Inner Traditions relocated its operations from New York City to Rochester, Vermont in August 1986, a move that took the company out of the traditional publishing industry hub of Manhattan and into rural New England, where it has remained headquartered ever since while continuing to distribute nationally and internationally.
In 2000 the company absorbed Bear & Company, an independent publisher of Indigenous American spirituality, metaphysical and consciousness related titles that the writer Gerry Clow and the astrologer Barbara Hand Clow had founded in Santa Fe, New Mexico in the early 1980s, combining the two catalogs under the joint imprint Inner Traditions, Bear & Company and broadening Inner Traditions' existing list further into indigenous spirituality and New Age subject matter. The combined company continued to grow through the following decades into one of the largest independent publishers specializing in alternative spirituality, ancient civilizations, indigenous traditions, and complementary health, maintaining a reputation for publishing serious research alongside more popular practitioner focused titles.
Ehud Sperling has continued to own and personally direct the company through its full history, a continuity uncommon among publishers of its size and subject area, and Inner Traditions remains active today from its Rochester, Vermont headquarters, marking half a century of continuous independent publishing since its 1975 founding.