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Acharya Swami Sitaramananda

Swami Sitaramananda is a senior acharya of the International Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centers and is director of the Sivananda Ashram Vedanta Yoga Farm, California and the Sivananda Yoga Resort and Training Center, Vietnam.  She is acharya of China, Taiwan, and Japan as well. Swamiji is the organizer and teacher of the Sivananda Yoga Health Educator Training (SYHET) program, an 800-hour program on yoga therapy, accredited by the International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT).

Swami Sitaramananda is the author of “Essentials of Yoga Practice and Philosophy” (translated in Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, and Russian), “Positive Thinking Manual”, “Karma Yoga Manual”, “Meditation Manual”, “Swamiji Said, a collection of teachings by Swami Vishnu” in His Own Words. She is responsible for the Vietnamese translation of “Completed Illustrated Book of Yoga” (CIBY) and “Meditation & Mantras” by Swami Vishnu. Many of her video & audio lectures on Yoga life, philosophy, and psychology as well as articles and webinars can be found on this website.

Swami Sita is an ardent supporter of the integration of the Vedic sciences such as Vastu, Jyotish, Ayurveda, Yoga and Vedanta. She is an international teacher of the Sivananda Yoga Teachers’ Training Courses and Advanced Yoga teachers’ Training courses, as well as Meditation and Vedanta & Silence Courses both in Sivananda Ashrams in Vietnam and in Grass Valley, CA.

Upcoming Programs by Acharya Swami Sitaramananda

Online International Satsangs with Swami Sitaramananda

Open Dates
The satsangs will now be held on Thursdays at 6 am PT | Swami Sitaramananda has been offering regular weekly online Satsangs since 2020.

Correspondence Course - Yoga Sadhana for Self Healing (18 Classes)

Open Dates
18 class recordings, shared from private YouTube recordings, each class is about 2 hours length, Homework and writing assignments after every class, Assigned Mentor to review your HW assignments, Final Exam at end of course to receive certificate

Self paced online course - Essentials of Yoga Practice and Philosophy (18 Lessons)

Open Dates
Summary of the core teachings of Swami Sivananda and Swami Vishnudevananda. It is a perfect introduction course to those new to Sivananda Yoga. The online course consists of 18 lessons, each lesson includes a 1 hour video by Swami Sitaramananda, supporting text on the topic, and a short quiz after each lesson. The content is dripped out over 18 days.

Memorial Day Program: 55th Year Anniversary & Teachers' Reunion

Also with Swami Adiparashaktiananda, Swami Sivasankariananda, Stephen Longfellow Fiske, Swami Sankarananda, Silvia Nakkach, MA, MMT (Saraswati Devi), Swami Pranavananda, Pundit Samavedula, Swami Divyananda, Swami Amritananda, Dr. Fred Luskin, Durga Leela, Debashish Banerji, Dr. Ramkumar, Komilla Sutton, Swami Jnaneswariananda, Swami Narayanananda and Krishna Darshan

May 22 - 29, 2026
This Memorial Day Weekend we will celebrate 55 years of the Yoga Farm 1971 - 2026 with a very special program including a Teachers' Reunion.

Positive Thinking for Inner Peace & World Peace

June 1 - 7, 2026
This 7 day course will give you classical yoga tools of the 4 paths of yoga to understand your thoughts and know how to turn them around so that they lead you to your highest potential. Positive thinking here is a highest declaration of Truth - “That thou art.” You are the completeness, the perfection, the essence in all. Free yourself from negativity, limitation, innate sense of lack and duality. Learn how to transform emotions into pure love. Equip yourself with right thinking about your own True real Self - it is vedanta in application.

4th of July: Heartfelt and Joyful Living

Also with Swami Adiparashaktiananda

July 2 - 5, 2026
Life is love and love is life, according to Swami Sivananda. Life is poetry and relationships. Nourish the right brain and discover your creative self. Relax in your fulfilled divine nature. Most people exhaust themselves by over-thinking.

Onsite Yoga Teachers Training Course

Also with Swami Adiparashaktiananda, Swami Sivasankariananda, Swami Amritananda and Swami Gangananda

October 24 - November 21, 2026
This 4 week course, which offers a profound personal experience, will allow you to transmit the knowledge of yoga to others. The spiritual essence of yoga is learned through a combination of repeated practice and inspirational lessons.