I Heart Meditation

Join Susanna Bair in a longer meditation that explores the subtle realms within.  Tuning into the field around the physical body, you might observe the boundaries of the body merge with the vastness of the universe as you become more away of the breath and your heart.  Tune into the unconditional shower of light and love available to you at all times.  This is an intermediate level meditation presented in August of 2016 in Phoenix, Arizona. If this topic interests you, a retreat will be given in November of 2016 in Sedona, Arizona.  CLICK HERE to find out more.

Susanna and Puran Bair discuss from their view and their experiences in teaching meditation what one can reasonably expect from short, medium, and long-term practice of Heart Rhythm Meditation.  The benefits start at the level of revitalizing the bio-rhythms and expand into almost every facet of life when practiced in the long-term. This recording is also available as a video-collage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFzKVMQXlpg music from bensound.com.

Building loving relationships, especially romantic relationships, is a progressive process analogous to the three stages of human development (Mind, Heart, and Spirit). Relationships pull us from our own view of how the world works and enable, maybe even necessitate, a shift in our perspective to accommodate the perspective of our partner. This process usually is painful and the mind resists it, but the process catalyzes growth for both participants in the relationship and eventually leads to intimacy. As Puran Bair discusses in this presentation from March of 2016, relationships are central to becoming fully human.

Puran Bair gives a short meditation inviting you to expand your sense of self by tuning into the inner emotional qualities of the heart. 

In the search for a partner or a relationship, one recognizes the qualities of another by understanding that attraction comes from the shared qualities of two hearts.  The mind sees differences, but the heart sees the radiance of the other because it too radiates.  Puran Bair leads a meditation which guides us between the interplay of the mind and heart in intimate relationship.

IAM Heart co-founder Susanna Bair leads this guided meditation to help you apply meditation to your life. It is possible to improve your life in three primary areas: Health, Relationships, and Accomplishments.  In what area is the most pressing need of your life right now? Wherever your pressing need lies, there too you will find your growing edge.  Susanna shows us how we can connect with the wave-like ebb and flow of our breath to allow inspiration to bubble-up to the surface.

Reaching the third stage on the path of the heart - the stage of Spirit - means a surrender into the majesty of one's being.  The individual reaches the state where one realizes the unity of all things with themselves.  In relationship, this state is the recognition of the eternal beloved expressed in the individual they share life with.  The ideal of who one could be becomes expressed fully and the universe and the individual harmonize in speech, thought, and action.  The individual who reaches Illumination finds within themselves the capacity to decode the message which constantly comes from within (from the heart), and feels emboldened to act on those messages with a certainty of their necessity for the improvement of the whole.  Upon reaching this stage, the life of service begins.  A through "Map to Illumination" can be found in the book Follow Your Heart by Puran and Susanna Bair.

After the first three steps on the path of the heart [Stage 1 - The Mind], a person begins to become restless after a period.  Harmony does not satisfy a deeper longing for greatness and so from the dissatisfaction emerges a new ideal and a new vision of who or what one can become.  This process begins Stage 2 - The Heart and the journey continues until expertise develops.  Things people can accomplish while in this expertise step become most remarkable, and the intentional focus and concentration one has required to perform a certain goal become as second nature; the heart leads the way! In one's career or in one's relationship, expertise can feel like one has reached the zenith and it certainly can be appealing to remain on this step because control, creativity, power, and intelligence are coordinated; one becomes the wielder of their own destiny.  When one dares to peer from the peak of personal accomplishment into the abyss of personal abandonment, one finds there is no bottom.  Some might call this "the

All are travelers, and the destination is the same for everyone: Illumination.  The goal of human development is to manifest in one's body, mind, and behavior the pure qualities of Love, Harmony, and Beauty; to explore the potentials within one's being; to accomplish the purpose for which one was created.  The map is universal, though it has been charted by the wise in all traditions in all ages. Time is limited in this world. Because of that limitation, some people are reluctant to commit to things, others commit to things easily, but fall away from their commitments easily also. Commitment is the beginning to a heart driven movement toward completion of goals, wholesome relationships, meaningful careers, and even spiritual realization.  Before Harmony is reached in any of these places, one experiences testing.  These three steps comprise the first stage on the path of the heart.

