Practice, noting that while the research was greeted by Yoga International as "a watershed moment", this was probably spoken "through somewhat gritted teeth". The review calls Shearer's book "clear-eyed, elegantly written and wonderfully informative", writing that his basic thesis is that "mind yoga" and "body yoga" are sharply distinct, and that he critiques western culture's narcissism, addiction to material wealth, and decreasing attention span. Writing in The Sunday Times, Rosamund Unwin noted that three million people practice yoga in Britain, and that a multi-billion dollar industry has grown from ancient roots in India. In her view, Shearer has made clear that modern yoga is "a long way from yoga's beginnings." However, she found the book full of jargon, lacking in humanity, and only suitable for those who already practise yoga and want to know more about its cultural context. Tunku Varadarajan wrote in The Wall Street Journal that his wife "follows a routine advertised as yoga, performed by a woman with malleable limbs", that to his Indian eyes "look[s] nothing like the practice whose name they invoke". The journal called the book "a quick-witted and erudite chronicle of the Hindu practice that is now a lucrative staple of 'wellness' in the West." It described the book as distinguishing "Raja Yoga, or yoga of the mind, and Hatha Yoga, or the yoga of force. The former, embedded in meditation, with little or no calisthenic component, is what Patanjali had in mind when he defined yoga as 'the settling of the thought-waves in the mind'. By contrast, most yoga practiced in the West – as well as in India, it should be said – is a version (however outlandish) of Hatha Yoga." Michael Neale reviewed the book for Asian Affairs journal, calling it "a fascinating survey [and] not only for practitioners of the world's burgeoning Wellness industry". The Oldie wrote that the book's "exhaustive examination of the history and purpose of yoga" had been widely reviewed, something it found unsurprising as yoga had been treated as the answer to all the spiritual and physical ailments of the western world. It commented that yoga traditionally took "a lifetime to master" and "was never intended to be squeezed into a stress-relieving lunch-hour break". The Hindu found the book readable, answering the question of how the ancient path to enlightenment turned into "a $25 billion-a-year wellness industry". In its view the opening history chapters had