ABout Biola

With over 15 years of practice, Biola Jeje is an RYT-500 yoga instructor whose teaching supports sustainable wellbeing. She offers accessible, nurturing practices to help people manage stress, prevent burnout, and reconnect with their bodies in a grounded, compassionate way.

She has studied vinyasa, ashtanga, Kundalini, aerial, and yin yoga, drawing from each to create choice-centered, adaptable classes responsive to the nervous system. Biola emphasizes clarity, ease, and rest with strength and movement, meeting students where they are instead of pushing performance.

In 2018, Biola completed her 200-hour yoga teacher training at Lighthouse Yoga Center in Washington, D.C., and in 2022, her 300-hour training at Ulu Yoga School in Bali. She is a Reiki Level 1 Practitioner and has completed Levels 1–3 of Integrative Somatic Parts Work with the Embody Institute.

Biola has led yoga and meditation in studios, retreats, and organizational settings across the United States and Latin America, creating spaces where participants can slow down, regulate their nervous systems, and cultivate resilience, on and off the mat.

 

Biola’s journey began in Brooklyn, NY, where she grew up with a large Pentecostal family that navigated mental health struggles as well as layered forms of abuse.

Her childhood outlets were reading, journaling, and, later, theatre. As an All-Star Project's Youth Onstage Program graduate, she found immense joy on stage as an actress and off stage, writing and producing her first play, "Conversations in Perdition," at the Castillo Theatre in 2011.

She earned her bachelor's in political science from Brooklyn College, where she helped found a statewide non-profit dedicated to making college education free and participated in the first collectively run business at the City University of New York.

As an activist and communications strategist, she has worked on numerous campaigns centered on electoral, racial, environmental, and economic justice.

In 2017, burnout and grief led her to reinvision herself and her relationship to work. She realized that she could go only so far without really investigating the childhood trauma that led her to movement work and the ways it was currently keeping her in patterns of people-pleasing, resentment, and an inability to trust herself and her leadership.

So she started small, and Mercurial Flow was originally just an outlet for her to make candles and soaps, creating things that brought her joy and kept her from spending money unnecessarily at Target.

In 2018, she completed her first 200-hour yoga teacher training in Washington, D.C., and continued to deepen her yoga practice, which she had begun as an undergrad.

Post-lockdown, she knew she wanted to see more of the world. In 2022, she went on a sabbatical, spending three months traveling through Mexico, studying Spanish, and meeting countless others much like her who envisioned a different life for themselves and made it happen.

That same year, she quit her full-time Communications Director role, spent two months in Bali, Indonesia, and completed her 300-hour yoga teacher training. She has now built a life as a yoga teacher and communications consultant. She now spends over half the year traveling full-time and leading workshops, retreats, and classes worldwide.

She has continued her language studies and is proficient in Spanish and French. And after many years, finally learned how to swim.

As an eldest daughter, she wants to help others regain some of the joy and play too often taken from parentified children and help them tap into their inherent gifts and heal generational trauma.

 

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