Asatar Bair is the President of the IAM University of the Heart. (The name Asatar means water, fire, and earth). He has been a student on the path of the heart for many years, and is a graduate of IAM Heart, as well as a certified teacher and mentor. He has served as a member of the IAM Heart Board of Directors, and has been an active member of Living Heart Media, IAM Heart’s publishing house, serving as Vice President and Editor from 2007 to 2009. Some of the products Living Heart Media produced during this time include: Energize Your Heart, Energizing Heart Rhythm Meditation, Energize Your Heart Audiobook, Energize Your Heart Journal, Sounds of the Heart, Nourish Your Heart, and Living from the Heart.

Asatar holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he specialized in the economics of crime and punishment. His book Prison Labor in the US: An Economic Analysis, was published in 2007 by Routledge. He taught college courses from 1996 to 2009 in economic theory and statistics, serving as a faculty member at the City College of San Francisco. He has received 6 awards for excellence in teaching, including Teacher of the Year.

Asatar grew up meditating, having been instructed at an early age by his father, Puran Bair and later by his stepmother, Susanna Bair; Asatar has practiced meditation daily since 1989. He has also studied T’ai Chi Ch’uan, and has been certified as an instructor by the Northwest T’ai Chi Ch’uan Association. In his spare time he enjoys running barefoot and working out with bodyweight exercises and kettlebells. He and his wife Felicity have a daughter, Xavier, who was born in the summer of 2007, and a son, Ocean, born in the spring of 2010.

Asatar Bair