You're not supposed to cause harm to any being, including yourself.
In yoga, there is a concept of ahimsa, which means respect for all living things and avoidance of violence toward others. Ahimsa also includes avoidance of harm to oneself.
There are many ways to harm ourselves, but one way that's all too common and often rewarded is through overextension, of not knowing the boundary between when it's time to tap in and when it's okay to tap out.
Through Biola's experience as a yogi, activist, and campaigner since 2009, she's experienced this firsthand. A significant turning point for her was in 2017 after she experienced personal loss and realized some of the generational roots of her unhealthy habits and output expectations, which you can read more about here.
A big question for Biola was how to start investing small bits of time in cementing habits and patterns to create a more balanced life.
For Biola, that first looked like learning to make candles and soaps as a way to focus on rediscovering play as an adult. Since then, she has studied many styles of yoga and meditation as part of a suite of physical and spiritual tools to help ground and find space for more profound clarity, inner peace, and mindfulness in the present moment. Now, her goal is to share that in the hopes that we can better approach our work without abandoning ourselves.
Mercurial Flow is her space for exploring balance, play, and recommitment to oneself.