Did you know that practicing 108 Sun Salutes on Spring Equinox is the best way to manifest your intentions?

You will have the opportunity to practice this ancient yogic tradition guided by certified yoga teachers both online and live in Dubai. 

If you never practiced yoga, Sun Salutation or Suriya Namaskar is a sequence of yoga poses (asanas) linked together in a graceful flow.  Different yoga schools may perform various styles of this sequence, there are options for beginners and seasoned practitioners. The online yoga challenge page offers you different options to choose from and adopt for your personal practice. 

108 Sun Salute Challenge has started as an online project by two yoga teachers Galina Prokhina and Melani Plandes The initiative is up and running online and you may access now over 30 lessons on physical practice, breath work, meditations – more to come before the final practice on March 20.

The main purpose of the challenge, apart from practicing 108 sun salutes, is to build an inspired community of yoga practitioners of all levels and backgrounds. In addition to free online classes, Galina and Lani offer to review submissions of your work out and provide feedback on how to improve and personalize practice to align your body in the best and safest way for each pose, and this all is absolutely at no cost! 

So while the main practice will happen on March 20? According to the yogic tradition, the change of seasons is the time to release old baggage, set intentions and manifest it to the world. Spring equinox is the first seasonal change of a year when spring energy is taking over, detoxifying, clearing the way to the new beginnings and this year it falls precisely on Saturday, March 20, 2021. 

The beauty of the 108 sun salutation practice is that it is accessible to everyone. 108 may sound scary for beginners, but if you start practicing a few weeks in advance, you will definitely succeed. You may pause and go into a restorative child pose and re-join the flow at any moment. The practice also presents excellent challenges for intermediate and advanced practitioners, as you may take on various asanas modifications and different transitions from pose to pose in order to make it more or less challenging.

If you ever attempted 108 sun salutes you will know that the main race happens inside. You may access layers of your mind hidden long ago and finally release tension beyond a physical level. Sun Salute is the best moving mediation known to the world, and you will feel mental transformation by the end of the final practice…

The online yoga challenge has now successfully migrated live and it was recently announced that the final 108 class will also be featured live at Yoga Fest – the biggest yoga festival in the UAE. If interested to treat yourself to 108 rounds of sun salute live, you may as well reserve your tickets on Yoga Fest page