Yoga Body: The Origins of Modern Posture Practice Book

This book is ok. It has lots of great info but there are some problems. Singleton tries to cram so much research and history into 200 pages that it comes off like a whirlwind tour through a bunch of stuff that most people will not be even slightly familiar with. The book might have done well to be like 500 pages. On the other hand, Singleton's writing veers from captivating and insightful to reminding me of my college research papers, i.e. here's my thesis, here's my evidence, here are my references, here's my summary. And since there is so much to get through, his points end up being only barely made, before he's off on some other subject. Only in a few places does he really spend enough time with something, notably at the beginning and the end. A great overview of a seminal period of yoga history, but it could have been more polished and expanded and juiced up with some more personality, humor, wit, confidence, sass, anything. Also there are a lot of typos lol.