Biola grew up in Brooklyn in a large Pentecostal family, and found her earliest language in storytelling. As a graduate of the All-Star Project's Youth Onstage Program, she discovered her voice as an actress and playwright, writing and producing her first play, "Conversations in Perdition," at the Castillo Theatre in 2011. She went on to earn a bachelor's degree in political science from Brooklyn College, where she helped found a statewide nonprofit dedicated to making college education free and participated in the first collectively run business at the City University of New York.

That foundation carried her into a decade of advocacy work, culminating in her role as Mid-Atlantic Communications Director at Working Families Party, where she led narrative strategy, earned media, and campaign communications across electoral, racial, environmental, and economic justice efforts. She was good at it. She was also burning out.

In 2017, she began listening to what the burnout was actually telling her. She started small. Mercurial Flow began as a personal practice, a way to create things that brought her joy and reclaim a relationship with herself that the pace of movement work had worn thin. What started as candles and soap became the seed of something much larger.

She completed her first 200-hour yoga teacher training in Washington, D.C. in 2018, deepening a practice she had begun as an undergrad. In 2022, she stepped fully into the life she had been building toward. She took a sabbatical, spent three months traveling through Mexico, studied Spanish, and immersed herself in communities of people who had also decided to imagine something different and then actually do it. Later that year, she left her full-time role, spent two months in Bali, and completed her 300-hour yoga teacher training.

She has continued her studies in somatic healing, completing Reiki Level 1 certification and Integrative Somatic Parts Work training through Levels 1 through 3. Her teaching spans vinyasa and yin traditions.

Today, Biola spends over half the year traveling full-time, leading workshops, retreats, and classes around the world. She is proficient in Spanish and French. And after many years, she finally learned how to swim.

As an eldest daughter who knows what it costs to hold everything together for everyone else, she brings that knowledge directly into her work. She helps mission-driven people and teams reconnect with the parts of themselves that strategizing alone cannot reach, so they can lead with more range, more groundedness, and more of the joy that drew them to the work in the first place.