About 360 Days of Adho Mukha Svanasana

The writer, getting her Adho Mukha Svanasana on

When the idea to yoga every day for a year came to me during my morning yoga class on January 6, 2010, I was only momentarily phased by the fact that the first five days of 2010 had already come and gone. I considered doing yoga for 365 days and wrapping up my year on January 5, 2011. But I liked the number 360 for obvious reasons: a full rotation, a complete circle. Why are there 365 days in the typical year???

What does the starting point of a circle look like upon return, after you've traveled around its entire circumference? Does the planet look or feel any different after undergoing a full rotation? What does Adho Mukha Svanasana--Downward-Facing Dog, perhaps the most frequently executed pose by Western yoga practitioners--what does it feel like after doing the pose for 360 straight days? These are some of the many, many questions I asked upon starting my yoga 360.

While a wrist injury prevented me from doing downward-facing dog for every single day, I did succeed in practicing yoga for 360 straight days. This blog chronicles that journey, covering my struggles with developing a good home practice, doing yoga while traveling, training for a my first half marathon, healing from a handful of injuries, and more. Now that I've completed that challenge, I still enjoy the practice of yoga more or less daily, and I continue to think about it and write about it here.