Mimi Kuo-Deemer
Mimi has been a student of yoga since 1995 and an avid lover of dance since 1978, when her mother put her in ballet school for walking with turned-in toes. Mimi mainly teaches a breath and alignment-based vinyasa yoga that is cross-pollinated with aspects of Daoist and Buddhist teachings.
She champions meditation as the answer to just about all of life's most pressing questions, and never underestimates the strength and clarity that yoga can provide at times when life turns grim corners. Her two main teachers in the yoga world, Erich Schiffmann and Donna Farhi, continually humble her with the idea that yoga is the art of living, listening, and learning to embody a deeply spiritual tradition.
In 2002, Mimi co-founded Yoga Yard, Beijing’s first and leading yoga studio, which she co-directed for seven years. She now lives in London, and teaches classes, workshops and retreats in the UK and internationally. She is the author of the DVD "Vinyasa Yoga: A Steady Mindful Practice".
Champion of Change Podcast with Mimi
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Mimi combines a sense of humour in story telling, with telling us how it is. In this chat, Mimi shares her radical vision of a sustainable health and fitness. This is a vision in which we move for our health and wellbeing not for a sense of accomplishment. Where our target is to live more in tune with the natural world and our life’s rhythms.
Courses with Mimi
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Spring Into Action: Feisty Option
7 Steps
Put a little pizazz into your routine with inversions and balances to enhance your vitality.
Build Courage and Resilience
15 Steps
Strong yoga and deep relaxation for when life is tough.
Sharpen Your Mind
12 Steps
Practices to improve your focus and concentration and enhance your study breaks with yoga.
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Happy Hour Yoga
21 Steps
Transition mindfully from your working day into the evening.
Start to Flow with Vinyasa Yoga
17 Steps
Develop your understanding of Vinyasa Yoga and start to flow with this 17-day course.
Move Into Calm: Yoga to reset and recentre
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Yoga to Heal Heartache
21 Steps
Ease the pain of heartbreak and find equilibrium again through the practice of yoga.
Build Your Flow
30 Steps
A 30-day course to deepen your Vinyasa Flow.
Cultivating Energy
25 Steps
Explore how yoga and qigong complement each other offering profound energy cultivation.
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Try Your Style
14 Steps
Explore styles of yoga you've yet to try and maybe discover a new favourite.
Gentle Yoga to Nourish & Support
5 Steps
Mimi Kuo-Deemer shares practices to nourish, support and revitalise your body and mind.
Women's Wellbeing
28 Steps
Learn about the inner seasons of your menstrual cycle and explore each season through classes, yoga nidra and other supportive practices.
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Time to Breathe
21 Steps
Classes to support key workers who are overstretched. Short classes to practice any time and anywhere.
Immunity and Wellbeing
15 Steps
A series of classes to help support your immunity and wellbeing.
Yoga Gently
25 Steps
Gentle yoga classes which are perfect if you are less mobile, recovering from illness or injury, are older or new to yoga.
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Home Yoga Retreat
10 Steps
A home yoga retreat: perfect when you are unable to attend a retreat in person.
Home Yoga Retreat 2
10 Steps
Our second home retreat exploring the joy of being present right here, right now.
The Strength Challenge
28 Steps
Classes to help you to build strength and apply your strength to more challenging yoga poses.
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Outdoor Yoga
18 Steps
Playful yoga classes to take outdoors for a greater connection with nature.
Ancient Wisdom for Modern Life 1
32 Steps
This course introduces Patanjali's eight-limbed path.
Ancient Wisdom for Modern Life 2
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Energise
30 Steps
Short classes all under 45 minutes to energise.
Calm
30 Steps
Shorter classes under 45 minutes to help you move into a state of calm.
Work Break
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Yoga for Anxiety
45 Steps
Yoga for AnxietyThere are times when life can leave us overwhelmed and anxious. Yoga, meditation and visualisation, breathwork and journaling can help.This is a four-week course to help you address your relationship to anxiety. In this course you will find:28 yoga classesBreathwork classes including an SOS breathwork classMeditation classesJournaling an [...]
Small Steps to Change: Autumn/Winter
28 Steps
Classes of 30 minutes and under to develop a sustainable yoga practice for life. It's the smallest steps that can lead to the greatest transformations.
Ageless Movement
32 Steps
Age is a relative concept. Whilst we don’t believe there is any one appropriate yoga for seniors, we do believe that maintaining movement as we age is vital.
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ReWild Yourself
35 Steps
Step by step this course helps to uncover who we are and rediscover our true, wild, nature, through movement and meditation classes.
Travel Unwind Summer Sessions
15 Steps
Summertime travels are fabulous, but travel can cause it’s own stresses and strains, and we all know that sometimes it can feel like it takes a week to just start to wind-down from our pressured, modern lives.
New Year Yoga Challenge
30 Steps
(Re)commit to doing yoga every day! Perfect for us who get busy or get distracted, and adventurers who like a variety of teachers and styles. Take small steps to our 2023 intention of yoga every day with under 30-minutes of yoga each day.
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Springtime 30 Day Yoga Challenge
30 Steps
MFML's Springtime 30-Day Yoga Challenge: Taking Small Steps to a Healthy, Happy and Sustainable Life + I had been doing Yoga for a long time, but that 30 day challenge gave me a much needed kick up the you know what!! Andy - Mover since 2020It can seem like everything is shifting around us. Seemingly everything we once knew as solid is melting into t [...]
Qigong for Healing Heartbreak
5 Steps
+ HEALING HEARTBREAK In Chinese medicine and qigong, the heart is seen as the sovereign and ruler of your body. In this gentle qigong series, we explore movements that help calm, nourish, support and awaken the heart and help it govern our bodily domain with care, spaciousness and ease. We can learn to heal heartbreak and access the wisdom of our he [...]
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