Hi guys welcome back to Mr. Arroby. This is our brand new series that is focused on

on mindset and mindfulness.

And I'm really excited to be bringing this to you.

And it is brand new, but we've had a few guests on,

and the guests we have today is absolutely phenomenal.

I cannot wait to introduce you guys to her. You might know her as a New York Times best-selling author or the founder and CEO of Yoga Girl.

So without further ado, I'm to introduce you guys to to Rachel

Brathan. Welcome to the show Rachel I'm so excited to host you.

Thank you so much for having I want to get started but learning all about you you know and where your journey began with

mindfulness and you know your yoga practice and everything if you could walk us down

memory late yeah of course for sure So I was born in race in Sweden, and I lived in Sweden until I was about 18 years old, and I had kind of a troubled team years. I think a lot of people do, I mean who has a great, who has a great team experience? I don't know.

But mine was particularly just kind of dark and heavy and I was depressed and just didn't know what to do with my life.

I had a lot of physical pain.

I've had my whole life.

I had scoliosis when I was young in a car accident.

I just was in physical pain and kind of mental emotional pain and I ended up at a meditation retreat when I was 17 and a half almost 18 years old.

Out of the blue I'd never meditated ever in my life. 17 and a half almost 18 years old.

Out of the blue, I'd never meditated ever in my life.

I was just not feeling well and looking for something to help.

And that really was the beginning of me changing my life. It led to me moving away from Sweden. I ended up in

Costa Rica and that's where I found the yoga practice, which of course meditation is a huge part of yoga.

Yeah. So I was really young and you know started practicing yoga and it changed my life the way

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