Faith Hunter, 43, owns the Adams Morgan yoga studio Embrace. The Louisiana native fell in love with yoga in the early 1990s, when she found that the discipline’s meditation and mindfulness helped her cope as her brother was dying of AIDS. She has twice graced the cover of Yoga Journal.
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This article appears in the July 2014 issue of Washingtonian.
