"Where is home?"
"Can we find it on the map?"
Magdalena
5/31/2026
Taken by my family in the blooming spring garden back home
Hello wonderful friends,
“Where is home?
Can you find it on a map?”
There is always magic in launching anything with a question?
How many times have we tried to answer the questions above, especially meaningful for those living far from home and yet making home.
For those finding home anywhere.
For those wanderers of the mind or hearts, that can find home in the smile of a butterfly passing by.
The month of May continues to be quite special as we are having quite a gift of conversations.
To which we are adding the fact that May is considered The Mental Health Month.
We know as well, while one month of another might raise focused awareness over one particular topic, Mental Health is by far of growing interest blending into so many disciplines. Longevity, healthy aging, healthy maturing, raising kids, analog life versus digital life, burnout and stress, unhappy economical situations, community building and being part of a village.
Everything counts to our mental and holistic well being.
We are therefore thrilled to introduce our guest in May as well, and make room for two featured guests and interviews on our platform this time.
As it happens, I have found Jacqui Lewis and The Broad Place platform on instagram and I have been following her journey for years I would say. I do tend to be familiar with the Australian landscape more often than others, as I have worked and traveled for work many times and have good friends in that area of the world. I have probably known of her journey before I have started meditation on my own, and before I have studied mindfulness and meditation myself. Which is lovely, yet again, for us to find time to reconnect.
May you all have a day, a week, a month where you can make Mental Health a priority and overall, take good care of yourselves.
Loving kindness to us, loving kindness to all.
Hugs and awe and creativity galore, and finding joy in everything we do.
The Broad Place defines themselves as a
“A School for Creativity, Clarity and Consciousness”
At some moment in time and bearing in mind the time zone between Sydney and HK is quite manageable, I did take one of Jacqui’s courses few years back: “The confident woman”, a course that was pretty much needed not in the sense that I would lack the confidence overall, but because occasionally that might be quite challenged by the high-pressure environment, intense and long days, facing the reality of having to proof my values over and over again, and demonstrate at every step what I can do. I am sure I am not alone and for sure I was not alone taking her course either.
I loved Jacqui a lot in the way she teaches. While we are talking about meditation and other practices that can also help regulate our nervous system, she is equally not shy to show herself unapologetically raw. She can laugh out loud, she can manifest anger or express anger while reminding us that some things might not be well received and what is most importantly, no matter how many years we are practitioners of stillness, we are full of life and relatable in every single bit. We might like everything zen, we practice zen meditation perhaps, but we do not aim to become statues, immobile in our presentation, internally or externally.
The Broad Place has all in all wonderful courses, that you can take either at your own pace or scheduled over different periods of time. Jacqui brings her experience working with people, teaching and assisting people on their journey by showing a deep understanding of what is needed to be consistent in this type of work. I definitely aspire to create such a wonderful array of courses at some moment in time and for sure, sign up for more learning with Jacqui when time and conditions allow.
Do have a look and give it a try.
This is our conversation with Jacqui, hoping that her candor and willingness to be vulnerable and raw about her journey, connects more people together and hence we can make more people feel that we are together in this messy challenging life, that offers us so many wonderful moments too.
I connected deeply with the part of creativity, as I am a firm believer that this is one part in us that we need to strengthen, make it shine and bring it for the world to enjoy. Keeping the creativity alive in us serves so many purposes, including a system in itself for nervous self-regulation and motivating each and every one of our cells. Making life joyous and saying no at times to noise or pain, while we can commit to a craft in itself. May we let these roars of creativity soar and be proud of anything we create.
Very grateful for my lovely listeners of the the podcast on the www.onekindvoice.com page or here on Substack, where it will be published in a bit. (mind me my repetitions and I know you are that very kind already).
Here is some more info briefly about The Broad Place, right from their website as I would not be able to describe better myself.
“At The Broad Place, we are devoted to the art of meaningful living.
We are a global school offering a unique synthesis of ancient wisdom, modern neuroscience, somatic intelligence, and creative inquiry. Our mission is to guide individuals into deeper self-understanding, emotional expansion, and grounded clarity. We create transformative experiences that bridge the realms of the mind, body, and spirit—helping people worldwide live with more consciousness, creativity, and coherence.
