Wake up to the Wisdom of Death – Free Webinar with Andrew Holocek
Death is the ending many of us find hardest to contemplate. Yet looking away from mortality does not necessarily loosen its grip, and fear can continue shaping how we meet aging, change, uncertainty, and loss.
Andrew Holecek offers another approach: become more familiar with impermanence before illness, age, or loss forces the question. Drawing on Buddhist wisdom, he invites you to turn toward mortality with openness and curiosity and consider what death can teach you about living.
You’ll explore two fundamental questions Andrew connects with the fear of death: What is real, and who are we? He’ll also guide a contemplative practice using the breath to explore contraction, letting go, and openness, followed by a live Q&A.
Rather than treating preparation for death as something relevant only to our final moments, this webinar explores how awareness of mortality can illuminate the way we relate to fear, identity, uncertainty, and the time we have now.
Why Attend “Wake Up to the Wisdom of Death”
Impermanence is unavoidable, but much of daily life can be organized around trying not to think about it. Avoiding death does not necessarily free us from fear, and Andrew explores how that fear can quietly influence our relationship with aging, change, identity, and uncertainty.
The deeper questions are not only about what happens at the end of life. Andrew connects fear of death with questions about what is real and who we are, opening a contemplative inquiry into the assumptions that give us a sense of security.
Andrew brings more than thirty years of experience as a spiritual teacher and scholar-practitioner in Tibetan Buddhism and other nondual wisdom traditions, with a particular focus on meditation, dream yoga, and preparing for death. His approach brings philosophical inquiry together with practical contemplation, making mortality something to examine directly rather than simply avoid.
What You’ll Learn
We’ll begin by looking at why avoiding death can leave fear intact or even intensify it, so you can consider mortality from a different starting point. You’ll explore how becoming more familiar with death may change the way you relate to an experience that is often pushed out of awareness.
From there, you’ll examine what fear of death can reveal about identity and the nature of reality, which means the inquiry moves beyond mortality as a distant future event. Andrew will introduce the questions What is real? and Who are we? as a way of looking more deeply at what may sit beneath that fear.
Along the way, Andrew will guide a contemplative practice using the breath to explore contraction, letting go, and openness, and then he’ll take questions from participants. The practice brings the teaching into direct experience, so the session connects reflection on impermanence with how you meet change and uncertainty now.
- Why avoiding death does not necessarily free us from fear and may intensify it
- How becoming more familiar with death can begin to change your relationship with mortality
- What fear of death may reveal about assumptions concerning identity
- Why questions about the nature of reality are connected with Andrew’s approach to death
- How death can be approached as more than an ending
- Ways contemplating mortality can clarify what matters while you are alive
- How awareness of impermanence can inform your relationship with uncertainty and loss
- A guided breath practice exploring contraction, letting go, and openness
- How preparing for death can become part of a deeper inquiry into the way you live now
Who This Is For
This webinar may be especially meaningful if thoughts of death bring fear or avoidance, if aging and change have made impermanence feel more immediate, or if you want a more conscious way to relate to mortality before circumstances force the subject into view. It is also relevant if you are interested in what death can reveal about identity, reality, and the way you use the time you have.
Andrew will offer an introductory teaching and guided practice, making the session accessible to people who are new to these contemplative themes as well as those already interested in Buddhist wisdom, meditation, nondual traditions, or practices for preparing for death.
- People who tend to avoid thinking about death or feel unsettled by mortality
- Those navigating questions about aging, change, uncertainty, or loss
- Anyone curious about Buddhist approaches to death and impermanence
- Meditators and contemplative practitioners interested in deepening their relationship with mortality
- People drawn to questions about identity, reality, and the nature of self
- Those who want to consider how awareness of death can clarify what matters in life now
About Andrew Holecek
Andrew Holecek is an author, spiritual teacher, and scholar-practitioner in Tibetan Buddhism and other nondual wisdom traditions. For more than thirty years, he has helped people transform life’s challenges into opportunities for greater awareness and awakening, with a particular focus on meditation, dream yoga, and preparing for death.
He completed a traditional three-year Tibetan Buddhist meditation retreat, giving his work a foundation in sustained contemplative practice as well as study. His teaching frequently brings profound spiritual questions into forms that are accessible and practical.
Andrew is the author of numerous books, including Preparing to Die: Practical Advice and Spiritual Wisdom from the Tibetan Buddhist Tradition, Dream Yoga, and Reverse Meditation. He also offers seminars and workshops internationally.
In this webinar, Andrew draws directly on his long-standing work with meditation and preparing for death. The session also offers an introduction to insights and practices at the heart of his in-depth online course Waking Up to Death.
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- Sep 17 2026
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- 10:00 am - 11:00 am
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