Welcome, my name is Jacqui Lewis and I’m the founder of The Broad Place. Mutribo and I met in the early times of the pandemic. I’d heard about this gathering he was hosting a group of his friends heading each morning to his little cabin in the hills near to me, for 90 min meditation sits 5 days a week, no teaching or technique, just sitting and a short talk by Mutribo at the end. 

I knew I had to be a part of it, basically bulldozed my way in and then started heading up there to this little cabin to ask Mutribo questions on consciousness, life, the path of the heart, lineages and traditions. I’ve been studying meditation and eastern traditions 25 years, alongside neuroscience and psychology. I’ve had multitudes and excellent and poor teachers. What I really needed was a friend, who I could question excessively and discover with, and I found it with Mutribo. His own spiritual journey expanding over decades upon decades, His 30 odd years living in India, had created a resonance in him I rarely see. A true understanding of non dualism, paired with a deep compassion, a patience, without any hierarchy, ego, need to be seen like so many teachers – and he doesn’t consider himself a teacher, more of a sharer. 

After countless hours of my sitting with him over the years in conversation, we noted the difference as he is in his 70’s and now living mostly monastically, and I’m in my 40’s a mother, teaching, managing businesses, attending to regular attending to day to day modern life, that so many parallels were present. That truth sits there for both of us regardless of our roles. 

So we decided to start recording some of these chats, in an attempt to bridge the gap of perception that spiritual society often seems to hold – that you need to live in a cave, or appear ‘spiritual’ in order to live a life aligned to the truth of consciousness. 

We hope to dismantle that, and provide pointers, signposts back home to within yourself.