Yoga Master Tao Porchon-Lynch Turns 99!

August 13, 2017 – On Sunday, Yoga Master Tao Porchon-Lynch turned 99 and celebrated with a birthday bash at the Mansion on Broadway in North White Plains. Over 130 people from various parts of Tao’s life — yoga, ballroom dancing, wine — came out to share the evening.

Tao’s dance partners Anton Bilozorov, Vard Margaryan and Arsen Sargsyan were there, and Sandip Soparrkar flew in from Mumbai to surprise her. Tao took a spin on the dance floor and once again showed us that everything is possible!! Many friends, such as Ron Tvert, Renee Diamond, Joanna Rajendran and John Mirrione, gave tributes.

The co-authors of Tao’s award-winning autobiography, Dancing Light: The Spiritual Side of Being Through the Eyes of a Modern Yoga Master — Janie Sykes-Kennedy and Teresa Kay-Aba Kennedy, along with Sheila Kennedy Bryant — shared the honored dinner table. Robert Sturman, who took the beautiful red dress photo on the cover of Tao’s book, came in from California for the bash. Much thanks to Joyce Pines for helping to coordinate.

See pictures below. Click on each image to make it larger. You can Like and Share each image, as well as spread the light by sharing this link and these hashtags: #ThisIs99 #TaoExp #TaoPorchonLynch

Yoga Master Tao Porchon-Lynch at her 99th Birthday Party at the Mansion on Broadway in White Plains, NY – August 13, 2017

Sheila Kennedy Bryant, Teresa Kay-Aba Kennedy, Tao Porchon-Lynch and Janie Sykes-Kennedy at Tao’s 99th Birthday Party at the Mansion on Broadway in White Plains, NY – August 13, 2017

Ron Tvert and Iris Lee with Tao Porchon-Lynch at Tao’s 99th Birthday Party at the Mansion on Broadway in White Plains, NY – August 13, 2017

Tao Porchon-Lynch’s 99th Birthday Party at the Mansion on Broadway in White Plains, NY – August 13, 2017

Elizabeth Corwin and Robert Sturman with Yoga Master Tao Porchon-Lynch at her 99th Birthday Party at the Mansion on Broadway in White Plains, NY – August 13, 2017

Sandip Soparrkar with Tao Porchon-Lynch at Tao’s 99th Birthday Party at the Mansion on Broadway in White Plains, NY – August 13, 2017

Sandip Soparrkar with Tao Porchon-Lynch at Tao’s 99th Birthday Party at the Mansion on Broadway in White Plains, NY – August 13, 2017

Sandip Soparrkar, Tao Porchon-Lynch and Robert Sturman at Tao’s 99th Birthday Party at the Mansion on Broadway in White Plains, NY – August 13, 2017

Sandip Soparrkar, Anton Bilozorov, Vard Margaryan and Arsen Sargsyan with Yoga Master Tao Porchon-Lynch at her 99th Birthday Party at the Mansion on Broadway in White Plains, NY – August 13, 2017

Vard Margaryan and Arsen Sargsyan with Yoga Master Tao Porchon-Lynch at her 99th Birthday Party at the Mansion on Broadway in White Plains, NY – August 13, 2017

Arsen Sargsyan with Yoga Master Tao Porchon-Lynch at her 99th Birthday Party at the Mansion on Broadway in White Plains, NY – August 13, 2017

Vard Margaryan with Yoga Master Tao Porchon-Lynch at her 99th Birthday Party at the Mansion on Broadway in White Plains, NY – August 13, 2017

Mike, Natasha Tao and Joanna Rajendran with Yoga Master Tao Porchon-Lynch at Tao’s 99th Birthday Party at the Mansion on Broadway in White Plains, NY – August 13, 2017

Natasha Tao and Joanna Rajendran with Yoga Master Tao Porchon-Lynch at Tao’s 99th Birthday Party at the Mansion on Broadway in White Plains, NY – August 13, 2017

Natasha Tao at Tao Porchon-Lynch-s 99th Birthday Party at the Mansion on Broadway in White Plains, NY – August 13, 2017

