Jacqueline // January 31st, 2025
Sometimes people wonder why Lightwork Level 2 is about learning to give energy healings. They wonder…why not focus entirely on meditation, just like Level 1? There’s a powerful reason for this.
At Lightwork, meditation is energy healing. The whole point is learning to take care of your own energy system and heal it. The more healing you do, the freer you are. You’re not held back by old energy, or old ways of seeing things or doing things. In a very real sense, you’re a whole new you.
When you learn to give energy healings to other people in Lightwork Level 2, it’s a way of understanding the art of energy healing at a deeper level. You learn more about how to perceive and work with energy. This is a crucial step in learning to heal your own energy system. It’s a next step in your consciousness of how energy works.
But wait there’s more. Every time you give an energy healing, you’re also receiving one. That’s just how energy works. It’s inherent. So, in Lightwork Level 2, whenever you give healings, your own energy is also being healed.
Maybe you’re already an experienced energy healer and all of this is familiar to you. If so, let this be a reminder of how powerful your healings are, for you and for others.
If energy healing is new to you, perhaps this puts Lightwork Levels 1 and 2 into a new perspective. To learn more or explore upcoming classes, check out Lightwork Level 2: Meditation & Healing here.
Jacqueline // December 31st, 2024
Yes, 2025 is here!
How about starting – or reinvigorating – your meditation practice?
Meditation is an powerful way to set the tone for your year. Here are five great reasons to meditate in 2025:
1. Meditation improves focus and mental clarity.
It helps clear mental fog, allowing you to live your life with a fresh perspective. It improves concentration and focus, which can enhance productivity and decision-making personally and professionally.
2. Meditation increases mindfulness.
It encourages living in the present moment, which helps you be more mindful and less distracted. This can improve your relationships, communication, and overall enjoyment of life.
3. Meditation fosters a positive mindset.
You can train your mind to approach life with optimism and resilience. Meditation helps shift negative thinking patterns, leading to a more positive and proactive approach. It helps you see the silver lining.
4. Meditation helps you live the life you want.
It can be a tool for intentional living. By practicing meditation, you can more clearly define your goals for the year and keep your actions aligned with your values and desires.
5. Meditation improves overall wellbeing.
It sets you up for a more balanced, intentional, and fulfilling year.
What’s your intention for 2025?
Curious about learning a powerful set of meditation techniques to support your new year?
Check out the Lightwork Level 1: Meditation class series starting in January. Or, explore other classes to refresh your practice this new year.
Jeanine // September 30th, 2024
Looking to make some delicious warming fall meals that support the body? For me, nothing comes close to squash soup. In past years one of my favourites was the superbly simple combination of roasted butternut squash blended with coconut milk and spices.
This fall, I took this simple delight and have boosted it up with lentils for additional protein to support your body! Whether you’re chopping wood, wandering through a forest, or working from home – this recipe will fuel up your physical energy so you can focus on your energy healing.
You can use red lentils or green lentils for this recipe. You don’t need to soak dry lentils before using them in a recipe. That said, soaking can enhance the rate of mineral absorption in the body and helps to break down the complex starch in lentils (making them easier to digest). So if you plan ahead, you can soak the lentils 4 hours or overnight prior to making this recipe!
If you’re in a hurry, you can bake the squash and potatoes at a higher heat, just ensure the oil you use can tolerate a higher temperature!
What you’ll need;
- 1 medium or large butternut squash
- 1 large potato
- 2 tbsp coconut oil (or neutral oil of choice)
- 1 medium white onion
- 4 cloves garlic (feel free to adjust per preferences)
- 1 knob of ginger (roughly equal amount to your garlic)
- 1 tbsp paprika
- 2 tsp cumin
- 1 tsp turmeric
- 1 fresh serrano pepper or 1 tsp dried chilli (optional)
- 2 cups of preferred stock (veggie or chicken are my favourite)
- 1 cup of dry lentils (soaked if desired; see note)
- 1 can of coconut milk (400 ml or 14 oz)
- Salt & Pepper to Taste
How to make this soup!
- Turn on your oven to 375 F
- Chop your butternut squash and potatoes into cubes, toss with coconut oil and salt, and add to a pan. Pop it in the oven; we’ll return to it at step 11 when it smells delicious and is soft (in about 60-90 minutes).
- Time for some prep!
- Chop your onion and set aside
- Make a paste from your garlic (4 cloves), ginger (equal amount to garlic), and serrano (if using fresh) using a mortar & pestle if you have one. Otherwise, mince finely and add to a small vessel.
