Yoli Alma-Flor (they/them) is a shapeshifter and re-indigenzing cornstalk with roots along the border and so-called central mexico; 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 ongoing embodied research that they share in their art and “Theatre of Life” embodiment methodology (see below for more info).

As a Performance and Interdisciplinary Artist; they explore the intersections between queer intimacy, playful choreographies,  Land-based sentience, curanderx medicine ways, and indigenous cosmologies. They are the creative visionary of the Theatre of Life: Healing Ensemble and Performance Troupe, where the roads of ancestral arts and healing practices meet performance art and experimental theatre.

Along with their aforementioned practices, they 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, 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 was deeply severed from their body, intuition, and the Land/Nature because of personal trauma and systemic/colonial oppression.They found their way to performance art, punk spaces, magic, herbalism, and IndigiQueer sanctuaries where they fell apart and first began to build a relationship with their alive body and the Land/Nature. 

The  Theatre of Life embodiment methodology, is a scrapbook and catalogue of these practices and ideologies. Theatre of Life nurtures the connection between the body and  Land/Nature rooted in play and ancestral teachings; honoring play as embodied Land-based medicine. 

Yoli cares about “paradise & sanctuary” for all beings, but especially for their 2-Spirit and IndigiQueer kin. They are in an apprenticeship with the Land and their Spirit Guides; learning the heart of healing and holding healing space rooted in Curanderx & IndigiQueer traditions. As they continue to cultivate these gifts, they honor that they are for the purpose of our collective liberation and healing justice at the scale and pace of intimate connection. They share these gifts with this intention and discernment. They are grateful to be able to share limpias, baños, plantita medicina, and journeying with friends, family, and in their medicine communities.

They are currently an organizer and creative wizard with the Healing Clinic Collective and, through this sacred work, they are participating and continuing the legacy of HCC’s approach to collective healing, healing justice, and ceremonial organizing.