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... in the New York suburbs, travelling the world attending yoga retreats. Stylish and fashionable, she zips from her Hartsdale home in Westchester County to the studio in a Smart car. Once in the studio, she happily demonstrates yoga poses, even if she ...
PIC: Yoga Master Tao Porchon-Lynch instructs a yoga class in Hartsdale, New York. She is the 'World's Oldest Yoga Teacher' who, at age 98, still teaches five classes a week.
The music may have been a bit low but that didn't stop the enthusiasm at the Scarsdale Athleta store Sunday, Jan. 15 when Tao Porchon-Lynch, known for being the world's oldest yoga teacher, took to the floor. The 98-year-old and her dance partner Anton Bilozorov, of Hartsdale's Fred Astaire Dance Studio, dazzled the crowd with their moves -- and in Porchon-Lynch's case, her three colorful dance outfits.
Ninety-eight-year-old Tao Porchon-Lynch has captured America's heart since her turn on "America's Got Talent" in 2015. Westchesterites knew her far longer from her years as the founder of the Westchester Institute of Yoga and from teaching at the JCC of Mid-Westchester in Scarsdale and at the Fred Astaire Studio in Hartsdale.
... at the JCC of Mid-Westchester in Scarsdale where she continues to teach classes and at the Fred Astaire Studio in Hartsdale (she's a competitive ballroom dancer as well as a yoga teacher). Go to www.taoporchon-lynch.com for more details. Or better ...
It might be hard to imagine an 98-year-old woman executing complicated yoga poses with ease or strutting her stuff on "America's Got Talent," but in one White Plains nonagenarian's case, it's not a stretch at all. Despite having had, not one, but three hip replacements, she still teaches in Hartsdale and Scarsdale - when she isn't taking part in competitive ballroom dancing, that is.
On a recent Monday, Tao Porchon-Lynch was teaching her 90-minute yoga class in Hartsdale, N.Y., combining elements of Iyengar, meditation and vinyasa for a dozen or so regular students. Porchon-Lynch's soft voice was soothing as she called out poses -- tree, dancer -- and corrected alignment.