on yoga, he finished his first books while in US, Light on Hatha Yoga and a volume on Rabindranath Tagore.

He went back to India less than 5 years later; he tried to return to the USA, but was thwarted by the restrictive immigration legislation of 1924.

The yoga researcher Elliott Goldberg described Yogendra's system of asanas as "safer, more comprehensive, and more effective than Müller's system",