About Omar
I grew up on my family’s ranch in Larkspur, Colorado, and later spent decades on our ranch near Tabernash, close to the headwaters of the Colorado River. For about twenty years I served as the volunteer fire chief there, and I was president of the East Grand Fire District Pension Board. It was a life built on land, weather, and neighbors looking out for one another — and it shaped everything that came after.
Somewhere along the way, the rancher became a healer. I hold several lineages of sacred transmission: Heart Rhythm Meditation, passed to me by my teachers Puran and Susanna Bair; the Hawaiian I’O breath, learned in I’O Valley, Maui; the Lakota firekeeper tradition; and a commission from Hopi Elder Roosevelt. Different paths, but they all arrived at the same place — the heart as the generator, amplifier, and antenna of the soul.
These days I live in an independent living community in Cibolo, Texas, where I lead Heart Rhythm Meditation classes for my neighbors — often practicing outdoors under a white oak tree. I write, too: essays, teaching booklets, and a few longer manuscripts exploring the threads that tie these traditions together.
Love, harmony, and beauty.
Be happy forever.
Omar.
