L E T T E R – Recovery Time
I had an experience years and years ago, where I went to see a friend of mine who is a […]
L E T T E R – Oh Ego
Chogyam Tungpa Rinpoche was asked by a student, “Why do you think that people are so protective of their egos? Why […]
L E T T E R – The Force Within Us
I love this commitment. That we can be changed by what occurs to us, and we can determine not to […]
L E T T E R – Impeccable Word
Last year, I repeated something that someone else said, and I knew I shouldn’t have.I immediately corrected myself and ask […]
L E T T E R – The Universe Whispers
Underneath all the noise; our intellect, thinking mind, egos, the exterior machinations of society, other peoples opinions, there is a […]
L E T T E R – Commitment
Have you ever found your self ‘sitting by the door’ in life, always having one eye on your nearest exit? […]
L E T T E R – Never Burn
In today’s society, which is riddled with muddled messaging, knowing how to hold oneself is becoming increasingly challenging. Sayings such […]
L E T T E R – Our 10,000 Teachers
Just for today, imagine that every single person in your life, is there to teach you something. Something small, something […]
The Human Condition
Most of us spend a large amount of time questioning our own actions, motives, worrying, fretting and stressing, about the […]
Wishing Won’t Work
Sometimes the intellect can be so defined, that we forget we must apply it. Like a tool that sits in […]
So Much Opportunity
Such a simple shift in mindset occurs when reading this. I like the word opportunity. It means gift, which sometimes […]
The Real Miracle
I honestly am not sure I can contribute any more to this beautiful quote, except to provide it as a […]
The 4% Rule
I have had the pleasure of meeting many talented people in my life, as well as many deeply conscious spiritual […]
It Takes Two To Tango
I was terribly bullied as a little kid and again as a teenager. And now teaching meditation to lots of […]
All The Damn Thoughts
Have you ever listened to all the thoughts going on in your head? I sat in the most beautiful garden […]
Meditation Or Meditative?
Lately I’ve found there is so much confusion around what meditation is, what makes it different to some other relaxation […]
A Recalibration
Oh, how this quote resonates with me. The accompanying vulnerability, the incapacity to hold it or when an emotion breaches […]
Fresh Eyes, Fresh Mind
Beginners Mind is a Buddhist concept that I love and try to implement as much as possible. It’s not about […]
Meeting Yourself
Rumi passed away 700 years ago and is still the best selling poet in America. His ecstasy filled complications of […]
Help Without Judgement
Years back I read the most fabulous book called The Art Of Asking By Amanda Palmer. Yes she did a […]
The Never Ending Jigsaw
We are so good most of the time at looking back, and admitting, sometimes admiringly, that everything was for the […]
No BS Gratitude
Gratitude is a buzz word right now and almost everyone in one way or another has had some involvement with […]
High Grade Living
High Grade Living is a commitment to living our highest vibrational selves. To audit our lives, and then edit, and […]
Jeff Kober and The Broad Place Workshop!!!
It is with the greatest pleasure that we announce our upcoming workshops with Jeff Kober. Jeff and I have been […]
Jeff Kober and The Broad Place Workshop
Join Jeff Kober and Jacqui Lewis for a Workshop integrating philosophy, ancient wisdom and modern tools and techniques to live […]
And This
One of my all times favourites. We can look back at painful times and reflect on how important they were, how much […]
The Roar of The Universe
The ego, so loud, so insistent, so annoying, so abrupt. The heart, so gentle, so mild, so curious. If we continue to honour […]
Down That Chute
I love Tina Fey, and I love this quote. Overthinking jams up the whole system. We just have to get […]
The Besieged Everydayness Of Life
Remember that episode of The Simpsons were Marge blew a mind gasket and froze up on the bridge, windows up, refusing to […]
The Constant Reminder
What happens when a bigger ‘problem’ comes along? All the big problems before it are suddenly relegated to little problems […]
Book Club Launch
As avid readers and meditators here at The Broad Place, we know how transformational both these things are. We call it the […]
Shhh Now, Ego
Oh man doesn’t the ego like to stink up a tantrum when we are wondering, or worse KNOW someone else […]
The First Time Should Be Enough
Recently I watched Oprah Winfrey being interviewed after her Cecil B. DeMille award at the Golden Globes. She said, “The […]
Where Are You Now?
