The Practice of 108: A Ritual Reset for New Beginnings

What actually happens to your mind when your body has to keep moving for two hours straight?

Vanisha Weatherspoon—corporate attorney, 500-hour Registered Yoga Teacher, and host of The Legal Yogi Podcast—is back and diving straight into one of the most ancient tools in the yogic tradition: the 108 sun salutations. This isn't just a January 1st ritual. It's a full-body, full-mind practice for marking any transition life demands—a health diagnosis, an ending, a return to yourself. Vanisha breaks it down, pose by pose and wave by wave. "You get to decide when your reset moment is."

In This Episode:

(00:00) What sparked this conversation about reset

(03:20) Why your reset doesn't have to wait for January 1st—and why timing is yours to choose

(05:00) What a sun salutation actually is and how the sequence flows from start to finish

(08:32) The real reason anyone would choose something this challenging to mark a transition

(11:41) How to approach your 108: choosing your variation and honoring where your body is right now

(15:11) Pace yourself strategically—and what to expect mentally and physically as you move through the practice

(19:20) How to rest, integrate, and honor whatever you completed—108 or not

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About the Show

The Legal Yogi Podcast is a weekly show hosted by Vanisha Weatherspoon — corporate attorney, 500-hour Registered Yoga Teacher, and your go-to guide for navigating corporate America without losing yourself in the process. This is a space built for women of color who are ambitious, self-aware, and done pretending that hustle and wellness are mutually exclusive. Each week, Vanisha brings honest conversations, expert guests, and real talk about career, health, relationships, and what balance actually looks like when life gets complicated. No highlight reels. Just truth.

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