A Unique Week-long Event (In-Person or Online) This program will examine the karmic bardo of becoming, which constitutes the majority of our after-death experience. It’s a fluid and volatile time, when the winds of habit blow us involuntarily into our next birth. With preparation, it transforms into the bardo of opportunity, where we can become anything we want […]
About the Retreat White Heron Sangha welcomes you to a two-day hybrid, non-residential retreat with Andrew Holecek, Buddhist meditation teacher, author, and authority on lucid dreaming, dream yoga, and death and dying. This retreat will be online and at our White Heron Sangha Meditation Center in Avila Village. Fully vaccinated people are welcome to attend […]
A Virtual Event Over Four Wednesdays Aug 18, Sept 1, 8, 15 About the Course Written in self-secret “twilight language,” The Tibetan Book of the Dead is unfathomable to most people. This course will show you how to penetrate the text, and bring it fully to life – and death. We will focus on the […]
Leave the pressures of life behind and let the natural beauty of the Sedona desert settle your mind and open your heart. Soak up the sun, savor the organic food, and meet like-minded people while you learn about the refined aspects of mindfulness, and the meditations that transcend it. A Unique Week-long Event This inaugural […]
A 6-Day Virtual Retreat Over Two Weekends Follow your desire to learn more about these subtle and profound practices through this on-line program. Through this in-depth exploration of the teachings on dream yoga from the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, attendees will learn everything they need to enter the unexplored realms of the night. Through lecture, Q […]
A 7-day Baja Beachfront Retreat - At Prana Del Mar Mexico Leave the stresses and noise of life behind, and let the natural beauty of a beachfront retreat & wellness center settle your mind and open your heart. At this week-long retreat, soak up the sun, savor the natural foods, and meet like-minded people while […]
Andrew is pleased to be a part of this extensive online conference and practice retreat, The Art of Dying to Live. This is produced by THUS/Menla a great organization that Andrew has had the pleasure of presenting with in the past. Andrew and this lineup of wonderful, impressive speakers will ensure a remarkable event. This […]
w/Andrew Holecek - Online - Tuesday March 8, 2022 | 7:00 - 9:00 pm ET, 5:00 - 7:00 pm MT Buddhist thanatology, as embodied in Bardo Yoga, is one of the great gifts to humanity. Bardo (“gap, transitional process”) yoga shows us how to practice death, and “Die before you die.” In the Buddhist view, […]
A Journey into the Bardos of Life and Beyond - Virtual Event - These two weekends explore the energies of this bardo, showing how they also manifest in each thought and emotion.
Learn what it takes to be reborn in a Pure Land, and how, in this life, you can merge landscape with mindscape, discovering the nonduality of inner and outer.
We are back to a live in-person event! This unique retreat is an exploration of the nature of mind from the nondual traditions of Tibetan Buddhism and Hindu Saiva Tantra. While based on these noble paths, the program is trans-religious, pointing out timeless truths that transcend any tradition. It is based on the radical proclamation […]
Presented by Andrew at the Drala Mountain Center August 24–31, 2022 From a spiritual perspective, death is the crowning moment of life. The karma that brought us into this life is exhausted, and the bad habits that will propel us into our next one have not yet formed. This gap (bardo) provides a golden opportunity […]