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January 26, 2019

Tao Porchon-Lynch Receives Prestigious Padma Shri Award 2019

January 26, 2019 - The Ministry of Home Affairs in 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 2019 for her distinguished service.  The Padma Award, instituted in 1954, is one of the highest civilian honors conferred by the Government of India.

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August 25, 2018

Yoga Master Tao Porchon-Lynch turns 100!

August 24, 2018 - Yoga master and award-winning author Tao Porchon-Lynch turned 100 on August 13, 2018 and birthday messages came in from around the world. Watch the compilation video. 

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April 13, 2018

Shining Bright Wins IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award

April 9, 2018 - Today, 99-year-old yoga master Tao Porchon-Lynch's new book, Shining Bright: Quotes and Images To Inspire Optimism, Gratitude & Belief In Your Limitless Potential, won the prestigious IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award in the gift category as part of the 30th Annual competition

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November 20, 2017

Tao Porchon-Lynch's new book, SHINING BRIGHT, is released!

Tao Porchon-Lynch releases Shining Bright!

November 18, 2017 - Today, 99-year-old yoga master Tao Porchon-Lynch held her new book, Shining Bright: Quotes and Images To Inspire Optimism, Gratitude & Belief In Your Limitless Potential, in her hands for the first time. The book, which was released on November 17, 2017, was showcased at the Athleta store on 18th & 5th Avenue in Manhattan as part of the Women’s Entrepreneurship Day events at the United Nations.

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August 24, 2017

Yoga Master Tao Porchon-Lynch Turns 99 Years Old

Tao Celebrates 99 with a Birthday Bash

August 13, 2017 - Yoga Master Tao Porchon-Lynch turned 99 and celebrated with a birthday bash at the Mansion on Broadway in North White Plains. Over 130 people from various worlds -- yoga, ballroom dancing, wine -- came out to share the evening with Tao. She took a spin on the dance floor and once again showed us all that everything is possible!!

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January 07, 2017

Tao featured in 2017 Athleta Campaign

98-year-old Yoga Master Tao Porchon-Lynch featured in Athleta "Power of She" Campaign

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. Go to the Athleta Chi Blog to find out more about the campaign and view the “Tao & Terri” videos and Power of Positivity insights. Stop by an Athleta store near you to get the catalog.

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November 20, 2016

Tao Honored at the United Nations

Yoga Master Tao Porchon-Lynch gets Honored at the United Nations

November 18, 2016–Although 98-year-old yoga master Tao Porchon-Lynch never considered herself an “entrepreneur,” she certainly has been one and was celebrated as such at the 2016 Women’s Entrepreneurship Day (WED) at the United Nations. In addition to being a top couture model and Vice President at Unitel TV in the 1950s helping to lay the groundwork for TV in places like India, she was an early international film distributor, publisher of one of the first wine newspapers in America, a co-founder of the American Wine Society...

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