Yoli Alma-Flor (they/them) is a shapeshifter and re-indigenzing cornstalk living in the bay area (Ohlone land), from the border (Cahuilla, Cocopah, Kumeyaay land), with mixed-roots in central mexico: Nahua, Spanish & Re-Membering. They are equally rooted by IndigiQueer and Curandere community.

Their life is an ever-changing patchwork of devotional practices at the intersections of artmaking/ creation, performance, flowers, redwoods, mountains, chihuahuas, queer things, indigenous reclamation, embodiment, play, and healing. 

Yoli has a BA in Studio Art from Pomona College and a permaculture certificate through Soulflower Farm; and they are invested in their embodied research with the Land that they share in their art and “Theatre of Life” embodiment methodology (see below for more info).

As a Performance and Interdisciplinary Artist; Yoli weaves choreographies, cosmologies, and art-as-medicine at the intersections of queer intimacy and Indigenous futurism.

They also create and share through the mediums of video/photography, movement, sculpture, installation, writing, friendship, medicine making, "being", and other emergent forms.

Yoli’s art and art workshops have been hosted by DIY spaces, dance parties, retreat spaces,  Frieze LA, MASS MoCa, The Tulsa Artist Fellowship, Chan Gallery, and Pomona College’s Art Department as a guest lecturer. They have also been awarded residencies and grants through The Ghostlight Residency, The Golden Dome School, and BAAIT’s Two-Spirit Artist Mini Grant.

As an Embodiment Facilitator De La Tierra, Yoli is devoted to the wisdom of the Body and Land. On their journey of finding their way home to themself, they have been guided by the Land, Elements, Directions, Plantcestors, their Body, their Ancestral Guides, their Blood and Chosen Family, and the fierce care/love of their IndigiQueer, Curandere, Nahua, Mesoamerican, Diasporic, and Interspecies Teachers.

As a wounded misfit, Yoli has been deeply severed from their body, intuition, and the Land because of personal trauma and systemic/colonial oppression.

They have been guided by first teacher (the Land) and other-than-human-kin to a life they are grateful to have. Along this journey, these relatives have guided Yoli to performance art, punk spaces, magic, herbalism, mindfulness, and IndigiQueer sanctuaries (aka IndigiQueer people…relationships are sanctuaries) to reconnect to the essence and joy of “being here” and “being alive”.

The Theatre of Life embodiment methodology, is an altar to these practices, ideologies, and relationships. Theatre of Life nurtures the connection between the body, land, and our other-the-human-teachers rooted in play and ancestral teachings. At the heart of Theatre of Life is the remembrance of the power these original teachers hold to guide us toward harmony, healing, and a joyful-playful way of life.