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hanelisil's review
3.0
Can't believe I read this whole book (did so to keep up with a book club). Probably took in 3%. But that 3% is interesting. Much too technical for my level of understanding. I could do with the last chapter as the first chapter and some additional follow-up with laymen's terms around muscle biology. This is a textbook for sure. Honestly feel like yoga wasn't even a necessary framing for the book. Ultimately we are talking about biomechanics as a whole and yoga is just one way bodies might move. Understandably this is Jules Mitchell's angle as a yoga teacher. But I question whether applying this level of biomechanical scrutiny to yoga is necessary at all since the practice is a tradition rooted in certain shapes (which are different in different lineages). What is being shared here is not yoga - great movement ideas, sure, but a different tradition entirely. The message to me, as someone who could not comprehend the technical aspects of the text, is that all movement is good. It's especially good if it changes over time. And trust the wisdom of the body. Maybe we needed all the thorough research to tell us that conclusively.
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