India Retreat with Jacqui Lewis – September 2024
We have curated this luxurious Retreat for those who wish to come to India, and have a truly nurturing time, […]
We have curated this luxurious Retreat for those who wish to come to India, and have a truly nurturing time, […]
High stress levels, fatigue and emotional overwhelm are in abundance these days and on the downside, these things affect our […]
Hello and thank you for your patience. It’s been a few weeks since I penned a Letter to you. I […]
I love this quote, for I really agree with the why settle for less BUT I would also highlight, the […]
Often people wait awhile to learn to meditate. It feels like something that can be learnt later, or when life […]
Today I want you to undertake a little exercise. Carve out 30-60 minutes and sit down and write out how […]
There’s a path of tension, doubt, overwhelm and frenzy you can take with this pandemic. Or a path of creativity […]
I often teach about our personal seasons. Summer being hot, full, lengthy and abundant, but also with the chance of burnout. Autumn being […]
The Mushroom At The End Of The World, is a fascinating and rich read into capitalism and nature and diversity that I […]
We see too often not what’s there, but what we are conditioned to see. Our brains override new possibility to take shortcuts that previously made sense. […]
One of the simplest and most effective tools I am ALWAYS banging on about, aside from Integrated Meditation, is powering down […]
Often resilience is viewing as a strength, a tough as nails approach, unwavering attitude after so much endurance. But, resilience […]
Every day, we saturate ourselves in thoughts, unchosen, not always well meaning, often chaotic. We must reconcile this is the […]
What conditioning of your mind might you recognise is robbing you of reality? What reactions are taking you out of […]
When in those perfect, clear moments when we are cleavered away from our overthinking, and we are just absolutely present […]
Zen meditation teacher Susan Murphy writes in her brilliant book Upside Down Zen, “Meditation is lonely as any practice is lonely […]
One of my favourite Zen fables, that I will alter for more colour, goes like this. A very young monk […]
My friend Jen told her son, it’s not so much about the big decisions in your life, it’s about the […]
My friend sent me the cover of this week’s New York magazine with an enormous gold title The Return Of […]
I spent the weekend studying with the phenomenal Rose Baudin, and the amount of rapid scrawl notes I took is […]
‘Happiness is your natural state. You don’t have to do anything to acquire it, because you have it already’ says […]
It’s so desirable to make the ‘right decision’ and so challenging in knowing what the heck that is without all […]
This is really a follow on from yesterday, which was a Letter to you about the challenges that expectations bring […]
In truth I found this little Letter sitting on my desktop, and now I am unsure if I have already […]
Our Integrated Meditation students report that they tend to engage with technology differently once meditating regularly, and they frequently question […]
This week I really, really felt drawn to working with our emotional landscape, neuroscience and relationship to technology and social […]
Hello lovely reader, I have fallen into a haphazard matter of writing these Letters to you. Without the self imposed […]
I love this story, for it demonstrates how quickly we can get caught up in concepts, and delusional about where […]
As a follow on from the last Letter, I thought it would be helpful to return to our intentions behind […]
One of the very common pitfalls of self development and spirituality is spiritual bypass. Spiritual bypass is where spiritual practice […]
Nearly all our automated responses to situations were formed before we turned 7 years of age. So tiny! When we […]
I don’t know about you, but I have been experiencing huge waves of grief, sadness and anger. It might be […]
Our bodies are the host for our consciousness, and when we are fatigued, physically have overdone it, or unwell, consciousness […]
Breathing, a life-force which we so often forget about. Unconsciously, we move through our days with around 20,000 breaths. How […]
If you wait for the perfect moment to create, you’ll be waiting a lifetime. Our job is to get our body […]
When we prepare a recipe, there’s much that goes into it before the moment of eating. The creative process, the […]
I know, yet six weeks into this year, there is much weariness. A fatigue, that became like a heavy coat […]
There are some days when we find this impossibly hard. The idea that everything can speak to us of passion […]
Whatever the question, Love is always a good answer. So simple, right? Nonetheless, I find it sometimes hard to remember, […]
“Yet”, a powerful word, brimming with potential and possibilities, the perfect finisher to many sentences, the opener of doors, the […]
It’s so important to remember this. The other day flying to Sydney, I had an old friend visit with force, anxiety. It […]
Before technology and modern times, people used to be far more attuned to nature, to the rhythms of the universe, […]
If you can imagine an architecture that your mind has constructed, like a matrix or 3D rendering, and we mentally […]
Can you hold your sorrow more loosely? Could it be easily blown away with the wind, the seasons? How do you ensure […]
Have you ever waited for just the right moment, just the right words, just the right look, just the right […]
Being a human can be challenging stuff, we’re an intricate web of thoughts, bias, prejudice, conditioning and the expressing of […]
