She is energetic, happy and healthy human being who is devoted to assisting people in improving their lives and creating more harmonious environment.
Rama Berch Rama Berch
Rama is the creator of Svaroopa® Yoga and Director of Master Yoga Training Institute. She is also a Founding President of the Yoga Alliance.  Rama shaped this style of Hatha Yoga out of her meditation experiences. Teaching yoga since 1976, Rama has an exceptional understanding of how the body and mind work together. She communicates clearly, with great insight and compassion. Rama possesses very deep and extensive knowledge of ancient texts and meditation techniques. She has profound understanding of human body and is a true master yogini.

Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi ("Amma")

Amma was born on the 27th of September 1953, in a small poor fishing village in India. She came into this world not in tears as babies usually do, but with a beaming smile on her face, as if prophesying the joy and bliss she was to bring to the world. Sudhamani (her birth name) spent the years of her childhood and teens immersed in intense spiritual practices in order to present a living example for the world. Even as a small child, she could often be found absorbed in deep meditation, totally oblivious of her surroundings.

Another quality that was clearly manifest in Sudhamani from this tender age was her love and compassion toward her fellow human beings. Though only a child, Sudhamani did whatever she could to ease the suffering of her elderly neighbors. This habit of giving away things from her family's house landed her in deep trouble. However, no amount physical abuse or punishment could stop the expression of her inborn compassion.

'Amma' as she is known all over the world today, has inspired and started innumerable humanitarian services. She has inspired many humanitarian activities that have drawn the attention of the world community. Some of them are free food and clothing programs, charitable hospitals, hospices, disaster relief programs, free homes for the poor and the needy, medical camps, orphanages, schools, educational institutions, widows' pension scheme, free legal advice, preservation of nature and so on. The list is long and growing everyday.

In recent years, Amma has addressed the Parliament of World's Religions in Chicago, the United Nations in New York and the Global Peace Initiative of Women religious and Spiritual Leaders, conducted at the UN in Geneva, where she gave speeches on the present day social problems and their solutions. It was there that Amma was awarded with the 2002 Gandhi-King award for Non-violence.

Amma says, "My sole mission is to love and serve one and all. Amma's only wish is that her hands should always be on someone's shoulder, consoling and caressing them and wiping their tears, even while breathing her last."

For the past 30 years Amma has dedicated her life to the uplifting of suffering humanity through the simplest of gestures - an embrace. In this intimate manner Amma had blessed and consoled more than 21 million people throughout the world.

It is hard to comprehend the source of Amma's inexhaustible energy that flows from moment to moment, day after day, in the form of a loving, motherly hug. Often she sits for more than 18-20 hours straight without even attending a nature call. Over the past 30 years Amma has hugged more than 21 million people around the globe. When asked if she ever feels tired of listening to the same problems of people, and hugging over and over again, Amma answered with a smile, " Where there is love, there is no effort."