Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Do Yeti do Yoga?

Last night I watched and episode of "Destination: Truth" on TV and saw a cast of a Yeti footprint from Nepal. You can see a picture of this on the cryptomundo website.

My question is, does this Yeti do Yoga? If he does, he has very good Yoga posture.

In Yoga, stability of the feet and hands is encouraged by the instruction to lift your toes or fingers and place them on the ground one at a time a splayed position so your feet or hands cover as much surface as possible. The Yeti footprint is very large, and the toes are splayed very well for good Yoga posture.

Check out this fun website that has pictures of a plush Yeti toy positioned in Yoga poses!

So is that really the footprint of a Yeti? These footprints are often dismissed as bear paw prints, but If you look at bear feet there is the possibility that they could splay out those toes, but I think it's unlikely a bear would (unless they were deep into Yoga as well). See the grizzlybay website for an image of a bear paw.

I think the investigation into Yeti should include the question of do they do Yoga. Would those Yeti toes really be that wide apart if the splaying wasn't intentional? And it would be easier to find them if you caught them during Shivasana.

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