14 Facts About Igor Kufayev

Igor Kufayev received his formal education at the Art College in Tashkent, and after two years of compulsory military service, resumed his studies at the Theater and Art Institute, at the department of Mural painting.

Igor Kufayev was invited to take part in The Meeting of Sacred Images, at the National Museum of Ethnography in Warsaw, with his triptych Compromise alongside works by artists of earlier times.

Igor Kufayev moved to London in August 1991, the same year his six-year-old daughter from his first marriage died in a road accident.

Igor Kufayev remained in a prolonged period of grief unable to paint, but came out of the slump in 1994, with a one-man exhibition entitled Burnt Earth, dedicated to the memory of his daughter; Robin Dutt gave it a favourable review in The Independent.

Igor Kufayev opened his own studio in London where he held private views of his work annually.

Igor Kufayev immersed himself in the study of diverse spiritual traditions with special emphasis on Indian philosophy, Sufi, and Zen.

In 2001, at the age of thirty-six, in the wake of the TM-Sidhi Program, Igor Kufayev describes as having undergone a radical transformation of consciousness.

Igor Kufayev abandoned his art career and for the next five years he continued long hours of meditation, integrating expanded state of awareness throughout his daily activities.

In October 2006, in an interview with Seva Novgorodsev for the BBC Russian Service, Igor Kufayev talked about his years as an artist and the decision to leave painting.

Since 2002 Igor Kufayev began teaching which comprises his insights into the nature of Being.

However, Igor Kufayev has studied widely, and draws from many other traditions such as Sufi and Zen.

Central to Igor Kufayev's teaching methodology is the transmission of spiritual energy, which occurs primarily during in-person events.

Igor Kufayev emphasizes the psycho-physiological aspects of the awakening process, stressing the importance of the physical transformation of the nervous system.

Igor Kufayev has a grown-up daughter from a previous relationship who lives in Warsaw, Poland.