“Tea ceremony is about creating space to connect with the experience of being alive.” —Colin Hudon, founder of Living Tea

In this conversation, Tracee Stanley, teacher and author of The Luminous Self and Radiant Rest, is joined by Colin Hudon, founder of the Telluride-based business Living Tea, to discuss:

• The benefits of tea ritual
• The difference between a “living” tea and the tea bags you find at the market
• Tea as a medicine and longevity herb for its effects on physiology as well as its ability to calm the mind, open the heart, move stagnant energy
• 5 approaches to preparing and serving tea
• How to start a daily tea ritual practice

Want to explore tea ceremony, yoga nidra, and meditation with Colin and Tracee in the breathtaking mountains and deep forests of Telluride? Join them for a transformative 4-day retreat on May 22-26, 2025. Learn more the retreat at https://www.livingtea.net/pages/retreats

Learn more about Living Tea at livingtea.net

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We’ve been separated from the profound wisdom and kinship in the natural world... it’s just waiting to be remembered. In the latest episode of Radiant Rest, host Tracee Stanley welcomes Crystal Marie Higgins—a lineaged Initiated High Priestess in Celtic traditions, an Initiated Witch, as well as a yoga teacher, a folk herbalist and an ethical marketer—to dive into the ways we can rekindle our relationship with the green realm.

They discuss:

• How to attune to the cycle and rhythms of life

• Crystal’s path of studying Celtic wisdom, earth and plant wisdom, and becoming initiated witch

• The wisdom of plant and herbal allies, and how to deepen our relationship with them

• 3 guiding principles to know before harvesting a plant

• Much more!

If you’d like to deepen your relationship with plants, Crystal is hosting a yearlong online course, Journey with 13 Herbal Allies, which starts on May 2. (Register by March 31 for Early Bird pricing and a free gift!)

Learn more here: https://www.empoweredlifecircle.com/journey-with-herbal-allies-crystal-marie-higgins/

Connect with Crystal

Explore Crystal's herbal offerings and upcoming plant walks at crystalmariehiggins.com

Learn more about Crystal's boutique Seasonal Herbal Box at seasonalherbalbox.com

Follow her on Instagram at @crystalmariehiggins

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— The Luminous Self: https://www.traceestanley.com/luminous-self

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What determines the path of discovering our true Self? Sometimes it begins with realizing who we are not…

In this conversation, host Tracee Stanley and Caverly Morgan, spiritual teacher, non-profit founder, speaker, and author of The Heart of Who We Are: Realizing Freedom Together as well as A Kids Book About Mindfulness, dive into the increasingly vital call of these times to remember who we really are, not only for ourselves but also for the collective.

This rich discussion covers:

• Caverly’s experience as a monastic practitioner

• How our approach to practice can reinforce our karmic knots

• Bringing practice into our lives vs. bringing our life into practice

• Snapping out of our culture’s illusion of grasping for “one more thing” when wholeness is something you can only experience, not consume

• Experiencing timeless reality

• Recommends practices for these heartbreaking times

• Wisdom found in Caverly’s book as well as Tracee’s book, The Luminous Self: Sacred Yogic Practices & Rituals to Remember Who You Are

• The power of healing in community

• Much more!

Connect with Caverly and her books:

The Heart of Who We Are: Realizing Freedom Together

A Kids Book About Mindfulness

Tracee's books:

• The Luminous Self
• Radiant Rest

Visit TraceeStanley.com to find out more and join her newsletter to discover more events and retreats that center rest, creativity, and earth-centered practices.

About our guest

Caverly Morgan is a spiritual teacher, non-profit founder, speaker and writer who blends the original spirit of Zen with a modern nondual approach. She is the author of The Heart of Who We Are: Realizing Freedom Together as well as A Kids Book About Mindfulness. Caverly is the founder of Peace in Schools, a nonprofit that created the nation’s first for-credit mindfulness class in public high schools. Her practice began in 1995 and has included eight years of training in a silent Zen monastery. She has been teaching contemplative practice since 2001. Caverly leads meditation retreats, workshops and online classes internationally. Learn more at caverlymorgan.org.

Dreams are messengers of insights, prophecies, and creative inspirations, a doorway to discovering more about what lies in the depths of our being. Paying attention to our dreaming life is a way of weaving practice into a full cycle of a day and honoring the states of consciousness that we usually dismiss as not real or unimportant. They are also a way to help us heal.

In this episode of Radiant Rest, Tracee Stanley hosts a fascinating conversation with Athena Laz, an intuitive, dream teacher, psychologist & author of The Alchemy of Your Dreams and The Deliberate Dreamers Journal, about dreaming as a powerful pathway to healing. They discuss:

• The story of how Athena discovered the world of dreams and the power they behold

• Different types of dreaming, including lucid, cognitive, and prophetic dreaming

• How to work with dreams and the symbols that arise in them

• What happens when we don’t pay attention to what our dreams are trying to tell us

• The difference between lucid dreaming and astral projection

• The lucid dream that revealed to Tracee where, exactly, she would eventually move to

• Much more, including a visualization practice to connect with the dreaming world

Resources

Learn more about Athena

Athena's books:

• The Alchemy of Your Dreams: A Modern Guide to the Ancient Art of Lucid Dreaming and Interpretation
• The Deliberate Dreamer’s Journal

Robert Monroe, a researcher of alternate states of consciousness

Tracee's books:

• The Luminous Self
• Radiant Rest

Visit TraceeStanley.com to find out more and join her newsletter to discover more events and retreats that center rest, creativity, and earth-centered practices.

