Rachel Brathen — the person behind the @yogagirl handle — is a Swedish yoga instructor and author who built a substantial wellness following during the early Instagram era, when her candid blend…
Total Followers -0.1%
1.9M
Across YouTube, Instagram
Primary Platform
YouTube
76K followers · 4% of audience
Engagement
2.3%
vs. 1.5% category median
Sponsorship Tier
Macro
Est. $22K–$51K / IG post
Brathen hosted a week-long event in Sweden featuring yoga, hiking, sauna, and campfire gatherings — her first retreat based in her hometown since relocating from Aruba.
Brathen openly discussed 'the hidden cost of turning passion into performance' and her personal recalibration away from the yoga identity she built her brand on.
In a special podcast episode, she traced the company's history from her first class in 2012 through the OneOeight/Yoga Girl evolution, and openly invited potential buyers to learn more.
The intimate retreat brought together 31 women for bucket-list experiences in the Arctic, underscoring her pivot toward high-touch, experiential retreats over digital content.
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| Last 90 days | -198 -0.3% | -5883 -0.3% | +0 +0.0% | -6081 |
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Daily follower snapshots from CreatorDB's longitudinal index.
| Brand | Type | Platform | Date | Performance vs. baseline |
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| One Tribe Yoga / Wellness App | Founder / owned brand | 2016–Long-term | — | |
| Island Yoga Yoga Retreat / Studio | Founder / owned brand | 2012–Long-term | — | |
| Ala Farms Homestead / Agriculture | Founder / owned brand | Long-term | — | |
| Yoga Girl Official Wellness / Lifestyle Brand | Founder / owned brand | Long-term | — |
Rachel Brathen — the person behind the @yogagirl handle — is a Swedish yoga instructor and author who built a substantial wellness following during the early Instagram era, when her candid blend of yoga philosophy, personal storytelling, and sun-soaked lifestyle content stood out from the more curated fitness accounts of the time. She has since relocated her family to Sweden, where she operates Ala Farms, a working homestead that has steadily reoriented her content toward herbalism, gardening, and rural domesticity alongside her foundational yoga practice. She also hosts the From the Heart podcast, which extends her voice into long-form wellness conversations. YouTube activity has been dormant for several years, making Instagram her active publishing home.
Her content today occupies a distinctive hybrid lane — part traditional wellness instructor, part homesteading chronicler, part candid life commentator — which likely explains the unusually even gender split in her audience, a rarity in yoga-adjacent niches. Engagement sits comfortably above category median, suggesting a loyal core following rather than passive reach inflation. Her rate card places her firmly in macro-tier territory, and her brand positioning — grounded in self-care, slow living, and family — makes her a natural fit for wellness supplements, sustainable goods, and organic food brands rather than performance or fashion categories. As the homesteading aesthetic continues gaining cultural traction, her Ala Farms pivot looks increasingly well-timed.
Yoga_Girl reaches its audience primarily through YouTube, and is best activated via long-form YouTube integrations, Instagram Reels and Stories. Their sponsorship history skews toward Yoga / Wellness App, Yoga Retreat / Studio, Homestead / Agriculture, a clear signal of fit for brands in those categories. Demonstrated partners include One Tribe and Island Yoga. Engagement on YouTube runs around 2.3%, which points to an audience better suited to category-relevant, mid-funnel campaigns than to pure-reach buys. The channel's mix of long-form YouTube integrations and Instagram Reels and Stories lets a sponsor choose between short awareness placements and longer, more detailed integrations. Because the audience follows fitness content rather than arriving through untargeted reach, sponsorships that match the channel's subject matter tend to convert more efficiently than broad placements. A consistent, on-topic posting focus gives sponsors a predictable, brand-safe environment, lowering placement risk compared with broad, general-interest channels. Campaigns here are best measured on qualified engagement and consideration within the niche rather than on raw impression volume. For brands in Yoga / Wellness App and related categories, Yoga_Girl offers a defined, creative-fit audience rather than broad, low-intent impressions.
Benchmark estimates for a creator at Yoga_Girl's tier (Macro, 1.9M combined followers, —). Pulled from CreatorDB's category benchmarks.
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Yoga Girl's real name is Rachel Brathen. She built her brand around the @yogagirl and @yogagirlofficial handles, but uses her given name for her podcast, farm business, and professional collaboration inquiries.
Yes, Rachel Brathen spent years living and teaching yoga in Aruba, where she ran retreats and grew her international following. She has since relocated to Sweden with her family, which now serves as the backdrop for her homesteading and farm-focused content.
Ala Farms is Rachel Brathen's family farm in Sweden, which she runs as part of her homesteading lifestyle. It is one of the businesses she links directly from her social profiles and features regularly in her day-to-day content.
From the Heart is Rachel Brathen's podcast, listed in her bios as @fromtheheartpodcast. It reflects her broader focus on self-care, emotional wellness, and personal growth — topics that extend well beyond yoga instruction.
Yes, Rachel Brathen published Yoga Girl in 2015, which helped turn her social media presence into a globally recognized wellness brand. The book covers her personal journey into yoga, intentional living, and the experiences that shaped her philosophy.
Rachel Brathen's YouTube channel has been inactive for around four years, with her focus clearly shifting to Instagram as her primary platform. Her Instagram remains regularly updated with lifestyle, homesteading, and self-care content and continues to drive strong audience engagement.
Yes, yoga retreats remain part of Rachel Brathen's brand — the hashtag #yogaretreat appears in her recent content. While her daily posts now lean heavily toward farm life and motherhood, retreat experiences are still something she organizes and promotes.
Her current content spans herbalism, gardening, homesteading, and motherhood, reflecting a lifestyle pivot toward rural Sweden and farm living. Posts about raising chickens, growing her own food, self-care rituals, and family life are now just as central to her feed as yoga tutorials.
Rachel Brathen's homestead, tied to Ala Farms in Sweden, includes a working garden and chickens — she has posted about a hawk getting into her chicken coop and documents seasonal gardening and herbalism practices. The farm reflects a full shift toward self-sufficient, land-connected living.
Rachel Brathen remains very active, with Instagram now her main home and her engagement running well above the typical category average for creators of her size. Her YouTube is dormant, but between her Instagram, From the Heart podcast, and Ala Farms, she is consistently present in the wellness space.
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