WEEKEND EDITION 15
There seems to be an accidental theme to this Weekend Edition is which is curiosity. My process is to collect […]
L E T T E R – Gratitude
I was ordering my coffee the other day, and our lovely friend who makes coffee Andre asked how I was […]
L E T T E R – There Is A Big Difference
There is a big difference between being productive and getting lots done, and simply overworking. There is being social, and […]
L E T T E R – What The Heck Is The Lesson In That??
Have you ever had an experience where you just cannot fathom in the moment what the lesson is? Or why […]
L E T T E R – Tips For Fitting In Your Daily Meditation Practice
There is no cookie cutter approach for your Vedic Meditation practice. A twice-daily practice is ideal, and there are some […]
WEEKEND EDITION 14
Ohayo everyone!! I am penning this from Okinawa in Japan, and in all honesty, the time here has been so […]
L E T T E R – Judgement
When we are building something, a business, a relationship, our spiritual development, our education, our parenting, it’s so easy to […]
L E T T E R – Peacefulness
As someone that used to work in advertising, marketing and PR, our whole purpose was to make people believe that […]
L E T T E R – Every Small Act
I’m heading this morning from Sydney to a karate tournament in Okinawa. It has been a dream of mine since […]
L E T T E R – Progressive Change
We have wired into our brains and bodies most of our reactions, thoughts, prejudices, and biases. We did so a […]
L E T T E R – An Abundance
This stands true not just for creativity, but for love, gratitude, compassion, kindness. Additionally for anger, resentment, shame, guilt. So […]
L E T T E R – For The Pros
Inspiration comes to us through a channel of creativity. It’s not out there ‘waiting for us’ it’s flowing from within […]
L E T T E R – Collaborate For Clarity
Sometimes one of the challenges of being self-employed is that you are always working to a degree. Even if you’re […]
L E T T E R – Where is That Somewhere?
‘Something, somewhere incredible is waiting to be known’; where is that somewhere? Inside of you. Every external experience we define […]
Weekend Edition 11
The weekend is here!! I will be enjoying the next three days at the splendid Splendour In The Grass festival, […]
L E T T E R – The Crazy Ones
I’ve done some seriously crazy things and some seriously dumb things in my time. I created a huge design and […]
L E T T E R – The Unknown
We recently got our daughters school report back. There are lots of columns marking all the different areas, how she […]
L E T T E R – The Voyeur
Pinterest and Instagram and all the other platforms I don’t even know about are such an incredible source of inspiration. […]
L E T T E R – Inner Force
I’ve been meditating for a very long time, and this inner force is the most powerful tool I know for […]
Weekend Edition 10
This Weekend Edition I am writing from an iPad. With very little battery, and the slowest wifi ever, so I […]
L E T T E R – Some Notes
I have sat on this quote for some time. There seemed to be so many moving parts to it, each […]
L E T T E R – Everyone Is Creative
I get upset when I hear people say ‘oh I am not creative’ or exclaim ‘so and so doesn’t have […]
L E T T E R – A Different Daily Grind
Clarity is an interesting concept when it comes to learning, as the more we learn, the more we realise there […]
L E T T E R – Nature Within
I really love Jane Goodall and I really love this quote. I also believe in a spiritual power higher than ourselves […]
Weekend Edition 9
This Weekend Edition is going to be a touch shorter than the other ridiculously long ones, as I pen it […]
L E T T E R – The Tests
In essence, this quote means to surrender to what is, with full acceptance. One of the most challenging things to […]
L E T T E R – Remember to Breathe
When I was young, I had the utmost confidence in my creativity. Arran and I were laughing on the way […]
L E T T E R – Stay In Your Corner
There’s something so wonderful about discovering things about yourself, having realisations and seeing tangible results from doing self-development or spiritual […]
L E T T E R – The Path
I still remember many years back, over a decade ago, standing in a bookstore in New York, and picking up […]
Weekend Edition 8
This week we have been in Melbourne teaching meditation, exploring, eating like crazy and in general having a ball. It’s […]
L E T T E R – The Two Wings
There is a beautiful concept with our meditation technique, about the purpose of twice-daily practice. In a nutshell, it’s that […]
L E T T E R – The Old Creative Paradigm
I love it when slightly delusional ‘creative’ people or artists claim they don’t need order, they fly by the seat […]
Weekend Edition 7
Arran and I are working on so many projects at the moment together, and it feels so good to have […]
The Broad Place Weekend Edition Launch!
