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. She is an internationally-known teacher of
yoga as exercise 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". as well as the yoga video service oneOeight and the non-profit 109 World. 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. 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. == Personal life ==