What if the antidote to a world coming apart isn’t a bigger plan, but a smaller, daily act of devotion?
This week, Tami Simon speaks with Tracee Stanley—teacher of yoga nidra, meditation, and self-inquiry, founder of Empowered Life Circle, and author of the new Sounds True book Living Ritual: Infuse Each Day with Purpose and Spirit—about why ritual may be the most important practice we have during what she calls threshold times.
Join Tami and Tracee to explore:
- The threshold question at the heart of ritual: what within me is dying, and what is waiting to be born?
- Why devotion, not discipline, is the doorway—and how to weave practice through an ordinary householder’s day without shame
- Tracee’s shard of light in Cape Town, and the years it took to find language for it
- The body as shrine: the origins of yoga nidra in nyasa, the ancient practice of anointing the body as a divine temple
- Earth dreaming—lying on the land and letting the land dream through you
- Her reframe of the four Purusharthas, turning prosperity into support and pleasure into relationship
- Sankalpa as a vow that leads to dharma, not a manifestation wish list
- The analog cocoon and the night school: reclaiming sleep and dream time from the phone
- Why enlightenment may be less a permanent state than a moment available in the space between two breaths
Tracee also speaks candidly about walking away from a successful film career, and what a surgery taught her about the ego that refuses to let the body rest.
Tracee opens and closes this interview with a short guided ritual you can practice along with.
Listen now, and let something be reshaped. →
This conversation offers genuine transmission, not just concepts about awakening, but the palpable presence of realized teachers exploring the growing edge of spiritual understanding together, and it originally aired on Sounds True One.
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