January 26, 2019 - The Government of India announced yesterday from New Delhi that 100-year-old historical icon and yoga master Tao Porchon-Lynch has received the prestigious Padma Shri Award for her distinguished service. The Padma Awards, instituted in 1954, are one of the highest civilian honors of India.
April 29, 2017 - Sun, wine, good food and inspiring conversation with 98-year-old yoga master Tao Porchon-Lynch... that's what was on deck at the Stamford Yacht Club. On a gorgeous spring evening, I had the pleasure of moderating our popular Conversation with a Master talk to a packed house.
January 7, 2017--98-year-old yoga master Tao Porchon-Lynch is gracing the cover of the Athleta campaign this month and featured in stores and online with her student Teresa Kay-Aba Kennedy as part of the Power of She initiative. The Power of She is a movement inviting women and girls to lift each other up, and together, realize our limitless potential.
July 20, 2016--Early on Wednesday morning a group of New York's change agents and elite came out to see 97-year-old yoga master Tao Porchon-Lynch at the prestigious CORE: Club on East 55th Street in partnership with the Women's Entrepreneurship Day (WED) organization led by Wendy Diamond.
May 19, 2016--It was a perfect day for the Spring Luncheon at the beautiful Wainwright House in Rye, New York. 97-year-old yoga master Tao Porchon-Lynch was one of the honorees for their annual fundraising event and I was delighted to accompany her. Wainwright House is the oldest non-profit, non-sectarian holistic learning center in the United States.
May 10, 2016-- 97-year-old yoga master Tao Porchon-Lynch can add another accolade to her name, “award-winning author,” demonstrating once again that it is never too late to realize your dreams. She graced the windy city of Chicago to receive a 2016 IPPY Award for her book, Dancing Light: The Spiritual Side of Being Through the Eyes of a Modern Yoga Master.
New York, NY, April 13, 2016 – 97-year-old yoga master Tao Porchon-Lynch can add another accolade to her name, “award-winning author,” demonstrating once again that it is never too late to realize your dreams. Her book, Dancing Light: The Spiritual Side of Being Through the Eyes of a Modern Yoga Master, tied for a Silver Medal in the Autobiography/Memoir II (Coming of Age/Family Legacy/Travel) national category for the 2016 Independent Publisher Book Awards.
January 17, 2016--The inspirational and historical life of 97-year-old yoga master Tao Porchon-Lynch as shared in her new autobiography, Dancing Light: The Spiritual Side of Being Through the Eyes of a Modern Yoga Master, can now be found at the White Plains Library in Westchester, New York.
October 9, 2015--In 2012, Tao was named Oldest Yoga Teacher by Guinness World Records, and she still regularly teaches six to eight classes a week in addition to her dance lessons and other activities. Therefore, the trip to Slovenia would not be complete without yoga! So, on our last day, Tao taught two yoga classes--one at 7am and the other at 11am.
October 8, 2015--After a morning at the Slovene Coast, we returned to Ljubljana in the early afternoon just in time to get a quick bite of food and freshen up for another media interview. We went up to the Presidential Suite at Hotel Slon with Jan Pinteric and Til Lajovic. Apparently, President Bill Clinton had stayed in that spacious townhouse-like suite.