About our guest

Athena Laz is a bestselling author and expert in the field of dreams, spirituality, and psychic intuition. Her bestselling books, The Alchemy of Your Dreams: A Modern Guide to Lucid Dreaming & Interpretation, and The Deliberate Dreamer’s Journal are out now and have been translated into more than 13 languages worldwide. She has a new book and oracle deck coming out with Hay House in 2025. You can discover her work at www.athenalaz.com, and find her on social media: @athena_Laz.

Separation from nature is causing illness not only to ourselves but all beings and systems on the planet—yet our relationship with earth holds the potential for the healing we need, says Jeanine Canty, PhD, author of Returning the Self to Nature: Undoing Our Collective Narcissism and Healing Our Planet and teacher of ecopsychology. In this episode, Jeanine joins host Tracee Stanley to share wisdom and tools from ecopsychology to expand our hearts and consciousness and bring about collective repair.

They discuss:

• The definition and origin of ecopsychology, and how it differs from western psychology

• Collective narcissism, and how it’s fueling a crisis

• Pathways to healing through an awareness of our reciprocity with all beings

• Tools and practices to disrupt the false self and shift into the ecological self

• Much more!

Resources:

Returning the Self to Nature: Undoing Our Collective Narcissism and Healing Our Planet by Jeanine Canty, PhD

About our guest:

Jeanine M. Canty, PhD, is a professor of transformative studies at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) in San Francisco, telecommuting from Boulder, CO. Formerly the chair of environmental studies at Naropa University, she continues to teach at Naropa and at Pacifica Graduate Institute’s ecopsychology certificate program. A lover of nature, justice, and contemplative practice, her teaching intersects issues of social and ecological justice, ecopsychology, and the process of worldview expansion and change. She is both editor and contributor to the books Ecological and Social Healing: Multicultural Women’s Voices and Globalism and Localization: Emergent Approaches to Ecological and Social Crises. Her newest book is Returning the Self to Nature: Undoing Our Collective Narcissism and Healing Our Planet (Shambhala Publications, 2022). Other selected works have been featured in A Wild Love for the World: Joanna Macy and The Work of Our Time, The Wiley Handbook of Transpersonal Psychology, The Body and Oppression: Its Roots, its Voices, and its Resolutions, Shadows and Light: Principles, Practices, Pedagogy, and Multicultural Perspectives of Contemporary Transpersonal Counseling. She is a certified meditation instructor as well as a Wilderness First Responder (WFR).

What are the lessons you’re tired of learning? In yoga philosophy, the kleshas are patterns that create suffering, and exploring them can help us find peace and ease in our personal lives and within the collective. In this conversation, Tracee Stanley is joined by author, activist, spiritual teacher and practitioner, racial equity consultant and trainer, and intuitive healer Michelle Cassandra Johnson, whose new book, Illuminating Our True Nature: Yogic Practices for Personal & Collective Healing is a guide for turning towards—instead of away from—our suffering, not only to better understand why we suffer but also to also open up pathways to freedom.

Tune in as Tracee and Michelle discuss:

• Why we resist suffering and how yogic tools and practices can help us overcome our samskaras (patterns)

• How avidya (ignorance) fuels our feelings of separation—especially from nature—and is at the root of suffering

• The prevailing wisdom of honey bees

• Why spiritual bypassing leads to more suffering

• Surprising lessons Michelle learned while writing her book

• Much more!

Michelle’s new book, Illuminating Our True Nature: Yogic Practices for Personal & Collective Healing, is available now wherever books are sold! Learn more here.

Connect with Michelle and explore her books, offerings, and events at michellecjohnson.com

How does life shift when we give ourselves permission to slow down? In this episode, host Tracee Stanley and Rosie Acosta, author of You Are Radically Loved: A Healing Journey to Self-Love, dive into the ways we can savor the little moments and find peace in the practice of slowing down—even when we’re in a season where it feels like everyone is speeding up.

They discuss:

• Why it’s important to intentionally slow down into presence

• Sacred boundaries and the practice of “compassionate no”

• Examining our tendency to fill our schedules

• Why we live in an optimization culture

• Much more!

Connect with Rosie at radicallyloved.com and instagram.com/rosieacosta

Tune in to her podcast, You Are Radically Loved, here

More about Rosie Acosta, in her own words:

I’m an Author, Meditation & Mindfulness Teacher. I am a first generation Mexican-American, grew up in the early 90’s in East LA during the “Decade of Death.” We are talking drive-by shootings, gang violence, everything one would need to grow up with PTSD. I’ve been on a 20-year journey through yoga and mindfulness, that completely changed my life. I've been teaching for over fifteen years. From my East Los Angeles roots to working with Olympic athletes, NFL champions, NBA All-Stars, and veterans of war, my mission is to help people overcome adversity and embrace self-love. Currently teaching on the #1 Meditation App, Headspace.