities to 5 as the best possibilities. I have checked around 5 universities related with her interest, food technology in Ontario region, if possible accessible through my relative place so it could save her some money. Later i go deeper from the review, on what perspective they earn such worst or best judgement, is it biased or personal experience which is subjective, or objective from the program or professor or the system. The worst university fall to Centennial College, which is the nearest building to my relative house. Most of the people who gave one star had a problem with the teaching and program. Other worse university is from Seneca College, with similar problem with Centennial. It was surprising since they have an active promotion here.

I start with the keyword: college/ university in Ontario and found much universities, around 20 of them and some has numerous review while other is not so famous. Shortly, we pick something brown college (i forget the name, i will ask my sister again for clarity), and here i use the second method. Since the alumni has different background that affect to their future career, either they choose business or continue on track, i limited the research for only a person in the same country who study in specific university has a career there. I used LinkedIn for this strategy, i randomly select ten country mate who had spent study in the same/ college university in same study program. Some of them already graduated for three years which is ideal to study on their career and this is what i found. Most of them continue with the track, working on lab and doing research, other work in Healthcare business field, and only one come back to his country, i just eliminate that guy since he's an outlier and the percentage of getting that chance is small, to continue a business back in his country, maybe he got something on his back that affect with his career decision.

The third method is to dig deeper information from the information acronym. Once i know the full name, university, and the current place he/she work, i search their social media and try to get their active contact. Later i will call them and introduce that i am his/her prospective student and get their contact from Agent, so it is a friendly approach and i could get promising information from the target. I study from their career beginning, what they are doing, joining a club, volunteer in where, assisting in what, to study on how they could get a prospective job in Canada and fast career progression. I will doing that for myself after my IELTS got green light.

I have a chat with my alumni that she will continue to study in Canada in this year. She used local agent since she need to deal with her internship and final paper so her plan is to continue study for master in Canada and later find a job there. She currently prepared for her English test and all document should be submitted before May. So back to my life choices, i just prepare with my IELTS and see how i could get a better job or pass IELTS, while my yoga journey always complement my life to be balanced and challenged.

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My friend said that there is wrong in my CV, either its design, the information, the position, or anything that can makes a HR throw it. That was my friend said, after he heard that i already threw my 15 CV to different companies, with various job allowance of entry level position. I remembered from the start, due to my high expectation i put my CV on MNC or top level local companies since the position i expected was just a management trainee, my GPA also acceptable from a good university, with one year and more experience makes me confident to apply to bigger company but today already one week after job fair and no interview was emailed to me. I start to reduce my standard for job hunting in day three, that it is okay to join a reputable tier 2 companies, and my expectation is to work in company that has big volume of workers, to understand the system of real "big" company is but also my application on the internet based job searching only read by their HR.

I start to worry to my CV, what is the mistake that eliminate my position in an interview? One has read my application three times and no job interview at all so where is my mistake and my friend said that the internet based job search website that i used right now is not so effective, he recommend to used his recommendation and i will try to use it tomorrow since he got the job from that, a fancy job as sales in jewelry store, working in tie and suit for high level client woohoo. I will try to register the website tomorrow after church.

My main objection for jump to a new career has not changed, i want to try marketing or business analyst division, and if i am lucky i could be in a health/ lifestyle/ sport industries so my job is not just challenging, but also fulfill my passion so i could be more productive and happy with it. For me, the priority of working should be on the good relationship between manager and coworkers, to make myself comfort with the working environment. I know myself, that i am not ambitious, career or good title is good but not meaningful, even i prefer to work in the low salary level but in the job i love. My personal contentment is my top priority in job searching so i totally not suited with competitive work environment, that makes my job searching need to be specific and think twice on my application before i decide to put my CV off.

For my job hunting, i am not rushed in and just try to have another opportunities while i still have my current job that can pay the bill and in the next two months i will start freelance yoga teaching to increase my income, so i could start to save for my future housing. My yoga friend said that if you are good, you will be noticed by someone and i believe in that, everything has the right time to come and what we going to do is to give our best.

Right now i am a bit sleepy and hoped for the productive day tomorrow. I have an invitation from my yoga friend for trying bar training however currently no transportation to go there, which takes around one hour from my place so i will not come. I will make it later, since the community have an event every Sunday morning. See you next time in my blog.

