{"id":15886,"date":"2018-02-11T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-11T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2018\/02\/11\/tao-porchon-lynch-world-s-oldest-yoga-teacher\/"},"modified":"2018-02-11T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-02-11T12:00:00","slug":"tao-porchon-lynch-world-s-oldest-yoga-teacher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2018\/02\/11\/tao-porchon-lynch-world-s-oldest-yoga-teacher\/","title":{"rendered":"Tao Porchon-Lynch, World&#8217;s Oldest Yoga Teacher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lohud.com\/story\/news\/2018\/02\/07\/tao-porchon-lynch-yoga\/312424002\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>HARTSDALE, NEW YORK, February 9, 2018 ( by Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, Lohud.com ): At 8:30 a.m. on a recent monday morning, Tao Porchon-Lynch, recognized in 2012 by the Guinness World Records as the &#8220;World&#8217;s Oldest Yoga Teacher,&#8221; waltzed into the Fred Astaire Studio in Hartsdale for a yoga class wearing a fur coat and black stilettos. A few months shy of turning 100 years old, Porchon-Lynch is the founder of the Westchester Institute of Yoga. She took up ballroom dancing at age 87 and has won more than 750 first-place awards as a competitive dancer. At age 96, she appeared on NBC&#8217;s &#8220;America&#8217;s Got Talent,&#8221; receiving a standing ovation from the judges. In addition to teaching eight classes a week, she hosts yoga retreats and speaks at conferences at more than 20 destinations a year. In 2016, Porchon-Lynch was recognized on Women&#8217;s Entrepreneurship Day at the United Nations.<\/p>\n<p>Born in 1918 , she talks about her upbringing in Pondicherry, a coastal city in southern India which was a French colony until 1954. It was there that she first got a glimpse of yoga, she was eight years old. &#8220;To me yoga is in every animal, every blade of grass and it&#8217;s alive with the energy of life,&#8221; Porchon-Lynch said as she taught a class at the Fred Astaire Studio. &#8220;If I can feel it within me, then I&#8217;m in touch with everyone in this room.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For more, go to source<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source HARTSDALE, NEW YORK, February 9, 2018 ( by Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, Lohud.com ): At 8:30 a.m. on a recent,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}