Episode 09 - Vineetha Menon

In this episode, Marydale Ma speaks with Vineetha Menon about a life woven together by devotion, sacred music, and the grace of the Guru. Born into a deeply spiritual family, Vineetha shares how her childhood encounters with great saints planted seeds that never left her — seeds that carried her through a high-powered corporate career, motherhood, and ultimately to Kriya Yoga initiation by Guruji himself in 2004. She speaks with warmth and candor about holding a spiritual life alongside the demands of modern living, the making of her devotional album Rasa — a telling of the Krishna Rasa Lila through the sacred songs of the saints — and the three qualities she returns to again and again: truth, gratitude, and love. A beautiful conversation about finding the divine thread running through every chapter of a life fully lived.

✨ About Our Guest:
Vineetha Menon was born in the UK and spent her childhood years in India, where wandering sadhus and enlightened saints would visit her grandfather's home. Through a child's heart, she experienced their devotion — heard them sing, and listened as they spoke of God. At fourteen, she read the Autobiography of a Yogi, and though it would be some years before the blessing of Kriya came to her, the longing was planted early. She was initiated by Guruji in 2004, and in late 2024 was asked to take over the Kriya center in North County San Diego, where she now serves as Center Leader.  

In her outer life, Vineetha Ma spent twenty years in the UK financial services industry before making her home in Oceanside, California, where she owns a yoga studio and is a mother to two teenage boys. She recently released RASA — a collection of rare sacred songs from the saints of her childhood, preserving them for posterity — an album that found its way to the Grammy ballot.

✨ Full show notes and transcripts are available at: womensministryofkriya.org/episode-9

This podcast is brought to you by the Women’s Sangha & Ministry of Kriya Yoga International. You can learn more at our website, womensministryofkriya.org.

Kriya Yoga is a powerful meditation practice that awakens constant communion with the Divine through the science of the breath. Handed down from teacher to student in an unbroken lineage of enlightened masters, it transforms body, mind, and heart—helping us be calmly active and actively calm. Today this living tradition welcomes seekers everywhere through the guidance of Paramahamsa Prajnanananda, the principal disciple of the great master Paramahamsa Hariharananda. To learn more about Kriya Yoga, please visit kriya.org.