Yoga instructor Bette Calman may be 83, but she's still bending over backwards to spread the benefits of the ancient Indian discipline.
The nimble grandmother can really pull some shapes and with her set hair and pearl earrings she looks as glamorous as Greta Garbo in a pink jumpsuit.
With 40 years of teaching under her belt, the Australian wonder is living proof that a lifetime's dedication to yoga will keep you flexible as a rubber band.
Yoga granny: Bette Calman, 83, shows off the agonising peacock pose
While others her age complain about aches and pains, Mrs Calman focuses on getting tough balancing manoeuvres right.
Mrs Calman from Williamstown, southeast Australia, can do all the difficult moves including the agonising 'peacock' where the body is held in a horizontal position by the strength of the arms alone.
The bendy granny can also pull off a tricky raised 'lotus', 'bridge' and a headstand with ease.
She can also put her head between her knees and hold her ankles putting her inflexible grandchildren to shame.
She thought she would take it easy in Melbourne, but was drawn back to teaching as yoga interest grew.
'I came here to retire, but my daughter, Susie, who's also a teacher, kept being pestered for fill-in teachers at her health centre. That was eight years ago,' she said.
Mrs Calman teaches up to 11 classes a week with no sign of stopping and she keeps the 'corpse' posture strictly for her classes.
'Yoga keeps you young,' she said.
'Never have I gone to a yoga class and wished I was somewhere else, because I know I'm going to come out feeling on the top of the world. There'll always be yoga.'
