Author talk with Andrea van de Loo, at Barnes & Noble, Boulder

Name: Author talk with Andrea van de Loo, at Barnes & Noble, Boulder
Start: 2025-09-14T11:00:00-06:00
Location: Barnes & Noble, Boulder

Schedule

Sun, 14 Sep, 2025 at 11:00 am

UTC-06:00

Location

Barnes & Noble, Boulder | Boulder, CO

Sunday morning in Boulder: the perfect time and place for Andrea van de Loo to close her Colorado tour with reflections on resilience, healing, and hope. After a week of sharing her story across the Front Range, she returns to Boulder—where her journey began—to offer final thoughts on the memoir that has moved so many.
The Pressing Stones ends where all great spiritual narratives must: not with answers, but with presence. With the embodied wisdom of someone who has walked through darkness and emerged, not unscathed, but transformed.

📖 Books available for purchase and signing.
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About the Book

Born during WWII in the Netherlands, Andrea van de Loo experienced a traumatic childhood, with her father’s past as a member of the Nazi SS casting a long shadow over her life. Despite these challenges, she embarked on an inspirational journey toward healing and self-discovery. Her search for self took her across the globe, where she found solace, purpose, and community.
Encompassing eighty years of the author’s life, The Pressing Stones guides readers through a deeply intimate and emotional journey, exploring family, relationships, sexuality, spirituality, motherhood, psychedelic therapy, addiction recovery, and the generational impacts of war. It also presents a personal portrait of life in Auroville, the “City of Dawn,” dedicated to the spiritual visions of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother.
This poignant portrayal of one woman’s courage and determination to follow her inner guidance, and overcome her childhood trauma, is a testament to consciousness and the human spirit, inspiring readers to find their own paths toward healing and fulfillment.

About the Author

Andrea van de Loo was born in the Netherlands in 1942 during WWII. She studied psychology at the University of Amsterdam before hitchhiking to India in 1971, where she met the Mother at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry. She lived in Auroville, an experimental city dedicated to human unity, until 1978, where her two daughters were born. Since 1979, Andrea has lived in Santa Cruz, CA, where she ran a healing practice until retiring in 2007. In retirement, she continues to learn from life and dedicate herself to family, friends, and sharing her memoir.