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This article originally appeared on HelloGiggles.com.
I think we can all agree: A 98-year-old woman still healthy and strong enough to teach yoga every day has a thing or two to teach us about life.
Tao Porchon-Lynch, 98, may be the?oldest yoga teacher on the planet, verified by Guinness World Records. She started practicing yoga as a child C nine decades ago C when she saw some boys doing yoga poses in India. Next, she says, she never looked back: Yoga has been a part of her lifetime ever since, and?she’s sharing her wisdom.
The most essential thing about yoga, Porchon-Lynch says, is breath: It?connects us to our bodies?and allows us to be mindful and positive in our life.
“Yoga is performed using the breath. It means ‘union with your inner self,'” she told the?Huffington Post. “When you breathe, you tune in to the inner self, and you will find it opens up your whole life. And that is what yoga is all about.”
For Porchon-Lynch, positive-thinking and breath are linked C and maintaining positive thoughts is an essential thing we can do for our health.
“Never put negative thoughts in your head because it goes directly into the body,” she said. “When you wake up in the morning, say, ‘This will probably be the very best day’s my entire life.’ People say I changed their life. I did not change their life. I just taught them to use their breath.”
In dedicating nearly a hundred years to yoga, mindful living, and positivity, Tao reminds us: Pause, take a moment C and?breathe.
