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Local yoga teachers Jane, Sara and Mandy will be leading you all through a yogathon of 108 sun salutations.

DATE: Saturday 21st October  10.30am

VENUE: Freeland Village Hall, Wroslyn Road, Freeland, Oxon OX29 8AQ

Please join us to complete this challenge which will be led by Jane, Sara and Mandy, 3 local yoga teachers from West Oxfordshire  

A donation of £10 Is suggested as a sign up, or simply just donate as much as you can to help raise as much as we can for this wonderful cause.

If you are attending the event please confirm by messaging Mandy Nichols so we can get an idea of numbers. Thank you 🙏 

OUR CHOSEN CHARITY: Camren's Steps: see details below. 

WHY 108 SUN SALUTATIONS?

The number's significance is open to interpretation. But 108 has long been considered a sacred number in Hinduism and yoga. Traditionally, malas, or garlands of prayer beads, come as a string of 108 beads (plus one for the "guru bead," around which the other 108
beads turn like the planets around the sun). A mala is used for counting as you repeat a mantra. .

 Renowned mathematicians of Vedic culture viewed 108 as a number of the wholeness of existence. This number also connects the Sun, Moon, and Earth: The average distance of the Sun and the Moon to Earth is 108 times their respective diameters. Such phenomena have given rise to many examples of ritual significance.

 According to yogic tradition, there are 108 pithas, or sacred sites, throughout India. And there are also 108 Upanishads and 108 marma points, or sacred places of the body.

ABOUT CAMREN

Camren has Spastic Quadriplegic Cerebral Palsy which means all four of his limbs are very stiff and tight, he also has muscle spasms often through the night so he wakes up crying. He is able to sit independently, often for as long as 15-20 minutes keeping himself occupied, but it is not possible to leave him unsupervised as he could fall over and forget to put his hands down to save himself, so he will then get hurt. He tries very hard in everything he does; sitting, crawling, standing (he can do this but with quite a bit of support) and he has just started to walk using his Rollator, which is a walking frame with a supportive sling under his bum and straps going across his back! He is really good at crawling, using his arms to pull himself along and he is learning to use his legs whilst crawling, but he still find this incredibly hard. But what Camren really wants is to be able to run around with his friends and play football and he is very determined that when he is a grown-up he wants to be a Fireman and helicopter pilot!!!

CAMREN'S STEPS

We are fundraising so that Camren can have life changing surgery in America, at St Louis Children's Hospital. The operation is called Selective Dorsal Rhizotomy (or SDR) and the leading surgeon who invented the procedure, Dr TS Park has performed over 3,000 SDR operations over a period of almost 30 years on children and adults, and each time has considerably improved the patients quality of life. SDR is going to transform Camren's life and Dr Park has said that Camren will walk using a walking frame, but we are really hoping that with enough hard work and determination he will surpass this expectation and maybe one day he might take his first unaided steps!!! To be able to take Camren to America and pay for all the equipment (walking frame, sticks, splints for his legs) and post-op physio and other rehabilitation activities for two years we are going to need to raise £85,000!!