I did a 'thon

I'm home after the Vancouver Yogathon. Fantastic happening, lots of yogis, good athmosphere and lots and lots of sun saluations (108). The photo on the right is how I saw most of the event - upside down in a down-dog.

It's an absolutely perfect day for Yogathon today, sun is shining and it's so warm - but we started early enough so it didn't get too hot. The organising instructors took turns in guiding the practice, five salutations each. Couple of times we did resting poses like swan or twists, but mostly it was just sun salutations, one after another. I rested out few, and took child poses with few, but all in all I must have done close to 100 proper ones.

Then at half-way point they suddenly started playing Bon Jovi - till then we had a live sitra player and a singer - and I couldn't understand it before the chorus: it was of course "We're half way there - Livin' on a prayer" and by the time "'Cause it doesn't make a difference if we make it or not" everyone was just giggling in fits and shaking their hips to the music in the down-dog. Excellent fun.

Around 80 I started to get really tired and stopped doing jump backs, just stepping back - but when we got over hundred, the athmosphere picked up again and I did my last ones with full jump-backs. It was really nice, once and a while Jason came to help me by pressing me down on my heels, and at one point when I was resting in frog Shannon came to do the same. Felt good, felt like I belonged.

After the sun salutations were finished we did a short mediation, and the Eoin Finn gave out the prices for best fundrasers - and our Flow Yoga team won the prize for the Top Studio Fundraiser! I say a prize as they promised us yoga mat bags and a dinner, but it turned out that there was really no price... it doesn't really matter though, we didn't do it for that.

Now my arms are killing me and I'm wondering if I overdid it with my wrists - I'm using full support on my both writsts, but even then 100 sun salutations might have been too much. Oh well, it was all for a good cause.