On Thursday, January 15, 2015, 96-year-old yoga master Tao Porchon-Lynch shared her wisdom and light with students at Harmony By Karate in New York located at the beautiful Equinox Sports Club.

The school teaches its own form of karate called chowa-kai (lit. “harmony by karate”). Its founder, Sensei John P. Mirrione, also founded the National Stop Bullying Campaign in 2010.

View the pictures below and be sure to pre-order Tao’s new autobiography, Dancing Light: The Spiritual Side of Being Through the Eyes of a Modern Yoga Master.

96-year-old Tao Porchon-Lynch teaching yoga at Harmony by Karate in NYC

96-year-old Tao Porchon-Lynch teaching yoga at Harmony by Karate in NYC

96-year-old Tao Porchon-Lynch with Sensei John P. Mirrione of Harmony By Karate

96-year-old Tao Porchon-Lynch with Sensei John P. Mirrione of Harmony By Karate

96-year-old yoga master Tao Porchon-Lynch teaching at Harmony By Karate in NYC

96-year-old yoga master Tao Porchon-Lynch teaching at Harmony By Karate in NYC

96-year-old yoga master Tao Porchon-Lynch teaching at Harmony By Karate

96-year-old yoga master Tao Porchon-Lynch teaching at Harmony By Karate

96-year-old yoga master Tao Porchon-Lynch teaching at Harmony By Karate

96-year-old yoga master Tao Porchon-Lynch teaching at Harmony By Karate

 

Can you keep up with Tao? Be sure to spread the light by sharing this link and these hashtags: #ThisIs96 #TaoExp #TaoPorchonLynch.

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.