Swami Kripananda has been following the Siddha Yoga path for almost fifty years. In 1978, she took the vows of monkhood to become a Siddha Yoga Swami. In the years since, Swami ji has authored three books—The Sacred Power, The Guru’s Sandals: Threshold of the Formless, and Jnaneshwar’s Gita, a rendering of the English translation of the Jnaneshwari, a classic commentary on Shri Bhagavad Gita by poet-saint Jnaneshwar Maharaj.

Among the many qualities Swami Kripananda is known and beloved for are her sharp intellect and inimitable sense of humor. She is also deeply knowledgeable about Kundalini Shakti, the divine energy, having studied and taught about it extensively.