Natasha Tao Rajendran with Tao Porchon-Lynch at Tao’s 99th Birthday Party at the Mansion on Broadway in White Plains, NY – August 13, 2017

Natasha Tao, Joanna Rajendran and mom at Tao Porchon-Lynch-s 99th Birthday Party at the Mansion on Broadway in White Plains, NY – August 13, 2017

Teresa Kay-Aba Kennedy, Sheila Kennedy Bryant and Janie Sykes-Kennedy with Tao Porchon-Lynch at her 99th Birthday Party at the Mansion on Broadway in White Plains, NY – August 13, 2017

Janie Sykes-Kennedy and Tao Porchon-Lynch at Tao’s 99th Birthday Party at the Mansion on Broadway in White Plains, NY – August 13, 2017

Janie Sykes-Kennedy and Tao Porchon-Lynch at Tao’s 99th Birthday Party at the Mansion on Broadway in White Plains, NY – August 13, 2017

Yoga Master Tao Porchon-Lynch’s 99th Birthday Party at the Mansion on Broadway in White Plains, NY – August 13, 2017

Sandip Soparrkar with Suzanne Jackson and son at Tao Porchon-Lynch’s 99th Birthday Party at the Mansion on Broadway in White Plains – August 13, 2017

Janie Sykes-Kennedy, Sandip Soparrkar and Sheila Kennedy Bryant at Tao Porchon-Lynch’s 99th Birthday Party at the Mansion on Broadway in White Plains – August 13, 2017

Teresa Kay-Aba Kennedy, Janie Sykes-Kennedy, Sandip Soparrkar and Sheila Kennedy Bryant at Tao Porchon-Lynch’s 99th Birthday Party at the Mansion on Broadway in White Plains – August 13, 2017

Teresa Kay-Aba Kennedy and Juliet Sitaram-Milo at Tao Porchon-Lynch’s 99th Birthday Party at the Mansion on Broadway in White Plains – August 13, 2017

Teresa Kay-Aba Kennedy at Yoga Master Tao Porchon-Lynch’s 99th Birthday Party at Mansion on Broadway in White Plains, NY – August 13, 2017

Sandip Soparrkar and ladies at Tao Porchon-Lynch’s 99th Birthday Party at the Mansion on Broadway in White Plains – August 13, 2017

Elizabeth Corwin at Tao Porchon-Lynch’s 99th Birthday Party at the Mansion on Broadway in White Plains, NY – August 13, 2017

Tao Porchon-Lynch’s 99th Birthday Party at the Mansion on Broadway in White Plains, NY – August 13, 2017

Kamala Rambissoon with Yoga Master Tao Porchon-Lynch at her 99th Birthday Party at the Mansion on Broadway in White Plains, NY – August 13, 2017

Teresa Kay-Aba Kennedy at Tao Porchon-Lynch’s 99th Birthday Party at the Mansion on Broadway in White Plains, NY – August 13, 2017

Hiroko Aizeki with Yoga Master Tao Porchon-Lynch at her 99th Birthday Party at the Mansion on Broadway in White Plains, NY – August 13, 2017

Yoga Master Tao Porchon-Lynch’s 99th Birthday Party at the Mansion on Broadway in White Plains, NY – August 13, 2017

Yoga Master Tao Porchon-Lynch’s 99th Birthday Party at the Mansion on Broadway in White Plains, NY – August 13, 2017

Sophia Mirrione with Yoga Master Tao Porchon-Lynch at her 99th Birthday Party at the Mansion on Broadway in White Plains, NY – August 13, 2017

Sophia Mirrione at Yoga Master Tao Porchon-Lynch’s 99th Birthday Party at the Mansion on Broadway in White Plains, NY – August 13, 2017

Tao Porchon-Lynch at her 99th Birthday Party at the Mansion on Broadway in White Plains, NY – August 13, 2017

Pam McFarlane with Yoga Master Tao Porchon-Lynch at her 99th Birthday Party at the Mansion on Broadway in White Plains, NY – August 13, 2017

