On Sunday, March 23rd, we’ll be honoring the Spring Equinox with a special sun salutation practice at Community Yoga Center. We hope you’ll consider being part of this seasonal event. The event begins at 8:00am and is expect to end around 9:20am. 

Practicing cycles of sun salutations with mantra is a beautiful yogic practice of offering gratitude for the light-giving force of the sun and recognizing the gift of life itself. It is a practice of reverence and commitment, and a special opportunity to connect in community.  

Practicing a lot of sun salutations cycles (like 108!) can be an act of tapas. The Sanskrit word “tapas” can be translated to English to mean “heat causing change.”  Practicing tapas involves purposely staying in the crucible of intense experience until its wild flames die to embers – embers that carry the potential to spark alchemical transfiguration. Tapas recognizes the reality of suffering and asks us to willingly bear adversity to open to greater insight. It knows that sometimes we’re unaware of our own capacity unless we’re challenged and discover a force within us powerful enough to match the adversity we face. Practicing sun salutations in this way can be a kind of challenge that asks us to meet it with enough inspired passion, fortitude, and patience to willingly (and even enthusiastically) endure intense experience.

If you’re interested in welcoming intense experience in this way - as a part of the whole of our human experience, please consider practicing sun salutations with us on the Spring Equniox. It invites us to connect with a fierce kind of grace.

This yoga offering is shared freely. No cost. Everyone is welcome.