Mimi Kuo-Deemer

Mimi is an author and teacher of qigong, mindfulness, and internal martial arts (6th generation Baguazhang). She is dedicated to sharing the ways in which these practices can help people meet the messy, complicated job of being human with greater compassion and ease. Originally from Tucson, Arizona, she lived in Beijing, China for over 14 years before moving to the UK. Mimi now lives outside Oxford, where she and her husband have a small holding with one dog, three cats, 6 chickens and 60,000 bees. She is a graduate of Stanford University and SOAS, where she received her MA with distinction in Traditions of Yoga and Meditation. 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. This is her second time co-teachingat the Moulin with Martin Aylward, who is also her dharma teacher.