Amara Miller is a yogi, PhD candidate in sociology, feminist, artist, teacher, and perpetual student. Her sociological understanding of the world informs both her practice and teaching to better combat systems of oppression, including inequality and inaccessibility within the of practice of yoga. Her dissertation looks at the impacts of globalization, commodification, and appropriation on the cultural transformation of yoga in the last fifty years. Her work also investigates how teachers and activists involved in body positivity resist these changes.