Sujata Ringawa was introduced to the Siddha Yoga path by her husband, Marcel, in 1978. Later that year she participated in a Siddha Yoga Shaktipat Intensive at the Siddha Yoga Ashram in Oakland, California. Beginning in the early 1980s, Sujata offered seva in the SYDA Foundation for the next two decades. She served as a manager in two Siddha Yoga Ashrams, an organizer for teacher trainings, and as a hatha yoga teacher.

Sujata has a bachelor’s degree from the State University of New York in Buffalo, and she is a certified hatha yoga teacher. She and her husband live in Cape Cod, Massachusetts.