ABOUT

Seek not to destroy what was, nor to rebuild what is, but to build what will be.

My name is Omar. I come to this work by way of a ranch, not a temple.

I grew up on family land in Larkspur, Colorado, and spent decades on the Tabernash ranch near the headwaters of the Colorado River — where I also served as volunteer fire chief for about twenty years. Land, weather, fire, and water taught me long before any teacher did. It was only later in life that the heart became the ranch I tend.

That happened through Heart Rhythm Meditation — a simple, practical technique of coordinating breath and heartbeat — under the direct guidance of Puran and Susanna Bair (Madeleine) of the Institute for Applied Meditation. Their teaching sits inside an older lineage: the Chishti Sufi order, carried west by Hazrat Inayat Khan. I hold that transmission alongside three others that have shaped my practice over the years — Hawaiian I’O breathwork learned in I’O Valley, Maui; Lakota ceremonial fire-keeping; and a commission from Hopi Elder Roosevelt.

My daily practice is simple and unglamorous: Zikr and HRM, often under a white oak tree, most mornings. Breath in rhythm with heartbeat. Attention on the heart. Intention for love, harmony, and beauty. That’s most of it.

These days I teach what I practice. I lead Heart Rhythm Meditation sessions for my neighbors in my independent living community in Cibolo, Texas — people in their seventies, eighties, and beyond, discovering that the breath is still theirs to work with, whatever else has changed. I also write: teaching handouts, guided meditations, and longer manuscripts that try to put words around what the practice makes wordless.

If any of this resonates — whether you’re new to breath and heart work or have been at it for years — I’d like to hear from you.

Love, harmony, and beauty.
Be happy forever.
Omar