L E T T E R from Jac – The Unfolding Mystery
We kind of feel like we have control of our life most of the time, like we are the ones […]
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L E T T E R – CHARM Intention Setting For The Week Ahead
This week, we will place our awareness and our attention on Charm. Charm is the little things your heart sings […]
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 – Skin in the Right Game
I was kindly asked the other day, are you committed to this or are you just involved? Yikes, I had […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Creativity Is A Process
You may not be able today, to form wet clay as it dries between your hands. Or apply oily, lazy […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Modern Day Rushing
I was recently reading Alan Watts stating how in times of overwhelm, he would find solace in the ocean and […]
L E T T E R – Tuesday Tip; Build Your Morning Routine
A Morning Routine is a vital step in setting yourself up for success for the day. I have found it […]
L E T T E R – How To Be The Best Meditator Ever
This title is a joke! You cannot ever be ‘the best meditator ever’ as it simply doesn’t exist. You can’t […]
L E T T E R – SERVICE Intention Setting For The Week Ahead
This week, we will place our awareness and our attention on Service. How do you define being of service?What tasks […]
L E T T E R from Emily – Joy
Today is Easter Saturday, this day will mean different things for all of us, some will be engaged in spiritual […]
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 Jac – Everything Changes
There is a story told about Suzuki Roshi, a great Buddhist teacher. “Suzuki Roshi, I’ve been listening to your lectures […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Never Too Small
I have so many moments where I think in despair, I am just one person what can I do. And […]
L E T T E R – Tuesday Tips; Taking Time To Retreat
Easter is this weekend, and I’m personally taking time out to heal and nourish myself. My dear friend and fellow […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Why You Don’t Master Meditation, You Master Life
After studying meditation in various lineages for a decade, something dawned on me. I was looking for this experience of […]
L E T T E R – QUALITY Intention Setting For The Week Ahead
This week, we will place our awareness and our attention to Quality. The highest grade in every area. What will […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Running Them Storylines
The brain is a remarkable affirmation tool. Allow our minds to tell us something, believe it, and watch the brain […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Mastery Of Life
We can ask, how can I bring myself, to the fullest, to this moment? It will require presence. Fullness is […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Before The Drought
Isn’t this a brilliant sentence, ‘When the well is dry, we know the worth of water’?. I teach so many […]
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 – You Love You
Imagine you are holding a container – it can be as big as you like, any shape you like and […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Wanting Change
We all want change, every single person wants something different to what is actually happening. It might be little, it […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Daily Devotion
We are building on a theme here, which you might have picked up on because it’s my obsessive personality to […]
L E T T E R – Tuesday Tips; Something Sweet For The Afternoon
In Ayurveda, there are three dosha’s and the Vata dosha, when out of balance, can cause anxiety, sleeplessness and restlessness. Which is […]
L E T T E R – CREATIVITY Intention Setting For The Week Ahead
This is a little something new I wanted to try with you, where we collectively set an intention and discovered […]
L E T T E R from Emily – Moving to Truth
There is a part of all of us that wants to stay small, it is afraid to reach our personal optimum […]
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 Jac – More Than One Way To Toast
In our cabin in Big Sur, there was a fireplace, and no toaster, so we began to hack hunks of […]
L E T T E R – Tuesday Tips; Healing The Lymphatic System with Jeannie of Venustus
I’m going to start experimenting with Tuesday’s being dedicated to a particular study, involving physical health, or a recipe, or […]
L E T T E R from Jac – You Can Practice Integrated Meditation Anywhere
Not all meditation techniques are the same, so I want to preface this with saying if you practice a technique […]
L E T T E R from Emily – The Garden of Sanity
When you have a technique that allows the mind to gently settle and guide you to deep restful transcendence, your […]
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 – 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 Jac – The Fake News In Our Heads
Our beliefs define us. Like scratches and smudges on a pair of sunglasses that we have become so used to […]
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 – 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 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 Emily – Sinking Ships
We’ve all had the experience of treading water, just trying to keep our head above, and at times feeling more […]
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 – Loving The Thought Clouds
As a chronic over-thinker, the two most valuable way of addressing thoughts were by a Buddhist teacher a long time […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Support and Synchronicity
In life, there is sometimes universal support, and sometimes too many roadblocks. Discerning which is which simply takes years of […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Not Of This Earth
There are over 100 billion stars and there are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on all […]
L E T T E R from Emily – The Person I Am
How many of us have tried to be shapeshifters, fitting some kind of mould to be more liked, loved, and […]
