Episode 01: "It's Not too Late to Flourish in Your Life"

Stacy Jackson

Stacy Jackson became a yoga teacher at the age of 50. She's not just any yoga teacher. She is a highly gifted teacher that will knock your socks off in her classes. In our debut episode of Age Thoughtfully, Stacy tells her journey active young mom/makeup artist to becoming a yoga teacher at 50. She talks about overcoming perfectionism, how to keep moving (both physically and otherwise) throughout our lives and flourish at any age.

Stacy is a Los Angeles based 500 hour RYT yoga teacher, Yoga Tune Up teacher, as well as a Roll Model Method Practioner and RMM Trainer. Stacy has pursued yoga and movement practice since the 1990s. 

Stacy's full spectrum of training allows her to offer an interdisciplinary approach, emphasizing anatomy and biomechanics. Her classes blend Yoga Tune Up, with its therapeutic style of conscious corrective exercise, with the worlds of yoga, fitness, pain management, and myofascial self-care. She is passionate about guiding students toward finding intrinsic delight in living, moving and breathing, no matter their condition, age, or stage of life.

Stacy's 4 (she gave us a bonus tip!) for Aging Thoughtfully:

1. Women or men who want to connect with themselves in a more embodied way through learning to move their whole body and not necessarily feel they have to exercise. You learn to move the whole body - you can do things in your life that are just around your house. That helps you to always have some of that movement happening in your body.  We need to keep moving because if we don't, we're going to lose it.

2. Empowering, especially women, to embrace the idea that aging invites us to grow into a deeper beauty. It's no longer just the smile on your face, as much as it is the expression in your heart. With age comes this knowing. 

3. Women and men can reclaim their significance and flourish, that's my word, when they create a conscious vision for their 50's, 60's, 70's and beyond. Imagine what your future self 10 years ahead -  would be saying to you right now.  I let that future self be a guide.

4. In order to flourish, take hold of the inner dialogue and rewrite the script.

*Mentioned on the show: Tara Brach's second book is called, "Radical Compassion."