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.
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Shifting from Perfection to Presence: Using Wisdom To Guide A Meditation Session
This week, beck shares how a quiet a-ha moment in got her to understand the subtle nuance between wisdom and knowledge.
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.
The Breath Refresh That Helps Clear Your Mind
Feeling a little more foggy mirror than clear windshield? This week, the ABG community teachers offer up some options on breath techniques that may help clear things up:
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.
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.
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?
Silence as a Way to “Do Not Disturb”
Getting quiet is not easy in our world of sensory overload, and it seems harder and harder to find that safe space to get quiet and listen. This week Beck considers how taking a high-desert break in nature can help recalibrate with "a “do not disturb” sign.
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.
How to Use This Powerful Tool for Resilience, Courage and Clarity
Last week, to open the online workshop we led for Dream Big Darling’s Ready.Set.GROW! series, Rachel Collier spoke about the benefits and the medical research behind creative writing.
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.
What Part of Shelter In Place Do You Hope Continues On?
What part of “Shelter in Place” do you hope continues when the current global situation is over? Cathy contemplates self-care in this week’s post
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.
Why I Just Crossed Continents in Order to Shelter in Place
As COVID-19 continues to spread, Beck shares her story on finding gratitude amid the chaos of an unexpected return to her home in Australia.
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: