A history of yoga's transformation from sacred discipline to exercise program to embodied spiritual practice

- Identifies the origin of exercise yoga as India's response to the mania for exercise sweeping the West in the early 20th century

- Examines yoga's transformations through the lives and accomplishments of 11 key figures, including Sri Yogendra, K. V. Iyer, Louise Morgan, Krishnamacharya, Swami Sivananda, Indra Devi, and B. K. S. Iyengar

- Draws on more than 10 years of research from rare primary sources and includes 99 illustrations

In The Path of Modern Yoga,...