9 Steps of Realization

This is an overview of the journey of the heart that our school provides – moving students through initial training to overcome habits of leading with the mind to uncover the more true callings and voice of the heart. With dedicated study students work through the stages of the mind and the heart to ultimately unite to the One Heart.

1. Commitment

COMMITMENT

A sense of purpose awakens and energy gathers behind a single choice. You feel the clarity of direction, a quiet confidence that says, this is the way I begin.

1. Commitment

2. Testing

TESTING

Life pushes back and reveals what is real and what is not yet solid within you. There is friction, resistance, and the growing awareness of your own boundaries and strength.

2. Testing

3. Knowledge

KNOWLEDGE

The mind settles into coherence as effort and flow begin to meet. You feel aligned, capable, and quietly assured as your thoughts, feelings, and actions move together.

3. Knowledge

4. Idealization

IDEALIZATION

The heart opens and love becomes natural rather than effortful. There is joy in giving, in belonging, and in allowing yourself to care completely.

4. Idealization

5. Expertise

EXPERTISE

Control softens and trust deepens. You begin to rest inside what is, letting life move through you rather than against you.

5. Expertise

6. Unlearning

UNLEARNING

The boundaries between self and other thin and dissolve. You experience relationship as shared being, not two connected but one expressed
through two.

6. Unlearning

7. Unity

UNITY

Awareness brightens and subtle meanings become clear. You sense divine intelligence in events,
the harmony behind appearances, and your role within it.

7. Unity

8. Guidance

GUIDANCE

The difference between inner and outer disappears. You know directly that what you seek and what you are have always been the same.

8. Guidance

9. Illumination

ILLUMINATION

Life becomes a seamless act of service and expression. Wisdom and love act through you effortlessly, and the divine lives as your ordinary self.

9. Illumination

Your journey through the 9 Steps of Realization are supported through our course offerings.
Advanced spiritual courses have specific prerequisites.

Are you ready for a Journey of the Heart?

HRM Essentials Course

8-week HRM Essentials
Course for Beginners

iamU Spiritual Education

21-Month Course for
Spiritual Development

Contemplation Course

12-Month Advanced program
for Graduate students

Meet the Founders

Puran and Susanna Bair have devoted their lives to helping individuals improve their physical health, and to accomplish their personal and career goals. 

Using their interpretations of Hazrat Inayat Khan’s Sufi teachings and integrating evidence-based research, they have created a unique method of heart-centered meditation that is both easy to start and profoundly authentic.

 Together they have authored four books and trained thousands of practitioners, teachers, mentors, healers and retreat guides around the world.

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