# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tao-porchon-lynch
# Generated: 2026-08-15T13:13:14.723Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tao-porchon-lynch"
name: "Tao Porchon-Lynch"
slug: "tao-porchon-lynch"
description: "Tao Porchon-Lynch was an American yoga master and award-winning author of French and Indian descent. She discovered yoga in 1926 when she was eight years old in India and studied with, among others, Sri Aurobindo, B.K.S. Iyengar, K. Pattabhi Jois, Swami Prabhavananda, and Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. At age 101, she taught a weekly class in New York, and led programs across the globe. She was the author of two books, including her autobiography, Dancing Light: The Spiritual Side of Being Through the Eyes of a Modern Yoga Master, which won a 2016 IPPY Award and three 2016 International Book Awards. In the front matter endorsement, Deepak Chopra said: \"One of the most acclaimed yoga teachers of our century, Tao Porchon-Lynch... is a mentor to me who embodies the spirit of yoga and is an example of Ageless Body, Timeless Mind. Like yoga, she teaches us to let go and to have exquisite awareness in every moment.\""
tagline: "American Yoga Instructor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tao_Porchon-Lynch_with_Padma_Shree.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "FR"
category:
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  slug: "actors"
profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1918-08-13"
deathDate: "2020-02-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  historical:           7.027036
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm1015445"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.taoporchon-lynch.com/"
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    title: "تاو پورتشون لينتش"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump