Not Book Relevant

I went to a talk yesterday given by Mark Singleton who is both a yoga teacher and an academic. He has done research which shows pretty conclusively that physical yoga - all those asanas (postures) have their origins as much in the body-building and gymnastics of the west as in India, and anyway only date back to the late 18th/early 19th century, and many of them later. Convincing. Also hilarious.