Ayeda Husain is a writer, spiritual guide, and teacher of Sufi meditation, poetry, and philosophy. She is the creator of THE SUFI TAROT. Ayeda was educated at NYU where she earned a Double Masters in Journalism and Near Eastern Studies. An expert in the field, she has been interviewed by Time, the BBC, the Los Angeles Times, the Christian Science Monitor, and quoted by ABC News about Sufism.

She is a Shaykha, one of very few women Sufi teachers in the world today, and teaches Sufi meditation, chanting, and philosophy with a special emphasis on Rumi's poetry as a means of healing and evolving. She has run Sufi Centers in Lahore, Dubai, and now in Oakville, Ontario where she lives. She has led spiritual retreats worldwide, taught Sufi meditation to Buddhist monks in Tokyo and been invited to the UN as part of an international delegation of spiritual leaders.

She is currently a mentor at Suluk Academy, a two-year Sufi meditation school based in Richmond, Virginia where she teaches in both a two-year core program and a two-year graduate course.

In her free time, she composes, sings, and records Sufi meditational music.