Andy Puddicombe

“No matter how cloudy it appears some days, there is always blue sky on the other side.”

Setting off to become a monk at the age of 22, Andy's meditation training took him all over the world, culminating with full ordination at a Tibetan Monastery in the Himalayas. Ten years later, he returned to the UK with the singular wish to demystify meditation, to make it accessible, relevant, and beneficial to as many people as possible.

He set up Headspace in 2009 with a mission to get as many people in the world as possible to learn meditation. He hopes to help them take just 10 minutes out of their day to practice a simple and easy-to-learn techniques and experience the scientifically proven benefits of meditation.