I, like most people, originally got into yoga for the physicality aspect. I grew up as a dancer, and I naively thought "Well, yoga is the next best thing!" Little did I know how much growth and knowledge this practice would actually fulfill in my life. When I walked into a studio for the first time, I immediately got the sense that there were "cliques" just like any other group of people with common interests and passions. There were the self-proclaimed 'yogis' who would have the latest yoga gear or the cutest clothes - they would simultaneously be doing handstands while talking about 'yogi things' (I'm generalizing here) to their BFF on the mat next to them - *in the center of the front row, of course!* As a newbie, it was extremely intimidating! While I typically rolled my eyes at this kind of inner circle stuff, for some reason I made my next challenge to become friends with these cool people. Instead of trying to break the norm