The book was broadly welcomed by scholars as opening up the study of the origins of modern yoga other than in ancient texts.

Both B. K. S. Iyengar and Pattabhi Jois, who are major influences on modern yoga forms, studied under teacher Tirumalai Krishnamacharya at the Mysore Palace in the 1930s.

Sjoman argues that several exercises detailed in a gymnastics manual were incorporated into Krishnamacharya's syllabus, resulting in his energetic vinyasa style of yoga, and further passed on to Iyengar and Jois.

Venkatacala Sastri of the Maisuru Maisiri, a modern text in old Kannada, describing a yoga session in the Mysore Palace.

Two more appendices offer photographs of: The Yoga Tradition of the Mysore Palace was published in 1996 including 122 asana illustrations.

Singleton notes that there are few standing asanas until the modern period, and that Yogendra and Kuvalayananda transformed a largely spiritual practice into something therapeutic.

Singleton compares these newer asanas to poses in Niels Bukh's Primary Gymnastics, suggesting that Krishnamacharya may have been influenced by western physical culture.