Move through change without losing yourself.
I help people and organizations build the capacity to navigate change without abandoning themselves, their values, or what matters most.
I'm Biola. A somatic practitioner, RYT-500 yoga teacher, and communications strategist working at the intersection of embodied resilience, movement, and purposeful change.
My work takes two forms.
Mercurial Flow is where I work with people and teams through yoga, somatic practice, nervous system resilience, retreats, and embodied experiences.
Mercurial Strategy is where I work with labor unions, nonprofits, and advocacy organizations through narrative strategy, messaging, earned media, and communications.
Different tools. Different scales. Both rooted in the same question: how do we adapt to what is changing without losing ourselves in the process?
I know what it takes
to carry a lot.
For more than a decade, I worked inside electoral, racial, environmental, and economic justice movements, leading narrative strategy and earned media for organizations doing high-stakes work under real pressure.
I learned how to move quickly. How to anticipate what a room needed before anyone said it out loud. How to hold things together when everyone around me was running on empty. I stayed up late on election nights, making sure press statements went out the moment results did, matching the pace of news breaking in real time more times than I can count.
I was good at the work. I also watched what that pace does to a person over time, myself included.
That question is the throughline of everything I've built since.
Go back
and get it.
Sankofa is an Adinkra symbol from the Akan people of Ghana, often translated as "go back and get it."
In my early thirties, that idea became an invitation: return to the facets of myself I'd set aside, and bring them forward. Play. Curiosity. Creativity. Rest.
I grew up in Brooklyn in a large Pentecostal family, where I learned early how to be responsible, anticipate what others needed, and be useful. I also learned to put my own wants last on the list.
So when I finally had room to ask what I actually wanted, I took the question seriously. Not what would make me more impressive, or more employable, or more needed. What I wanted, on its own terms.
I traveled. I spent three months in Mexico learning Spanish, then kept studying French. I learned to swim as an adult. None of it was strategic, and that was the point.
Ground. Play. Transform.
That question became the foundation of how I live and how I work.
Ground
I returned to yoga and completed my first 200-hour teacher training in Washington, D.C., in 2018, followed by a 300-hour training in Bali. Grounding wasn't purely about the certifications. It was about learning to inhabit my own life, and to stop treating sensitivity as a problem to solve.
Play
Play stopped being something I'd earn after the real work was done. I let myself be a beginner again, at anything that had no strategic value beyond being genuinely mine. Not everything valuable has to be productive.
Transform
Nothing about this was optimization. I became steadier by making room for the parts of me I used to treat as inconvenient. They weren't obstacles. They were mine.
Ground, Play, Transform is how I understand sustainable change. We ground enough to know where we stand. We make room for curiosity and possibility. From there, transformation becomes something we can actually live inside, not something we force.
What started as a personal
practice became Mercurial Flow.
Today I facilitate embodied resilience and nervous system work for individuals and organizations, and I've built spaces including PAUSE, a six-week presence practice series; Resilient Teams, workshops for advocacy groups and campaign staff; Pour Into You, a retreat for Black women and Black queer folks; and BIPOC Adult Summer Camp, an annual queer-centered retreat that creates space for BIPOC and QTBIPOC adults to rest, reconnect, and be in community without shrinking themselves.
The forms vary. The invitation stays the same: come back to yourself, make room for what brings you alive, build the capacity to meet change without abandoning who you are.
Belonging,
practiced together.
These spaces exist because people carrying so much for others rarely get somewhere that pours back into them. Every retreat, every workshop, every gathering is built the same way: come as you are, take up the space you need.
I bring the same question
to organizations.
Mercurial Strategy draws on more than a decade in narrative strategy, earned media, campaign communications, and movement work.
I had to pivot during tough campaign moments when emergent shifts radically changed what our campaign needed to communicate, while staying rooted in our original goals. I learned to read a room fast, tell the truth inside real constraints, and help a team say something true under pressure instead of something safe.
That experience revealed something I now see everywhere: organizations need capacity too. When the conversation shifts, you need to adapt without losing your message. When the stakes rise, you need communications that respond to the moment while staying tied to what you actually stand for.
Through Mercurial Strategy, I help labor unions, nonprofits, and advocacy organizations clarify their positioning, strengthen their communication, and build the narrative infrastructure to move people into action. This is strategy-first work: messaging, positioning, narrative, earned media, and the communications systems that let an organization respond without losing the thread.
I'm still
having fun.
I still travel. I still study languages. I still follow my curiosity into side quests. Getting older taught me that taking your life seriously doesn't mean being serious all the time. There are places I haven't been, things I haven't learned, dimensions of myself I haven't met. I'm interested in all of them.
That's part of what I want my work to make room for too. Not just the capacity to endure our lives, but the capacity to actually be in them.
We are not static. Neither are our organizations. Neither are our lives.
Mercurial Flow and Mercurial Strategy use different tools, one works through the body, the other works through communication and strategy, but underneath both is the same belief: change does not require self-abandonment.