- Measure out your spices (1 tbsp paprika, 2 tsp cumin, 1 tsp turmeric, chilli if using dried) into another small vessel.
- Add oil to a large pot over medium high heat and wait for it to shimmer.
- Add your chopped onion and some salt and sauté until it begins to soften (~4 minutes).
- Drop in the ginger/garlic/pepper paste and mix throughout the onions (~1 minute).
- Add your lentils (1 cup) and stir.
- With your broth ready beside you, add your spices and stir until fragrant and mixed throughout (~30 seconds) before adding quickly adding broth (2 cups) to avoid the spices burning. Then add the coconut milk (1 can) and stir.
- Taste the soup, adding salt, pepper, and other spices per your taste preferences. If it tastes bland, add more salt!
- Bring soup to a boil, then cover, reduce heat to low and allow soup to simmer until lentils soften (~20 mins if cooking from dry, faster if soaked).
- When the vegetables from the oven are soft, remove from the oven and add to the soup pot.
- Taste the soup, and adjust salt and pepper as needed.
- If you prefer a more blended texture, use a potato masher or an immersion blender to break up any chunks in the soup.
- Serve!
I suggest a garnish of some citrus or yoghurt for acidity.
Alternatively, or in addition to that, you can add some cilantro or arugula fresh on top for a bit of greenery!
Jacqueline // January 29th, 2021
Heads up, everyone! Lightwork Level 4 program will be starting up in March 2021. This year-long online program is a game-changer so if you’re interested, make sure you don’t miss the train.
Level 4 rocks. Here’s why:
1) You learn to read energy. This is an action-packed roll-up your sleeves program that develops your intuition and spiritual awareness. Scott Robinson will teach you to read energy through weekly recorded classes, and will have the opportunity to practice in live readings. You will get to know yourself and the world on a profound level.
2) Deep personal healing can happen. It’s called ‘Transformation‘ for good reason. This is a chance to rid yourself of old energy that is slowing you down, making way for you to float freer in life.
3) Meditation becomes a powerful part of your life, allowing you to take charge and create what you want. This is a way to really ground your practice and own it for yourself.
Sound intriguing? If you’d like to take Level 4, drop us a note at lightwork@lightwork.ca.
You’ll find the details for the program here. Check it out!
Scott Robinson // September 3rd, 2019
An excerpt from the book, ‘Navigation’, by Scott Robinson
Abundance is the ability to create something and fully have the experience of it.
It is the ability to share your reality with something – to really soak it in. It is also known as high-havingness, and it can apply to anything.
It can be as simple as noticing the heartbeats in your chest and truly savouring the experience. Whether you are asleep or going about your daily life, your heart always beats for you. It goes on, steadily and faithfully, until you are complete with manifestation this lifetime. This is abundance.
Abundance can be a glass of water. First you are aware of the liquid. Then you become deeply present with it. As you drink it, you notice its sacredness. Perhaps you even tune into the entire Universe through the experience.
Abundance is a state of being. It is a way of living, without limits. It is love, ease and relaxation. If you choose it as your set point in life, you see abundance everywhere you look.
Scott Robinson // July 20th, 2019
An excerpt from the book, ‘Navigation’, by Scott Robinson
Being in balance is a spiritual choice.
We can choose sustainability. We can choose a more holistic way of living. We can choose to be in harmony with each other and the earth. We can shift our value system.
I’m not talking about reverting to a pre-industrial society. I believe in the gifts of technology. I’m just saying to use them consciously. I’m saying be aware of the addictive quality of products, and make conscious choices about how to use them.
As a spiritual warrior, aim to bring spiritual awareness to every decision. Is it of the highest integrity for all of humanity and the planet?
Choose the path of balance.
Scott Robinson // June 11th, 2019
An excerpt from the book, ‘Navigation’, by Scott Robinson
You are not your worries.
Your worries may profoundly affect you. They may feel deeply familiar. In fact, they may be more familiar to you than anything else in your life. Your analyzer may tell you they are critically important. They may even be part of your identity.
You may have worries older than your current relationship and current home combined.
Despite all of this, they are still not you.
You are Spirit, and spiritual-seniority is possible even when the analyzer wants to churn with worry.
Jacqueline // June 4th, 2019
Hello Everyone!
We have exciting news. Scott Robinson, Lightwork’s spiritual director, has a new book called Navigation that has just hit the market. Paperback and digital editions are available for sale now on the Lightwork website.
Navigation is a collection of Scott’s spiritual teachings, poetry and photography. It’s a journey into a fresh, new way of perceiving your life and the world.
The teachings in the book are from classes Scott has taught to the Lightwork community over the years, and the accompanying poems and photographs help to bring the teachings to life.
