Wellness Contributor Partner Spotlight & Featured Speaker Alba Mota

Dee's Blog
/ By Dayanara Marte

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Meet Alba Mota — Yoga & Mindfulness Instructor • Humanitarian • Language Justice Advocate

I am honored to introduce Alba Mota, one of the wellness warriors bringing Wellness to the Wealth Retreat- The Business of You – a passionate and purpose-driven leader whose life’s work bridges wellness, justice, and transformation across continents. For more than a decade, she has used yoga, mindfulness, and holistic healing as tools to restore balance in individuals and communities while advancing equity and human rights.

A two-time breast cancer survivor and proud mother, Alba’s personal healing journey inspired her to dedicate her life to helping others reclaim theirs. Through yoga, meditation, and wellness coaching, she helps children, women, and leaders rediscover the power of self-care, mindfulness, and resilience.

Her journey began when yoga and meditation helped her reclaim her health and well-being, defying medical expectations and opening the door to motherhood. From that moment, Alba committed herself to making these tools accessible to others—especially children, women, and communities facing hardship. Alba embodies resilience, grace, and the transformative power of mindfulness

In her session, Breathe, Belong, Become: Mindfulness Visioning for Survivors

Alba will guide us in a 10-minute movement flow and breath sequence to regulate the nervous system, followed by a 30-minute visioning/collage session to reconnect to purpose. This heart-centered experience encourages mindfulness and community as you clarify your goals and intentions for 2026. Participants leave with a 3-step “Visioning Board Micro-Reset” they can use anytime: Pause • Breathe • Choose.

Alba's message to Survivors: To all survivors and small business owners: You are living proof of resilience. This workshop is your invitation to pause, realign, and remember your strength. Let’s move beyond survival into creation — together.

About Alba

Founder & Visionary Leader

Alba is the Founder of Beyond Yoga Now, a holistic wellness and healing program that integrates the mind, body, emotional, and spiritual states of being. Her work emphasizes that wellness is wealth and healing is leadership — essential principles for living and leading with purpose.

She is also the Co-Founder of FUNTOSALUD International and Founder of the Border Health Mission (BHM) at the Dominican Republic–Haiti border. Since 2008, she has coordinated medical missions, food and medicine distribution, educational workshops, permaculture projects, and yoga-based healing initiatives for Dominican and Haitian communities in the border and batey regions.

In that same year, she launched the Dominican-Haitian Project at Columbia University in New York City, which convened groundbreaking dialogues between the Dominican and Haitian diasporas both in the U.S. and on the island—creating bridges of understanding, solidarity, and justice.

Global Humanitarian & Cultural Organizer

Over the past two decades, Alba has co-organized hundreds of cultural, fundraising, social justice, and spiritual retreats across the United States, Dominican Republic, Cuba, Mexico, Haiti, Brazil, Peru, Honduras, and Guatemala. Her international work has focused on racial identity, anti-racism, and the socioeconomic impacts of global trade policies on Indigenous and Afro-Indigenous communities.

She continues to serve as a bridge of love, accountability, and transformation—connecting wellness with social impact.

Interpreter & Language Justice Advocate

As a Professional Interpreter and Language Justice Educator with Caracol Language Coop, Alba has spent over a decade ensuring equitable communication for social justice movements. She helps organizations center language access as a form of dignity and power redistribution, fostering inclusion in spaces where diverse communities gather to create change.

Community Builder & Women’s Advocate

Alba is one of the co-founders of NYC Celebrates Women (NYCCW), a nonprofit organization founded to amplify the voices of women of color entrepreneurs and close the generational wealth gap through its seven pillars: Awareness, Investing, Health & Wellness, Networking, Mentorship, Philanthropy, and Tech Forward.

Through this work, she continues to empower women to lead from wholeness, create sustainable businesses, and build intergenerational wealth rooted in wellness.

“Alba’s Guiding Philosophy
Wellness is wealth.
Healing is leadership.
Mindfulness is how we build the future.

Her Gift of Healing

For The Business of You event, Alba is offering a raffle gift of a private yoga session or an Ayurvedic wellness consultation — an opportunity for participants to begin their own healing journey guided by her wisdom and care.

This generous offering reflects the heart of Alba’s work — helping women return to their bodies, listen deeply to their needs, and create sustainable wellness rituals for life and leadership.

“Healing is not a luxury — it’s our birthright.
When we honor our bodies, we remember who we truly are.”
— Alba Mota

At The Business of You

We celebrate Alba Mota as part of our Wellness Contributers, offering her wisdom and healing gifts to uplift the women in our circle.

Her presence is a reminder that wellness is wealth, and that every act of self-care ripples outward — transforming families, communities, and the world.