Yoga Class Greets Solstice With 108 Sun Salutations
The movement starts in the mountain pose, standing up with hands to the side. The hands move upward for the salute to the sun, then a bow, lean over for the forward fold, touching the ground. Then up a bit, hands on the shins, into the monkey pose.
Then step back and fall towards the ground for the plank pose, before moving lower to the ground for the four-limbed staff. Raise the head up and assume the cobra pose. Head down again, hips lift up for the downward-facing dog. Hold that position, then hop forward, stand up halfway and return to the monkey pose. Touch the ground for the forward fold, then stand up, move the hands above the head and once more salute the sun.
Repeat 108 times. Do so outside on the summer solstice and you'll have 108 sun salutations, just as those led by yoga instructor Karen Citow at Kalk Park in Glencoe on Tuesday.
Citow said facing east and practicing yoga outdoors on the summer solstice is a tradition that goes back more than 2000 years to the time of the Buddha. Just as yoga helps practictioners harness their body's energy, the sun salutations help to recognize the earth's sun as our greatest source of life, light and energy. “Without light from the sun, there'd be no life on our planet,” she said.
The moment of the solstice came at 12:16 p.m. — when the sun is highest in the sky in the Northern Hemisphere. And the sun thanked the 40 to 50 people who came to Kalk Park with one of the warmest days of the year, conditions more suited for hot, bikram yoga than the standard variety.
“I've always wanted to do yoga outside,” said Hayley Jones, a college student who's home for the summer in Winnetka. “It felt like a good day to look forward to the warm weather.”
Citow opened her Breathe... Yoga Oasis studio in downtown Glencoe about 18 months ago and already has 500 active members. She does not draw a salary at her studio and all profits are directed to charities, such as the Lynn Sage Cancer Research Foundation, which benefited from Tuesday's event.
She said yoga is a form of recreation and exercise fast growing in popularity on the North Shore, with at least two other studios in Highland Park and two in Wilmette.
“Yoga is a phyical practice, of course, but there's also a mental component that helps with stress reduction,” Citow said. “Mostly people are coming to try to find peacefulness in their lives. They say yoga is the new golf.
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