About Us
Woman-owned. Queer-affirming. Black-led. Built for the lifetime practitioner.
We Exist Because You Deserve to Be Seen.
"I didn't come to yoga looking for a workout. I came looking for a way to live in my body without pain — and to finally be seen by a practice that had spent decades telling people like me we weren't welcome on the mat."
— Tamika Caston-Miller, E-RYT 500, Founder
Tamika Caston-Miller didn't set out to build a yoga empire. She set out to build a home — a place where the people most often pushed to the margins of the wellness world could finally walk through the front door (literally and figuratively) and stay.
As a Black woman navigating yoga spaces that were overwhelmingly white, cis, and body-exclusive, Tamika felt the weight of that erasure firsthand. She became a yoga teacher not to replicate what existed, but to radically reimagine it. Her path led her to an E-RYT 500 certification, advanced training in Yin Yoga, Restorative, Yoga Nidra, and trauma-informed practices — and to recognition in Yoga Journal, VYASA, YogaLove Magazine, and by beloved peers and colleagues. But credentials were never the point.
The point was the high school student whose first bullies were at home and in the hallways who needed yoga but had nowhere to go. The person navigating grief, illness, or a life in transition who kept being handed a "beginner flow" that felt nothing like their actual life. The BIPOC and LGBTQ+ practitioner who had to choose between their full identity and their yoga community.
In 2020, Tamika founded Ashé Yoga Collective to change that — not just for one community, but as a living proof of concept that equitable, accessible, world-class yoga is possible. That the practice doesn't have to demand you shrink yourself to participate.
Ashé Yoga Collective is that vision made real.
A Cooperative, Not a Corporation
Ashé Yoga Collective is self-funded, community-made space where the teachers co-create what gets built and how.
This matters because it changes everything about how we operate. Our teachers are co-architects of this community. Their creative autonomy, their specialties, their voices — these are the platform.
We built this structure because we believe the industry behind yoga has spent too long extracting from communities of color and builders of the magic happening on the mat. We are creating something different—a space in which equity extends not only to our students, but also to our teachers.
What is Ashé?
Ashé (pronounced ah-SHAY) comes from the West African Yoruba tradition. It is the divine energy that animates all living things — the force that transforms, that creates, that makes things possible. When we say ashé, we mean: you have the power within you.
This name was chosen deliberately — a modern, culturally rooted expression of ancient tradition for the 21st century householder.
Yoga, in its South Asian roots, was always about this — the expansion of awareness, the transformation of the self, the recognition that every body carries wisdom. Our work is to return yoga to those roots, and to extend that invitation to everyone who has been told they don't belong.
Our mission is to build equitable and accessible yoga and a genuine sense of belonging through intentional community. Every class, every training, every interaction is designed to honor that.
Inclusive. Intersectional. Intergenerational. Affirming.
Our collective includes some of the most celebrated yoga educators in the country — teachers whose work has been featured in national publications, who have trained thousands of students, and who show up to every class with the same commitment: to meet you exactly as you are.
Our Commitment
We will never ask you to change your body to practice yoga. We believe you are the expert on your own experience. Our teachers are here to guide, not to correct.
Your Home Is Here.
Whether you've been practicing for decades or you've never set foot on a mat, you're navigating grief or celebrating strength, or you've felt seen in yoga spaces before or have given up hoping you ever would — our community is for you.
Ashé Yoga Collective was built for the lifetime practitioner. And wherever you are in that lifetime, we are glad you're here.
“we were trained to see and acknowledge every single body on the mat, to energetically move any person that comes into our class, and to carry the lineage of yoga with respect and pride.”
— Ashe Yoga School Graduate