The number 108, you may already know, is significant symbolically in many traditions. In yoga, for example, 108 sun salutations are often practiced to honor change. There are 108 traditional Indian dance forms, and there are believed to be 108 different types of meditation…
In this personal account, one ABG community member shares their perspective on the benefits fo The Sinclair Method to help treat alcohol use disorder in the hopes it can help others.
Lately it seems a lack of sleep seems to be an issue for many in our community, with the ongoing anxiety and stress from longer work hours, demands on home life and the constant shifting needs. Here are six more unusual tools that I have found to help myself get to, and stay, asleep.
This week's guest contributor and ABG team member, Alicia Laury, shares her journey into Ayurveda and practical tips on incorporating self-healing into your daily life. In a follow up post, she will also offer tenets from Ayurveda's ancient health system.
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?
Earlier this week, the Global Wellness Institute released their annual trend report with nine predictions impacting the global wellness industry in the year to come. Here are the top five trends I see as being gamechangers, and topics we have our ABG eye on as we head into 2021.
In her first post fo 2021, this week Cathy considers some of her new habits that fall outside the category of alcohol consumption while still inside the realm of wellness, mindfulness and health.
It’s time for the new year and for many wine lovers, this can include reducing alcohol as a healthy way to reset for the year ahead. Not much of a Dry January believer myself, January is when I reevaluate my relationship with wine and drinking, and how it plays into my career and personal time.
To celebrate the holidays, we created a simple drink recipe that we hope you can fid the time to prepare and savor.
With only 13 days until we can officially turn the page on 2020, you all deserve an enormous hug for getting through one hell of a year. So with many of our friends and family at their wits end, we turn to our ABG community to see what they are looking for to find some reprieve and sanity during the closing days that is to survive the sh*t show of 2020.
Here are ways they are planning to 'hack' the holidays:
Women are more impacted by the pandemic, yet more women are likely to start a business. This week Cathy tackles the reasons why staring something new in uncertain times.
Just in time for the Holiday season, we share the inaugural ABG merchandise shop! Check out a few ways to support the ABG cause this shopping season
Over the past months, I’ve noticed that what may have once been simple tasks seem more difficult, and with societal pressures to stay "busy," many of us continue to hold ourselves accountable to levels of activity that are no longer attainable. And what can feel unattainable. So this week the request is simple…
I owe an apology to the non-drinkers who entered my tasting room - I probably left you feeling out in the cold. I just didn’t know any better and I didn’t “see” you.
"Work Like You Don't Have a Child. Parent Like You Don't Have a Job." Welcome to parenting, the 2020 version. It’s time to talk about it. That is exactly what we’ll do on Monday’s webinar, and we hope very much you’ll join us. Whether or not you yourself are a parent, you undoubtedly know someone who is. Monday’s webinar is for you too, to gain some insights of this aspect of the pandemic reality for friends and colleagues.
This week we’ve listened, read, shared and confided our experiences. We’re holding space to recognize the deep trauma, pain and suffering inflicted on our friends and colleagues, many of whom were victims at the hands of a few. Here we consider ways to keep safely in community with trusted friends and colleagues.
This week we’d like to share some information about two new developments at ABG, that arise directly from your feedback to the Community check-in survey a few months ago. Beck and I are excited about both of these things, mainly because they address topics and interests that you all have expressed.
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.
It’s been a week of emotional extremes for the ABG community as we mourn the loss of one of the wine industry’s true creatives, while being grateful for the public recognition of the work and conversations that this forum continues to open up.
