Dr Swami Nirmalananda Saraswati, MBBS, DA, MD (Mumbai), was born in 1952 in Mumbai, India. She completed her medical studies in 1978 and worked as a consultant anaesthesiologist in Mumbai hospitals until 1997.
Her association with Swami Satyananda Saraswati began in 1986, and in 1997 she was initiated into poorna sannyasa by Swami Niranjanananda Saraswati. Until 2014 she was based at Bihar School of Yoga, Munger.
Dr Swami Nirmalananda has taught and lectured ex- tensively in yoga, particularly applied yogic science, and coordinates the research work of the Yoga Research Foundation.