This is our 100th Letter this year!! Yay! And today we launch the Weekend Edition! And as I am a […]
L E T T E R – Resilience
No human is born with resilience. Babies are small, vulnerable and incapable of doing anything at all for themselves, unlike […]
L E T T E R – Meditation and Our Thinking
This is one of the greatest gifts of transcendence that our meditation technique gifts us – moving beyond one’s thoughts. […]
L E T T E R – Conscious Experiences
It’s hard to believe at times, that nothing happens to anybody which he is not fit by nature to bear, […]
L E T T E R – Ceativityr, Love and Hate
I love this quote. Because the ego will tell us otherwise all the time, and ensure we are terrified of […]
L E T T E R – Being Disturbed
Today I wanted us to all gain clarity around this essential truth. Have you ever felt rested, calm and full […]
L E T T E R – Flux and Meditation
Meditation teaches us so much, and in particular Vedic meditation, where we are taught so many amazing things that become […]
L E T T E R – Vitality At What Cost
Fear drains vitality. There’s always some lurking fear around everything – that is getting the wrong diagnosis. I have had […]
L E T T E R – Our Ideas Of Truth
Authentic and inspired educational teachers, spiritual teachers, coaches, and mentors have so much to offer us. Yet they are not […]
L E T T E R – What To Nurse Then
There is an old Zen story that I really like, with many versions of it, rendered slightly differently, but I […]
L E T T E R – Perfectionists Anonymous
Hi, my name is Jacqui, and I am a recovering perfectionist. If you are not a perfectionist I can almost […]
L E T T E R – Is The Future Bright?
I hope this is how life feels for you, I really do. Arran and I have spent some time recently […]
L E T T E R – What’s Really Attacking Us
What if we viewed every challenge right now as something to be learned? The universe hand delivering us our own […]
L E T T E R – Our Real Work
I heard Ram Dass once tell a wonderful story. I’m hazy on the details of country and religion, but it […]
L E T T E R – Don’t Think
Instinctive living can be challenging when we are bombarded with opposing opinions backed by scientific studies that say exactly the […]
L E T T E R – That Flat Spot
The idea that we are going to always be in the flow, thriving and creative is ludicrous, yet we catch […]
L E T T E R – Sadhana
Sadhana is the sanskrit term for daily practice or ritual. Defined by one of my favourite authors Maya Triwari as […]
L E T T E R – What’s It All About
I love Maurice and I love this quote, and it can be interpreted in so many ways. If we dissect […]
L E T T E R – Concepts
When we are learning anything, there are usually concepts involved. We want to be sure to understand them, to test them and to find our truth within them. When we become governed by the concept over the truth though, we are bound by it. Our learning will […]
L E T T E R – Your Heart In Your Work
Dharma means purpose in Sanskrit, and it’s so frequently mistaken as ‘something spiritual as your work’. Especially in the modern […]
L E T T E R – To End Comparison
I think we intellectually know this. That copying others is futile in the quest for happiness. That authenticity is key […]
L E T T E R – You Never Know
I love dearly wise tales with messages especially this one, ancient Taoist story of an old farmer who had worked […]
L E T T E R – Do It
There are so many layers to this, and I’ll map out today a few key things to consider when wondering […]
L E T T E R – Nowhere To Get
With our meditation practice, with our spiritual quests, our creative endeavors, there is nowhere to get, nothing to gain. Frustrating […]
L E T T E R – Meaningfulness
I spent the weekend with Jeff Kober teaching about understanding our humanity, our spirituality, our dharma and how to enliven […]
L E T T E R - Move Your Arse
I think this quote is such a great follow on from yesterday and I believe it so much. I had […]
L E T T E R – To Be Breath Taken
I’m clearly having an emotional week as represented in all the Letters! I feel so positive and taken with the […]
L E T T E R – Granted or Gratitude
The other week I was cooking dinner because I always cook dinner, and I started getting a little huff on. […]
L E T T E R – The Way
Firstly I would like to thank all of you that send me the most heartfelt and beautiful notes of gratitude […]
L E T T E R – Courage Counts
The writing of the Letters has taught me I think far more than I can ever share and teach through […]
The Broad Place Weekend Edition Launch!
This is our 100th Letter this year!! Yay! And today we launch the Weekend Edition! And as I am a […]
L E T T E R – Attitudes Do Make a Difference
Has there been a truer sentence written? Do we already know it? Why are we not embracing this every single […]
L E T T E R – Letting Go and Expanding Consciousness
Letting Go is a concept most of my students are familiar with. And confused or frustrated about. I used to […]
L E T T E R – When Two Waves Collide
When you stand on a sandbank in the ocean, on certain tides, the waves wash in from the breakers and […]
L E T T E R – What Will You Choose?
