Yawu Miller began his Siddha Yoga practice in 1981, and he has been a Siddha Yoga meditation teacher since 2006. He has offered seva as a manager of the Siddha Yoga Ashram in Boston, Massachusetts, and a steering committee member for the Siddha Yoga Meditation Center in the Greater Boston area. His core practices are meditation and svadhyaya, the recitation of sacred texts.

Yawu works as a senior editor for a weekly community newspaper and has a bachelor of arts in English from Dartmouth College. He lives in Boston with his wife and twenty-one-year-old daughter and twelve-year-old son.