Mimi Kuo-Deemer

Mimi is an author of two books and teacher of meditation and the movement arts. She is dedicated to sharing how sitting, breathing and conscious movement can provide the clearest and most compassionate perspective on the messy, complex and often unpredictable job of being human. A graduate of Stanford University (class of ‘94) and SOAS, where she received her MA with distinction in Traditions of Yoga and Meditation, Mimi is a second-generation Chinese American who now lives in the British countryside, where she and her husband have a small holding with one dog, three cats and 5 chickens and 60,000 bees. Prior to moving to the UK, she lived in China for over 14 years where she worked as a photojournalist as well as co-founded and co-directed of Yoga Yard, Beijing’s first and leading yoga studio. In addition to teaching and writing, Mimi also helps run the Glow Fund charitable trust – a charity she and her husband established that helps disadvantaged Chinese and ethnically Tibetan children with severe orthopaedic conditions receive life-changing operations. www.mkdeemer.com