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Today was so exhausted of nothing. All my plan was cancelled due to myself, I slept late yesterday, around 3 am I remembered and woke up at 10. You know today in my gym has a special yoga class, they start at 8 until 11 and the time I woke up it was the last session of yoga class in Saturday so no class anymore since the room that usually being used for the evening yoga class would be changed to another schedule. The chain of laziness has not over yet, I felt sleepy and my biggest mistake is not to grab something to eat or cold bath so I got lazy and slept for one more hour, I wake up again and the chain not yet finished, I supposed to go outside and do something productive or socialize with others who has finished with the yoga class and instead of that, I just open my laptop and start the endless articles reading until I starve myself and eat any food left on table, bring it to my room and continue my laziness.

I got bored in the afternoon and continue to play games on my phone, until family dinner. I was so unproductive day for me and I regret it, one day already gone and I hope after dinner I made an appointment with my friends, wish that it could lift my mood again but you know what, I felt my energy level was dropped down, I have no mood to start any interesting topic in this week and I became the quietest person again in the circle. So if I could sum my week, today is the worst day in this week. I supposed to study IELTS or doing a research on Canada, job searching, dig deeper the information about yoga, find new communities which I have delayed since two weeks ago, that I want to get the new friend that is productive and positive.

Look back on my yesterday, was more productive than today, starting with yoga and appointment with dentist, chatting to new social yoga group that are going to have an event in the middle of April, talking about the charity opportunity by giving a writing, and an unexpected guest whom I had a crush on her for a long time, she rarely take yoga class and today I was lucky to see her face again. I might date her someday but I take more than I have right now so I am hoping for the best. Yesterday I have a nice talk with my yoga teacher that the good and bad thing happened in my yoga community. The good thing is everyone grew so fast, faster than another member in term of physical change, the technique of Asanas and rhythm of breath, openness, and challenge each other with the positive competition. I love to see myself grow with them and the sad part is our circle consist of yoga enthusiast with the different working background, some of us are decided to take yoga more serious than ever, it means that they will start to get a teacher training in an upcoming month. Around half of us are taking the training and some of us already consider to teach the student as their freelance or career. The sad point is our relation will get less intense in term of practice together, especially if they found another circle that is near or better. I really don't want to talk about this but this makes me a bit sad.

I had many circles before them, starting from middle school circle which already lost contact due to different hobbies and lifestyle, football circle has an internal conflict with one person, church circle also lost contact with the same situation as mid school, I never fit and fully accepted in my college circle, in my workplace all of them already got married and settled, they also have their own circle and the only circle that satisfies my social need and to share my personal feeling only in this circle. My mistake has I let this feeling enter my heart too deep so once it changed, it affect my feeling. I was supposed to be happy with them, they have their own right to choose their life and we still have a time, sometimes to reunite and practice together but this is a bit hard for me, to find another circle that could make me accepted again. I wish the best for them and I am starting to find another circle from church and contribute something to church is a beautiful thing to do, I personally have time for that and I don't mind to get a bit busy for doing something wonderful.

I am happy to know that today is the day twenty I wrote on this blog, to know a person like me who mostly give up in three days, this was my achievement and I hope I could continue writing until next month. See you in the next writing.

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Here i am, after taking two power yoga classes, one in morning and one in night with the first time trying freeletics in public park. I felt happy today to do 90/10 principles makes my day much better so here the story. In the beginning, my morning routine change much and while i just woke up, i read the message from my dad, about a short story of individual behavior, 10% of everything happen in my life i can not change while the possible outcome is depend on 90% of how i react.

You know as usual, i woke up late with nothing job in my inbox while the time for yoga morning classes is at 9:10 while i just woke up at 9. I rushed, took my meal which i have been bought yesterday and there was a small traffic in the road and i know, honking or lit my emotion will bring nothing, just make my day worse so i just take a deep breath and keep smiling, you know if you're smiling you will produce a hormones that can makes you happy.

It was 10 minutes late for yoga class and everyone has done with meditation session, the time i went there everybody was doing a warm up twisting sequence, i know i am late but i kill my anxiousness with smiling, and throw a smile to a girl beside my mat. Now i suddenly realized the way people react when someone new beside them will felt hostile and if i don't throw any smile at all they will feel more uncomfortable, that also create a negative energy around me and makes my practice worse. Instead of that, by giving them a smile eliminate the barrier of stranger and create positive energy which makes people comfort.

Today class was about twisting with the peak pose Maksikanagasana I, or Dragonfly pose with variation of one leg from behind up to the air and do the hold for five more breaths, and second variation of one leg from behind entangled to the hand which hold the feet on the elbow so the pose look like this.

