About this Event
Why now:
The winter solstice marks the longest night of the year. It's the moment the earth tips furthest from the sun before beginning its slow return toward light. Across cultures and centuries, this turning point has been honored as a threshold: a time to release what no longer serves, sit with stillness, and consciously set intention for the light that's coming.
Why 108:
108 is a number considered sacred in yogic tradition. It shows up in mala beads, in the number of Upanishads, in the distance between the earth and the sun (roughly 108 times the sun's diameter).
108 Sun Salutations Ceremony:
Practicing 108 Sun Salutations becomes a moving meditation: a physical mantra repeated until the mind quiets and something clearer comes through. It's about using repetition, breath, and heat to burn through resistance and arrive somewhere more spacious.
I invite you to join us in moving together, at your own pace, in community to metabolize the energy of the season. The solstice asks us to slow down before we speed up again. This practice gives your body and mind a chance to close out the current cycle with intention, and step into the new year with more clarity than you brought into the room.
No experience with 108 rounds required. Modifications offered throughout. Come as you are, and come ready to move.
What to Expect
🕯️ Arrive & Ground
Settle in, set up your space, and (if you'd like) add something to our shared altar (a stone, a written intention, a photo, anything that represents what you're releasing or welcoming this season).
🌑 Solstice Teaching
A short grounding talk on the significance of the winter solstice. We'll learn what this particular turning point holds energetically, and how we'll be working with that energy through the practice.
🔥 108 Sun Salutations
We move through all 108 rounds together, breath-linked and steady, building heat and momentum as a group. Options and modifications offered throughout so this is a practice you can meet wherever you are.
🧘 Closing Meditation
As the body settles, we move into stillness with a guided meditation to integrate the practice and sit with whatever has surfaced.
🍵 Closing Tea Ceremony
We close in circle with warm tea, quiet reflection, and space to acknowledge the altar and the intentions the group has gathered.
Event venue & nearby stays
Buffalo + Sparrow Yoga Collective, 441 Wadsworth Boulevard, Lakewood, United States
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