L E T T E R from Emily – Wealth of Nature
Immersing in nature is something I found a deep love for a few years back, with the help of some […]
Consciousness
L E T T E R from Emily – Genius
Richard Rudd, author and founder of The Gene Keys – a look into the human archetypes and codes to unlock […]
L E T T E R from Emily – Don’t Play Small
I recently heard someone say that the people in the world who are willing to feel uncomfortable are the ones […]
L E T T E R from Jo – Rewire Me Please
There is an interesting dynamic that takes place between the mind and the heart and many factors determine which leads […]
L E T T E R from Emily – Presence
Why do we find it so hard to stay in the present? More and more so we are hearing all […]
L E T T E R from Emily – Someone Like You
We are living in a very interesting time, on one hand, we are seeing the rise of ethical and morally […]
L E T T E R from Emily – Sparks of Madness
“Where is that place where all of our intuitive ideas bubble up from? What does it mean to have expanded consciousness?” […]
L E T T E R from Jac – This Too Shall Pass
I have found personally, and for many of our students, that we are all too happy to let go of […]
L E T T E R from Emily – Patterns
In a conversation with a friend this week, we discussed how we often default to playing small. Even when we […]
L E T T E R from Jo – It’s All About The Joy!
I’ll be honest I have not leapt in to the Marie Kondo approach to tidying but I have observed from […]
L E T T E R from Jo – Be More Like Coffee
It’s no secret that I love coffee. A most honoured daily ritual of joy – a hot, fresh cup of […]
L E T T E R from Emily – What “Should” I Do?
I’m writing this letter for anyone who has ever found themselves caught in the perfectionist loop, the spiral of Instagram […]
L E T T E R from Jo – Doing It From The Heart
I’m a recipe follower – I need that recipe to tell me exactly what I’m meant to be doing, at […]
L E T T E R from Jo – Watering My Grass
How many times have I looked “over there” at the green grass wishing it was under my feet? Too many […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Remember To Tell People You Love Them
I have gotten into the habit of sometimes inappropriately telling the people in my life I love them. I say […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Everything Is The Path
There’s something very plain, very simple that I adore about Zen, being that nothing is special AND everything is special. […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Life Is Speaking To Us, Are We Listening?
I wrote this whilst sitting in a tiny cabin, on a river in Big Sur California. There is no one […]
L E T T E R from Emily – Foundations of Love
I’m sure that every generation has seen themselves in a time of political turmoil in one way or another, I […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Bound by Threads
Every single moment that happens now, has with it an accumulation of past decisions. Thin gossamer threads that string through […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Bringing A Little Love To It
An important question I ask myself when I am feeling very contracted is how can I bring more love to this. […]
L E T T E R from Jac – The Daily Grinding or Daily Grounding
I personally dislike the constant messaging in the self-development and entrepreneurial spaces of rise and grind. Of own the day. […]
L E T T E R from Jo – The Struggle is Real
When I first heard this it gripped my heart with a big fat YES! Tomorrow is too much day for […]
L E T T E R from Jac – The Other Side Of Fear
With our upcoming move to London, Arran and I have been working with a lot of fear. That’s the thing […]
L E T T E R from Jac – The Universal Orchestra
We are in a constant collaboration with the universe. Are we holding up our end of the collab? Or are […]
L E T T E R from Jac – When Is The Right Moment?
The question I get asked from students often is ‘How will I know if it’s the right moment to do […]
L E T T E R from Jo – My Expectation-Laden Day
Introducing Jo Simpson, The Broad Place’s new resident Integrated Meditation Teacher! Jo will be teaching in Sydney and in New […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Where Are We Blocking Compassion
I raised this in our Tea Ceremony and Meditation Gathering last Saturday because someone asked it of me awhile ago and it really stuck […]
L E T T E R from Emily – Warrior of Love
“I am a warrior of love.I am the light that lights the path of my soul” – Unknown Who’s ever […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Your Anchors
I know I bang on and on about Values, but I truly see them as anchors for our souls. When […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Competing and Comparing
Due to our recent (Saturday) graduation of beautiful and integrity-filled Vedic Meditation teachers, I have been thinking a lot about […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Alchemy
I am so grateful for my lowest of lows. They formed and shaped me in ways I couldn’t ever possibly […]
L E T T E R – Gratitude For The Little Things
The other day in London, we discovered a street cart outside a mosque, where Kaz the owner makes some of […]
L E T T E R – You Do You Baby
What if taught all our kids that normal was beige, nothing to aspire to, and to totally and utterly embrace […]
L E T T E R – The Critics, The Haters and the Naysayers
The brighter you shine the more blinding it will become for those not attuned to it. I was recently chatting […]
L E T T E R – What’s Really Stopping Us
I get this kind of question/pondering all the time, along the lines of…‘So I really really feel that meditation would […]
L E T T E R – A Time For Everything
As we round out January, there comes a sense of the year looming ahead. Will it be everything we want […]
L E T T E R – Our Repeated Actions
In Zen, the tensho is the monastery cook. Every moment, every meal is seen as an opportunity to experience truth, […]
L E T T E R – The Courage We Once Had
When I was young, I was a strange little kid. I didn’t fit in at all. Eccentric, hyperactive, skinny and […]
L E T T E R – Purpose
Why is our personal purpose so hard to define for most of us? It took me decades to figure it […]
L E T T E R – A Series Of Little Choices
Brene always delivers the pithy statements, doesn’t she? I love thinking about authenticity this way, a series of tiny commitments. […]
L E T T E R – Dark Nights Of The Soul
This is that tricky time of year I find when we bound in with full enthusiasm, transformed by new possibility […]
L E T T E R – Let’s Not Be Lunatics
I’ve never met anyone like Arran, he literally doesn’t ever consider what anyone thinks of him. He’s incredibly neat and […]
L E T T E R – Happy New Year!!!
