Puran Bair

Who is Puran Bair?

Puran Khan Bair is a meditation teacher, mystic, author of Living from the Heart, and co-author of Energize Your Heart in 4 Dimensions. Bair holds an MS degree in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania. His professional career has focused on computer science research, environmental energy, financial services, and teaching meditation. He was involved in two ultimately unsuccessful start-up firms, one in windpower, and a second venture which worked on high-speed composting.

Bair studied meditation with Sufi teacher Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan, son and successor of Hazrat Inayat Khan. Pir Vilayat certified Puran Bair as a master teacher, or murshid.

Puran Bair was active in the Sufi Order International, helping to establish a number of spiritual communities, including the Abode of the Message, in New Lebanon, NY, as well as communities in Philadelphia, PA, and Boston, MA.

In 1988, he was asked by Pir Vilayat to start a new organization which would teach meditation to business professionals. In response Bair co-founded the Institute for Applied Meditation, with his wife Susanna Bair. Puran Bair has four children, all from previous marriages.