I first stepped into a Yoga class in the 1990s. At the time, I perceived it simply as a physical stretch. After a decade of practicing on and off - and shifting my perspective many times - I finally began to understand why it is called a “practice.” 

Coming from China, I was naturally exposed to traditional Chinese forms of exercise. Curiously, it was only after I became a passionate Yoga practitioner that I started to understand the logic and philosophy behind those traditional movements. They, too, are “practices” with deep, shared roots.