The glass half empty mentality we all know, but do we actually live glass half full. Every moment. Is everything […]
L E T T E R – Zen Walking
Kin Hin is a very beautiful practice of walking with presence, sometimes called Zen Walking. I remember still when first […]
E V E N T – Creating A Joy Filled Life
Living a life filled with joy is what Jeff and I wanted to teach about in this intense two-day Workshop […]
L E T T E R & a G I F T – A Mothers Gift
I adore this piece by Kahlil Gibran On Children. For it’s so easy to get caught in the grit of […]
B O O K C L U B – The Five Invitations
We have been trying out our idea for The Broad Place Book Club, and there have been lots of learnings! […]
L E T T E R – Anxiety
I have one rule for our meditation students and that is that they never apologise for not meditating. Being […]
L E T T E R – Choices
When we were in Los Angeles we went to a small, lesser-known private art gallery, and the gentleman working there […]
L E T T E R – The Disturbing Truth
This took me a LONG time to get my head around when it came to spirituality and creativity. I enjoyed […]
L E T T E R – A Fractured Dance
When I was teaching meditation in Silverlake, we spoke collectively about the current frenzy and uptake of spiritual practices and […]
L E T T E R – Y O U R H E L P
As a school, we are here for our students. Everything we do, is about helping you live your highest grade […]
L E T T E R – R E C O V E R Y
We are all recovering from something, whether it be grief, the ego’s grip, addiction, perfectionism, heartbreak. There’s deep recovery, and […]
L E T T E R – An Exploration
I love this quote by Bruce Lee. He was profound, inspiring, motivated and disciplined. Today have a look into […]
L E T T E R – The Journey
Sometimes the most frequently referenced quotes and lines that are by now cheesy, are the most true, such as the […]
L E T T E R – To Tread Lightly
I like to think of this not just as treading the earth lightly, but whilst treading, being ultra aware of […]
L E T T E R – Continuous Growth
There’s nowhere to ‘get to’ in our spiritual, physical and mental endeavours. Just continual growth. It’s a hard pill to […]
L E T T E R – Squeamish
When I am traveling, I really dislike airports. I wish I was more cool and Zen and what not, and […]
L E T T E R – Soul Search
Not often are we encouraged in the West to renew our spirit and our spiritual thinking. I’m writing this from […]
L E T T E R – The Power Of Water
Water, the incredibly dynamic and flexible qualities that can shift it from ice to fluid, to steam. Imagine if we […]
L E T T E R – Our Last Act
What if today was the very last day of our lives? If tomorrow we never woke up. I like entertaining this line […]
L E T T E R – Inside Out
It’s tempting to think that all the answers lie outside of us. It allows us to hold others responsible. To […]
L E T T E R – Empathy
We get mean when we feel scared. It’s pretty simple yet we forget this all the time. The difference in […]
L E T T E R – Just Now
Future Projecting is something I teach and talk about a lot, as it’s a huge rut we get stuck in. […]
L E T T E R – Oneness
In Vedanta, an ancient body of knowledge from where our meditation practice originates, there is the concept that duality, separateness […]
L E T T E R – Present Moment Awareness
Have you ever been driving your car and thought to yourself, I can’t remember driving through the last 2 suburbs? […]
L E T T E R – Defining Success
I loved reading the bravery, anguish, creative processes and determination of Bill Strickland in his autobiographical book Making The Impossible […]
L E T T E R – F*#k The Fear
Rest is undervalued in today’s frenetic society. I know it for myself. I burnt the candles at both ends for […]
L E T T E R – A Cat On A Leash
I hear too often nonsense about ‘taming the mind’ and references to a monkey and wild horses. The mind isn’t […]
L E T T E R – What Is Happy?
If you’ve had an upbringing remotely similar to mine, you may have found yourself with an ingrained belief that you […]
L E T T E R – Perfecting The Fundamentals
Continuing on from yesterday’s letter, I wanted to talk further about commitment. I study karate and it’s mind-blowingly frustrating because […]
L E T T E R – There Are No Shortcuts
I first learnt to officially meditate when I was in my late teens. It was a funny little course held […]
L E T T E R – A Learning Nonetheless
On Sunday evening, I very excitedly went to see one of my favourite teachers Sri M who is out from […]
L E T T E R – What Is Compassion Actually
As I referenced the Dalai Lama yesterday, I thought it might be nice to kick off today’s letter with a […]