Rama Jyoti Vernon, internationally known yoga teacher and founder of the International Yoga College, also founded the B.K.S. Iyengar Yoga Association of Northern California. She founded Unity In Yoga, an international organization that sponsored seven national and three international conferences and that served as the nonprofit umbrella for the Yoga Alliance. Since 1984, Rama organized over 200 conferences, forums and exchanges between the US and USSR, including the first Soviet-American Citizen's Summit in Washington, D.C. Rama is a writer, teacher and lecturer in Asian Philosophy and East-West Philosophy, which inspired her unique approach to Yoga, Dialogue and Conflict Resolution.