How to Reclaim Your Attention: Ritual & Rest with Tracee Stanley

Deep rest is a birthright, and daily ritual can be the way back to it. Author and teacher Tracee Stanley joins Harmony Slater and Russell Case to talk about retreat, ritual, and reclaiming your attention in a world built to distract you.

Tracee is the author of Radiant Rest and The Luminous Self, and her new book, Living Ritual, answers the question she hears at the end of every retreat: how do I bring this home? She shares the story of her spiritual awakening in Cape Town, her years as a film producer, her donation-based yoga studio, and a simple evening and morning ritual you can try for seven days. She also leads a short guided practice to call your attention back to you.

In this episode

How the yoga nidra book Radiant Rest came to be, from a Shambhala editor's request to a sign at a Wanderlust workshop in Whistler

Why The Luminous Self goes beyond asana into the yamas, niyamas, kleshas, and samskaras

The question "What lessons are you tired of learning?" and what it reveals about seeing other people's potential instead of your own

A spiritual awakening on a balcony in Cape Town, and the books a friend handed her afterward

Leaving a career as a film producer, opening a donation-only yoga studio, and moving to Mount Shasta

Studying with teachers from the Himalayan tradition and the Sri Vidya Tantra lineage

Living Ritual and the idea of micro rituals for the householder

Why our attention is being monetized, and how to build an "analog cocoon" around sleep and waking

Turning the dishes into a sadhana