That is certainly the case with one of the town's oldest residents, who has been inspiring others with her own boundless energy.
On the opal fields of Lightning Ridge, 86 year-old Ivanna Hewitt hosts her regular home yoga class.
In what used to be a garage next to an old mining camp, she spreads the same teachings that have shaped her life.
"Gradually, somehow, yoga prevailed. Really, it helps me see the world in a different way and to see yourself in a different way. And to see there are innumerable possibilities for growing."
Born Maria Ivannovna Didenkova in Belarus, Ms Hewitt studied teaching and foreign languages.
She later moved to Ukraine, where she settled with her husband George and their twin boys.
But in a tragic twist, her husband drowned, leaving her to raise their children alone.
It was during that dark period in her life when Ms Hewitt discovered yoga -- a practice then deemed illegal under the Soviet Union.
"It was my passion, stronger than danger. I didn't think about danger, because I used the possibility. Authorities did what they were obliged to do, and I did what I wanted to do."
The first yoga teacher she approached initially turned her away because of her age.
At just 30 years old, she was already deemed too old to take it up.
But her persistence for more than a month eventually led to her participating.
Over the years, Ms Hewitt says, she had to change schools to reduce the chances of getting caught.
"They arrested my trainer, too. And then, in a year or two, I saw him, and he was quite a different person. I don't know what happened, but he didn't even recognise me."
In 1992, her sense of adventure brought her to Australia.
Her marriage to a handyman farm labourer led to seven years visiting some of the most isolated parts of the country.
"We were in love. We travelled a lot, but I was not connected with the world at all. When you change your name, you practically cut off your roots. (Then) we drifted into different directions. I didn't see a future. So I left."
Now divorced, she again used yoga to help rebuild her life.
Hoping to one day open her own hall, Ms Hewitt eventually settled in Lightning Ridge.
Starting over has been a recurring theme, it turns out, among many of her students, including a woman named Teresa Arias.
"I came to Lightning Ridge ... I'm sorry, after divorce and all that ... It was quite stressful, but now my life is completely different."
Yoga also had a profound effect on Debbie Roche, who came to live with her sister in Lightning Ridge after a family break-up.
"You know when you get to the bottom of the well? Yeah, it was a pretty awful place. I was a pretty broken person when I came back here. I needed direction, and I needed to find myself. Ivanna was very instrumental in helping with that."
Rejuvenation, liberation and inner peace are just some of yoga's many aspects Ivanna Hewitt has managed to replicate in her own life.
And at an age where most people would be slowing down, she is determined to buck the trend.
"I feel freedom and happiness every moment, because I feel I can do everything -- gardening, chopping wood, building, painting. Only electronics I cannot do."
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