Tag Archive for Terri Kennedy

Cameo on CBS News with Tao

97-year-old yoga master Tao Porchon-Lynch, CBS News host Mary Calvi and Teresa Kay-Aba Kennedy

July 12, 2016–Over the last few years, I’ve stayed in the background from a media standpoint to focus my energies on shining light on 97-year-old yoga master Tao Porchon-Lynch. Now I’m easing back in the public eye with some cameos. I was delighted to be in a CBS News featuring Mary Calvi. It was such a pleasure working with Mary, who is also First Lady of Yonkers. She joined Tao’s Thursday morning yoga session at the Fred Astaire Dance Studio in Hartsdale, New York. It was her first yoga class and she looked like a pro! I made comments on Tao as her student and co-author of her autobiography, Dancing Light: The Spiritual Side of Being Through the Eyes of a Modern Yoga Master.

Direct Your Own Show

A DOSE OF POWER LIVING®: Direct Your Own Show – A Polish Proverb says, “Not my circus. Not my monkeys” (or Nie mój cyrk, nie moje malpy which literally means “not my problem”).

Not My Circus

QUOTE CARD: “Not my circus. Not my monkeys.”
-Polish Proverb

Be a Champion of Freedom

A DOSE OF POWER LIVING®: Be a Champion of Freedom – As Nelson Mandela said, “For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances freedom of others.”

2016 International Day of Yoga at the UN

97-year-old yoga master Tao Porchon-Lynch, Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev and Teresa Kay-Aba Kennedy at the United Nations for International Day of Yoga event - June 20, 2016

June 20, 2016 – On the summer solstice, one day in advance of International Day of Yoga, 97-year-old yoga master Tao Porchon-Lynch spoke at the United Nations joining the Founder of Isha Foundation, Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev. As a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader and her biographer, I was delighted to moderate Tao’s conversation. Sadhguru’s conversation was moderated by Max Kennedy, author and son of Robert F. Kennedy. The audience included senior UN officials, ambassadors and other dignitaries from various countries.

Unlearn What You Have Learned

A DOSE OF POWER LIVING®: Unlearn What You Have Learned – As Grand Jedi Master Yoda said, “You must unlearn what you have learned.”

Unlearn What You Have Learned

QUOTE CARD: “You must unlearn what you have learned.”
-Yoda, from the movie Star Wars

Plant Good Seeds

A DOSE OF POWER LIVING®: Plant Good Seeds – As acclaimed yoga teacher David Swenson said, “The more we practice the more fertile we become, but it does not mean that we are spiritual. It just means we are fertile. The choices we make next are the seeds that we plant.”

ClubFit with Tao Porchon-Lynch

97-year-old yoga master Tao Porchon-Lynch and Teresa Kay-Aba Kennedy at ClubFit in Briarcliff Manor - June 12, 2016

June 11, 2016 – 97-year-old yoga master Tao Porchon-Lynch taught a packed house at ClubFit in Briarcliff Manor, New York, and I was delighted to moderate a discussion on her life at the end of practice. The event was hosted by the Yoga Teachers Association (YTA), a non-profit dedicated to continuing and improving the quality…