For over a decade, we’ve supported people from all walks of life to move beyond stress, confusion, and burnout and into a life of genuine fulfillment. We believe the quality of our being determines the quality of our doing. That our internal landscape shapes our external experience. That personal evolution isn’t a luxury; it’s essential.
Our teachings are rooted in timeless principles and made accessible for modern living. We blend meditation, self-inquiry, nervous system regulation, and deep creative exploration to help our students become more present, intentional, and awake to what truly matters.
Jacqui Lewis is the co-founder and principal teacher at The Broad Place. Her work sits at the intersection of self-leadership, neuroscience, and spirituality. With over 30 years immersed in Eastern philosophy, Western psychology, creativity, and consciousness studies, she brings a rare depth and clarity to everything she teaches.
Jacqui is a globally recognized facilitator, author, therapist, and speaker. She has guided thousands of individuals across more than 35 retreats around the world, hosted expansive online programs, and taught both children and adults the art of mindful, intentional living. Her students include creatives, entrepreneurs, executives, seekers, parents, teachers, and change-makers across industries and cultures.”
Connect with Jacqui:
Book Recommendations
I have currently with me two of her books received after my course “The Confident Woman”. I am sure I have ordered the High Grade Living too, but I might have sent it back home, during some moving house situations. Nevertheless, I will present you these two.The Broad Place - Letters Edition
The first one, is by Jacqui Lewis herself, and as mentioned she has generously shared after one of her courses, alongside other very useful and meaningful materials. Jacqui uses prompts from some of her teachers and mentors like: Ram Dass, Adyashanti, Sri M, Rose Baudin, David Whyte, Turiya Hanover, and Rafia Morgan, in order to kick-off a introspection into how those messages could be interpreted in our daily life and everything that we have been observing really.
Every quote from her teachers and mentors inspire a beautiful letter to us and you suddenly feel you are having a conversation with your best friend and book lover, over a large cup of tea or cocoa. You would be intrigued to move from letter to letter, from quote to quote and go into deeper diver. I just spent my past one hour not being able to let the book down.
As I brought the roar topic earlier, I would offer a brief quote from her book:
“The Roar of the Universe
<THE UNIVERSE ROARS AND THE SMALL SELF FALLS AWAY>
Roshi Susan Murphy
“The ego ,so loud, so insistent, so annoying, so abrupt.The heart, so gentle, so mild, so curious.
If we continue to honour our ego over our heart, the universe will eventually roar so loudly, with such force that we will be forced to listen.
....
But what would life look like if we didn’t need an earth-shattering experience to gift us with? What if we just shifted now? Before the universe had to roar?
Sent with love, Jac x”
Signposts Back Home: A Meditation Companion
Mutribo
The second book in the photos is a book produced by The Broad Place called “Signposts back home” and it is by Mutribo, Jacqui’s esteemed teacher and meditation mentor.
I love the questioning in most of the poems or poetic essays.
“Where is home?
Can you find it on a map? ....
“Where is your home?”
I would like to close with one of my favourite poetic introspections by Mutribo.
the breath of the unknown
“What is more silent than this silence?
What is it that supports and animates this stillness?
What is it that cradles this silence in its hands?
Meditation is the journey back to before, a path embedded in stillness because Truth is very, very quiet.
That path back, that return, leads to just one space and that is now, exactly where you find yourself always.
We love stories. We use narratives about ourselves to help define what is constantly on the move. Every narrative starts as an opening, a conceptual understanding, and ends as a prison. All our stories are paper trails back to now.
Whenever you notice listening to yourself repeat another narrative about who you are, be suspicious. It can never be true. We are never fixed. We are always in movement.
Meditation, to be silent, to be still, to be with yourself at ease, is the beginning of growing up, of growing vertically. It’s the start of allowing all the children’s stories to fade and find their proper place and to be for the first time with what can never be known.
The path of meditation is just to become friendly, to become trusting, to fall into a deep let-go with the mystery, with the wonder, with the unknown, with the Unknowable.
Stillness is the breath of the unknown.”
So grateful for you, Jacqui.Thank you so very much for years of beautiful dedication to make people feel better and reconnect with themselves.
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