A native of Chicago’s south side, Stacy Patrice is a multifaceted healing artist and spiritual awakener who has dedicated her life to helping others delve into themselves and reach higher ground.
Counting numerous businesses, individuals, and non for profit organizations amongst her clients, the Florida A&M University graduate is regularly booked at conferences, retreats, headlining festivals and facilitating conversations and programs to implement her created genre of Self Love & Soul Healing to confidentially guide luminaries in the philanthropy, entrepreneurial, arts, entertainment and educational sectors to lead from within and venture outside the lines.
With more than three decades of arts experience and continuing education in psychology and soul consciousness, Stacy also holds a 200hr classical yoga teacher certification, including yoga therapeutics and trauma informed yoga practices that has seen her serve thousands of practitioners from sweet home Chicago all the way to Ubud, Bali.and various points in between.
N’DIGO sat down with the multi-faceted yogini to learn more about her practice and what she has in store for the future.
N’DIGO: In your own words, who is Stacy Patrice?
Stacy Patrice: I can most succinctly say, I am Soul Expressed.
As a child, what did you dream of doing for a living?
I dreamt I’d be a dancer, cartoonist, a model and definitely a leader. Consistent through all of the dreams, I absolutely knew I’d be, and already was, an artist.
How did you discover your gift to touch people and be a connector? Is it something you accepted easily or did you fight with it a while?
I originally discovered ‘the gift‘ through navigating friendships feeling like a peacemaker, matchmaker or motivator majority of the time. I always had a compass of what belonged together and what didn’t, what was right and what wasn’t, what I would do and what I wouldn’t, and the conversations and creative expressions to go with it all.
I studied self help, astrology, psychology and other systems that gave language to many things I experienced and felt. On the art side, the magic of creation had me in constant conversation with others’ and their experiences. I spent so much time developing myself on stages and in front of people, that I became more connected to a plethora of personalities. I’d like to think that the way people touched me in responding to what they saw from me, is how I learned to be a connector, like ‘yes I’d love to pay that forward and place that where it belongs’. The biggest connection I was determined to make was how to get what I was feeling inside, to show up, outside of myself. I desired to put those visions and that voice on stage. That wasn’t easy but I can’t say that I ever fought it. Challenges in relationships particularly over my adult years are what inspired me and helped me to draw connections. Through the depths of those connections I could ‘hear‘ differently and locate what parts of me were willing to answer. Now, I was hyper aware that not everyone was into that and I had things to do, so it wasn’t at max volume for years. I’ve always wanted to experience a world where people are well and free. As it turns out, those decades of lead time planted me in the era we are in now, where I can keenly create and be a Soul Healer.
Please tell us all about the Soul Yogini Stacy Patrice and the things you offer via your practice?
My current practice is multi-dimensional lifestyling, offering group tuning healing therapies as experiential education, my current creative expressions and producing events for elevated connection.
My storytelling projects include my first meditative short film, ‘yoginī ‘ which just premiered at The Black Harvest Film Festival, and new projects entering pre-production with Tapestry Film Collective: a cohort of brilliant Southside filmmakers.
Post-pandemic, I made more space for individual coaching and conSOULting. My effort here is in guiding my clients to realign with themselves and their relationships through the essence that can never be stripped away, utilizing yogic astrology to reveal specific lifestyle practices as support. I am always speaking to and creating online and in-person events and programs around ‘self love & soul healing’ for an array of audiences. I am currently producing the 7th year of my in-person year end celebration, A Soul Healing SOULstice and this year’s theme The Love Reset, feels quite needed so I am collaborating with seven other luminaries to offer my response.
What can attendees expect at your upcoming event, A Soul Healing SOULstice: The Love Reset?
At the onset of winter they can expect a warm, engaging, love-focused gathering led by eight luminaries who are coming together to share our light on the longest night of 2024. Our gift to the community is in celebrating this fresh start with each other, while facilitating a multisensory blend of self love and relational love tuning activations to provide a deeply connected experience of living and loving, in preparation for the year to come. My suggestion is to come and spend concentrated time focused on yourself, as a gift to yourself and a seasonal start ahead of all the expectations around what you give to others. The best way to start a new year that’s good for you.
How do you maintain your mental health and/or self-care?
Because I am a big-hearted giver, I have to keep an eye on my emotional labor. This requires a lot of solitude, much time in nature, change of surroundings, evolving sources of inspiration and of course my off the mat creative lifestyle practices. I challenge myself to explore in solitude more than I engage in company. I have rising and evening care and reflective rituals and I disenroll and disengage from people and distractions regularly to hear my own voice. I am dedicated to growth and utilizing the wisdom that comes with it. I also continuously work with my son in guiding him to continue developing his creative voice as a powerful editor, illustrator and animator and that reminds me that play and joy is central, so I join him.
A book that has really impacted your life is…
There are so many but I’d have to say In The Meantime by Iyanla Vanzant. That book found me early and shaped the way I’d spend time alone, in visioning, healing, manifesting, and loving long before I consciously did any of it. It was a wonderful primer that has examples that I still recall when considering the ‘house’ I live in.
What’s something people would be surprised to know about you?
I am a perpetual learner, continuing my education as a student at least half of every year in whatever area satisfies my curiosity at the time. I am highly attracted to intelligence in all things and what I learn and discover becomes my practice to share, teach, inspire and create.
Best advice to anyone looking to start their journey inward?
Be courageous about responding to and taking care of yourself and watch it begin to take care of everything else. Also find qualified coaches, guides, therapists and teachers who live what they provide and can authentically assist you in this journey.
Favorite quote or affirmation?
“Be the you that you are when no one else is looking, in front of everyone.” ~Stacy Patrice
What’s next for Stacy Patrice?
2025 is going to be a grand journey in love. I’m officially kicking it off with those who attend The Love Reset on December 21st. I am still seeking sponsors, organizations and businesses that prioritize whole wellbeing to create with and for. Reach out and stay tuned!
For more information on Stacy Patrice, please visit www.stacypatrice.com and connect with her on Instagram and Threads at @soulyoginisp as well as on YouTube.com/StacyPatrice
