Andrew Keaveney is an Art of Living teacher and Director of Digital Media at the Art of Living Retreat Center in Boone, North Carolina. He graduated with honors from Stanford University with a major in film and Buddhist studies before moving to the Art of Living International Center in Bangalore, India, where he spent four years involved in service projects, film making, deepening his understanding of meditation and yoga, studying Sanskrit and learning and performing Vedic pujas.

Andrew has studied Sanskrit in a variety of forms. Over a period of six years, he first studied Vedic Sanskrit with pundits from Vega Agama Mahapathashala, then studied classical and spoken Sanskrit with Samskrita Bharati in India and the US. Andrew’s intensive study of Sanskrit allows him to bring a deep authenticity to his yoga teaching, due to the fact that the yogic tradition contains a great storehouse of knowledge, and the language of this wisdom is Sanskrit. Sanskrit texts contain detailed philosophy and guides to consciousness, self-inquiry, and methods for accessing subtler levels of the mind. Andrew finds that an understanding of Sanskrit helps us to understand this great tradition on its own terms and through its own lens. Besides being a beautiful language of consciousness, the practice of Sanskrit is also a path to uplift one’s own mind and raise one’s energy level. Studying Sanskrit as part of yoga training helps us honor this vast tradition, understand it a little more, and and deepen our practice.  

Andrew has been meditating for 17 years and practicing yoga for 15, providing him with an understanding of the student’s perspective. He completed a 200-hour Yoga Alliance teaching certification and has been teaching yoga for 4 years. Along with yoga, Andrew has been an Art of Living teacher for 9 years and teaches courses such as the Happiness Program and Sahaj Samadhi meditation from Boone, NC and around the United States. In addition to teaching, he also has an interest in film, creative writing and landscape painting.