L E T T E R from Jo – How We Act is the Most Important Thing
Once upon a time, I was all about collecting knowledge, being smart, knowing things, knowing lots of different things, more […]
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L E T T E R from Jac – Our Passport To Freedom and Love
I’m not sure exactly what happened a long time back, it was likely having a small child, being a single […]
L E T T E R from Jo – You Are Always Worth It
Ultimately we all want to feel connected and loved and sometimes in our pursuit of these very things, we get […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Working With Emptiness
‘We join spokes together in a wheel,but it is the centre holethat makes the wagon move. We shape clay into […]
L E T T E R – ENERGY Intention Setting For The Week Ahead
Energy is a huge focus for me always, through my meditation, yoga, karate, and qi-gong training as well as understanding […]
L E T T E R from Jo – Open Up
I fully subscribe to the philosophy that the quality of your mind determines the quality of your life. It is […]
L E T T E R from Jac – A Honeyed Reinstating Of Ones Soul
Being a big fan of Nick Cave and his immensely creative processes, as well as his raw vulnerability and sharing […]
L E T T E R from Jac – A Happy Day To You From Us
Christmas is a funny time, isn’t it? Sometimes it’s joy-filled and fun. Other years it’s a time to get together […]
L E T T E R – CLARITY Intention Setting For The Week Ahead
This weeks intention is HUGE. We are finishing a year as well as a decade. So you might want a […]
L E T T E R from Jac – What Is It You’re Really Looking For?
I know when I feel anxious, challenged or I feel I have lost sense of the deep inner trust that […]
L E T T E R – Gift One, Receive One; An Education of Clarity, Creativity, and Consciousness this Christmas
We take education and experiences very seriously here at The Broad Place. Arran and I have always gifted each other […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Acting On Intuition
If there were one thing I think meditation has gifted me over all the other things, it’s a tuned in […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Defining What’s Important
I have found time and time again, with our students that have had life pulled out from under them that […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Zen Wednesday; Enthralling Solitude
Zen meditation teacher Susan Murphy writes in her brilliant book Upside Down Zen, “Meditation is lonely as any practice is lonely […]
L E T T E R from Jac – The Deepest Relationship
The longest-standing relationship we will ever have, the most intimate, the most defining, is the one we have with ourselves. […]
L E T T E R – UNCOVER Intention Setting For The Week Ahead
I think I have seen the phrase ‘I’m so triggered by this!!!!!’ on social media lately more than any other, […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Zen Wednesday; Creating Space for Mushin
‘Mushin’ is a Japanese term referring to no-mind. It’s embraced in martial arts, meditation and various creative arts. Mushin is […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Finding My Courage
Tomorrow marks the day that I go away for 11 days on a self-led silent meditation Retreat. We are going […]
L E T T E R from Jac – The Cost Of Fear
The other day I had a full-blown panic attack. It’s been many, many years since I have had one. This […]
L E T T E R from Jac – True Self
One of the key issues I see when mentoring thought leaders is that there is usually a deep underlying system […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Today Is The Day
Today is the day that our High Vibrational Challenge begins!!! Over the next two weeks, I am going to be […]
L E T T E R from Jac – A New Present Born
It’s a simply wonderful concept, and it’s true, so why aren’t we living like it? Why are we waiting for […]
L E T T E R from Jac – When Did We Forget How To Rest?
I sometimes look at my dogs, sleeping away in the sun and think; nice for some. It can be nice […]
L E T T E R – PEACE Intention Setting For The Week Ahead
This week let’s place our intention on peace. Some points to Journal on: Where in my life am I naturally […]
L E T T E R from Jo – Doing Is The Way
I love learning new things, new facts, new ideas, new concepts – anything new! I like to be introduced to […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Toofman
Toofy our 14-year-old rescue dog was terribly neglected, so skinny and anxious when we got him. He obviously was rarely […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Meditation; The Mystery and Sometimes The Misery Part 3
When it comes to a meditation practice, I liken it often to anything else in your life, if you want […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Let’s Get Serious
Apologies in advance as this is a pretty long Letter as I have sooo much to comment on this, and […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Meditation; The Mystery and the Sometimes The Misery Part 2
I wrote last Monday about some ways in which to reframe and approach your meditation practice, whatever the lineage and […]
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 – GENEROSITY Intention Setting For The Week Ahead
What a lovely intention to set for the week ahead! Generosity. I would like us all to look at in […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Internal and External Rhythms
Something I discussed at the London Integrated Meditation Meeting last week, which seemed to really strike a chord, was internal […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Energy Is The Key To Creativity
When we are exhausted, we are cranky and we are definitely uncreative. A good flow of physical energy keeps us […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Thriving Through Modern Living Part 4 – Evenings
To read the previous letters, see PART 1, PART 2, and PART 3. Okay, this is the finale in this […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Thriving Through Modern Living 1 – Meditation
I have always struggled with the energy of a city like New York. On one hand, I absolutely love it, […]
