At 97, Tao Porchon-Lynch is the world’s oldest yoga teacher. Tao shares her secrets about how she keeps a body of a 30-year-old.

“In my head I’m still in my 20s, I don’t feel my age,” says Tao Porchon-Lynch, a French-Indian yogi from the US, who’s a Guinness World Records-certified yoga teacher at 97.

She takes classes every day, even after going through a hip replacement yoga (read more).When she’s not teaching yoga, Porchon-Lynch gets busy making fitness videos. One of the oldest yoga teachers in the world apart, she has been an actor, couture model and a producer. In her memoir, Dancing Light: The Spiritual Side of Being Through the Eyes of a Modern Yoga Master, she says, “There is nothing you cannot do”.The former MGM actress had studied with BKS Iyengar and K Pattabhi Jois. Here are her lessons from living with yoga for 73 years.

“They are a sign that something better is coming along. If something didn’t work out there’s something that is even better that’s on its way.I look for the good in everybody and everything around me.”

HAPPINESS IS… “All sorts of things make me happy… seeing the birds fly or animals around me.”

HEALTHY HABITS “Eat light, eat slow. Breathe deep. Do shoulder stands at night. It helps with blood circulation. Eating fruits in the morning cleanses your system.