In Navigation, Scott Robinson offers a different way of looking at life and the world. He aims to help people create freedom, living outside the limits of consumerism, competition and judgment.
Mainstream society would have you believe you can’t choose your reality. Having devoted more than 30 years to deep spiritual practice, Scott has learned there are an unlimited number of realities, and you have the ability to consciously choose the one you want.
You can order a print or digital copy here.
Scott Robinson // May 14th, 2019
An excerpt from the book The Journey is the Goal by Scott Robinson
You can be in a state of spiritual well-being, even if your body is physically unwell.
When Gandhi was fasting to stop the riots in India, he was in a state of spiritual well-being, although his body was near death.
Illness or body pain is an energy manifestation. It often alerts us to an issue of which we are not consciously aware.
Healing is flow, and flow is change. We are all in a constant state of change. Nothing in the cosmos is meant to stand still. Mountains are slowly eroding to sand. Seasons end and new ones begin. It is the same with your energy. It is meant to flow, always.
When we block our energy flow as a result of resistance — fear, denial — we limit healing. When the flow is limited and this is not acknowledged, it will most likely lead to physical illness.
The body is a manifestation of energy, of spirit. Release the energy blockage, and you heal the body.
Jeanine // March 31st, 2019
On one of the most challenging mornings of my life, I used my meditation tools to cope.
The night before, my boyfriend and I had invited a handful of friends over for boardgames. There were snacks. There was laughter. There were fun games. But in the mix of it all, there was also a moment I realized his affection and attention was on a female friend at the party, and not on me.
The next morning, he and I talked. I referenced the meditation lesson that taught me to take responsibility for my part in every creation. I was able to see the bigger landscape of our relationship outside the context of this one ‘betrayal’. I was able to acknowledge that I had been retreating from our partnership and indeed had been less emotionally available to him as a partner. I was able to see that my behaviour had gone against our commitment to be with one another – not because I was with someone else, but because I was so involved in my work that I was no longer able to be with myself let alone him.
I was angry that morning. And sad. Those emotions were run, but run from a place of me recognizing the communication from my body and owning the experience I was having. I was able to detail to him why I was both angry and sad – not from a place of blame, but simply sharing my experience.
Using my meditation tools to see the bigger picture, to own my experience of every relationship, and indeed to manage my emotions from a place of understanding myself rather than sinking into the emotion – these tools made the most challenging morning of my life manageable. And being able to communicate from a clearer place, I was able to re-connect with my partner and share my experience from a neutral position without blame.
Challenging moments still happen, but with meditation tools they are more manageable.
Jacqueline // January 3rd, 2019
People, we’re kick-starting 2019 with a fabulous new way to book classes and services at Lightwork. We’ve just launched a brand new online booking system.
For the first time ever, you can view and book time slots for services like private meditation classes, energy reading & healings, restorative healings and more.
Plus you can sign up for Level 1, 2 and 3 classes easier than ever. Soon all other classes will be added to the system.
Do check it out! And please – give us feedback. It’s a new system so we’re working to refine it. If you have questions or find something confusing, send us an email at bookings@lightwork.ca.
We look forward to seeing you for classes and healing services in 2019!
Elizabeth Stevenson // October 2nd, 2018
Before I started meditating I was confused and saddened by the state of the world. I did not understand how we could hurt each other so much, how humans were capable of wars.
As I began studying meditation, I learned that most people don’t actually want to hurt others, but their own wounds influence their actions and can lead them to do hurtful things. This understanding helps me treat everyone with love and compassion, even those who are hurtful toward me.
Now that I meditate, I feel as though my life is my own – my own to direct, my own to live, my own to experience. If something isn’t working for me I know that I have the ability to change it, instead of thinking I just have to live with it. Moving from being a martyr to someone who takes responsibility and consciously chooses her life is a big and sometimes scary change, but it’s also a huge validation of who I really am. Powerful, present and ready to go!
Now that I meditate, I’m not living for others anymore. I used to seek approval and do what I thought I was supposed to do to be a ‘good’ person. I was so caught up in this that I didn’t even know what I wanted. It was what others thought or knew that mattered.
Now I feel more balanced. I can hear and appreciate others’ opinions and I know that I can also have my own, and mine are just as valid.
Jeanine // September 1st, 2018
To be at home in my own presence is to feel comfortable giggling at a funny leaf as it falls down on my path as I walk to work.
Being at home in my life feels like living true to my inner child.
As I move through this world, I use the meditation tools of centering and present time to ensure I am at home in my own space. I aim to live in the present moment, at peace with myself, and aware of the world around me. This intent for consciousness and presence brings me a multitude of gifts.
