Rachel Brathen
Swedish author and yoga teacher
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Rachel Brathen (born Rachel Bråthén, Swedish pronunciation: [ˈrɑ̌ːkɛl brɔˈteːn], 5 October 1988) is a Swedish yoga teacher, a pioneer of paddleboard yoga, and the founder of Island Yoga Aruba in the Caribbean. She is the author of the 2015 book Yoga Girl.
Rachel Brathen | |
|---|---|
| Born | 5 October 1988 Sweden |
| Occupation | Yoga teacher |
| Known for | Yoga Girl |
| Website | https://www.yogagirl.com/ |
Biography
Rachel Brathen was born in Sweden on 5 October 1988. After graduating from secondary school, she went to Costa Rica to pursue yoga; she lived there for three years. She was one of the pioneers of stand-up paddleboard yoga; she started teaching it in 2009.[1]
She is an internationally-known teacher of yoga as exercise[2][3][4][5][6] She is the author of the book Yoga Girl,[7] which became a New York Times best-seller in 2015,[8] popularising the line "Yoga every damn day".[9]
Brathen founded a yoga studio called Island Yoga Aruba[10] as well as the yoga video service oneOeight[11] and the non-profit 109 World.[12] In 2017, Forbes named Brathen on its list of the most important social media influencers in the fitness category, noting that Brathen can command a $25,000 fee per Instagram post.[13] She is a certified yoga influencer, with a score of 98 from the influencer marketing software Klear. Brathen launched a podcast in March 2017,[14] which reached the iTunes charts.[13] In 2019, she published an autobiography, To love and let go: a memoir of love, loss, and gratitude.[15]