Rituals for Protection

Join Tracee Stanley and Michelle Johnson for rituals, practices, and spiritual remembering rooted in Tracee Stanley's latest book, Living Ritual, and Michelle's forthcoming book, You Are Protected: Invoking Spiritual Support to Sustain Your Energy. Together, they will explore how ritual can become a living practice that strengthens our capacity to move through these times with greater steadiness and protection of our spirits and hearts.

Through guided practices and rituals that include elemental energy and spiritual technologies, you’ll deepen your relationship with protection as a daily practice rather than a response to crisis alone. Together, we will explore ways to tend to our energy and engage in simple yet profound rituals that can sustain us personally and collectively.

Whether you are new to ritual or have maintained a lifelong spiritual practice, you are welcome. Come ready to deepen your relationship with the sacred, reconnect with your inner knowing, and leave with practices that will support you long after our time together ends.

Michelle Cassandra Johnson (she/her) is an author, activist, spiritual teacher, racial equity consultant and educator, and intuitive and shamanic healer. She approaches her life and work from a place of knowing we are, can, and must heal individually and collectively. Michelle facilitates workshops and immersions, leads retreats and transformative experiences nationwide, and offers an array of healing services for individuals and groups. For over 25 years as a racial equity educator, she has worked with large corporations, non-profits, and community groups. Michelle is a six-time published author. Her sixth book, The Wisdom of the Hive, published by Sounds True and co-written with her best friend, Amy Burtaine, was released in May 2025.

Michelle was a TEDx speaker at Wake Forest University in 2019 and has been interviewed on several podcasts in which she explores the premise and foundation of Skill in Action, along with embodied approaches to racial equity work, creating ritual in justice spaces, our divine connection with nature and Spirit, and how we as a culture can heal.

Michelle leads courageously from the heart with compassion and a commitment to address the heartbreak dominant culture causes for many because of the harm it creates. She inspires change that allows people to stand in their humanity and wholeness in a world that fragments most of us. She lives in North Carolina with her husband, sweet dog, Jasper, and her honeybees.

Connect with Michelle:
michellecjohnson.com
@skillinaction

You Are Protected arrives September 15, 2026.
Preorder your copy now!

Tracee Stanley is the author of the bestselling book Radiant Rest and The Luminous Self (Shambhala Publications) and the forthcoming Living Ritual: Infuse Each Day with Purpose and Spirit (St. Martin's Essentials / Sounds True) Tracee was featured in the GMA Inspiration List in 2021. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, Vogue, and Well and Good, and she was the featured yoga nidra and meditation teacher for Oprah Winfrey on Oprah and Gayle’s Girls Get Away cruise in 2019.

Tracee is devoted to sharing the wisdom of yoga nidra, rest, meditation, self-inquiry, nature as a teacher, and ancestor reverence. Tracee has a deep interest in spiritual ecology and holds certificates from Pacifica Graduate Institute in Advanced Eco-Therapy, New Thinking, Best Practices, and Emerging Modalities, and a certificate in Advanced Ecopsychology. Tracee is gifted in illuminating the magic and power found in liminal space and weaving devotion and ritual into daily life.

Connect with Tracee:

traceestanley.com
@traceestanley

Living Ritual arrives August 25, 2026.
Preorder your copy now!

TRACEE STANLEY

A Gathering and Ritual

with Michelle C. Johnson

and Tracee Stanley