Tao Porchon-Lynch is just your average New York City yoga instructor. Ok, with one tiny exception: She’s 93.

As a matter of fact, Guinness World Records has named Porchon-Lynch the oldest yoga instructor in the world.

“I just, I love yoga, it brightens my day and makes everybody smile,” she says.

She’s been teaching yoga for 40 years and says neither age norhip replacement surgery will stop her from doing what she loves.

“My doctor — when he did the hip replacement — said you won’t be able to do this,” Porchon-Lynch said. “So I sent him a photograph in lotus lifting off the ground [a yoga position]. If it’s inside, I can do it.”

Porchon-Lynch fell in love with yoga as a little girl growing up in India, after seeing a group of boys practicing yoga on the beach. After traveling around the world acting, modeling, and dancing — or “playing with life,” as she calls it — she became a yoga instructor in the 1970’s.

She says she’s lived a full life, but she’s not ready to give up yet. “I’m going to dance and do yoga for as long as I live”.

Good example! Oh and my Mother is 77 years old a certified gymnastic teacher and she is still teaching twice a week and has 20 students in her class in average.

Tao has her website: http://www.taoporchon-lynch.com/