Yoga Girl Quit Yoga: Here's Why the Most Famous Yogi, Rachel Brathen, Walked Away From It All

What if the thing you loved most became the cage you needed to escape?In this episode, Rachel Brathen (Yoga Girl) joins Garry Lineham to explore the hidden cost of turning passion into performance and the radical recalibration required to come home to yourself. Together, they uncover how chronic pain, burnout, and disconnection are not failures of discipline but signals from a body asking you to release the restriction and remember what healing actually feels like.Rachel shares her journey from teaching 25 yoga classes a week to building a homestead rooted in presence, land, and analog connection, proving that true wellness isn't found in more movement but in learning how to let go.In this conversation, you'll learn:• Why chronic back pain isn't about weakness but restriction stored in the solar plexus and diaphragm• The truth about maintaining patterns to stay pain-free and why it eventually stops working• How fascia maneuvers release stuck tissue in minutes without needing a practitioner• Why turning your passion into a business can disconnect you from the very thing that healed you• How releasing restriction in the body mirrors releasing restriction in your life, identity, and purposeYour body knows how to heal; our fascia programs show it the way. From 15-minute stress resets to full transformations, find your program here. Unlock your body's intelligence with us at humangarage.net/programsYou can find Rachel Brathen here:Website: yogagirl.comInstagram: @yoga_girl