A teacher who is living yoga as well as teaching it, Rama is the founder of Master Yoga Foundation and the originator of Svaroopa® yoga. Her credentials include certification and training in five yoga styles as a hatha yoga teacher, advanced hatha yoga teacher, pranayama teacher and meditation teacher.
She has been teaching in yoga conferences in America for over 10 years, including Yoga Journal, Midwest Yoga Conference, Southwest Yoga Conference, Omega in NYC, Northwest Yoga Conference, KYTA Conference, Yoga & Buddhism, Body Mind Spirit Conference, The Yoga Conference of Toronto and others. In addition, she helped organize and taught at 3 Yogini Conferences and 4 Svaroopa® yoga conferences. You will also find her at many retreat centers in the USA and Canada, including Kripalu, Mt. Madonna, Omega, Feathered Pipe Ranch, Hollyhock, and The Crossings.
Deepak Chopra, MD, had Rama create and lead the yoga programs for his ayurvedic center for 5 years. Rama served as the founding president of Yoga Alliance, working with leading teachers and organizations to make this national teachers’ registry a reality. She also served as the founding president of the San Diego yoga teachers association, YES (Yoga Education Society). Australia is almost a second home to Rama, teaching there frequently, including weekends, week-long retreats and Teacher Training.
As a single mother of three, she began her training in yoga, meditation, healing, massage and Eastern traditions in 1970. After visiting a meditation center in 1976, Rama received a powerful and spontaneous initiation from a living Master. MahaKundalini initiation shows up differently in every person. In Rama, it manifested in her as spontaneous yoga poses. Most importantly, these movements showed her the power of the spine as a conduit of consciousness, enlivening her knowledge and understanding of the body. Her unique and powerful way of teaching comes from these experiences.
Traveling to India for a three-week retreat with her Guru, she recognized that this was what she had always been seeking. She left her successful career as an accountant in California to move into the ashram (residential yoga facility) with her three children to study, practice, and live yoga with her Guru in the US and in India. After 17 years of training, she settled in San Diego and began teaching there in 1987. In 2006, she moved near Philadelphia along with Master Yoga, to establish the main campus on the East Coast.
Teaching since 1976, Rama's style of teaching is to guide others to discover the deeper dimensions of yoga for themselves. She communicates clearly, with great insight and compassion, incorporating the ancient wisdom of the sages into working with the body, breath & mind. She travels widely to teach in courses and in yoga conferences throughout the USA and internationally. She guides others to discover the deeper dimensions of yoga for themselves by communicating clearly, with great insight and compassion.
