Yoga Photographer Robert Sturman Honors Tao Porchon-Lynch

Known as the oldest yoga teacher in the West, Tao will leave a legacy of optimism and strength.

We asked yoga photographer Robert Sturman to reflect on his time with friend and yoga teacher Tao Porchon-Lynch, who passed away last week at the age of 101. Here is what Sturman had to say about this remarkable woman’s enduring spirit, embrace of aging, and the habits that kept her young at heart—like 93 years of asana practice and a glass of wine at lunch.

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“Tao’s is a story that needs to be told to inspire human beings to not give up, to not say ‘I’m too old to start this,’ to be okay with getting older, and to be okay with dying.”

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