Rachel Brathen ( sv , Rachel Bråthén, ) is a Swedish yoga teacher, a pioneer of
paddleboard yoga
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, and the founder of Island Yoga Aruba in the Caribbean. She is the author of the best-selling 2015 book ''Yoga Girl''.
Biography
Rachel Brathen was born in
Sweden on the 5th of October 1988. After graduating from secondary school, she went to
Costa Rica to pursue yoga; she lived there for three years, doing yoga daily. In 2010 she travelled to
Aruba for a holiday, meeting her future husband Dennis. She returned to Aruba to be with him; they now live there. She was one of the pioneers of
Stand-Up Paddleboard Yoga (SUP Yoga); she started teaching it in 2009.
She now includes it in all the events that she leads and at festivals such as
Wanderlust
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Etymology
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around the world.
She is an internationally-known teacher of
yoga as exercise
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She is the author of the book ''Yoga Girl'',
which became a
''New York Times'' best-seller in 2015,
popularising the line "Yoga every damn day".
"Yoga Girl" is also the name of Brathen's
Instagram account.
Brathen founded a yoga studio called Island Yoga Aruba as well as the yoga video service oneOeight
and the non-profit 109 World.
In 2017, ''
Forbes
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'' named Brathen on its list of the most important
social media
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influencers in the fitness category, noting that Brathen can command a $25,000 fee per Instagram post.
She is a certified Yoga influencer, with a score of 98 from the influencer marketing software
Klear. Brathen launched a podcast in March 2017,
which reached the
iTunes charts.
[
In 2019, she published an autobiography, ''To love and let go: a memoir of love, loss, and gratitude''.]
Personal life
She speaks four languages, Swedish
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, English
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, Spanish
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Other places
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and Papiamento (spoken on Aruba).
See also
* Yoga in Sweden
References
External links
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Living people
Yoga teachers
1988 births
21st-century Swedish women