The (real) yoga journey

Most of us here in the U.S. of A. didn't grow up yogis. And I would venture to guess that even the most committed yogis weren't "all in" from the beginning.

My yoga journey has been bumpy and imperfect. I didn't start doing yoga as a spiritual quest. I wasn't even trying to gain a deeper understanding of anything except a smaller waistline. But gradually, it became a transformative journey. It looked something like this:

What has your yoga journey been like? Were you all in from the start or was it a gradual process for you, too?