Thanks to the generosity of community, here a re five meditations to help soothe an anxious wine study mind.
All in Meditation
Thanks to the generosity of community, here a re five meditations to help soothe an anxious wine study mind.
Feeling overwhelmed? This week, Cathy offers a simple way to keep your mind from being scrambled.
Returning from a multi-day silent meditation retreat, Cathy offers some words of wisdom on the value of presence in every day life.
A sidewalk sale wasn’t exactly the most obvious place to find a new meditation teacher, but it was an old watch that taught Beck new reminders about meditation.
In business, the concept of ‘retreat’ can carry a negative connotation – a failed deal, not fulfilling obligations, stepping back from the opportunity, and ultimately not winning. But in a mindful practice, where we observe both the human self and the spiritual self, to retreat gives us the opportunity to step back, check in with our emotional state, and rebalance to find the clarity to move forward.
The thing about meditation is that no matter how many times you do it, there's something else to uncover. So this week Cathy shares why this week's focus on meditation is worth returning to. If there's ever been a time to uncover the quieter, still parts of ourselves, it might be right now.
This week, Cathy explores a technique for calm that has been described as “an apparently pointless process” and “pivotal to creative recovery,” - check it out!
This week, guest writer @amycurrens shares how she swapped her wine key for a campground pass over the Summer.
This past weekend, Cathy graduated (virtually) from the Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certificate Program, a two-year program facilitated by Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield. It was all the things, especially inspiration about sharing mindfulness in the world as we know it today. What happens now?
This week, as we’ve checked in with friends and colleagues around the country, we’ve noticed how often they mention a home yoga practice as a way to cope. Or at least as a way to manage the tension of being cooped up indoors.
“No mud. No lotus.” It’s a quote that’s usually attributed to Buddhist teacher Thich Nhat Hanh, but any one of us can recognize the formulation: first the challenge, then the reward. It’s safe to say, I think, that we’re all fairly mud-slicked right now.
“How would the wisest part of you respond?”. This is the question that Cathy Huyghe considers in this week’s post, sharing insights about how the times that pausing to ask that question quietly has proved especially helpful.
This week my mental health got hit by a truck. Like “holy s**t, I’m not sure where to start to get outta this one,” kinda hit… But through the angst and anxiety, there have been five bright stars I have looked to help keep me on track, and I hope they can help you, no matter where in the world this finds you.
Many insights have come from the first two weeks of the ABG on the Cushion and this week Cathy shares her top 4 lessons.
In these most uncertain of times, we are doing a few things to keep people connected and community strong, including sharing stories from our initial 30 days of practice. Check it out:
With all that is going on in the world, and our collective anxiety heightened, we thought it timely to launch ABG On The Cushion four-week meditation program led by Cathy. Curious? Click through to learn more.
This week I set out to notice the kindnesses that we show each other, here within the wine world. There is, it turns out, no shortage of them. That may be because the wine industry is a small and inter-connected place where, as Beck points out, six degrees of separation can become two pretty quickly. Kindnesses we show each other are one way to make that closeness more comfortable.
Wine has taken a bit of a beating lately. Between new year’s resolutions, media attention to Dry (or damp) January, the uncertainty of impending tariffs, or consumers indicating they plan to drink less alcohol, the latest industry reports do not paint the brightest of pictures for wine.
As we kick off 2020, Cathy shares her five favorite lessons learned from teachers over the decades to help keep you grounded in what can be a hectic start to the year.
My friend can’t shake a sense that she isn’t doing enough at work. She’s anxious that her skills at work are underutilized. And she’s nagged by a persistent, restless instinct that’s telling her that there’s more out there. This sounds a little like FOMO, fear of missing out. But I think it’s actually something more than that, something that’s both more interesting and more nuanced…