Category Archives: Yoga/T’ai Chi/Mindfulness
Community News: Exercise
EngAGE residents know that staying active means staying healthy! EngAGE offers a variety of classes, workshops, and special programs at each of our communities. These posts highlight just a small sample.
News from Long Beach Senior Arts Colony: Staying Healthy
Yoga provides safe exercise and increased flexibility, strength, and endurance, as well as a relaxed and focused mental state. The Chair Yoga class welcomes yogis of all levels and begins with 20 minutes of warm-up. The topic introduced last month … Continue reading
The Jasmine: Yoga + Children’s Clothing for Africa
Yoga provides safe exercise and facilitates increased flexibility, strength, and endurance as well as a relaxed and focused mental state. Instructor Chihiro Sano includes postures that enhance both mobility and balance. Instructor Shirley Yu reported that residents completed 82 dresses and eight … Continue reading
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Tao Porchon Lynch: 96-Year-Old Yoga Instructor
We’ve been posting about the amazing Tao Porchon Lynch for the past two years when, in 2012, she made the Guinness Book of World Records, and in 2013, when she became a sponsored athlete for Athleta clothing. Once again, we’re delighted to post about her … Continue reading
Yoga Teacher Fran Miller, 91
“Fran Miller was in her 50s when she became a yoga teacher. That was four decades ago.” Ms. Miller’s teaches for the Los Angeles Recreation and Parks Department. Learn more and see a 2-minute video here.
Ida Herbert, 96, Named World’s Oldest Yoga Teacher
Ida Herbert, 96, has been declared the oldest yoga teacher in Canada by Guinness World Records. She’s been practicing since the 1940’s, long before yoga became the popular pursuit it is today. She retired last year from teaching at the YMCA … Continue reading
Yoga Teacher Tao Porchon-Lynch, 94, Lands Sponsorship
“Athleta just announced their new list of sponsored athletes for 2013. . . [W]hen we’re surrounded by images mostly of taut-skinned, tight-butted spring chickens as the poster children of neo modern yoga, it’s somewhat gratifying to see the grand dame … Continue reading
