Aastha Gupta — Founder

I help people put down their phones and breathe— quite literally. Hi, I'm Aastha, founder of Still. Deciding how much to share in these bios is always tricky. A formal resume feels too stiff, (but I'm also worried I'll overshare on a place like LinkedIn) so here's a bit of an in-between! I grew up in New Delhi and studied Commerce at Lady Shri Ram College, an all-women's space that shaped me in many ways. My journey took me through policy research, leading treks, co-founding Young India Foundation, and eventually, to the freedom I found in traditional Indian ashrams. I delved deeper into yoga by training at Sivananda, one of India's oldest yoga lineages for classical hatha yog, and earned my M.Y (Master of Yoga). Alongside, I immersed myself in classic texts like the Yoga Sutras and Hatha Yoga Pradipika, exploring the science of breath work, continuing my 8-year journey as a practitioner. Contrary to today's wellness trends, I realised that the goal isn't to 'optimize breath', but to return to it. In a world where attention spans barely outlast a cat video, being able to sit still by yourself without any distractions is honestly quite the flex. After teaching breath work to hundreds of busy professionals (while occasionally forgetting to breathe myself), I founded Still—to help you stop doomscrolling and start deep breathing. After my daily pranayama practice, I feel fearless, calm, and detached and I hope to build this company with the same spirit. Check out www.still.ag to explore the app and more of what we do. If you're interested in sessions for your leadership or companies, reach out directly at aastha@still.ag.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Health & Wellness expert with a strong background in leadership and community engagement.

Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India

Experience: 6 yrs 3 mos

Skills

Leadership
Strategy
Product Development
Yoga Teaching
Wellness Coaching
Campaign Management
Outdoor Education
Research
Policy Analysis
Entrepreneurship
Event Management

Career Highlights

Founded a wellness company integrating ancient practices.
Taught yoga and breath work to over 1000 students.
Co-founded a political action committee for youth representation.

Work Experience

Still

Founder (3 yrs 2 mos)

Yoga with Aastha

Yoga Teacher (1 yr 5 mos)

Young India Foundation

Co-Founder/COO (11 mos)

Office of MP, Telangana

Research Fellow (2 mos)

Entrepreneurship cell, Lady Shri Ram College

Co-Founder (9 mos)

EY

Summer Intern (1 mo)

Inme Learning

Trained Outdoor-Education Instructor & Facilitator (4 yrs 6 mos)

Education

Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com at Lady Shri Ram College For Women

Master of Yoga (M.Y) at Sivananda International Yoga Vedanta Centre

Fellowship at Bhoomi College

Diploma in Experiential Education & Practice at Pune University

at Modern School, Barakhamba Road

Aastha Gupta

Founder

New Delhi, Delhi, India6 yrs 3 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Founded a wellness company integrating ancient practices.
Taught yoga and breath work to over 1000 students.
Co-founded a political action committee for youth representation.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Health & Wellness expert with a strong background in leadership and community engagement.

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Skills

Core Skills

LeadershipStrategyProduct DevelopmentYoga TeachingWellness CoachingCampaign ManagementOutdoor EducationResearchPolicy AnalysisEntrepreneurshipEvent Management

Other Skills

CampaignsData AnalysisHuman Resources (HR)MeditationPranayamaSustainabilityTeam LeadershipTeam ManagementTrainingYoga

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Experience

Still

Founder

Jan 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 2 mos

Still is a quiet revolution, born in India, for the world - bringing ancient yogic breath work to the centre of modern life. In a world obsessed with complexity, choice overload, and performance wellness, Still is designed to be rebelliously simple.

LeadershipStrategyHuman Resources (HR)

Yoga with aastha

Yoga Teacher

Jul 2021 – Dec 2022 · 1 yr 5 mos · Hybrid

Taught yoga, pranayama and meditation to over a 1000+ students through online and offline cohort based programs as well as on-site classes over 1.5 years. Eventually saw how quickly pranayama can be picked up as a practice for our generation and how effective it can be in just a few weeks. Decided to transition from building a teacher-led community to a product-led company, focused on pranayama through a habit-building app, Still.

YogaPranayamaMeditationYoga TeachingWellness Coaching

Young india foundation

Co-Founder/COO

Jul 2018 – Jun 2019 · 11 mos · New Delhi Area, India

Conceptualized vision, mission & model of India’s first youth-centric political action committee to find & support young people in local level elections to directly increase youth representation in Indian politics
Recruited and managed team of 85 young people, spanning 6 cities working across 10 divisions
Led teams in strategy, operations, HR, finance & outreach divisions – to facilitate support of 5 candidates in Haryana, J&K, Punjab in the first year (2 candidates won, currently serving)
Created data analysis wing under YIF think-tank to have quantitative-studies to utilize in candidate campaigns
Increased youth engagement through 15,000-member digital community and led partnerships with YUVAA, NYAAYA, and CPPR to make politics a digestible idea through 30+ campus workshops

LeadershipStrategyCampaign Management

Office of mp, telangana

Research Fellow

Sep 2017 – Nov 2017 · 2 mos · New Delhi Area, India

Selected among 60 out of 500+ applicants as a member of the Young Leaders for Active Citizenship program.
As a part of the program, prepared a legislative brief for Member of Parliament – MP Konda Vishweshwar Reddy of Telangana on the topic ‘Reforming the Power Sector in India’.

ResearchPolicy Analysis

Entrepreneurship cell, lady shri ram college

Co-Founder

Jul 2016 – Apr 2017 · 9 mos · New Delhi Area, India

As a founding member of the E-Cell, formulated E-Cell’s role, membership structure & calendar in LSR, along with agenda for the founding year of 2017
Led Event, Fin-o-lution, as ‘Event Head’, the first event by the E-Cell at Comquest 2016, LSR’s International Academic Fest.

EntrepreneurshipEvent Management

Ey

Summer Intern

May 2015 – Jun 2015 · 1 mo · New Delhi Area, India

Worked as a part of the 8 member Climate Changes and Sustainability’ team on a renewable energy project.
Authored a report ‘Market Design for a Capacity Market in India’, for a German client.
This report included a deep study of the German RE sector to see the viability of Germany’s ‘Capacity Markets’ in India after studying the present situation of India’s power sector.

ResearchSustainability

Inme learning

Trained Outdoor-Education Instructor & Facilitator

Jul 2014 – Jan 2019 · 4 yrs 6 mos · Greater Delhi Area

Youngest Indian facilitator to lead 1200km, 21-day cycling expedition from Seattle to San Francisco with India’s no.1 outdoor-ed company
Led 1500+ people through 30+ outdoor programs/expeditions with the goal to build life skills through outdoor-based learning; including cycling expeditions, Kedarkantha expedition and Solang Valley Ski expedition amongst others

Outdoor EducationTeam LeadershipLeadership