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The first time you attend a yoga class, you’re anything but Zen. During my first downward dog, my self-doubt dialogue came on strong. While I hadn’t touched my toes since about sixth grade or so, the guy next to me was a grade A showoff. Every chance he got, he took the advanced route until I couldn’t even tell him apart from an Auntie Anne’s pretzel. Alongside him were women who invested some serious om in designer yoga pants, making me question my decades-old college T-shirt. What I wish I knew then applies both on and off the mat: look straight ahead or look within. Life, like yoga, isn’t a competition. The post Lauren Ash: She’s Breathing Easy appeared first on On The Dot Woman.