108 Sun Salutations on New Years Day

Join Wilmington Yoga Center and Heather Gordy for 108 Sun Salutaiton to kick off the new year. This 1 1/2 hour workshop will move through warm-ups to engage the body in preparation for the namaskars to follow. This moving, meditative practice is open to all levels, you don’t have to do all 108, just do what you can! You rest when you need to. We’ll finish our practice together with a few closing postures and a lengthy relaxation. In India, the number 108 is a sacred number, suggesting completeness or wholeness. It is widely used in different contexts. There are 108 holy places of the Vaishnavas, originally there were 54 sounds in the Sanskrit alphabet, there are 108 beads on the mala (meditation prayer beads), and there also are said to be 108 Upanishads. 108 can also carry personal meaning for you on this day-dedicating each sun salutation to 108 people in your life, or listing 108 things in your mind that you feel gratitude for.