Swami Sitaramananda is a monastic from Saraswati order from Sankaracharya-Sivananda lineage, expert teacher in Yoga Philosophy and Yogic methods from the 4 classical paths of Yoga for more than 30 years. She is senior disciple of Himalayan Yoga Master Swami Vishnudevananda, who is a direct disciple of H.H.Sivananda. She was nominated acharya by him in 1989. and is presently acharya of US West coast Centers and Ashrams as well as Asia, specially Vietnam where she hailed from. She met with Swami Vishnudevananda in Val Morin, Canada at the Sivananda Ashram Yoga Camp in 1981 and has served devotedly her Guru and her Guru's organization - the International Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centers - since then. She is the director of Sivananda Ashram Yoga Farm, Grass Valley, CA for 20 years. Swami Sitaramananda has taught many international Teachers Training courses in California, Vietnam, Taiwan and India and is also teaching regularly at Sivananda Ashram Yoga Retreat, Nassau Bahamas.
She is the author of " Positive Thinking Manual", "Essentials Yoga Practice and Philosophy" (translated in chinese, japanese and vietnamese) and "Swamiji Said, a collection of teachings by Swami Vishnudevananda in His Own Words" as well as 2 poem books. She is responsible of the translation in Vietnamese of the "Completed Illustrated Book of Yoga" of Swami Vishnudevananda. Some of her audio lectures on Yoga Life, articles and webinar presentations can be found on the website of "yogafarm.org"