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170: 1397: 454:"wide-ranging, flexible in its outlook, and satisfying in its inclusiveness, even if Ms. Syman never really defines what, exactly, yoga is." In his view, the result is "really a cultural history of the United States"; Powers notes Syman's statement that yoga "is one of the first and most successful products of globalization", and observes that in America it helped to weave an isolationist population "into the fabric of the larger world". The scholar of Eastern religions 486: 570:, states that Syman deftly traces how Emerson and Thoreau enabled yoga to take root in America, providing a "lively gallery of larger-than-life characters" in the story of American yoga. Kakutani notes Syman's many "entertaining anecdotes" but states that the book fails to cover either yoga's ancient history or to show how the various schools of yoga evolved. Almost entirely disagreeing with Kakytani, 517:, he calls the book relatively vivid but "inconstant", switching between journalistic, historical, creative, and critical writing styles. Further, in his view it "lacks a strong argument" and "privileg the most colorful stories". The most extreme of those is Syman's longest chapter, on Pierre Bernard, with Farmer writing that it "includes bizarre 584:, calling this "a turning point ... from esoteric pursuit to health-giving practice available to all." In Dederer's view, Syman "does a wonderful job of showing how yoga, like a virus, has kept evolving in order to survive", but all the same Dederer wonders if Syman wasn't trying too hard. Similarly, Tara Katir, writing in 467:
Forsthoefel, though, sees the book's strength as Syman's storytelling, which he says provides "key snapshots both of the sweep of yoga's evolution in America and of the lives of key figures" in that process, so that the book reads "almost like a novel". The readability has been noted by academics,
205:, repudiating "sacraments, supernaturalism, biblical authority, and ... Christianity". Thoreau, she states, tried to practice yoga, and was seen by some as "the first American Yogi", but by others as "a misanthropic hermit". However, Syman identifies the dramatic arrival of 442:
positive reviews, praising its wide range and readability. Other critics gave the book mixed reviews, noting its strengths, but also its lack of a strong continuous argument, its preference for colourful stories, and its tendency to gossip.
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Several critics gave the book positive reviews, praising its wide range and readability; other critics gave it mixed reviews, noting its strengths, but also its lack of a strong continuous argument and its tendency to gossip.
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in America, particularly Indra Devi, he affirms that today's yoga did not come straight from Devi; he instead asserts that, in the 1960s, modern yoga split into a mind-oriented stream with
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Then Syman gives her view that, in the 1960s, the yoga scene was dominated by celebrity gurus, whether from India like
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plates, including portraits of many of the people described. Other illustrations are of the chakras from
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The book then includes stories about a variety of straighter advocates of yoga. Syman tells the story of
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professors. It then tells how they were followed, towards the end of the 1960s, by Indian gurus of
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program from 1929 showing yoga-like contortions; the Hollywood Vedanta Temple; a naked woman in
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The book ends with an account of the gurus of more energetic forms of yoga, in particular
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Swami Vivekananda at the Parliament of the World's Religions (1893)
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almost entirely agreed with Powers in his review of the book for
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International Association of Yoga Therapists • Richard Miller
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The subtle body : the story of yoga in America
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Index

Stefanie Syman

Chakrasana
yoga
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
yoga as exercise
American yoga
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thoreau
Vivekananda
Hollywood
Indra Devi
hippie
postural yoga
Bikram Choudhury
Pattabhi Jois

Swami Vivekananda at the Parliament of the World's Religions (1893)
American yoga
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thoreau
Brahma
Hindu nondualism
Vivekananda
Raja Yoga
modern yoga
the 1893 Parliament of the World's Religions
Pierre Bernard
Theos Bernard
tantric sex

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