If I am present, I can notice a small child walking toward me, holding their parent’s hand on the city sidewalk. If I smile, they often smile back. What a way to brighten everyones day! If I am present, I might spot a flower poking out from the earth in a planter. If it has started to blossom, I might even stop to smell it. What an enriching experience!
If I am present, I’m much more likely to notice a gorgeous sunset, or how the sunlight hits the glass atop that building just so. There are sights I see and moments I witness only if I am present.
Bringing more and more presence into my life has felt like the most incredible ongoing gift to myself.
Being at home to me means being present in my own space in the current moment. It is not a specific physical space, but a mental place of being aware. When aware, I feel “at home” in my life.
Elizabeth Stevenson // June 30th, 2018
I love singing and always have.
Growing up I was very shy, and felt uncomfortable if others could hear me. I sang in choirs where I could blend into the crowd, but always knew there was more to my voice than I was letting out. Truthfully I was hiding, trying not to be seen because I was afraid of being judged.
I began meditating, and over the years realized I had nothing to hide. I decided I wanted to know truly know my voice so I began singing lessons.
The lessons happened on Fridays, which I privately nicknamed ‘crydays’ because often as not I’d be in tears arriving, leaving or during the lesson. My body had a lot of emotion to express about being seen, heard and validated.
I slowly learned to let go of worrying what I sounded like. Instead of immediately evaluating what I had just done, I started paying attention to allowing the sound to just flow through me, to actually enjoying the act of singing.
This shift changed everything. My goal is no longer about producing a certain sound – it’s about my journey. And now, singing is a deeper and richer experience.
Jeanine // June 1st, 2018
I was sitting on a water taxi and talking with a friend of mine. We were both travelling to Gambier Island to spend the weekend at the Lightwork Ecovillage. And in this moment, as a wave crashed across the bow of the boat, I noticed how much meditation has changed me.
In the past, a long weekend would typically mean two nights available for partying instead of one. A long weekend might mean some chores and lots of television. Maybe, if I was able to organize it – a long weekend might mean grabbing brunch with some friends.
But now? This current version of me was excited to be spending a long weekend digging a drainage ditch, meditating, checking out the extensive garden, investigating the winter pond situation, cooking delicious and healthy meals from scratch, and enjoying time with friends.
This current version of me was able to have this weekend full of all these amazing things I love, with very little space for unconscious, zone-out time. And it’s because I love myself enough to spend an entire weekend doing things I love with people I enjoy spending time with. I love myself enough to eat healthy, embrace exercise, and spend downtime watching the world around me.
Meditation has given me this great gift of an increased ability to have more of what I love in my life, and less of what I now identify as “painkillers” (rather than joy-givers!). I don’t need to binge watch an entire season of something to avoid my life and forget about the things I don’t like. I don’t need to drink large amounts of alcohol to interact with other people. I don’t need to feel lucky I shared a single meal this week with friends.
And getting off that water taxi? It felt like the life I’ve always wanted was in motion.
Julia T. // April 1st, 2018
I saw the best shirt of my life in 1987 when I was 8.
It was a black T-shirt. The sleeves and the bottom were fringed, making it totally tough-looking. But what really intrigued me was the message on the front, in cursive font: “If you love something set it free. If it comes back it’s yours, if it does not come back it was never meant to be.”
So intriguing! My 8-year-old brain started to play through scenarios of what this could possibly mean. If you took the leash off of a dog, and it ran away and never came back…it was not meant to be, so just suck it up? I asked my mom who didn’t seem to have a satisfactory reply. I wondered, who would wear that shirt? So hardcore.
Fast-forward 30 years to today. Would I wear that shirt? I’d have to consider it. I may need to wait another 30 years before that wisdom fully soaks in. Don’t get me wrong I like idea of fringe. But what does it mean to truly set something free?
It makes me think of a technique I learned in Lightwork Level 1 Meditation. The technique is about consciously creating what you want. In last part of the technique you use the following message, “I would like this to be manifest if it is of my highest integrity and the highest integrity for all.” You hold the intention of creating the thing you want only if it won’t harm you, or anyone else. Then you completely let go of attachment. It feels so good to let go in this way.
I remember when I first moved to Vancouver I was looking for a place to rent. I did the conscious-creating technique in meditation, including that last crucial step of letting go. That weekend my roommates and I looked at two suites. One had such a horrible stench we could barely make it through the tour. Nope. The other was lovely. Wood floors, fireplace, great location. We put in our application. And waited.
