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 training as a community herbalist and 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; Yoli weaves choreographies, cosmologies, and art-as-medicine at the intersections of queer intimacy and Indigenous futurism. 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 & Community Herbalist, 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/Nature because of personal trauma and systemic/colonial oppression.They found their way to performance art, punk spaces, magic, herbalism, mindfulness, and IndigiQueer sanctuaries (aka IndigiQueer people…relationships are sanctuaries) where they fell apart and first began to build a relationship with their alive body and the Land/Nature/Plants. 

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