Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Molly Chanson, author of the new Yoga Wise. I would be lying if I pretended that for me yoga has always been a spiritual practice. In my 20s, it was exercise, and my intention was focused on my body and its appearance. It wasn't until I was in my late thirties, after having two kids and feeling lost as a wife and mother, that I started to understand yoga as a practice that offered benefits beyond the physical. I don't think anyone's motivation for adopting a yoga practice is good or bad, better or worse. Yoga does create physical changes. But through Asana, the physical practice, we also gain emotional well-being, and gifts beyond our