We all seem to know this, that being present reaps the greatest rewards as a human,but very little do we […]
Fear
Hi everyone, This is Emily, I am a meditation teacher here at The Broad Place. I have been working with Jac […]
Serious Trouble
Have you picked up a copy of our The Broad Place Book Club book The Untethered Soul yet? You can […]
A Daily Commitment
What if it you made it this simple. What if you distilled all the self help and self development and […]
What Will You Think
There is so much talk of the power of positive thinking, so much science to back it up, yet I […]
When Things Go Wrong
This week, let’s actively make choices to either gently flow in the direction of what is going right, and if […]
The Heart
I often ponder why it’s so hard to follow our hearts and even harder sometimes to hear what they have […]
What Would It Look Like
What would it look like if you had a year to live? What would you read? What would you stop […]
Staying Afloat
Makes sense doesn’t it? Why do we encourage our ego to engage with that which in our heart of hearts […]
It’s So Bothersome Being Bothered
In Buddhism, Dukkha, which is originally a Pali word, is translated most frequently as suffering. Specifically the suffering of the […]
Selective Feedback
This is such a huge topic that I might visit it a few times more!!To begin with, ensuring we only […]
Small Grievances
I heard Pema Chödrön, one of my favorite authors/speakers/teachers of all time recently speak of ‘small grievances’ and how we […]
Our Tuning Forks
I am fascinated by the Mind Body Connection. So much so that within our Integrated Meditation Enhanced Education Program we […]
You The Scriptwriter
I have so many conversations about things falling apart, and yesterday’s letter sparked some of those. I think when we […]
What Would Fade If You Let It
I’ve had a few recent experiences that really made me sit up and re-evaluate some relationships. Usually I think most […]
Every Bit Counts
I really am so blown away by all the kind and encouraging messages I have been receiving to these little […]
What Other People Think
Dealing with the fear of ‘what other people think’ affects so many of our students, and myself. I hear about […]
The Danger of The Majority
When it comes to spiritual growth, self development and our actively evolving, it can get tricky at times. Sometimes what […]
Be Where You Are
‘Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are’. This can be our guiding force in […]
Beginners Mind
Beginners Mind is a Buddhist and Zen concept of approaching everything as if it’s the first time. What would our […]
The Burn
Years back I had to really ask myself why were the unimportant things and people in my life getting so […]
Getting Clear, Oh So Very Clear
So today Arran and I fly to Hong Kong for an evening stop over on our way to London, where […]
The Connectedness of It All
The other day, I wrote about the concept of letting something go, in order to invite something in. To empty […]
True Power
It takes us a long time to find our inner power. I see it in the children I teach meditation […]
Time To Trim
So for today’s tools on how to experience a higher grade life, the key thing is to EDIT. When something […]
LAUNCHING INTEGRATED MEDITATION by The Broad Place
Hello, It’s me, Jac! Around a year ago I shared a little seed idea with Arran and Emily. We all […]
Are You Brave Enough To Audit
High Grade Living is about living the best life we can, with the tools and knowledge to grant us access […]
Combatting Overwhelm
This time of year is supposed to be all about fresh starts, and new beginnings and a ‘wealth of opportunity’ […]
A Daily Commitment
As we begin to dive into into 2018, I wanted to share a mantra, a daily commitment to move beyond […]
Why Create A Morning Routine in 2018
Mornings for me are sacred. A time to contemplate, to be a human being. To stretch, meditate, exercise, be near […]
Conscious Contributions
At The Broad Place giving back is essential for us. We have been greatly inspired by this quote by French […]
Resolutions vs Intention Setting
I hope you had a wonderful Christmas/Festivus/Whatever You Celebrate and time to nourish and renew. Emily spent the time settling […]
Little fish. Big fish.
The above is from David Lynch’s wonderful book Catching The Big Fish. He’s an avid meditator and has done incredible […]
The Broad Place Products on Sale Ends Sunday!
