Lady Rabia Abdul-Hakim
Practically Magic

How can you look thirty but be almost fifty, have six grown children, be an author, illustrator, entrepreneur, advisor, a charity ambassador and run two marathons in two days?

Join Lady Rabia to learn the magical superpower to do it all.

Biography:
Lady Rabia Abdul-Hakim is an author, speaker, athlete, illustrator and an entrepreneur from the Cayman Islands. She has been a life-long ambassador for the country in a variety of fields from the arts to sports and women’s empowerment.

Crowned Miss Teen Cayman Brac and Miss Teen Cayman Islands in 1986, she went on to complete in taekwondo, ultimately being awarded the 1992 Sportsperson of the Year and a 1994 World Cup taekwondo team member. Recognised as the 1998 Outstanding Graduate in Economics from the University of Tampa, she moved to Saudi Arabia where she cofounded a cause marketing company, working with some of the Kingdom’s most well known charities. In 2011, she created Granny & Tokyo, Cayman’s first family entertainment brand. Today, she is the mother of six and the Director of ContessaBlack Entertainment, a publishing company. She is also a member of the FoC Core Group which advises on, and supports, the national interests of the Cayman Islands. She is a Community Ambassador for Fight for Sight UK and a advocate for women’s empowerment.

Mimi Kuo-Deemer
The Power of Movement

How do you go from being a sick, overworked professional photographer to being an author and an expert practitioner in yoga, mindfulness and several forms of the Chinese internal arts?

Join Mimi to hear how movement can powerfully revolutionise your life.

Biography:
Mimi Kuo-Deemer is an author 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 and SOAS, where she received her MA with distinction in Traditions of Yoga and Meditation, Mimi is a second-generation American-born Chinese who now lives in the British countryside with her husband, 6 chickens, three cats and Labrador puppy. 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