Today choose one single thing that can elevate you to your highest grade self. Is it… – drinking two litres […]
The Tao Te Ching for me highlights the eternal mystery and connection to everything we have in the world. We […]
“Hello, my name is Jo and I’m a Starter not a Finisher, please help”. How many projects, ideas, practices, dreams, […]
Have you ever gotten so caught up in a story that you couldn’t see the forest for the trees? This […]
A victim mentality can really block us from a whole lot of connection with other people. The ego bleating that […]
Following on from yesterday’s Letter – compassion isn’t trying to promote or defend ourselves, which is the opposite of compassion, […]
How do I do so many creative things and put them into the world? It’s a question I am asked […]
Try this, Get some paper and pen. Sit down some place comfortable, slow your breathing, relax into your body. Imagine […]
Life is like riding a roller coaster, there will be times of great fun and joy and times of white-knuckling […]
One thing I really appreciate about my meditation practice is that I get an amplified awareness of not just the […]
As Ram Dass once said, “One part of getting free, free into the soul or into the witness, is the […]
I think this Zen concept is brilliant, ‘Half of happiness is being okay with what you don’t get, the other […]
We are going through some problems at the moment, nothing serious, just an endless series of things that seem to […]
On Saturday we had the amazing Workshop for September’s The DOJO. Each month it is 90 minutes of philosophy and […]
One of the key things I am literally hammering into our Integrated Meditation students is to not chase perfection. You cannot be a perfect […]
It is believed that ancient cultures used rituals to counter the fears they had of the unknown. Primarily created to […]
I hear so often that productivity is about time management, or motivation, or how to get things done. Productivity is the output of your […]
I went camping the other day with two girlfriends. It can seem like a lot of work for one night […]
Have you ever noticed that when you’re feeling a bit insecure, or cranky, you’re more prone to speaking negatively? I […]
I have been exploring recently the way creativity in its broadest sense, beyond simply artistic talents, can offer a blueprint […]
To say ‘It’s a weird time’ is to wildly understate the state of the world. Perhaps you are stuck in […]
The CEO of Patagonia has stepped down, and her very lovely goodbye note was, “I’ve been thinking a lot about […]
This Zen saying is often repeated replacing Peace or Happiness, instead of Truth. The only peace you will find on […]
In the martial arts Dojo, the object is to learn, so that you can then take the teachings into your […]
Inspiration is important to me. I love that feeling of being inspired, the energy flowing through my veins, the possibilities […]
One joyful thing about penning the Letters is receiving correspondence from readers. One response last week was, that a reader […]
A student went to his meditation teacher and said, “My meditation is horrible! I feel so distracted, or my legs […]
When we did as a family our two week hotel quarantine, returning from London to Sydney, on about Day 8 […]
Right now it’s a freaking challenging time. Even if you’re not being immediately challenged, it’s likely someone you love is. […]
I have been contemplating how aligned Creativity is with juicing the most out of life. Now, whilst the word Creativity […]
When I am mentoring people, a huge theme that always comes up is success, a craving for it, or a […]
At times, with all the noise of the external world raining down on us, the technology and the news and […]
Have you lately been recognising that you have lost your wild? Have you felt a little caged, either from within […]
Dear reader, What will YOU do with your one wild and precious life? What are we all learning right now […]
I’m not talking about planning, planning is important, but future projecting, we must reign in. I think it’s a major […]
Consider the sheer number of “norms” we face. The rules and regulations that our society endorses, enforces, and places upon […]
This quote is brilliant, as our ego truly thinks we are GM of the universe. Whenever we are resisting what’s […]
Something we touched on the other night at our Workshop at Lilium, is that if we want to let go […]
I love a lot of things, but ask me my purpose, my passion I couldn’t tell you with absolute certainty […]
Elizabeth Gilbert is speaking on her spiritual practices in regards to COVID in the above quote. It’s beautiful wording isn’t […]
Just like surfing waves, improv, free styling, jamming, going with the flow can be seen as an exercise in co-creation. […]
A daily meditation practice is like taking a huge tangled ball of wool (our minds) and slowly, piece by piece untangling it. […]
I want you to think back to a really bad funk you have been in of late. One where you […]
Ram Dass speaks, “You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don’t have to do […]
I am moving through over 1000 Letters and hand choosing which ones make it to the Letters Edition 1 collection […]
In all the hustle and bustle of life and trying to do our best and be our best we sometimes […]
Is anyone else in a massive rut right now with their work? Feeling stuck and unmotivated? Welcome to The Rut. […]
There is nothing like challenging times to bring sharply in to focus the things that are important, truly important to […]
I was asked to imagine my life three months from now by a healer/therapist I have been working with. I […]