We have created over the years many beautiful hand made artisanal items and we wanted to offer them to our […]
How Much Does It Cost
Seth Godin hopped into my inbox this morning with a blog post on ‘How Much Does It Cost’. It was […]
A Commitment To Really Live
I’m not sure if it’s the end of year, Summer alighting our doorstep or maybe I’m just getting older, but […]
When Did It Get So Hard To Say Sorry
Yesterday Arran and Marley were arguing over something small, and I stepped in with an opinion and completely overrode what […]
Being Kind Under Pressure
This week I woke to the micro pressures of teaching meditation, a tonne of mentoring, many many meetings, workshops, talks […]
The Need To Disconnect To Connect
It’s the time of year when I am at my most engaged. We have all our meditation courses before the […]
New Year’s Immersion Workshops and Course in Meditation
We are that pumped for 2018. There is something incredible building in the cosmos for this year, can you feel […]
The Medicine For Modern Living
Seth Godin popped into my inbox with “Are there places do you feel like you’re falling behind where there’s actually […]
A Remedy For Shame
When I first started writing these little letters to our students, I felt the deepest shame. Who the hell was […]
Hell Is Just Resistance To Life
On the weekend just been I had too much to juggle and responsibilities I didn’t want to fulfill and I […]
The Broad Place Code of Conduct
– Our teachings are based on time-honoured truths and practical experience and are outcome based and are focussed on improving […]
The Perfection Of It All
“Thus, this supremely perfect order of the Universe goes on all around us. But the structure is so vast, and […]
Advanced Technique Workshop
Open to all Vedic meditators who have been meditating for a year or more and want to take their practice […]
A Bumper Issue of Goodness
We have returned from India, the place of chaos and calm, inspired, refreshed and thrilled to be home. I can’t […]
The Creative Process – Refinement
We have been working for 12 months on designing, refining, polishing, sanding and adding new architecture to The Broad Place. […]
All Those Thoughts – Which To Choose
In a sea of 80,000-90,000 thoughts a day it’s challenging to know which are helpful, real, genuine, creative and which are crap. […]
Free From The Known – The Truth Of Things
“If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation” […]
The Futility Of Plans – What Choice Will You Make?
We have been soaking in life in India with its every detail since we arrived. Literally soaking, as it hasn […]
Diwali Evening at The Broad Place
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that” Martin Luther King, Jr. […]
Q. What Will The Future Look Like?
A. The Best Parts Of The Present I read this moving article over the weekend. My little brother is seriously disabled, and […]
Falling Into Line With The Cosmos
There is a word I love, ‘Sympathaiea’ which means a connection with the cosmos. Isn’t it wonderful? Our connection with […]
The Little Moments
Yesterday Jeff arrived from LA, and we had a Group Meditation Meeting and spoke of how nature is at all […]
Our Daily Work
‘Living a Non Monastic Life (with emails and other dreaded tasks)’ Memories back to my recent time in the redwood […]
So Many Things
Hello my friend, I have only just 36 hours ago returned from the most incredible 6 weeks away. I can […]
It Might Be Easier…
Marley and I sat in a Parisian cafe this morning. We had orange juice, coffee (well for me), baguettes and […]
To Be Where We Are
Today I feel like having a little bit of a rant. And then suggesting something to follow that I hope […]
The Smaller Moments
We just landed yesterday from Los Angeles, and I’m only home for a few rich days before I head to […]
Where Attention Goes, Energy Flows
We know this to be true; where we place our attention, energy will flow. So awareness of where we place […]
Comfort Zones
Comfort zones would have to be one of the most boring places to hang out in for extended periods of […]
We Are What We Think
I love this quote. So many woes we all have, so many of them imagined. The mind is a pretty […]
Are You Ready? I Am VERY Ready…
Arran and I are right now in Tokyo, leaving this evening after our last minute, very fulfilling trip here. We […]
A List To Contribute To Creativity and Inspiration
I am a huge consumer these days. No longer of stuff, products and things, but of information, knowledge and experiences. […]
It’s All Spiritual Work
Travel is my spiritual work. I detest car travel and air travel. I find it pushes all my buttons. The […]