Legendary 93-year young yoga instructor, Tao Porchon Lynch and I on Saturday, June 9, 2012
As long-term readers of this blog know, I rarely attend yoga classes. My time is limited and frankly, I am still a bit of a klutz when trying to keep up with an instructor. I have learned most of what I know about yoga from books, audios, and videos. However, when Jackie, my work colleague and friend, told me that Ms. Lynch was giving a yoga class in Vienna, Virginia, last weekend, I knew I HAD to attend! I was eager to meet this living yoga legend - a woman who studied yoga in India, acted with MGM in the 1940s and 1950s, danced all her life, and who has been bucking and defying conventional wisdom in recent decades. She has myriad interests and hobbies from delighting in observing birds to being a wine judge!
Ms. Lynch gave two workshops last Saturday. I attended the afternoon portion which lasted almost 3 and one=half hours. Ms. Lynch's energy never flagged, From the moment I entered the yoga studio when she gave me a big hug, to the end of the class, Ms. Lynch radiated joy, enthusiasm, and gentleness. The class of about 15 participants included area yoga instructors who no doubt sought to learn some pointers from this extraordinatry master instructor of Iyengar yoga, a form of hatha yoga that focuses on structural alignment of the physical body and emphasizies standing poses. Many of us took notes between poses!
In my next post I will share some of Ms. Lynch's teachings and more about my personal experience in the class and how I will apply what I learned to my home practice. Till then, when you roll out your mat and doing your yoga practice, meditate on one of her proclamations, "Everything comes from inside."
Laura Venecia Rodriguez, the Beginners' Yoga at Home Coach
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