Happy Hotel Guests
Tailored Yoga, Mindfulness and Wine Tasting sessions for Hotel guests. (Enquiries from Hotels welcome. Available in 2025).
Happy & Resilient Hospitality Teams
Wearing many hats, Keira has spent over 20 years working in Marketing and Commercial roles and 15 of those in leadership positions, as well as running her own Consultancy business. Over that time Keira has incorporated a mindfulness approach to her leadership style, and when building teams and driving growth, she’s adopted a compassionate, encouraging and uplifting environment for her employees. One sector in particular that she’s passionate about helping is hospitality. Previously Head of Marketing for a large Hotel Group, as well as Head of Growth for a Hospitality Tech company, she’s only too aware of the pressures that hospitality staff face - both in customer facing roles, and behind the scenes, supporting hospitality establishments. That’s why she’s created a unique course combining movement, mindfulness and wine tasting experiences for staff training, as well as offering these as guest packages for luxury hotels. Get in touch to discuss this tailored package.
(Multiple dates and times available upon request).
Being Wineful Residential Courses
These residential retreat courses are in the making with a prestigious and experienced bespoke events company. We are open to enquiries (please complete the form if you’re interested in curating your own residential event for your friends, family or colleagues).
Further details and dates for 2025 coming soon. (Dates will be confirmed - not accurately listed).
Design your own event
I work with the host to design your group a private wine tasting event. We choose in advance the styles of wine you would like to try, and we can for a little extra, cater some food pairing options. This event can be purely about the wine experience, or we can incorporate the mindfulness elements into the event. This is your event and style. Group sizes and relevant pricing 6-10 or 11-16.
(Multiple times and dates available upon request).
Yoga, mindfulness and wine tasting
Keira is a qualified Yoga Teacher, having originally qualified 10 years ago in Hatha and Ashtanga. Since becoming a Mindfulness and Meditation teacher, Keira’s classes have become about creating space in both the body and mind, by incorporating a balance of strength and relaxation to her flows. These classes will finish with a wine tasting session. There won’t be wine involved throughout the yoga practice, but at the end with learning mindfulness techniques alongside tasting wine. This unique approach retains the authenticity of the yoga practice, by keeping the wine tasting to the end of the class.
Wine Basics, Tastings and Wine Lists
This course is for anyone who’s stared at a long wine list, got filled with anxiety and panic, not known where to start when choosing wine for a dinner party or in a restaurant. I’ll help you understand some of the basics to equip you in these situations, from understanding the grapes to the regions, how to read wine labels, learning and understanding what your preferences are, some basic food pairing suggestions. This course will give you the skills and the confidence to be able to choose wine in company with ease, and enjoy both the experience and the wine you’ve chosen to suit your budget.
As a part of the course, you’ll get to try 5 different wines. Quality will be high with average retail value £20/ bottle. Venue TBC.
Taking enquiries to see if this course will be popular before Christmas (likely costs £35 per head, max group 10 people). This could be a great corporate Christmas idea if you’ve not yet booked your event?
Being Wineful Taster
Join me and fellow guests to learn tools and techniques to combat stress and tension in daily life through mindfulness, with a unique focus on wine tasting as our primary mindful activity. This is a fun and welcoming space where everyone is invited—an open mind is the only requirement please.
To ensure a relaxed and intimate experience, the event will be limited to around 10 people.
Being Wineful is excited to present a special collaboration event with Good Brothers, hosted in their cosy New Town wine cellar bar, in the private tasting room downstairs. Good Brothers will provide all the wines for the evening, starting with a welcome glass and some snacks to enjoy.
During the session, we’ll explore an additional three high-quality wines, carefully selected for their aroma and flavour profiles to enhance our mindfulness practice. Each wine has been chosen to reflect or influence mood, whether it’s a bright, fruity and uplifting choice or a more indulgent, contemplative one. Wine can be deeply moving, a sensory pleasure that pairs beautifully with mindfulness. Together, we’ll explore the intangible aspects of wine tasting and mindfulness, embodying the Being Wineful approach.
This is a taster session for a 6 week mindfulness course starting in January 2025, which will deepen these mindful wine-tasting principles—the essence of Being Wineful. Attendees of this session will receive a special discount on the six-week course in January, should they wish to continue.
And as a thank you, participants will also enjoy a special discount on wines with Good Brothers.
(The formal part of the evening will last around 90 minutes, with additional time at the start and end to chat and enjoy the wine and food on offer).
When: Monday 2nd December, 6-8 pm
Where: Good Brothers, New Town, Dundas Street meets Northumberland Street
Sparkling and fortified wines
NOW SOLD OUT (This popular event sold out within 2 days).
Tis the season to enjoy more sparkling and fortified wines! In the run up to Christmas, we often consider sparkling wines as a celebratory drink, or gifting option, as well as fortified wines such as sherry and port with associations of Christmas.
Join us for an evening of Sparkling and Fortified Wines (with a couple of still wines thrown in for good measure!), and learn about some of the differences amongst the styles, when to drink them, and how to pair them. We’ll be pairing each wine (6 in total) with various cheeses, matching the body and style of wine. This wine tasting event promises to be fun, joyful and light hearted. (This is a partnership collaboration event with Milne& Pickles, Peebles).
For further information on this event - please complete the form below. This event is in conjunction with Milne& Pickles.
Chattin' Aboot Wine Community Event
Come and join our Wine Community - Chattin’ Aboot Wine for a social gathering. It’s free to come along. Only purchases will be the wine you decide to drink. ;-)
Love Chattin’ aboot wine?
Born out of a desire to connect people with a love for wine. This friendly wine community invites anyone who’d like to join them at wine tasting events, or for some banter in a local wine bar (mainly meeting up in Edinburgh, Scotland). We do from time to time meet up with people further a field online, for some online tasting sessions.