"Yoga isn’t Paleolithic. I don’t see our distant ancestors practicing downward facing dog. But yoga combines physical activity with forced acute attention on the present. Lose your focus in tree stand, and you lose your balance. In my mind, yoga and other mindful meditation practices emulate, to some respect, the focus and attention we had to have while hunting and gathering. We couldn’t be thinking about the mortgage or Uncle Phil getting drunk at last year’s Christmas party. We had to be focused on the trail and the prey."
- GABA and Yoga, or, Why Do Yoga More Often | Yoga with Nikki Chau
