{"id":27635,"date":"2026-09-22T03:00:02","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T09:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/resources2.soundstrue.com\/?post_type=podcast&#038;p=27635"},"modified":"2026-09-17T06:50:06","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T12:50:06","slug":"tracee-stanley-what-we-need-in-these-threshold-times","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/resources2.soundstrue.com\/podcast\/tracee-stanley-what-we-need-in-these-threshold-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Tracee Stanley: What We Need in These Threshold Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe style=\"width: 100%; height: 200px; border: 0 none;\" src=\"https:\/\/art19.com\/shows\/1632d73c-91ea-42a8-a3db-a62b135d081c\/episodes\/54c4176f-3401-4344-acba-4ab1ac93b4c3\/embed?theme=light-gray-orange\" scrolling=\"no\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What if the antidote to a world coming apart isn&#8217;t a bigger plan, but a smaller, daily act of devotion?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This week, Tami Simon speaks with Tracee Stanley\u2014teacher of yoga nidra, meditation, and self-inquiry, founder of Empowered Life Circle, and author of the new Sounds True book <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Living Ritual: Infuse Each Day with Purpose and Spirit<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014about why ritual may be the most important practice we have during what she calls threshold times.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Join Tami and Tracee to explore:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The threshold question at the heart of ritual: what within me is dying, and what is waiting to be born?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Why devotion, not discipline, is the doorway\u2014and how to weave practice through an ordinary householder&#8217;s day without shame<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tracee&#8217;s shard of light in Cape Town, and the years it took to find language for it<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The body as shrine: the origins of yoga nidra in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">nyasa<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the ancient practice of anointing the body as a divine temple<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Earth dreaming\u2014lying on the land and letting the land dream through you<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Her reframe of the four Purusharthas, turning prosperity into support and pleasure into relationship<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sankalpa as a vow that leads to dharma, not a manifestation wish list<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The analog cocoon and the night school: reclaiming sleep and dream time from the phone<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Why enlightenment may be less a permanent state than a moment available in the space between two breaths<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tracee opens and closes this interview with a short guided ritual you can practice along with.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Listen now, and let something be reshaped. \u2192<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Get a FREE month of membership at<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/STOne-Free-Month\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/STOne-Free-Month<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":27636,"template":"","meta":{"_expiration-date-status":"","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[]},"categories":[384,386],"tags":[170,242],"contributor":[],"class_list":["post-27635","podcast","type-podcast","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meditation","category-spirituality","tag-insights-at-the-edge","tag-tami-simon"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - 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