Fresh from a workshop with writer, Elizabeth Gilbert, Cathy shares her profound insights on creativity and purpose. In times of upheaval, the importance of breath, recalibration and making the right steps.
All in Meditation
10 Days of Silence. 5 Unexpected Takeaways for You
Fresh from a ten-day Vipassana meditation retreat, Cathy shares five unexpected lessons about mindfulness, minimalism, and maintaining serenity, offering practical tips to bring these insights into daily life.
A Technique for Exercising Your Psychological Strength
Working on your “strength training” of a different kind, this week, Cathy shares her secret to separating fact from fiction and fostering resilience through the “reality check” body scan.
In Favor of the New: Beginner’s Mind, Again
Cathy gets curious in meditation from the perspective of a newbie meditator to discover new ways of doing things, unearthing some gorgeous gifts along the way.
Putting Sanity Back into Your Wine Studies - A Guided Meditation Series
Thanks to the generosity of community, here a re five meditations to help soothe an anxious wine study mind.
The Thing That Keeps You Sane
Feeling overwhelmed? This week, Cathy offers a simple way to keep your mind from being scrambled.
Welcome To The Present Tense
Returning from a multi-day silent meditation retreat, Cathy offers some words of wisdom on the value of presence in every day life.
What An Old Watch Has Taught Me About Meditation
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.
Why We Retreat - Stepping Back to Move Forward
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.
2 Big and Completely Unexpected Upsides to Meditation
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.
A Too-Good-to-Be-True Tool to Navigate the Chaos
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!
From Wine Director to Campground Manager – Varying Degrees of Guilt and Joy
This week, guest writer @amycurrens shares how she swapped her wine key for a campground pass over the Summer.
So I'm Officially a Mindfulness Teacher. Now What?
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?
How to Start a Home Yoga Practice (When All We’re Doing is Staying Home)
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.
Edging from Mud to Lotus: Revised to Bloom
“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.
What the Wisest Part of You Knows
“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.
Five Bright Stars For These Dark Times
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.
Behind the Scenes, On the Cushion: 4 Surprising Takeaways from ABG’s First Meditation Series
Many insights have come from the first two weeks of the ABG on the Cushion and this week Cathy shares her top 4 lessons.
Stepping Up and other ABG Updates
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:
Launching ABG on the Cushion: A Meditation for Busy (and Anxious) Wine Professionals
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.