Our Story
All bodies welcome here.
Homebody Yoga House opened its doors in August of 2025 and has been offering classes seven days a week ever since.
This house was created to nourish you from the inside out. Whether you own Lululemon leggings or not. Whether you can touch your toes or barely reach your thighs. Whether you’ve practiced yoga for years or have never stepped onto a mat before.
You are welcome here.
Carly opened Homebody Yoga House after teaching throughout the Baker City community for over two years in a variety of spaces. In 2023, she traveled to the Amazon jungle of Peru to complete her 200-hour yoga teacher training.
She is currently continuing her education through Yoga Medicine, where she is working toward her 300-hour certification and Yoga Therapeutic Specialist designation.
From the very beginning, Carly knew she wanted to teach yoga through an inclusive lens—one that does not discriminate based on body size, physical ability, background, or experience level.
That mission was deeply shaped by her own six-year battle with anorexia, bulimia, and exercise addiction. Through recovery, she experienced firsthand the harm caused by diet culture and a society that often prioritizes thinness over true health, strength, and well-being.
At Homebody, we believe movement should support your life—not punish your body.
No matter your body type, race, ethnicity, sexuality, age, or ability, we want you here. Because the strongest communities are not formed through sameness, but through diversity, compassion, and people willing to see the world through different perspectives.
And while we care deeply about the yoga itself, Homebody has always been about something more than classes. It’s about connection. It’s about creating a space where people feel less alone in whatever they may be carrying.
“No man is an island,” as John Donne once wrote.
We need community, and we need each other—especially now.
About Carly
Carly Newberg lives in Baker City, Oregon. Although not a native, she considers Baker City the greatest place she’s ever called home.
In 2019, Carly graduated from Portland State University with degrees in Applied Health and Fitness and Communications. After college, she spent two years working in physical therapy while writing and publishing her debut book, Good Enough. She recently published her second book, Still Growing.
For six years, Carly battled anorexia, bulimia, and exercise addiction, experiences that inspired Good Enough and the work that followed its publication, including:
Working with adolescents in a residential treatment facility
Leading talks and workshops throughout Oregon on eating disorders and mental health awareness
Being interviewed on several podcasts centered around healing, recovery, and self-acceptance
Carly has also freelance written for publications including Business Insider, Yoga Journal, PopSugar, Medicinal Media, and more. In addition to her writing, she works in photography—something that allows her to capture honest moments of connection, emotion, and humanity through a different creative lens.
Although multi-disciplined, much of Carly’s work centers around one thing: helping people feel seen. Whether through writing, photography, teaching, or conversation, she has always been drawn to bringing different kinds of people together and creating spaces where others feel safe enough to be fully themselves.
For Carly, teaching yoga is a meaningful break from the independent work she often does behind a computer screen. She loves encouraging intuitive movement while helping others build greater body awareness, self-trust, and acceptance. Once solely a long-distance runner, Carly fell in love with the strength and healing that yoga offered during her eating disorder recovery.
Homebody Yoga House was built from that experience and the belief that wellness spaces should be inclusive, welcoming, and rooted in compassion—not comparison.
When she isn’t teaching, writing, or photographing, you can find Carly adventuring with family and friends. She enjoys gardening, getting lost in a good book, going to concerts, hiking, and traveling.
