The world's oldest yoga teacher - PHOTO+VIDEO

The 96-year-old, who was raised in India and currently lives in Westchester County, New York, has been practicing yoga for more than 70 years, and she shows no signs of slowing down.In fact, she has recently added ballroom dancing to her repertoire, and she dances circles around her dance partner Vard Margaryn, who, at 26, is a whopping 70 years her junior.While she has only been dancing competitively since the Eighties, the nonagenarian has won an estimated 500 first place awards, mostly in her favorite category - ballroom tango.'Yoga is the dance of the spirit,' she told the Huffington Post in 2013. 'Ballroom dancing is the physical awareness that comes from the joy within us.'Mrs Porchon-Lynch, who was born to a French father and an Indian mother, was signed as a fashion model in her youth. She also acted in movies including 1951's Show Boat and 1954 film The Last Time I Saw Paris, starring Elizabeth Taylor.She began pursuing yoga at age eight, and when she hit adulthood she decided to turn it into a full-time profession.'Yoga is the joining of our mind, body and spirit,' she explains.'It is like nature, everything is always recycled and brought full circle.'I find that I can heal myself if I do what nature does. It's taken away stress and has helped me through crises.'That's not to say that time hasn't taken an inevitable toll on her health; just a few years ago, she had to have a total hip replacement, and in 2011 she broke her wrist.'Tao's philosophy is: "There is nothing we cannot do if we harness the power within us."'She also helped establish the American Wine Society in 1967, and she frequently appears on the panel to judge various wine competitions. In 2012, she was officially entered into the Guinness Book of World Records as the oldest living yoga instructor. (dailymail.co.uk)Bakudaily.Az