For most elderly people getting down on the floor is a thing of the past, but not for 93-year-old Tao Porchon-Lynch who has been named Guinness World Records’ oldest yoga teacher.
Ms Porchon-Lynch first became interested in yoga after seeing boys practicing on the beach when she was just eight years old and lived in Pondicherry, in southern India, British newspaper the Telegraph reports. She now lives in Hartsdale, outside of New York City, and has been teaching others to twist themselves up in knots for 61 years.
Ms Porchon-Lynch, who is also a competitive dancer, said she has no plans to ever stop.
“I’m going to teach yoga until I can’t breathe anymore, then I’ll just fly away to the next planet,” she said.
Her doctor once told her she would have to give up after she had a hip replacement, but she refused and eventually proved him wrong.
“I said I don’t want to know what I won’t be able to do because I don’t believe it, so I send him a photograph in lotus, lifting off the ground, and he called me the miracle woman,” she said.
Ms Porchon-Lynch has done many other things in her life aside from yoga, including acting, modelling, performing burlesque, and even marching with Gandhi, twice. She teaches yoga to a group of dedicated students on Mondays, and said she pushes them to achieve the hardest positions and expects the same standards of herself.
Source of information from The Telegraph newspaper
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