Happy International Yoga Day - 21st June!

Join me as we limber our way slowly into Sun Salutations, with 12 sets of 9 repeats (x108) it can be as strong or as gentle as you like, feel free to take your time with rests in Childs pose or Savasana, or sit in Meditation. It can look however you choose to on the day in practising your devotion to your 'Yoga' (union of Self). A Sun Salutation option with a chair is offered for a few rounds for a gentler option you can choose to continue with.

A complete practice with variations of Sun Salutations and Asana flow, completes with Pranayama and Savasana. At the end in Savasana the video stops - you can play for yourself the 108 So Hum Mantras mentioned from Spotify here.

Props required: Yoga Mat, perhaps a chair and a bolster, eye pillow, blanket for Savasana.

Ever wondered the why of 108: Yoga's Sacred Number?

It was astronomer, mathematician, and physicist Galileo Galilei who said the universe is written “in mathematical language”—that the mysteries of creation itself could be unraveled through numbers and equations. For the mystics, such numbers offered more than a scientific explanation—they offered a code for awakening, a code to our own nature. And for the yogis, that code is 108.

In yoga, the number 108 refers to spiritual completion. It is why Mala beads are composed of 108 beads, why Pranayama (breath work) is often completed in cycles of 108, and why sun salutations are often performed in nine rounds of the 12 postures (totaling 108). By practicing chanting, breath work, or asana in rounds of this sacred number, the ancient yogis believed we could align ourselves with the rhythm of the creation, and ultimately bring an end to our cycle of reincarnation.