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People come to yoga for many reasons: to get or stay in shape, reduce stress, recover from injury, or as part of a spiritual path. Personally, though I’d taken a yoga class in college in the late 1970s for gym credit, I began practicing regularly about 10 years ago because I fell in love with a gorgeous spiritual seeker who practiced yoga. “Joe” was an ex-model and ex-world class runner, i.e. attractive inside and out, who left those worlds abruptly when he had the realization they were leading him nowhere. We spent the summer talking about God, reading Rumi, hiking in the Berkshire hills, dancing freely, sharing our life stories, and practicing yoga. I signed up for a beginning hatha yoga class in town and immediately began to feel more grounded and connected to myself. That same year I discovered Kripalu Yoga and began to attend retreats and trainings to deepen my practice. Eventually I became a yoga teacher and began passing on yoga’s many gifts to others.