About the Founder: Andrew Andraski
Beyond the Work
I am most at home in the mountains. Whether climbing, skiing, mountaineering, or guiding wilderness therapy and outdoor education groups, I've spent years learning what it feels like to be a small body moving carefully across very large terrain. Travel and adventure are a steady undercurrent of my life.
These pursuits are not separate from the work I do. Adventure and the unknown teach the same lessons that mindfulness, meditation, and inner work do: pay attention to the obvious and the subtle, take the next step with awareness, trust the practice, and respect what is bigger than you. The mountains and the inner life have similar gravity.
Some of the voices and traditions that have most shaped me: Buddhist philosophy, my personal suffering (injury, illness, depression), Carl Jung, Dean Potter, Carlos Castaneda, Maynard James Keenan of TOOL, Todd Sheaffer of Railroad Earth, and the mountains themselves.
Motivation
A single intention runs through every part of my work: to improve the human and environmental condition. The intention is held as one continuous practice rather than two separate aims.
Professional Background
My professional path began in mechanical engineering, where I hold a bachelor's and master's degree, both with a focus on sustainable energy practices. That foundation grounded three years of work as a sustainability consultant and engineer, supporting climate action and conservation.
Alongside the technical work, I spent four combined years in wilderness therapy and outdoor education guiding people into the kinds of natural settings that often do more for the psyche than rooms ever will. The intersection of inner work and the outdoor world is where my interest deepened.
Meditation has been a daily practice for more than eleven years. For seven of those, I have been engaged in personal depth analytical work; the long, careful inner work that depth psychology has refined over a century. I am Level 1 and Level 2 certified in Universal White Time energy healing.
In August 2026, I begin a master's program in Mindfulness-Based Transpersonal Counseling at Naropa University, leading toward licensure as a Licensed Professional Counselor. The training will deepen and extend the work this practice already does.