L E T T E R from Jac – The Braid Of Our Life
A rope is braided together to strengthen it, without the multiple pieces threaded together it is weak and can break […]
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L E T T E R from Jac – Zen Wednesday; Meals As More Than Body Nourishment
There is a Pali chant, a Buddhist chant that is often used with meals; ‘Sabe lokami Ye satah, Jivanta hara […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Start. Now. However you can.
We don’t need to wait until we feel better about ourselves to start meditating. Or wait until we are in […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Meditation; The Mystery and the Sometimes The Misery Part 1
Yes, I agree with this quote and inspiring words like bliss and divinity and beauty are often used in conjunction […]
L E T T E R from Jac – The Daily Miracle
It’s a choice, to live as if each day is the miracle it is. The stress of moving across the […]
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 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 – Working with Anxiety
I have an immense amount to speak to on this topic, but I thought I would start with sharing with […]
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 – The Balance Between Desire and Satisfaction
I find this one of the most challenging of all the opposites we experience, the balance between simplicity and happiness […]
L E T T E R – Revelling in Beauty
Beauty can be so underrated in our modern way of life. Tiny moments of beauty can light me up for hours […]
L E T T E R – We Are All Judgemental Assholes
We can’t help it a lot of the time. It’s automatic. Our egos are constantly sizing everything up against that […]
L E T T E R – Committing To The Important
Years back I had to really ask myself why were the unimportant things and people in my life getting so […]
L E T T E R – Gaining Clarity On The Lack Of Clarity
Educating ourselves is fascinating and frustrating at times, as the more you learn, the more you realise you don’t know. […]
L E T T E R – What Might You Be If You Just Let Go
Before I left for India, I sat with my friend and student, Uyen, in Whale Beach drinking tea and we […]
L E T T E R – Celebrating 200 Letters!!!
There are days when I sit to write these Letters to you and I feel physically ill. I am overcome […]
W E E K E N D E D I T I O N 20
READ I adore this book by our friend Josh, his approach to creativity and consciousness continually inspires me. I interviewed Josh […]
W E E K E N D E D I T I O N 19 – Restore and Renew
For you to try . . . EAT We are eating mostly plant-based at the moment, and 75% of the […]
L E T T E R – The Freedom To Make Mistakes
As a recovering perfectionist, I have had intense experiences around making mistakes. It makes no sense as part of the […]
L E T T E R – The Privilege Of A Life
Life is so fragile. We never know when it will come to a close. As humans, we can be bitter […]
L E T T E R – To Create And Be Of Service
Over the weekend we put out a survey, which was answered by SO many which make me SO very pleased […]
L E T T E R – You Choose; One Leaf Or The Whole Tree?
Picture a large majestical tree. We could just acknowledge a single leaf, and fixate on it, cooing over the leaf, […]
L E T T E R – Savouring The Little Success and a Key To Presence
As soon as I return from a holiday as I have this week, I can feel myself slightly panicking about […]
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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – Nature Within
I really love Jane Goodall and I really love this quote. I also believe in a spiritual power higher than ourselves […]
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 – The Path
I still remember many years back, over a decade ago, standing in a bookstore in New York, and picking up […]
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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 & 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 […]
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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – Never Burn
In today’s society, which is riddled with muddled messaging, knowing how to hold oneself is becoming increasingly challenging. Sayings such […]
The Human Condition
Most of us spend a large amount of time questioning our own actions, motives, worrying, fretting and stressing, about the […]
All The Damn Thoughts
Have you ever listened to all the thoughts going on in your head? I sat in the most beautiful garden […]
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 […]
Down That Chute
I love Tina Fey, and I love this quote. Overthinking jams up the whole system. We just have to get […]
Staying Afloat
Makes sense doesn’t it? Why do we encourage our ego to engage with that which in our heart of hearts […]
Selective Feedback
This is such a huge topic that I might visit it a few times more!!To begin with, ensuring we only […]
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 […]
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 Perfection Of It All
“Thus, this supremely perfect order of the Universe goes on all around us. But the structure is so vast, and […]
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 […]
Talking Broadly – Anne Durham
Where do you currently live? Avalon, Sydney, Australia What currently keeps you busy? A nine month old baby girl and […]
Talking Broadly – Melissa Ambrosini
I had the pleasure of initiating Melissa Ambrosini into the art of Vedic Meditation this year. Mel had practiced many […]
Talking Broadly – Jason Grant
Jason Grant is one of those people who is not only charming and handsome, he’s also the magical mix of […]
Why Meditate?
So why meditate? People learn this technique for a large range of personal reasons. Some want to be more creative […]
Do You Have Needs?
And what does evening ‘having a need’ mean? We can all get caught up in the idea that our needs […]