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Tao Porchon-Lynch

We are straight up inspired by this woman. Tao Porchon-Lynch is the kind of person we wish was our cool auntie Tao who tells inspiring stories of the days she marched with Gandhi, or what it was like in Hollywood in the 50s, or how she just won a ballroom dancing competition at the ripe [...]

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We’ve written plenty about Tao Porchon-Lynch, and there’s no dearth of coverage of the 94-year-young yogini dynamo, but we can’t help sharing more when we see it. A practitioner of yoga for 7 decades (70 years of yoga!) having practiced with some of the founders of modern yoga (BKS Iyengar, Pattabhi Jois), and a teacher [...]

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Ambassador: am·bas·sa·dor ; noun: an authorized messenger or representative. Eat your heart of Lululemon, Athleta just announced their new list of sponsored athletes for 2013. Normally, we don’t give a flying crow about these sorts of things, but sprinkled in the group of swimmers, climbers and ‘fitness enthusiasts’ we found 94-year-old yoga heroine Tao Porchon-Lynch, who, we might add, has been having [...]

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Congrats to Tao Porchon-Lynch! For making the record books and successfully making us feel duly inspired and incredibly lazy!

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Tao Porchon-Lynch the 92-year-old yoga dynamo came to town last week for a workshop. While this yogadork was partaking in YTT subtle bodiliciousness, and therefore couldn’t attend, we were lucky enough to have a fellow yogi reporter Jenn Pesce on the inside. This is her account: Picture the sweetest old lady you know and now [...]

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Here’s a little early-almost-mid-week pick-me-up, and egregious use of hyphens, to boot. Not doing anything exciting this weekend? Sign on to be inspired by 91-year-young Tao “There is Nothing You Cannot Do” Porchon-Lynch this Saturday, at Strala in NYC where the yoga hero will be teaching a 3-hour workshop on the integration and importance of [...]

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This is Tao Porchon-Lynch, the 91-year-old* yoga master and inspiration to us all! Watch the video via CNN Money (they did a story on America’s oldest workers). “There is nothing you cannot do” These words are emblazoned across Lady Tao’s website. From www.taoporchon-lynch.com: Tao Porchon-Lynch, Master Yoga teacher, 91 years young, synthesizes the most positive [...]

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