Spring Equinox
Equal light and dark.
The year opens.
The nervous system mirrors the season — releasing the contraction of winter, returning to possibility. 108 Sun Salutations at first light.
Solstices · Equinoxes · Every Timezone
A daily practice that builds strength, focus, and rhythm in minutes — and four times a year, thousands of people complete 108 Sun & Moon Salutations together at the exact moment of every solstice and equinox.
Most people don’t need a harder workout. They need a rhythm. When breath and movement fall out of sync, so does everything else — energy, focus, recovery, clarity. This practice is the simplest way back.
12 movements. No equipment. Scales from 5 minutes to 90. Repeat the sequence in rounds and something shifts — the mind quiets, the body warms, the breath leads. Start with 3 rounds. Build to 6, then 9. Until one day, 108 becomes possible. Not through force — through consistency.
Four times a year, on the solstices and equinoxes, thousands of people across every timezone complete 108 salutations at sunrise and sunset — simultaneously, wherever they are. Not watching a stream. Not attending a venue. Moving. Breathing. Together. At the same planetary moment.
This is The 108 Event. And it happens at dawn and dusk, on the days the Earth itself turns.
Rebuilding strength and conditioning without burnout
A daily reset that restores focus and rhythm
Depth beyond class formats, a global community to lead
You don’t need perfect conditions. You need a sequence and a willingness to begin.
Local Circles are forming worldwide — outdoor gatherings, studio sessions, community spaces, living rooms. Find one near you, or let yours be the first in your city.
The event follows the natural rhythm of the year — the four moments when the relationship between Earth and Sun visibly shifts. Each season brings its own quality of light, its own invitation to the nervous system.
Equal light and dark.
The year opens.
The nervous system mirrors the season — releasing the contraction of winter, returning to possibility. 108 Sun Salutations at first light.
The longest day.
Maximum light.
The peak of solar energy. The body at its most activated. The practice meets the season at full intensity — sunrise to sunset, the full arc.
Balance again.
The year deepens.
The counterpart to spring — equal light and dark, but moving toward stillness. Moon Salutations at dusk ground the practice in the body’s shift toward rest.
The longest night.
Light returning.
The paradox of winter — the darkest moment contains the turning. 108 practices in candlelight and quiet, marking the return of the sun.
The number is the container. What fills it belongs to each practitioner, each community, each tradition. There is no single right way — only the commitment to 108 conscious repetitions at the threshold moments of the year.
The signature practice. Surya Namaskar, repeated 108 times at first light. Ancient, proven, physiologically extraordinary. Your tradition, your pace, your sequence.
The closing practice. Chandra Namaskar at dusk — the cooling counterpart to the morning’s fire. The nervous system completes its arc.
54 Sun Salutations at sunrise. 54 Moon Salutations at sunset. The full day held in practice, the body moving with the light.
108 breaths. 108 seconds of stillness. 108 juggles, jumps, or steps. 108 moments of intention. The practice meets the practitioner.
You can’t think your way into this state.
You move your way there.
The 108 Event is not spiritual theater. It is a designed intervention — grounded in peer-reviewed science on the human nervous system, circadian biology, flow state induction, and the neuroscience of collective movement. Every element of the practice has a physiological basis.
Morning sunlight triggers a cortisol and serotonin cascade that governs alertness, immune function, metabolism, and sleep quality for the entire day. Combined with physical movement, every biological system activates in sequence. Starting at sunrise with 108 salutations is not metaphor — it is biology working exactly as designed.
Research: Huberman Lab / NIH · Dr. Samer Hattar, National Institute of Mental Health
Repetitive rhythmic movement produces neural entrainment — the brain’s firing patterns synchronize to the rhythm of movement itself. This creates the conditions for transient hypofrontality: the quieting of the self-monitoring prefrontal cortex that Csikszentmihályi identified as the neurological signature of flow. You can’t think your way into this state. You move your way there.
Research: Csikszentmihályi (flow theory) · Thaut, Colorado State University (neural entrainment)
Oxford researcher Robin Dunbar found that synchronized movement triggers the endorphin system beyond the effects of physical exertion alone — the bonding that occurs when people move in the same rhythm is neurologically distinct from moving solo. Researcher Emma Cohen confirmed that movement synchrony forges social bonds even across group divides. When the 108 Event gathers globally at the same planetary moment, something measurable — and ancient — occurs.
Research: Dunbar, University of Oxford · Cohen, University of Oxford (Frontiers in Psychology, 2016)
These principles are explored in depth in The Transformative Flow: Rhythm as Medicine by Carolyn Bentley Wells — the scientific and philosophical foundation behind The 108 Event. Flow is not a moment. Flow is a rhythm.
“I first encountered the tradition of 108 Sun Salutations during my advanced yoga teacher training — the kind of deep study where these traditions are taken seriously. When I looked for anything like it — a gathering, a challenge, a global practice — I couldn’t find it. The idea stayed with me. A few years later, at a point in my life when I’d lost my athletic rhythm and needed a way back, I returned to Sun Salutations at sunrise. Outside. Starting small. It was harder than I expected. I added Moon Salutations for balance — different movement patterns, less equipment, something I could do anywhere. It worked in a way nothing else had. I looked for this gathering ten years ago and couldn’t find it. So I built it.”
Carolyn Bentley Wells
Author, The Transformative Flow · Founder, The 108 Event
We are building the first global cohort of Founding Ambassadors — ten circle leaders worldwide who will anchor the inaugural year of the event and become permanently woven into the origin of this movement.
This is not a vendor relationship. It is a founding partnership. You bring your space, your community, your teaching. We bring the framework, the brand, the science, and the global network. Together, we build something neither could build alone.
Founding Ambassadors are chosen through personal conversation and a short application. If you feel this calling, the door is open. Circles are forming now — yours could be on the map for the June Solstice.
Apply to Become a Founding AmbassadorEvery solstice and equinox has a precise universal moment — the instant the Earth reaches that point in its orbit. Not a timezone. Not a sunrise. A single second that every person on Earth shares simultaneously.
Your ticket is your access to that moment. A produced online broadcast — the science, the opening practice, the closing circle — streamed live at the exact astronomical second. Practice from wherever you are. If a Local Circle is forming near you, join it. If not, you need nothing more than a mat and the time.
A produced online gathering timed to the exact astronomical moment of each solstice and equinox. Live participant counter. Global circle map lighting up in real time.
A brief conversation on what is happening physiologically at this moment — circadian biology, the nervous system, and why moving at seasonal thresholds is not symbolic but biological.
A live-led opening practice — 27 salutations together before participants move into their full 108 in their own space or circle. The communal beginning.
A 10-minute closing where participants share one word or one image from their practice. The moment a distributed event becomes a community.
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