About the Da Vinci School

Everything is connected.
Geometry shows how.

The Da Vinci School was born from one question: what connects it all? The answer is the oldest language there is: shape, number and proportion. We learn it the way we all once learned as children, with our hands, through art, play and wonder.

Our story

From a search for the whole
to a school

01

From the lab to India

It began in a laboratory. Our founder, Dr. Heike Bielek, trained as a biotechnologist and molecular biologist, studying how cells build their inner scaffold. The deeper she looked, the more the world split into pieces, each with its own experts and its own language. The view of the whole was missing.

In 2014 she left science behind to look for it, and the road led to India and its living spiritual traditions. Everywhere the same images appeared: mandalas, yantras, symbols. Drawing them with a compass, she saw what they are made of: circles, triangles, hexagons, stars. The same patterns she knew from the microscope. The mandala was a map.

Dr. Heike Bielek sitting cross-legged in India next to a hand-drawn mandala
India, 2018
Marble floor in India inlaid with eight-pointed stars
Sacred architecture, India
Dr. Heike Bielek half hidden behind a disc painted with a triangle pattern
The pattern behind it all
02

The thread that connects

Geometry is the one language every field already speaks. Maths and physics, biology and chemistry, music and art, philosophy and religion describe the same shapes, each in its own words.

Put geometry in the centre and the disciplines stop being islands. They become one landscape you can walk across.

03

An old idea, opened up again

The ancient Greeks already studied number, music, the stars and philosophy as one. Leonardo da Vinci was painter, engineer, anatomist and geometer at once, and filled his notebooks with circles and proportions. Johannes Kepler tried to fit the planets into the Platonic solids. Our school carries Leonardo's name for that reason.

Today this knowledge is called sacred geometry, and most people meet it as an esoteric subject. We open it back up to every field, science included, building on new research by In2Infinity.

Leonardo da Vinci's red chalk self-portrait
Leonardo da Vinci, self-portrait
A page from Leonardo's Codex Atlanticus with Flower of Life patterns drawn in a circle
Flower of Life studies, Codex Atlanticus
Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man in a circle and square
Vitruvian Man, c. 1490
Kepler's model of the solar system: the Platonic solids nested inside spheres
Kepler, Mysterium Cosmographicum, 1596
04

Born from workshops

Most education still hands out answers subject by subject. What is missing is seeing how things connect, and the courage to ask why.

So the teaching began: small compass workshops, then festivals, retreats, schools and teacher trainings. People came from all walks of life, scientists and artists, yoga teachers and engineers, grandparents and children. Out of these circles the Da Vinci School was born.

Teacher-training graduates outdoors in Goa holding their drawings and a large mandala
First teacher training, Goa, 2019
Adults of different ages holding up the geometric drawings they made
Workshop, 2019
A young boy stacking paper Platonic solids into a tall tower
Any age
Timeline

The journey so far

  1. Dr. Be holding up a hand-painted mandala2014

    The search begins

    Leaving the lab and travelling the world. India, yoga, meditation and its temples.

  2. Colin Power teaching geometry at an outdoor table in Goa2015

    Geometry

    In Goa, meeting geometer Colin Power. Together they found In2Infinity to research the geometry of nature.

  3. Dr. Be holding up a hand-built straw polyhedron2016

    Models by hand

    The first hand-built models of the atom's electron orbitals, the start of Atomic Geometry.

  4. An early workshop group outdoors holding up their mandala drawings2017–2018

    First workshops

    Compass and mandala workshops in India for anyone curious.

  5. Participants drawing together at a table in Goa, 20192019

    First teacher training

    Workshops grow, and the first Sacred Geometry Teacher Training takes place in Goa.

  6. A joyful group in a garden holding up the mandalas they painted2020–2021

    Learning outdoors

    Workshops in treetops, jungle gardens and cafés in Goa, and a new teacher training.

  7. A cheering course group in Thailand holding up their drawings2022–2024

    Around the world

    Courses in Thailand, festival tents across Europe, a school project week on the Platonic solids, workshops in Mexico.

  8. The Geometric Universe, book coverHello Geometry, book cover2023 · 2024

    The books

    The Geometric Universe (2023), then Hello Geometry (2024), the beginner's way in.

  9. 2026

    Da Vinci School online

    The Hello Geometry journey, The Blueprint live course, monthly Dialogues and teacher training, open to the whole world.

How we learn

Play has no age limit

Give anyone a compass and a few shapes, and complexity opens up through play. When learning is fun and goes through the hands, it goes deep, and it goes fast, at 8 or at 80.

Adults sitting around a table drawing with compasses, coloured mandalas in front of them

Compass in hand

Every pattern is drawn, one circle at a time, from the centre out. You understand what you build yourself.

A group of workshop participants on a street holding up the mandalas they drew

Art as the tool

Colour, drawing and paper models turn ideas into something you see and hold. Learning becomes embodied.

Adults at a festival workshop drawing geometry beside paper polyhedra

Play first

Wonder before formulas. Playful learning lowers the guard and speeds up understanding.

A working drawing: a Vesica Piscis, a cube and an octahedron net, with the ratios written beside them by hand

Questions over answers

Nothing is true because it is given. We ask why, test it, and connect it.

Vision & mission

Why we exist

Our vision

A connected world

A world where people see how everything belongs together, and live, learn and build from that harmony.

Our mission

Geometry for everyone

To teach geometry as the common language of all disciplines: playful, hands-on, for every age and every background.

Connect

Science, art, philosophy and spirit as one landscape.

Embody

Learn through the hands and senses, not only the head.

Wonder

Keep asking. All perspectives are welcome.

Dr. Heike Bielek on a beach at sunset, eyes closed, holding a star-shaped polyhedron
The founder

Dr. Heike Bielek

Dr. Be · Scientist · Artist · Teacher

Molecular biologist, artist and teacher, author of Hello Geometry and The Geometric Universe.

Start here · the gentle way in

Hello Geometry

Why does a sunflower grow in perfect spirals? Why does one chord sound sweet and another sour? Why do cathedrals, mosques and temples share the same few shapes?

One hidden order runs through nature, art, history, science, your own mind and the sacred. Hello Geometry shows you where to find it, one playful world at a time.