Andrew Holecek
Author on meditation, lucid dreaming, dark retreat, non-dualism,
and preparing to die from a buddhist perspective.
The Preparing to Die Program
Prepare for the most important journey of your life.
This unique program provides an accessible and integrated exploration of a rich and complete cycle of teachings and practices to help us get ready for the end of life. Registration for the current cohort is closed and sessions are underway. Join the waiting list if you’d like to be notified when registration opens for the next cohort.
Dark Illumination
An Ancient Practice to Awaken Your Deepest Potential
Discover why leaders in consciousness, science, and healing are turning to extended darkness as nature’s most powerful medicine.
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Guest Interviews are now on Edge of Mind
Andrew interviews luminaries in the fields of science, philosophy, spirituality, and psychology, bringing you the latest from leading edge thinkers around the world. This interview series has proven to be so well received that it now has its own home: Edge of Mind Podcast.
Upcoming Events
Experience Andrew’s teaching in person. Whether its a weekend or week-long retreat, Andrew brings his unique perspective and personality to his Dream Yoga or Death & Dying sessions. His teachings range from introductory to a high level, in-depth advanced approach.
Unique Multi-Day Retreats
Meditation
While meditation is used in many religious and spiritual traditions, it is not itself religious or spiritual. It’s a technique, dare we say a “technology,” for taming the mind. Anybody with a mind can practice meditation. – Andrew Holecek
Benefits of Dark Retreat
Benefits of Dark Retreat: Sleep Most people don’t go into dark retreat to catch up on sleep, but relieving sleep deficits is a...
Why Do a Dark Retreat?
Why do a dark retreat? At first glance, dark retreat may seem to be an esoteric practice, beyond the reach of the common person....
Thoughts on Dark Retreat
Dark retreat is rapidly emerging onto the self-improvement and spiritual scene. NBA icons Dwight Howard and Rudy Gobert, along...
Lucid Dreaming
Lucid dreaming and dream yoga is: first you learn how to remember your dreams; then you learn how to wake up in them; then you train your mind in the dream; then you learn how to stay awake in dreamless sleep.
Lucid Dreaming vs. Dream Yoga: What’s the Difference?
When articles about lucid dreaming are appearing in such a diverse mixture of periodicals from The Atlantic, Scientific...
Illusory Form Practice: What Do You Really Want?
One of the things that distinguishes dream yoga from lucid dreaming is the daytime practice of Illusory Form. They are...
How to Practice Lucid Dreaming
How to Practice Lucid Dreaming Article by Andrew Holecek in Lion's Roar Magazine You know that magical moment when you wake up...
Preparing for a Good Death
Death is only the end if you think the story is about you.
A Wake Up Call (featured in Lion’s Roar)
Full article is published in Lion's Roar. Andrew Holecek on bardo, one of the Six Dharmas of Naropa’s two practices for helping...
Is Death Just a Dream? Exploring the Mystery with Bardo Yoga
“Bardo” is finding its way into the modern world, from the experimental novel Lincoln in the Bardos, to the movie Bardo, to the...
Pure Land Buddhism
In a conversation with the Venerable Thrangu Rinpoche, I had the opportunity to discuss death and dying. In the Tibetan...
Books
