He, alongside Richard Pierson,[1] is the co-founder of Headspace, a digital health company that provides guided meditation training and mindfulness for its users.

He attended Wellsway Comprehensive School in Keynsham, studied Sports Science at De Montfort University, and obtained a Foundation Degree in Circus Arts.

[5] Having completed a one-year cloistered retreat in Scotland, he returned to Russia, where he taught meditation in Moscow for four years before reaching the end of his monastic commitment.

[6] Puddicombe set up a private meditation practice in 2006,[7] and spent the next four years working as a mindfulness consultant, while adapting the language and techniques he had previously learned.

[28] In August 2014, Puddicombe was one of 200 public figures who were signatories to a letter to The Guardian opposing Scottish independence in the run-up to September's referendum on that issue.