Maksikanagasana I in Variation II by Ben Istimur

This pose require lot of strength in arms with lifted chest and most importantly, the breath should be constant in order to hold the pose longer. Later on after class we were talking about teacher training, the differences and the recommendation for taking 50 hours or 200 hours straight. In this talk the important point is starting from 200 to 500 hours there would be more detail and complex in human anatomy, while in 50 hour training only focused on how to teach basic pose and start yoga class with right sequence. My training will be start on next month and hope everything going well, since my mood can strike the plan. Another important point is the talk about massage, two day retreat learning sport massage cost 750 CA, which is so expensive and i won't take it now, maybe if there is cheaper option or my yoga level has expanded, i will consider to learn massage and heal someone from sport injury. The girl who is a senior member in my gym also said that some guy need to recharge the energy after they "heal" someone, since he will absorb the negativity of injured person.

I spent time near gym to relax myself and eat my meal, with traditional herbal drink that i bought on tea stand which i surprised they sell this drink since it rare to find in different city the taste is not authentic since they missed one important ingredient to make the liquid turn red and smell strong flower scent. Anyway it only cost 1 CA so i don't mind, i recharge myself by eating my breakfast and tea for half hour. Later i come back home and do a small work, checking on my job application which already day 5 and no companies give a reply then i remembered to read free pdf, Light on Yoga by Greatest Guruji B.K.S. Iyengar (download here for free!). This e-book has basic information of yoga history, the stage of yoga which is eight limb or Ashtanga, how to do the Asana properly and the breathing technique, Pranayama. I only take a peek since my focus distracted easily but it is fascinating to know the history of yoga. It had found at 200 BC as one of the six orthodox systems of Indian philosophy. The meaning of yoga is to "unite", the deeper meaning is to "unite our will with God will". I am done first page in first chapter and i need to do my work so i will continue to read it tomorrow.

In the evening i made an appointment with my high school friend to do yoga. We met in the gym and this is my second power yoga class. The teacher, Grace mostly giving us about hip opener and back bend. Today topic is back bend with no peak pose, just all the sequence a bit challenging for new comer. I am happy to see my friend progression since today is his third time in yoga class, the transition in vinyasa flow went smoother and no falling knees anymore during down dog, just a bit stop in challenging holding pose. I also have another appointment with my yoga mates to try freeletics near park and i have a dinner first, a small crepe to fill my energy before this.

My first time of freeletics is great, this work out has similar feeling with body combat, just the sequence is repeating and involve to be in ground more than body combat, after all this is body weight training. I also see the sequence that is similar with yoga such as fore arm plank and down dog. I met a lot of new friends here, just by remember the 90/10 approach, smiling and 7 of 10 persons smile you back, even a girl. Smile is a powerful action to change your day and after we finished with freeletics, we decided to take a night snack and have a nice conversation there. I love to spend time with them even the age differences considered far, our communication just flow smoothly and the great part is all of us are positive person and supporting each other.  Yoga are really unite us with no age boundaries. I hope i could keep the good vibe today and have a great day tomorrow with the way of i react and smile, i wish.

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Today is a national holiday for Hinduism in my country that they celebrate i don't know the name sorry so we have one day off so today i decided visit one of my dad's business, as gas filling supplier in different county. The reason just because i need a short break from my routine and i still not figure out what i want to do. Perhaps with him and his friend i could get a new ideas that could be a new perspective in my life. So i woke up at 6 and prepare everything, we went from home to another county, which mostly took 3 hours in rush hour, this time it only takes one hour.

We were waiting his friend and my dad gives a small talk about tolerance, it is hard to change someone habit once it becomes a habit, his friend was half hour late and this is normal for him to wait, we just need to find a solution with possible outcome such as make an appointment for him for half hour earlier so he will come on time but this will not work properly if he one or two hours late! or another easy solution, that we just wait patiently while doing something in order to kill the time.

Later he arrived and we are ready to go to Boreci county, famous for its seafood production especially tiny prawn and mussel and prawn paste. Since i slept late yesterday, in this journey i totally sleepy and got slept until we arrived to his place. I woke up by dad's friend wife, told me to get out of car since they need to turn off and going to take about an hour here. Then i look around, the place is not that huge, about 500 meters with one giant tank for oxygen filling, in this tank the water will be condensed into gas and i can see the pipes covered by snow, i walk to the filling station, there is two pipes which divided into smaller pipes with valves. I asked on of the staff and it took one minutes to fill the bottle but it would be dangerous for the pressure so normally they will fill twenty bottles together with twenty minutes span to complete.

The manager told me that this business is good because of this reason, First, you can find any place need gas, from small restaurant, hospital, stone cutter, any kind of business that need gas. Second, there is no "grade" or "fake" product in this business, all were calculated from the volume before and after filling, the amount of energy being used, the quality of the bottles and Third, due to the high start up cost and many uncertainty going through this business for the first time, many of the investor has drawback with this business, causing less competitor and Fourth, has fixed customer so as long as the price is competitive, there is a small chance of customers retention.

