A review by cozycult
The Goddess Pose by Michelle Goldberg

3.0

I almost really liked this book. It was beautifully written (Michelle Goldberg's vocabulary is cray.) and there were many points where I was completely engrossed in tales of Indra Devi's travels and the spread of yoga to the west. I learned that asana yoga is more modern and evolving than I had previously thought. It also felt a lot like an airing out of yoga's dirty laundry; there is some juicy yoga gossip to be found in The Goddess Pose. This book made me realize that I don't know all that much about yoga.

I would have loved to see more pictures. There are lots of moments in Devi's life that are described very visually, and it would have been cool to actually see what some of these things looked like... Glamorous photo shoots, her background in theatre, stuff like that.