L E T T E R from Jo – Get Out of the Cul-de-sac
If you ever find yourself knee-deep in self-righteousness (Coo-ee!) or complaining/whining/elegantly demonstrating the shortcomings of others, situations or experiences (who […]
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 – A Giant Update
Morning everyone! As a new chapter opens for The Broad Place I wanted to take the time to put the […]
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 Jac – Evolution and Change
After yesterday’s ginormous Letter, we also have something to share with you! The Broad Place has been one huge adventure […]
L E T T E R from Emily – The Four Agreements
“Death is not the biggest fear we have;our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive” – Don Miguel […]
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 – A Yes And A No
For every yes there simply has to be a no. Compromise means everyone gets half or less. If you’re a […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Nature Is My Religion
I don’t have an official religion, but my temple is the ocean. My altars are the trees. Animals are my […]
L E T T E R from Jac – The Power of Intent
There is a system within the Vedic lineages called ‘tapasya’ which is essentially the renunciation of something we enjoy, in […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Anxiety Remedies
Ram Dass really brought home the message ‘Be Here Now’. In fact, it was the title of his pivotal book, […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Truly Transform 2019
Life is this strange sequencing of events, isn’t it? And when we look at a year, it is like 12 […]
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 Jac – Our Practices
Too often we think, myself included, ‘I don’t have time for this’, surrounding anything that is nourishing, rewarding, spiritual and […]
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 – You Determine The Course
Gah how I love this quote! I wanted to end the week with it. When we don’t know what our […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Accepting Everything
There is a Zen saying Susan Murphy taught me, which is no matter WHAT is happening, you send out into […]
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 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 from Emily – Play On
“The oak sleeps in the acornThe giant sequoia tree sleeps in its tiny seedThe bird waits in the eggGod waits […]
L E T T E R from Jac – How Much Life Is This Worth
It’s a worthwhile question, isn’t it? Sometimes, it’s lots of life. I love material things and I get great joy from […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Little Buddha’s
The Buddha spoke that every being has the capacity for enlightenment and as everything is connected, every single being has […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Deep Gratitude
Today is Letter 300. There are so many Letters behind these when I wasn’t tallying them up. But 300 feels […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Heavy and Light
This reminds me of something my friend Sam from Cloud Hidden Tea told me about tea ceremonies; work with the […]
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 – Navigating Our Own Path
Okay ‘huge news’, we have moved our quotes to a neutral colour palette. I share this not because it’s going […]
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 Commitment To Change
Our brains wire in ways of doing things for efficiencies sake. It’s to make the whole system flow more, things […]
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 – No Former Just Present
I love this quote by Condoleeza, for its many layers. What if we let go of former everything. Former anxiety.Former […]
L E T T E R – Treading Our Path Without Distraction
I think writing yesterday’s Letter stirred up a lot for me. I pondered about all the (necessary) distractions I experienced […]
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 – Creativity Is The Only Thing That Matters
What if instead of considering creativity just as artistic ways of going about things, we widened the scope to include: […]
L E T T E R – The Thin Thread Between This Life and The Next
David Whyte said,’ How easily the thread is broken between this life and the next’. It’s a beautiful line, isn’t […]
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 – Creating Space And Pause Before Action
I had a conversation with a dear friend and meditation student on the weekend about the never-ending list of ‘All […]
L E T T E R – The Most Expensive Price Tag In The World
I had soooo many people respond to the letter (What Would You Create) about what would you do if you couldn’t […]
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 – What Would You Create
One of my favourite questions as part of long-term workshops that I host, is ‘if you knew you couldn’t fail, […]
L E T T E R – Wise Choices
A little list of things I would recommend if you’re stuck making choices at the moment. It’s a big time […]
L E T T E R – The First Day Of 2019
It’s the first day of 2019. If you woke today bright and alive, brilliant. If you woke hungover as hell […]
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 – Humility and Service
I spent most of Friday emailing back students who had applied for the scholarship of Be Your Best Self. We […]
L E T T E R – The Difference Between Planning And Surrender
The Letter I wrote the other day about the need for planning and our common misunderstanding that planning depletes our […]
L E T T E R – Being What’s Right Over Concerned With Who Is Right
I had a really interesting conversation the other day with a long term meditator who had become disillusioned with spirituality, […]
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 – 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 – Which Would You Choose
This quote has been playing around in my mind like a Zen koan for some time. It can be viewed […]
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 […]