Nanammal is a 98-year-old woman from Tamil Nadu who is also an expert yoga teacher and practitioner. In a recent short documentary produced by BBC India, Nanammal has been featured as a celebrated yoga practitioner and that too for quite sometime now. She has the ability to perform extremely advanced yoga postures and that makes us wonder if she is 98 years for real. ” When I was young, my grandparents were farmers. They used to work on the field all day, get back home and do yoga. Hence, I started doing yoga along with them,” said Nanammal to BBC.
She is the head of three generations of yogis – the youngest, grandson Gautham is 11-years-old. The entire family follows the footsteps of the oldest yoga teacher. Amma also claims that her good health and long life is only because of her daily yoga routine. Her entire family including kids and grandkids are all now emerging yoga practitioners.
Watch below the amazing and inspiring video of one of the oldest practitioners:
Video courtesy: BBC India