L E T T E R from Jac – Trusting The Universe
I have something I remind myself of constantly; there are no accidents and there are no coincidences. Everything is happening […]
L E T T E R from Jac – The Passing of Practice
A student went to his meditation teacher and said, “My meditation is horrible! I feel so distracted, or my legs […]
L E T T E R – KINDNESS Intention Setting For The Week Ahead
This week, let’s together place our awareness and our attention on Kindness. We can amplify kindness in the world if […]
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 – GRATITUDE Intention Setting For The Week Ahead
This week, we will place our awareness and our attention on Gratitude. Gratitude is frequently written off as too ‘woo-woo‘ […]
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 – The Unfolding Mystery
We kind of feel like we have control of our life most of the time, like we are the ones […]
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 – 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 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 – CREATOR Intention Setting For The Week Ahead
This week, lets set our acknowledging and exploring that we, solely, create our experience of the world. The world is […]
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 from Jac – The Real You Is In There
In an age whereby ‘you can be anyone’, being just you, can seem boring and unappealing I have found. When […]
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 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 – GRACE 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 Jo – Moving Towards A Better Me
I love the forward motion that focusing on who you want to become creates. It puts yesterday firmly in its […]
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 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 – Redefining Success
I would like to spend some time this week (within the gift to me, that is these Letters, as I […]
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 – 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 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – Being A Creativity Conduit
I like to think of our bodies as little tuning forks for the universe’s energy. The system through which creativity […]
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 – 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 Chasing of Perfection
When Emily or I teach Integrated Meditation, we both drill into our students to not chase perfection. You will never […]
L E T T E R – Say No, Immediately
There is a downside to living a full and abundant life. I mean at first you’re like, seriously, could there be […]
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 – The Simplicity of Meditation
Meditation these days is a name for a lot of different things, a lot of which is not meditation. Something […]
L E T T E R – New Beginnings
I meet a lot of people who comment they’re too scared to learn meditation because of what they might discover […]
L E T T E R – The Bigger Questions
Around this time of year, Arran and I start formulating our ideas for the following year. 2018 was massive for […]
L E T T E R – Your New Vital Daily Tool; Power Down Hour
We have been preaching this from the rooftops for years, it’s a tool within our 7 Day Mind Cleanse and […]
L E T T E R – A Gift For You Of Our Key Clarity Tool
Today we are going to gift you something special, because trust me, you need it. Everyone, especially at this time of the […]
L E T T E R – Working with True Knowing and Dealing With Disappointment. Part 2
If you missed yesterday’s Letter, Part 1, you can see it here. After changing my flights and wrapping up the […]
L E T T E R – Working with True Knowing and Dealing With Disappointment. Part 1
Our recent trip to India took a year to plan. The major component was our Broad Place Retreat which had […]
L E T T E R – A Net Free Bird
The only thing we are really trapped by is our thinking mind, with its limitations and prejudices and biases that […]
L E T T E R – There’s Always Something Better Happening
For our recent India Retreat, I had it all mapped out. Tightly organised, planned to within an inch of its […]
L E T T E R – Thinking Kills Creativity
If you’ve ever been working on something and loved it, then over thought it, then doubted it, then felt ill […]
L E T T E R – What Spirituality Means Part 2
Yesterday, I wrote in the Letter about re-framing spirituality and you can read it HERE. It’s a big topic and […]
L E T T E R – Real Power
Being a recovering control freak and perfectionist, OCD, a Virgo and aaaall the other labels I could apply to my […]
L E T T E R – Building Stillness and Acceptance
In the Vedic view, there are three things present at all times. Creation, maintenance and destruction. The Vedic view of […]
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 – Expanding Curiosity
I couldn’t agree more that curiosity in all aspects of life is needed for creativity and flow. Arran told me […]
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 […]
L E T T E R – How Will We Choose To Really Live?
There is so much programming involved, in how we think we should be living. Paradigms created by so many people […]
L E T T E R – It’s All Just Grist For The Mill
I got a text from a friend the other day, reporting something insignificant on another friend that I had a […]
L E T T E R – Dealing With The Criticism of Others
There is feedback, and there is criticism. There is moaning, and then there are witch hunts. I posted last week […]
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 […]
L E T T E R – Can We Embody What Nature Knows?
We have a huge tree in our garden, and when we moved in became very fond of it as throughout […]
L E T T E R – We Are All Going To Be Dead, Sooner, Later, Who Knows
Some people come to learn meditation because they are keen to be their best selves, they feel unreal and want […]
L E T T E R – Saying ‘I Don’t Know’
When did we lost the art of saying, ‘you know what, I don’t know’ or ‘wouldn’t have a clue’. When […]
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 […]