YOGA NAMASTACY
Powerful Body. Peaceful Mind.Yoga, lifestyle, and self-realization for women at every age — without dieting or excessive exercise.
Testimonials
As a long time yoga student, I have continuously searched for a mentor since I moved to Southern California 10 years ago. It seems that the yoga community is inundated with some very young teachers who have the asanas down perhaps but not the wisdom, introspection, and reflection of the purpose of yoga, notwithstanding, living the lifestyle. In taking your classes, I see that you exude something in which I’ve been searching in a teacher. You’re bright, deep, reflective, and knowledgeable.
Stacy McCarthy was my very first teacher in my very first yoga class. The class that was and continues to be, one of my life’s most transforming moments, for I was elevated to a place I describe as the unknown. I was beyond changed, I was elevated. Fear and trepidation quickly dissolved through a voice that was soft, kind and reassuring. Although challenged by movements and terminology out of my fitness vocabulary, Stacy’s clear and concise instruction guided me through movements I never knew I could perform.
2021 IDEA World Instructor of the Year / Co-Creator of the First College-Accredited 200/500-Hour YTT / 2,000+ Trainings Delivered Worldwide
Get to Know Stacy
Stacy McCarthy is an Integrative Wellness expert, celebrated speaker, and yoga specialist known for transforming lives through a holistic approach to yoga, lifestyle design, and self-realization.
Named the 2021 IDEA World Instructor of the Year, Stacy co-created the first College Accredited 200- and 500-Hour Yoga Teacher Training and has delivered over 2,000 trainings to audiences as large as 1,000 people, speaking at events around the world.
A former full-scholarship athlete at Colorado State University with a degree in Exercise Physiology, Stacy spent years in the corporate world before answering the deeper call of yoga. Today she teaches women — at any age — how to have a powerful body and peaceful mind without dieting or excessive exercise.
Stacy lives in Rancho Santa Fe, California with her husband Tom, where she teaches at her in-person Yoga Nest and welcomes a worldwide community of students through her online platform.
“A lot of people find yoga intimidating.
My mission is to guide them past that fear. To give them the confidence to get on their mat and live their fullest life.”
On the Blog
The Vinyasa That Meets You Where You Are
A new way to flow, breathe, and belong on the matThere is a moment I will never forget. A woman in her early fifties walked up to me after class, eyes glassy, and said, "I think this is my last yoga class. I just can't keep up." She had been showing up faithfully for...
She Is All Around Us — A Mother’s Day Story That Will Stay With You
There was a season of my life that I will always hold as one of my most profound yoga laboratories. For six years, under one roof, three generations of women lived together — my mother, myself, and my daughter. Three women. Three seasons of life. One kitchen, one...
My story and what science now confirms
When Your Shoulders Surprise YouThere was a time when my shoulders felt almost indestructible. As a young athlete I was an All-American swimmer, a World Champion Hall of Fame freestyle frisbee competitor, and a lifelong mover. My shoulders carried me through decades...
On the Gram
Transformation isn’t about becoming someone else.
It’s about becoming more of who you truly are.
The deeper you move into the quiet and transformative practice of yoga, the more the layers begin to fall away, old conditioning, expectations, comparisons, and the stories that were never really yours to carry.
What emerges is greater autonomy.
Greater authenticity.
A deeper connection to your own inner wisdom.
You become more real.
More genuine.
More aligned with your truth.
Yoga is not about perfecting the self. It’s about realizing the Self.
Be the artist of your own life.
Stop painting from someone else’s blueprint and begin creating from your own heart. Choose the colors, the textures, the experiences, and the meaning that resonate with your soul.
Your life is your masterpiece.
Make it a reflection of who you truly are.
✨ Practice. Listen. Trust. Become.
I was deeply saddened to hear of the passing of fitness rockstarGilad Janklowicz.
Just recently, he joined my yoga class in support of Augie’s Quest, helping raise awareness and funds to find a cure for ALS. We shared a beautiful lunch together afterward before he returned home to Hawaii.
Gilad was best known for his television show Bodies in Motion, which inspired millions of people around the world to embrace fitness, health, and an active lifestyle. His energy, positivity, and genuine passion for helping others made a lasting impact on so many lives.
I feel grateful to have spent time with him and to have experienced firsthand the kindness and warmth he shared so effortlessly.
