My Business Is My Yoga

When I started building Aavya, a dear friend and yoga teacher looked me straight in the eye and said:

"Ashish, your business is now your yoga."

I nodded wisely, like I knew what that meant.

I didn't.

Back then, I thought it was just a poetic compliment. You know — business as spiritual practice. Very LinkedIn-worthy.

But as the days passed, the words started to haunt me — in the most inconvenient ways.

Because if Aavya is my yoga, then guess what?

I've been in one long, awkward holding pose.

Add cash flow anxiety, under-construction rooms, a rainy off-season approaching, and daily existential questions like:

"Am I even doing this right?"

And yes — my "yoga" is in full swing.

The Messy Middle

It's a strange place to be.

But we're still a bunch of eclectic people figuring it out together.

That's a beautiful thing.

But I don't carry it quietly.

Where is that deep, unshakeable confidence people talk about?

And yet, somewhere underneath all the noise…

I know it's there.

Just mixed in with a whole lot of confusion.

The Morning Weight

And then there's money.

I don't wake up in the middle of the night.

But I wake up with it.

Money.

A kind of pressure no mantra can quite dissolve.

Meditation… Or Something Like It

I try to meditate.

Or at least, I sit.

But instead of silence, I find myself running through a checklist:

And that list is long.

Because I'm not just holding the space.

I'm holding:

• •the to-do list
• •the cash flow
• •the team
• •the vision
• •the tiny details

It's a lot.

Maybe This Is the Yoga

But maybe…

That's the yoga.

Not the deep silence.

But the deep showing up.

Not the empty mind.

But the honest one — that keeps returning, even when it's full.

Between Manifestation and Math

Then I take a puff of a cigarette I probably shouldn't be smoking.

And the calculations begin again.

The Part No One Talks About

There's beauty here.

But also a quiet sadness I didn't expect.

The kind that comes when your dream starts growing faster than your energy.

When the thing you love the most…

also demands the most from you.

What I'm Learning

Maybe the worry isn't failure.

Maybe it's part of the yoga.

The emotional backbend I never signed up for.

Because if I look honestly —

everything that needed to happen has happened.

Even the moments where I thought:

"What am I doing with my life?"

All of it taught me something.

No more overthinking the why.

I've stopped trying to figure out:

At this point, it's a chicken-and-egg situation I'm not qualified to solve.

Instead, I'm trying to:

Breathing, Creating, Moving Ahead

Because the truth is:

Aavya is me.

And like me — it's going to grow:

imperfectly

beautifully

sometimes painfully

I can't force it.

But I can keep showing up.

So yes… my business is my yoga.

Some days, it's child's pose.

Some days, it's an uphill walk with no water bottle.

Some days, it's just sitting still — with tears in your eyes — and trusting that's enough.

But either way…

I'm here.

Aavya continues to grow — as I do.

But if you're looking for a space in Rishikesh that's honest, raw, and evolving —

maybe Aavya will speak to you too.

Namaste to that.

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If this resonates, come experience Aavya for yourself.