This is so cool: Sun Salutations for world peace! You can do a whopping 108 of them with your fellow yogis and yoginis on Sunday, September 21 for the Global Mala Yoga for Peace Event.

You'll be down-dogging and up-dogging to live kirtan in Battery Park to create a "mala" of asanas--108 beads on a mala, 108 poses in the park. Afterward, the (remaining) participants will form a giant human mandala, or "peace wheel" to "establish a feeling of peace and wholeness." Integral Yoga Institute and Jivamukti are supporting the day in NYC.

The $20 cost of participation will be donated to an organization that's about peace (they don't specify which one). And this is a simultaneous-ish (give or take a timezone) global event happening everywhere from Iceland to St. Louis to Tokyo.

You'll need to bring all your own supplies--mat, water, snacks, etc. And organizers emphasize going at your own pace and stopping when you need to. (Which for me might be after, um, five? Maybe 10 since it's world peace.)

And afterward--if you're able to move--there'll be a kirtan with Krishna Das at Church of St. Paul and St. Andrew.

For more info and to register: www.yoga-for-peace.org