Biola Jeje is a Nigerian-American Yoga Teacher, Coach, Activist, and Communications Strategist.
Her 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 relation 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 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.