A Wellness Lens on Cultural Change Yoga as Response A Wellness Lens on Cultural Change Yoga has always emerged in response to human conditions. Not as escape, but as practice. Not as optimization, but as relationship. In moments of rapid change, yoga does not ask us to keep up. It asks us to listen. Across culture, people are living longer, working differently, learning later in life, and carrying more cognitive and emotional load than ever before. These shifts show up quietl