DUBAI: Kayanee, a wellness collective in Saudi Arabia, is redefining women’s health with its blend of fitness, fashion, nutrition, personal care, healthy eating and learning experiences. Driven by a mission to combat high diabetes and obesity rates in the Kingdom, Kayanee – located in Riyadh’s Diplomatic Quarter – inspires women to embrace a holistic approach to well-being. “Kayanee is 100 percent designed, created and executed for the purposes of encouraging and inspiring women into physical activity,” said Mimi Fraser, the managing director of Kayanee.
“Being healthy is not diet and exercise alone,” she added. “Being healthy means you have to engage your mind. You have to engage your body.
You have to engage your friends and family. You have to engage your environment.” To achieve this, Fraser and her team built Kayanee on five pillars: Physical, mental, social, environmental and financial.
“Men like to go to the gym. They put their headphones on, and they just work out. Women are totally different.
Women want something to do with friends. They call a friend. They’re like, ‘let’s go to a dance class.
Let’s go on a walk.’ And why we designed Kayanee in this way is because you have to engage your mind, you have to engage your heart, you have to engage your body, all at the same time.” In addition to regular Pilates, yoga, and high-intensity interval classes, the fitness facility offers the Kayanee Dance Fitness (KDF) class, created in collabo.
