Get OM the Dance Floor…
Get OM the Dance Floor…
Yoga is the dance of life- Tao Porchon-Lynch.
Our Love Yoga’s inspiration and CEO Joanna Raj’s personal Guru has long enjoyed the benefits and joy derived from both yoga and dance. Seeing the parallel in the spirit of both practices, Tao has mastered the arts of competitive ballroom dance and teaching yoga. Her passion for both had been inspiring Joanna for years as she sat front row cheering Tao on during dance competitions and right next to her on the yoga mat during workshops. After more than a decade of listening to and learning from Tao during countless classes, trips and events- Joanna was driven to begin Our Love Yoga with her brother. It was the fearless way in which Tao embraced any new challenge that really motivated the siblings. It wasn’t until she was 85 that she decided to take up ballroom dancing. Well into her 90’s, Tao would clean up at the dance competitions, placing 1st in every category she chose. As her dances got more complicated, and she got older, her partners got younger. They had to merely to keep up with this dynamo!
Joanna was personally certified to teach yoga by Tao and had often thought about starting a line that was based on the basics; inspirational graphics on incredible fabrics at affordable pricing. She had the idea and all she waited for was the gumption. At the end of one particular day spent with Tao, Joanna heard Tao say two things that resonated with her…that “procrastination was the only sin” and that “there is nothing we cannot do”.
In Yoga, the Kundalini energy is often referred to. This serpent-like energy starts at the base and rises up in two streams crossing at each Chakra (energy center) along the path of the spine. Yoga, deep breathing, meditation, and dancing are all similar in that they help this energy rise upwards. The euphoric peace (Samadhi) that can be derived from both yoga and dance may also be similar.
This past week, befittingly, the host of ABC’s hit show Dancing with the Stars, Brooke Burke, chose Our Love Yoga to wear during a shoot for Ladies Home Journal. This beautiful woman, whose life is filled with family, love, children, fitness, yoga and dance- looked incredible wearing the burnout tee in shocking pink. Brooke exemplifies everything on which OLY was founded- passion, love and having it all! Once again, it also speaks to the shared energies between all things dance and all things yoga.
Though all of her life and most of her career was heavily influenced by Tao, the OLY SpecialTees were created especially to have a shirt that paid homage to this Living Master. As the Tao SpecialTee proclaims… “There is nothing we cannot do”.
Whether it is with dance, yoga or something else entirely about which you feel such passion, take the words of this Master Teacher to heart. Let them resonate within you and challenge yourself to something that will keep you young at heart, at body and at soul.
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