08/26/2026
✨ Meet Tracee Stanley, the teacher who taught me how to rest ✨
Five years ago, I found her work, and it changed the entire trajectory of my healing.
I was in the height of my Crohn’s journey, and Radiant Rest was the first thing that taught me rest isn’t a luxury, it’s medicine.
A few years later I moved into her second book, The Luminous Self, and that’s where everything shifted again.
That book gave me my DO word: SAVOR, at first, and now AWE. This guides in all that I DO.
It unlocked rituals and sacred practices that helped me actually accept who I am, so I could show up as my most luminous self instead of performing a version of myself.
It also led me straight into her community, Empowered Life Circle, which is genuinely one of my lifelines now.
Tracee is also the reason I have a tea practice at all. I developed my own signature butterfly pea flower tea ceremony.
I actually wrote a workbook years ago with the Luminous Self. I wanted to build a workshop around it, I just rediscovered that manual a few days ago. The timing is ready within this next year as I embrace the conscious business muse journey Im crossing the bridge to.
Right now I’m moving through the 16-day ritual offering for her new book, Living Ritual.
I’m so grateful I have recordings of the live rituals she led that never made it into the book, because I know I’ll be returning to them for a long time.
Tracee is a teacher of yoga nidra, meditation, and self-inquiry, the founder of Empowered Life Circle, and her work draws on more than 20 years of study in Sri Vidya Ta**ra and the Himalayan masters tradition. Her teaching has been featured in the New York Times, Vogue, and Well+Good, and she was Oprah’s featured yoga nidra teacher on Oprah and Gayle’s Girls’ Getaway cruise. If that’s not a testament to her gift, I don’t know what is.
I have all three books now — Radiant Rest, The Luminous Self, and Living Ritual. I listen on Audible, but I always end up needing the physical copy too.
If you’ve never read her work, start wherever calls to you. But please START!