Our Story

Sacred Roots

Incense has shaped the inner life of human beings for thousands of years. For the yogis and monks of the East, it was never decoration,  it was devotion. A way of preparing the senses, of drawing the mind inward, of making the invisible tangible. Each fragrance a doorway. Each curl of smoke a prayer.

That tradition is what Sacred Elephant is built upon.

Importance of  Tradition

In the ancient temples of India, every stick of incense was made by hand, slowly, carefully, with full attention to the purity of the ingredients and the state of mind of the maker. Sacred Elephant carries this forward without compromise.

Just like these Monks Every step of our process is done by hand: the sourcing of pure essential oils and resins, the blending, the rolling, the drying in open sunlight. No shortcuts. No synthetics. Nothing that shouldn't be there.

Our Commitment

Karma is not an abstract idea for us, it is the operating principle of everything we do. We believe that what goes into our incense matters as much as what comes out of it.

Every ingredient is fair-trade and free from exploitation. Every formulation is 100% chemical-free, vegan, and never tested on animals. Our packaging is printed with vegetable dye. What isn't burned is compostable. What we put into the world, we mean to stand behind completely.

Prema-rasa & Yama

Sacred Elephant is the work of two people whose lives have been shaped by sacred traditions long before there was a business to run.

Prema-rasa was born in the Cotswolds and spent eighteen years as a Gaudiya Vaishnava monk,  living in temples and yoga ashrams across the world, studying the relationship between scent, consciousness, and the inner life. It was not a phase. It was a formation.

Yama grew up in Iquitos, at the beating heart of the Peruvian Amazon, in a temple steeped in the intersection of Amazonian and Indian sacred traditions. She understands, from the ground up, the role that natural and harmonic fragrance plays not just in personal practice but in community and in culture.

They now live in Bath, where they teach the Bhakti Yoga tradition and provide incense the way they believe it should be made, with genuine knowledge, genuine care, and a pair of very unhurried hands.