The reason my dad were called here is because there is new competitor with better capitals, did a price war in our region. The price was unacceptable for us and other similar businessman since in order to gain new customer, this competitor set his price to no profit margin price. The reason they are doing this is to knock and shut down the former supplier business, especially if he only has small capital or be a second hand supplier. The effect is serious since our company cut its production into two third, and many of big customer has flew to the new competitor, while we don't know for how long it will last. So in order to combat his strategy, we will use another strategy that is called guerrilla strategy, a combination of strategic positioning with pick up service without limitation.

We went to three different places, to find the best place that is near with our potential customer with affordable price. I was looking around that i found every place here was doing a stone cutting home industry.  My dad even asked if you want to try the business, selling the stone made product to the capital since this is mostly used for construction material. The stone comes in different size with its function, have different color grey, black, yellow, pinkish and light blue and yes all of is natural stone, were cut with round saw machine, different size to from small as hand to the giant as my body. I told my dad to do the research about this and see how it gets.

Later on we just go back, most of us had something to do tomorrow, and the return takes another two hours and most of the guy inside the car fall asleep, i also don't talk much with the driver since i enjoyed the serenity of dark scenery outside, it is relatively same but i really enjoyed that moment, imagining something that fascinate my mind. See you next in my blog.

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I woke up late since the air conditioner still broken, yesterday i have contacted to technician that i know and none of them are able to fix and some not responding. It is on weekend and most of them are out of service so i have no idea but clean it by myself. The main problem is dust, all components covered by dust resulting water leak from the inside. I clean what i can, just the filter since other component you need vacuum cleaner to suck the dust and I don't have that tools. After cleaning, the air conditioner can work just for one hour before it went leaking again. I talked to my dad about this and i will call the technician on Monday morning.

My morning schedule got messed up, i can't sleep in this condition so i wake up every hour. Today my plan is to check potential company that i want to move for, from the internet. I skipped the writing for two days since i put all my focus on the job searching. From the experience, even i got almost two year working experience, getting into top local companies or MNC is not easy, i don't get any notification and this is the third day i checking my email. I hope some of them start contact and interview me, i almost lost hope with this.

The total company i had applied still in a small number, 9 applications. My friend who just graduated this year got three calls after throw around 70 CV in the internet, and some of them considered as a scam company. There is a company recruiting potential employee to be sales in their product. Most of small scale business of multi level marketing do this to innocent job seeker. Their real intention is to get the connection of the job seeker relative. If you become a sales, the first client is supposed to be your closest one, your parents or friends. The training that you got also focused on prospective buyer who is your relative rather than product knowledge itself. It is easy to spot this company, even some can deceive us by offering promising title, that also lead only to product sales.

Back to my job searching, i continue to search a company with a good reputation and long career prospective, i start looking for MNC, even it is harder to get inside, the experience would be worthwhile to try. I am start comparing by giving three different scenario of my life, starting from the current situation, jump to bigger company, and starting over to Canada when i touch 30, which is 5 year from now.

Scenario 1:
Stay as Finance Staff with minimum wage, 450 CAD and no future prospect. The good thing about staying in this company is because you can have any other job that pays you another income or taking a certification in different subjects. I can be a freelance writer with 100 CAD income per month since i only write two or three articles per day and i can take freelance yoga teaching, imagine that 3 times per week got me 100 CAD so i could get around 1000 CAD in total per month, with low expenses. At this rate, i could invest in studio flat which cost 30.000 CAD. This plan sounds easy and doable, that i could start with this plan by next year.

Scenario 2:
Move to bigger company with career path, and start from 400 CAD, this number would be incremental and after 5 year growing with this company, most of manager got 1200 CAD with regular working hour. This plan is what i consider and take a challenge since i could get into good company.

Scenario 3:
Starting over in Canada, work with the lowest wage possible 11 CAD per hour for 160 hours per month. At this survival time, I need to push my effort by get into society and know how "thing" work here. Doing client building and getting into good friend so i could land a better job. One could get 30 to 50 CAD per hour doing office work. This plan is full of uncertainty yet costing initial cost on working Visa and air ticket, but among all, this plan generate the highest income in the long run.

All of them has their own way, by given the difficulty and the long run, what ideal for me the most is moving to Canada. I know life will getting to hard and i will get even more, since i already got used with the relaxed working culture here but the good thing is i am willing to take the challenge, consider myself that i am still young and fail is acceptable on this period.

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