This 98-year-old Indian yoga instructor is still fit and flexible
Tamil Nadu's Nanammal can still perform more than 20 yoga poses with complete flexibility.
TAMIL NADU (Daily Dunya) – A 98-year-old woman holds the record for India’s first and world’s second oldest yoga instructor.
Tamil Nadu’s Nanammal can still perform more than 20 yoga poses with complete flexibility. Her young students lag behind her as they fail to perform the exercise with complete perfection.
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Her father was a martial arts expert. She started practicing yoga from the age of 8 and continued to learn it after marriage from her father-in-law.
She now teaches more than 100 students which include people from all age groups. Nanammal says that she has never eaten any medicine nor visited any hospital. She walks without any support and can perform a headstand efficiently.
Nanammal is a mother of two sons and three daughters. One of his son is also a yoga instructor. She was offered to teach yoga from various countries but had to reject them as she was not familiar with English language.
