Master Healer Dona Leova and Yoga Master Tao Porchon-Lynch
On Saturday, November 22nd, 2014, 96-year-old yoga master Tao Porchon-Lynch had a special tea in New York with Traditional Healer Doña Leova from the Nahuatl Indian nation of Puebla, Mexico. The two masters from different traditions shared their traditions and found many commonalities.
Doña Leova’s work is based in a cosmology of Healing that is known as the “Tradition of the Grandmothers”… named because historically, one grandmother would share the practice with one granddaughter who would then go on to become the next practitioner. Within her Community she is renowned as a Medicine Women and in her tradition a “Limpia” (or inner cleansing) is a form in which using a combination of body-work, massage, prayer and the intention of the healer. Tao’s philosophy of Oneness is greatly informed by Nature as her “encyclopedia.” Both masters believe in the power of breath and a smile to heal.
After the meeting, Tao taught a yoga workshop to a packed house at the Integral Yoga Institute in Manhattan.
Teresa Kay-Aba Kennedy, Dona Leova, Tao Porchon-Lynch, Robert Carris
Teresa Kay-Aba Kennedy, Dona Leova, Janie Sykes-Kennedy, Robert Carris
Learn more about Tao’s incredible life in her autobiography, Dancing Light: The Spiritual Side of Being Through the Eyes of a Modern Yoga Master, which won 10 international and national awards. Be inspired by her image/quote book, Shining Bright: Quotes and Images to Inspire Optimism, Gratitude & Belief In Your Limitless Potential, which won the prestigious IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award. Study her teachings in Master Course with Tao Porchon-Lynch and Stretch & Relax with Tao Porchon-Lynch.
Contributed by Teresa Kay-Aba Kennedy.