His legacy will continue to move and inspire people for generations to come.
Sending love and prayers to his family, friends, and all whose lives he touched. ❤️
Your life is like an energy economy, every day you’re making trade’s and you’re either depositing or you’re withdrawing so where your focus goes energy flows and where energy flows your life flows so if you’re focused on garbage, you’re wasting your energy if you’re focusing on the beauty that’s where your life goes. If you’re focusing on what’s wrong with you you’ll feel broken if you start focusing on what’s working well energy flows there.
Stop giving your mind and your soul away to nonsense.
Imagine you have a bag of gold and every time you give away a brick of that gold to gossip to someone who wrote a bad comment about you to someone who’s pulling you down you’ve given away all of that emotional wealth time and energy and isn’t that tragic?
Last few spots available for June 6th Yoga in the Garden and Meditate with Your Mala.
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✨ A Special Morning of Garden Yoga + Mala Meditation ✨
We’re bringing together two beautiful practices into one intimate experience.
We’ll begin outside with Garden Yoga, an all-levels practice to awaken the body, open the breath, and settle into the beauty of the morning.
Then, a small group of just 12 guests will continue inside The Yoga Nest for Meditate with Your Mala, a 2.5-hour workshop with Stacy and Judith.
You’ll receive a beautiful mala from Mala and Mantra and learn how to use it as a sacred tool for meditation through light asana, pranayama, mantra, and guided practice.
Because the mala workshop is limited to only 12 participants, it is now offered as part of the full bundle experience only.
🌿 Garden Yoga + Meditate with Your Mala
📿 Includes your mala gift + a special surprise
✨ Limited to 12 workshop participants
💫 Investment: $138
Who is ready for a morning of movement, breath, beauty, and meditation?
Comment MALA below and I’ll send you the details.
At 64, some days the challenge is simply getting to my mat. Other days, it all flows. What’s carried me through? Repeat the basics. Challenge yourself. Don’t give up. Treat yourself with compassion. Forgive yourself. No matter where you start, how old you are, or what you look like… this is yoga. Practice with me.
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Swipe for a little magic. ✨
We adopted our sweet DD when he was 5, so we never got to see him as a puppy… but thanks to a little cyber imagination, here he is as the cutest tiny pup. 🐾💛
And the second photo? That’s me as a 3-year-old yogi , clearly already practicing lotus pose, joy, and a little bit of mischief.
Maybe yoga was always in my bones.
Maybe DD was always meant to be my soul-pup.
Either way, this makes my heart so happy.
Paws, poses, and pure love. 🐶🧘♀️✨
Drop a paw 🐾and namaste 🙏. If you love paws and poses🤍
Welcome, new friends. I’m Stacy McCarthy, founder of Yoga Namastacy, yoga + wellness educator, , speaker, and lifelong student of this practice.
For over four decades, yoga has been my path for building a powerful body, a peaceful mind, and a more meaningful life.
Here, I share intelligent yoga for strength, mobility, longevity, and soulful living, blending ancient wisdom, modern science, breath, alignment, philosophy, and a little humor along the way.
My work is rooted in the belief that yoga should meet you where you are. Not where you were 20 years ago. Not where the media says you should be. Right here, in this body, in this season, with this breath.
Drop a note or emoji and say hello😊
I’m so glad you’re here.
🌿 The jungle had something to say.
And I showed up to listen.
I just returned from a sacred week of my life, teaching and learning @HouseofAiA, deep in the Yucatán jungle, alongside visionary leaders at the Holistic Leadership Council.
We practiced yoga on open-air decks with Ganesha watching over us. We breathed. We moved. We sat in the kind of stillness that only ancient trees and jungle air can hold.
Outside the yoga shala stood a little sign that stopped me every single time:
✨ “Spiritual transformation in process. Do not disturb.” ✨
Sweet friends, that sign was for all of us.
On this Earth Day, the jungle reminded me of something I want to pass to you:
The earth doesn’t need us to be perfect. She needs us to be present.
I’m sharing the full story, the magic, the teachings, the transformation in my newsletter this week.
If you want to come with me back into the jungle through words, sign up at the link in my bio or head to yoganamastacy.com 🌿
Drop a 🌿 below if you’re ready to come home to yourself.
