Susanna Bair, the president and co-founder of IAM, is a
charismatic speaker and author at the forefront of the emerging cultural
shift to a heart-based society. She is the co-author (with Puran Bair) of Follow Your Heart,
Living from the Heart, and
Energize Your Heart in Four Dimensions.
The most active teacher of Heart Rhythm Meditation, she is leading a workshop series called
Occupy Your Heart, which is coming to 11 cities in 2012.
Susanna specializes in designing transformational retreats and serves as
the Lead Retreat Guide for the IAM University of the Heart. Susanna is also
the lead supervisor for the IAM Mentoring Program, where she
supervises the mentoring of 100 students. She has developed a series of
popular CDs on meditation and modern spirituality, and she created
Heart Rhythm Movement, based on her study of yoga
and movement arts.
Her ground-breaking paper, The Use of Self-Generated Sound in
Modulating Consciousness delivered at the first World Council on
Psychotherapy in 1996, has become a classic text defining a western view of
the energy chakras and the use of vocalized sound to stimulate them.
She has conducted a 25-year study of the teachings of Hazrat Inayat
Khan, the founder of a universal school of mysticism and she has developed her
mystical experience over decades through retreats in the Alps of France, the
ocean shore of Massachusetts and the desert of Arizona. She was recognized
as a spiritual leader and master teacher of meditation in that lineage by
her teacher Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan. Her consistent effectiveness across a
broad range of activities, from the most public to the most personalized
styles of transmission, demonstrates the depth of her background and the
authenticity of her personal, mystical experience.
Previous to her teaching of meditation, Susanna was the director of the
Kleinen Buehne of the Basler Stadttheater (Women's Experimental Theater of
The State Theatre in Switzerland). She is a former actress who performed in
television films in Vienna. Susanna studied in New York City with Lee
Strasberg and Stella Adler at the Stella Adler Conservatory. Subsequently,
she was the Director Of Training at a large realty corporation.
Susanna was born in Hungary, raised in Austria and educated in Vienna.
She earned a Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology at Antioch University
in New Hampshire after All But Dissertation in the PhD program in Psychology
at the University of Vienna.
For 19 years, through 2006, she had a private counseling practice in
Boston and Ipswich, Massachusetts. Now she resides in Tucson, Arizona with
her husband, Puran. She has one son and four step-children.
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