TAO PORCHON-LYNCH: YOGA Y DANZA

FOR YOGA MASTER AT 92,
THERE IS ONLY THE DANCE

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Yoga master Tao Porchon-Lynch, 92 years young, kept repeating her life’s motto, there is nothing you cannot do, before a packed workshop in New York City. Then, light as a bird, she glided into a gravity-defying arm balance to illustrate the point. “I haven’t been able to do the peacock since I broke my wrist in April, but I did it in that room,” Porchon-Lynch said of the pose she demonstrated recently at Strala Yoga studio. “In yoga every breath I take puts me on the right path.” Porchon-Lynch has been practicing yoga, the ancient discipline connecting breath to movement, for over 70 years. Along the way she has walked with Mahatma Gandhi, modeled couture in Paris, trod the boards in London, and acted under contract to MGM in Hollywood. It was yoga breathing, she said, that kept fear at bay when she worked for the resistance in World War Two France.

Born in Pondicherry, India, Porchon-Lynch studied under yoga legends B.K.S. Iyengar and Indra Devi. At age 50 she was given her first paying yoga job in the United States by fitness icon Jack LaLane. Porchon-Lynch founded the Westchester Institute of Yoga, where she is director, in 1982. Jane Fonda is her admirer. Porchon-Lynch teaches up to 20 hours a week and has trained over 300 instructors, and when she’s not teaching, she pursues another passion - competitive ballroom dancing. “Dancing is a continuation of yoga, like music,” she said. “Music and dancing and yoga are all coming from within you.”


Yoga Master Porchon-Lynch says her "most precious inspirations" come when people think they can't do something, "then there's a smile on their face, because they can." Despite a hip replacement, she recently completed a 17-dance event where, she says her Tango partner was a 22-year old and her Cha Cha partner was 29. Yoga helps us create a life where we're looking down from clouds instead of into the clouds," she says. "I call Yoga the dance of life, since I'm always dancing." Tara Stiles, owner of Strala Yoga, says Porchon-Lynch is living proof that yoga actually works. There is no doubt that Hatha Yoga enhances health, improves the quality of life and keeps young spirit, and this is an example.

WHAT DO THE VEDIC TEACHINGS TELL US?

Yoga is the most beautiful science, the highest art. Everything in our life should be yoga, since this word refers to the way of life by which one is in constant harmony with the whole, the universe, which beats at the rhythm of our hearts. Yoga is the art in every business. Yoga adds full meaning to our lives, it heals and makes us happy, it strengthens and makes us to become supporter for others. Yoga is deep, essential and mystic, and it can be practiced by everyone; there is no age limit or any disease that prevents its benefits. ... Yoga fell from higher planes, it was revealed by the devas (gods) and the great rishis (sages) and reveals the mysteries of the body and mind. ... The science of yoga is generously opening the doors towards a world of greater harmony. Yoga is a friend in good and bad times; its practice will help us to grasp the proper teaching from every single fact of life, so that everything makes sense. Yoga will help us to move towards perfection, the ultimate goal.

Śrīla Atulananda Ācārya :
“Yoga, the Most Beautiful Science”
Yoga Inbound - Hatha Yoga -Topics of interest.
http://www.yogainbound.org/ws/hatha-yoga/30-articulos-interes/330-yoga-la-mas-bella-ciencia
http://www.atulanandadas.cl/