Puran Bair speaks gives a mystical interpretation of the symbols presented in the Christmas Story.

Susanna Bair guides you in a deep meditation of beauty, surrender, and majesty.  This meditation is will touch your heart.

Are you having difficulty sleeping?  This talk may put you one step nearer your recovery of deep and heartful rest.  Puran Bair, co-founder of IAM Heart, discusses the many factors that influence irregular sleep and provides a powerful collection of tools and practices to recalibrate your bio-rhythms, calm your nerves, and ultimately energize your heart.  The subject of sleeping has never been so enlivening! This recording was given at the Osteopathic Medical Foundation on "March 13, 2013"  

"Let's raise our energy to a higher vibration!"  This lecture by iamHeart cofounder Puran Bair will give a whole new meaning to this oft-heard, new-age catch-phrase. Energetic frequencies influence physical reality in a major way! High frequencies scatter and clarify, while low frequencies gather and collect. Darkness and light are created through a confluence of vibrations of different types. Thus, darkness and shadow is another aspect of Light. How does this relate to the meditation? The heart is influenced by and generates both high and low frequencies. For example, heart rate is a low frequency (~60 beats per minute), but the heart also pulses out a spectrum of magnetic energy into the field around one's physical body. Breath, an even slower rate (4 - 12 cycles per minute), influences the rate of the heart; when full and rhythmic encourages optimal Heart Rate Variability.  Through meditation, you gains more control over the processes and signals that would otherwise be unconsciously churning in the backg

-A gentle and encouraging Intermediate-Level Meditation. Susanna Bair brings gentleness, compassion, and beauty to the awakening process. This is an ideal practice to do in the morning, as it brings you from the ethereal realm of sleep into embodiment for the day.  This is I Heart Meditation's first introduction to the four fundamental energies: AIR, FIRE, WATER, and EARTH. Instead of discussing them conceptually, we thought be ideal to experience them from within. How is this done? By inhaling and exhaling in different patterns through the nose and mouth.  Susanna will guide you!When breathed in this order (Air, Fire, Water, Earth) sequentially, the practice is called "Creation-Order" breathing.  The practice brings spaciousness, vitality, softening, and groundedness to the practitioner.  Susanna then extends this practice to draw into one's heart the healing energy of "Hurqalya." This meditation was recorded on November 14, 2025 in Sedona, AZ at the IAM Heart retreat "Light On Healing."

Concentration is the first "stage" on the way toward creating a meditative state of consciousness.  First concentration, then contemplation, THEN meditation!  Engaging the mind with the various tasks which are required to breathe rhythmically, powerfully, and with control, we inherently build stamina for concentration.  Susanna explains how without the faculty for concentration, we may not get very far in our aspirations - whatever they may be.

Believe it or not, "enlightenment" is a real thing.  Yogis, sages, and mystics of many traditions have presented different methodologies for attaining this great state of consciousness marked by inner luminosity, stillness, and radiance.  Not many people know, however, that there are further stages of realization beyond enlightenment.  Many traditions call this further stage, Illumination.  Attaining one of these levels of consciousness may give a temporary experience of the heights of one's inner greatness, but in this episode, Susanna Bair draws our attention to how these great states of attainment might influence us in our personality, priorities, and experience of everyday responsibilities.

Meditation is not a religion.  Meditation is not a belief system.  Meditation is a methodology for changing one's outlook on where the boundaries of the "Self" really lie. Practitioners often notice subjective or even measurable improvements in health and may use it for stress management and use meditation as a retreat from modern overload.  Susann Bair describes how the benefits of meditation go much further than benefiting the individual practitioner.  Hear from her how an individual's meditation practice has the capacity to positively affect the global consciousness.

Puran Bair discusses the psychological and physiological forces at play when an individual incurs stress and the biological symptoms thereof.  Heart Rhythm Meditation is the tool to help correct and restore our cells from stagnancy and other imbalances which become stored within bodily tissues when our sympathetic nervous system remains "ON" from influx of stressors.  Proper breath reignites these unconscious metabolic processes. This presentation was given on April 11, 2013.