Pam McFarlane, Janie Sykes-Kennedy and Sheila Kennedy Bryant at Yoga Master Tao Porchon-Lynch’s 99th Birthday Party at the Mansion on Broadway in White Plains, NY – August 13, 2017

Janie Sykes-Kennedy, Robert Sturman and Sheila Kennedy Bryant at Tao Porchon-Lynch’s 99th Birthday Party at Mansion on Broadway in White Plains, NY – August 13, 2017

Janie Sykes-Kennedy, Robert Sturman and Teresa Kay-Aba Kennedy at Tao Porchon-Lynch’s 99th Birthday Party at Mansion on Broadway in White Plains, NY – August 13, 2017

Renee Diamond at Yoga Master Tao Porchon-Lynch’s 99th Birthday Party at Mansion on Broadway in White Plains, NY – August 13, 2017

Sandip Soparrkar with Tao Porchon-Lynch at Tao’s 99th Birthday Party at the Mansion on Broadway in White Plains – August 13, 2017

Tao Porchon-Lynch’s 99th Birthday Party at the Mansion on Broadway in White Plains – August 13, 2017

Joanna Rajendran and Natasha Tao giving tribute to Tao Porchon-Lynch at her 99th Birthday Party at the Mansion on Broadway in White Plains – August 13, 2017

Yoga Master Tao Porchon-Lynch’s 99th Birthday Party at Mansion on Broadway in White Plains, NY – August 13, 2017

Yoga Master Tao Porchon-Lynch’s 99th Birthday Party at Mansion on Broadway in White Plains, NY – August 13, 2017

John Mirrione at Yoga Master Tao Porchon-Lynch’s 99th Birthday Party at Mansion on Broadway in White Plains, NY – August 13, 2017

Yoga Master Tao Porchon-Lynch’s 99th Birthday Party at Mansion on Broadway in White Plains, NY – August 13, 2017

Yoga Master Tao Porchon-Lynch’s gifts at her 99th Birthday Party at the Mansion on Broadway in White Plains, NY – August 13, 2017

Yoga Master Tao Porchon-Lynch’s Cake at her 99th Birthday Party at the Mansion on Broadway in White Plains, NY – August 13, 2017

Yoga Master Tao Porchon-Lynch at her 99th Birthday Party at the Mansion on Broadway in White Plains, NY – August 13, 2017

99th Birthday Collage for Tao Porchon-Lynch created by Regina Lee

Can you keep up with Tao? Be sure to leave your comments and spread the light by sharing this link and these hashtags: #ThisIs99 #TaoExp #TaoPorchonLynch  If you haven’t already, order Tao’s award-winning autobiography, Dancing Light: The Spiritual Side of Being Through the Eyes of a Modern Yoga Master.

Contributed by Teresa Kay-Aba Kennedy of www.IAmPowerLiving.com and www.PowerLivingMedia.com. President of Power Living Enterprises, Inc., Terri is a Harvard Business School-trained Strategist, Certified Meditation & Yoga Teacher, and Master Coach recognized as a “Young Global Leader” by the World Economic Forum. Her mission is to raise the consciousness of the planet through transformative tools, experiences and content. As a coach, she specializes in helping people de-stress, realign and realize authentic success. After a corporate media & technology career, she founded the first yoga studio in Harlem and served six years on the Board of Yoga Alliance (including Chair and interim CEO). Called “smart with a heart,” she has been featured in media around the world including the cover of Yoga Journal and in Oprah’s book, Live Your Best Life! Along with her mother, Columbia University-trained journalist Janie Sykes-Kennedy, Terri is a co-author of Tao’s award-winning autobiography, Dancing Light: The Spiritual Side of Being Through the Eyes of a Modern Yoga Master. Terri and her mom are working on the Tao Legacy Project, capturing Tao’s wisdom and teachings in various formats. A sought-after speaker and avid photographer/videographer with a love for storytelling, Terri often travels with Tao moderating conversations on her life and assisting in yoga workshops. In addition to volunteering her time for events and to manage Tao’s PR/Media/Strategic Branding, Terri “curates and documents inspirational experiences” with the yoga master.