Rachel Brathen | |
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Born | Sweden | October 5, 1988
Occupation | Yoga teacher |
Known for | Yoga Girl |
Website | https://www.yogagirl.com/ |
Rachel Brathen ( Swedish: Rachel Bråthén, IPA: [ˈrɑ̌ːkɛl brɔˈteːn]) 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 was born in Sweden on the 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 (SUP 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]
She and her husband Dennis lived on Aruba, where he administered her yoga business. They married in June 2014. They now live in Sweden. [1] [9] and have a daughter and a son. [16]
Rachel Brathen | |
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Born | Sweden | October 5, 1988
Occupation | Yoga teacher |
Known for | Yoga Girl |
Website | https://www.yogagirl.com/ |
Rachel Brathen ( Swedish: Rachel Bråthén, IPA: [ˈrɑ̌ːkɛl brɔˈteːn]) 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 was born in Sweden on the 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 (SUP 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]
She and her husband Dennis lived on Aruba, where he administered her yoga business. They married in June 2014. They now live in Sweden. [1] [9] and have a daughter and a son. [16]