New York: The secret mantra behind long life is to live everyday with joy and with a new spirit.
A yoga teacher, Tao Porchon-Lynch who will turn 101 this summer has made this mantra a part of her life.
She was born in French India, and she came to know about yoga at the age of seven when she saw some boys doing yoga on the beach. After which she got hooked with it. And within herself she had decided one thing that if there is something good to do then do it without standing back and wasting time.
When she was a teenager at that time she started teaching yoga and now she takes regular yoga classes in New York City.
Whenever she wakes up in the morning she looks at the sun and says that today will be the best day of her life. She teaches her students to focus their breathing around the heart, opening up the chest, and not breathing into the lower abdomen.
Her main objective of life is to embrace everyday with joy. Her students say she is an inspiration to them.
One of her friends says that, "Her life is a yoga path. And the yoga path is her life and that's how she approaches it. And that's what emanates from her. And we soak it up. Her students soak that up. We eventually get that at some point in our life. Certainly I did. It took a long time. But I got it in my life."
Earlier this year Porchon-Lynch was awarded the prestigious Padma Shri Award from the government of India for exceptional achievement. For the past twenty years she has also trained and competed in ballroom dance competitions, including on TV in the show America's Got Talent.
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