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 […]
Written by Jacqui Lewis
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 – 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 […]
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 – 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]