Anatomy for Vinyasa Flow and Standing Poses by Ray Long This book is brilliant in that it is down to earth, hugely informative, and very practical. It feels impossible for me to absorb everything in it. It’s more like a reference book that I’ll absorb over time. I...

I respect the contribution made by Judith Hansen Lassiter on “Living your yoga…) to the field of yoga; she has founded and confounded institutes and journals, taught, spoken publicly, and pushed the boundaries of a field that has helped lots of people. I found her book, however, hard to swallow and skipped over most of it. The book talks in a kind of new-agey psycho-babble that makes my neck hair stand on end.

Full name: The Goddess Pose: the audacious life of Indra Dev, the woman who helped bring yoga to the West First thing I did was to check this is the same Michelle Goldberg whose opinion pieces I regularly read in the New York Times. (It is.) It's a biography about...