My absolute goodness what a year. For Arran and I, it was beyond what we imagined. I travelled to London, […]
L E T T E R – Conditions on Behaviours
Being only a few short days to Christmas, I thought this quote was utterly perfect, as soon most of us […]
L E T T E R – Pouring Out Patience
Conscious and Patient are not two words I have always been excellent at embodying in my life. I have been […]
L E T T E R – The Privilege Of A Life
I was standing on the shore of the beach the other day chatting to Gabriel. Gabriel is Argentinean and I […]
W E E K E N D E D I T I O N – With Kate Pascoe Squires
This Weekend Edition we are proudly introducing you to Kate Pascoe Squires, who has been making some significant and inspiring […]
L E T T E R – The Monk and The Boat
My wonderful friend Jeff Kober included this in his daily newsletter last week and I loved it so much I […]
L E T T E R – Conscious Conversation
I really wish to use The Broad Place to share important messages. Erin Lovell Verinder who was recently interviewed at […]
L E T T E R – Too Much Movement
When we are constantly moving, it’s so hard to be still. Not still in meditation, still in life. When we […]
L E T T E R – The Two Wings
As an enthusiast (someone with obsessive tendencies coupled with deep excitement), Arran is always nervous when I start getting into […]
L E T T E R – Constant Clinging
I am up in glorious Byron Bay on the east coast of Australia preparing for our Retreat, studying tea, spending […]
L E T T E R – Expanding Our Consciousness
Consciousness is defined in so many different ways, sometimes as a state of awareness, or the quality of that awareness. Sometimes as […]
L E T T E R – Shadow and Light
When living a conscious life, it’s not all unicorns and rainbows. People sometimes think that they can walk a conscious […]
L E T T E R – How To Proceed
I used to play a game many years back, that I nicknamed Ram Dass Roulette. I listened ferociously to Ram […]
L E T T E R – No Really, Who
I still remember reading The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand’s pivotal book. I was maybe 21 at the time and it fried […]
L E T T E R – The Broad Aspect to Consciousness
What’s fascinating about consciousness is that it’s hard to describe, hard to quantify and yet everyone wants more of it. […]
L E T T E R – The Heart
I often ponder why it’s so hard to follow our hearts and even harder sometimes to hear what they have […]
L E T T E R – Clean, Simple, Distilled Thinking
I used to have a terrible aversion to saying no to people. I had, (and still do) a big fear […]
L E T T E R – A Commitment To Adventuring
My Dad was a very renowned chef, winning best restaurant in Australia as well as three hats. His brother, my […]
L E T T E R – The Ways Of The Mind
This quote is for me literally something to live by ‘Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything […]
Talking Broadly with Vanessa Megan
I have had the pleasure of not only being friends with Ness, but to also work with her on her […]
Savour Your Success
This could also be titled Stop To Smell The Roses or Celebrate The Wins. It’s a concept that has been […]
Right Here, Right Now
‘Be The Change You Want To See In The World’ Ghandi We need to make change right now, not tomorrow, […]
Why Meditate?
So why meditate? People learn this technique for a large range of personal reasons. Some want to be more creative […]
Meditator Rick Rubin
Rick Rubin is an incredibly interesting guy. He certainly challenges what it means to be an internationally acclaimed music producer […]
Give it up folks, for life.
Something we recently read by the talented Leo Babula of Zen Habits, we agree wholeheartedly. “This is the only response […]
What Are You Worshipping?
Something happens to us that causes upset. We stew and sulk and can’t help but tell people about it. With […]
Letting Go
A beautiful way to explain the risk of not letting go is the story of the monkey and the nuts […]