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Why 108 sun salutations?
This number resonates
across a wide range of traditions around the globe:
- 108 is the
number of beads on a Catholic rosary, the same number of beads
comprises a mala, a set of prayer and meditation beads used in
India and Tibet
- in mathematics,
108 is a Fibronacci number, an abundant number, and a
semi-perfect number
- 108 is the
number of names for Buddha and for Shiva
- 108 is the
Chinese number representing "man"
- 108 is twice the
number "54", which is the number of sounds in Sanskrit
- 108 is six times
the number "18" which is a Jewish good luck number
- 108 is twelve
times the number 9, which is the number of asanas in a Sun
Salutation and eighteen times the number 6, which is the number
of days per week that yoga is traditionally practiced.
- 108 is a
Harshad number, which is an integer divisible by the sum of its
digits (Harshad is from Sanskrit, and means "great joy")
- The average
distance of the Moon from the Earth is 108 times the diameter of
the Moon.
- Ancient yogic
texts state that If one is able to be so calm in meditation as
to have only 108 breaths in a day, enlightenment will come.
- 108 is used
in Islam to refer to God
- 108 lines of
energy are said to converge to form the heart chakra
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