The landlord said no. Application rejected. Somebody else got that beautiful place. We were so bummed! Where would we go? Not the stench place? Noooo.
I kept having the feeling I should walk down 3rd Ave, and sure enough, there was another suite for rent on that street. A little mountain view, reasonable rent by Vancouver standards, a newly renovated kitchen. This place was great! We said, “We’ll take it!” and the landlord agreed.
A few weeks later, I walked by the beautiful place we didn’t get. I could smell the fire before I saw it. The neighbouring house had burnt to the ground and ravaged the surrounding homes, including the suite we had admired but not secured. I could see directly into the suite, as the fire had eaten right through the walls. It was shocking. I was stuck with the knowledge that I had so wished for that suite, and now I was so grateful I didn’t get it.
It was a good reminder that sometimes even though I may really want something, but there may be more than meets the eye as to why I can’t have it. I’ve learned to trust the process, and allow myself to just let go.
Tiffany // March 1st, 2018
About 10 years ago now, I moved to Vancouver from a northern Gulf Island. I was coming out of a tumultuous time; it was the end of a relationship. I was full-on soul searching and making a major course correction in my life. I was ready to let go of pretty much anything that stood in the way of finding a renewed sense of myself.
I moved to Vancouver to take the Lightwork Level 4: Transformation program. I felt hopeful about this decision and other big changes I’d made; I landed a new job and scored a great apartment, seemingly overnight.
Settling into the city felt like taking a plunge into a deep sea. It felt rattling, relentless, unfriendly and cold. I missed the green and wild of island life.
I couldn’t get over the realities of city-living, like hearing the pedestrian walk signal from my apartment, and feeling the thick concrete floor always beneath me. It was a new and different place to call home. And while I had deep sense that I would find my way, it was definitely one of the most uncomfortable times of my life.
In retrospect, I now understand the enormity of what that move represented. I was basically laying it all on the line, spiritually speaking. I needed answers to some important questions that had been plaguing me, and a way out of an unhealthy relationship pattern. I was doing major repair work, and everything in my life was changing around me. I was in the throes of an intense transformation.
At times I felt raw and vulnerable. Sometimes uneasy. Sometimes emotional. Yet simultaneously more comforted, more at peace and more free.
At some point, I realized that I was out of the woods, so to speak. And I was ready to give back. This was a wonderful shift.
Skip ahead to present time and my life feels quiet, strong and settled. I see now that it’s hard to witness one’s own transformation while it’s underway; it’s hard to know that it’s actually happening. But with commitment to a healing path, change does happen and pain is alleviated. It just takes a little while sometimes.
Now, as one of the Lightwork staff, it gives me great joy to teach meditation classes and give energy healings to others. This past year I’ve had the honour of assisting the current Level 4: Transformation students as they dive into their own self-healing journeys. What a thing, to see the process full-circle, and now be in a position to offer support. I am immensely grateful. I can’t think of anything more satisfying.
Leslie Dickout // December 31st, 2017
Life in North America is designed to be busy. We are expected to fill our time
with work, friends, family, social media, travel, and a host of other activities. I
believed for a long time the fuller my life was, the richer my experience of life
was. And although I have no regrets, I recall the moments when I thought my
life was at its “richest” and still there felt like something was missing, or that I
wasn’t truly happy.
Meditation has allowed me to make room for what was missing…simplicity.
Calm. Presence. Me. Instead of filling my time with more and more, the most
fulfilling thing I do is the same meditation each day that brings me back to my
centre, to my grounding, to that quiet yet alive place that is me. It’s a kind of
fulfillment I have only dreamed of.
Experiencing life from this place has made everything I do throughout my days
that much richer. From taking in the changing leaves on the trees in autumn to
having conversations with loved ones, interactions with colleagues, or time by
myself. Being more present in each moment, and letting that be enough, has
allowed me to feel the true richness of my life.
Julia W. // October 31st, 2017
Lightwork meditation focuses on awareness of the human energy system to keep your body healthy and Spirit bright. Instead of focusing on watching the breath, you consciously move your energy through your energy channels and energy centres.
You still your thoughts as you move the energy throughout your body, letting go of tension and anxiety. It is an active, engaged form of meditation that can work well for anyone more used to doing rather than being.
Cathy // September 26th, 2017
I am extremely grateful to be on the journey of self-discovery and growth.
Over the summer I was taking stock of my life with some changes in mind. As I did this review, I realized that I live a very textured life. My life is rich in experiences and relationships.
Meditation has helped me get to this place. It has supported me in letting go of fear and limiting thought patterns. I have been able to open my creativity and express myself more clearly, develop more authentic relationships and simply be me.
