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[[File:Pierre Bernard 1939.png|thumb|left|upright|[[Pierre Bernard (yogi)|Pierre Bernard]] pictured in [[Ardha Padmasana]] (half lotus) in an article titled "Prizefighter Trains by Yoga Methods", [[Life magazine|''Life'' magazine]], 1939]]
The historian Jared Farmer, writing in ''[[Reviews in American History]]'', 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[es] the most colorful stories". The most extreme of those is Syman's longest chapter, on Pierre Bernard, which "includes bizarre love triangles, menage a trois, tantric sex, Vanderbilt heiresses, private detectives, spies, circus elephants, baseball, and heavyweight boxing." Farmer notes, too, the importance of women in shaping American yoga; Indra Devi created a gentle variant of Mysore yoga suitable for "movie stars and housewives alike". But today's yoga did not come straight from Devi, he writes; instead, in the 1960s, modern yoga split into a mind-oriented stream with [[Transcendental Meditation]] and the [[Hare Krishnas]], and a body-oriented stream with Iyengar.<ref name="Farmer2012">{{cite journal |last=Farmer |first=Jared |title=Americanasana |journal=Reviews in American History |volume=40 |issue=1 |date=March 2012 |pages=145–158 |doi=10.1353/rah.2012.0016}}</ref>
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