ANDREW HOLECEK is an author, spiritual teacher, and humanitarian. He has been a practitioner of Vajrayana Buddhism for more than thirty years and has completed the traditional three-year retreat. Andrew has a strong scientific background, including a degree in biology, years in the study of physics, and a doctorate in dental surgery. This has instilled in him a healthy skeptical nature, which inspired him to go directly to the source to obtain his education and meditative training in Buddhism. He has studied extensively in Nepal, India, and even Tibet — the geographic wellspring of Buddhism — and has received teachings from many of the greatest living masters.
Andrew is a concert-level pianist with a degree in classical music and a lifelong fervor for the arts. He is also a dedicated athlete who integrates physical health with his spiritual and intellectual endeavors. His passion for full-spectrum living includes his desire to understand consciousness through waking, dreaming, sleeping, and dying, and his love of exercising body, mind, heart, and spirit.
In 1990, Andrew co-founded Global Dental Relief, which provides health care to impoverished children in Nepal, India, Cambodia, Vietnam, Kenya, and Guatemala.
Between his writing regimen, meditation retreats, and international teaching schedule, Andrew finds time to walk his dog and enjoy the pleasures of life along the foothills of Colorado. For more information see andrewholecek.com.