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Andy Puddicombe

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Andy Puddicombe (born 23 September 1972) is a British author, public speaker, and meditation and mindfulness teacher. He, alongside Richard Pierson, is the co-founder of Headspace, a digital health company that provides its users with guided meditation training and mindfulness. Puddicombe is a former Buddhist monk with a degree in Circus Arts. Puddicombe was born in London but grew up in Bristol, UK. 

He attended Wellsway Comprehensive School in Keynsham and studied Sports Science at De Montfort University. He also achieved a Foundation Degree in Circus Arts. In 1994, Puddicombe gave up his studies in sports science and traveled to Asia to train as a Buddhist monk. He has attributed this in part to an effort to cope with the trauma of bereavement.

His meditation training took him to India, Nepal, Myanmar, Thailand, Australia, and Russia, culminating in full ordination at a Tibetan monastery in India, in the Himalayas. Having completed a one-year cloistered retreat in Scotland, he returned to Russia, where he taught meditation in Moscow for four years before reaching the end of his monastic commitment.

In 2004 Puddicombe returned to the UK, where he studied Circus Arts in London while simultaneously building his own private meditation practice in the city, wanting to make "meditation and mindfulness accessible, relevant and beneficial to as many people as possible."

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