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I’m hereby kindly asking everyone to respect my privacy and to please, please, please: STOP COMING TO MY PRIVATE HOME. There has been several instances lately where I come home to find people lurking around our house, waiting for me or trying to get in through our front gate. I’ve been through some very weird stuff with this social media circus including getting people’s hair sent to me in the mail, receiving love letters from clearly unstable people, threats coming in against Dennis, people grabbing me in the street and we’ve even had people fly to the island, spend days trying to locate us and then open our front door and walk all the way into our kitchen without even knocking. Just like that. I was in my PJs eating breakfast. That one was a biggie and left me feeling completely unsafe in my own home. We’ve since installed a security gate, an alarm system and cameras where before we’d never even lock the house. We live in a safe country but after that I didn’t feel safe anymore. So far most of these invasions of privacy have been “positive”, people wanting to say hi or leave a gift or just excitedly meet me but some have been very scary. Opening @island.yoga is part of wanting to provide a place for people to connect with us, it’s a public space where I am intentionally inviting the world to come visit, hang out, practice yoga and spend time. My private home is NOT that. I just came home to a group of people standing outside my house pretending to casually have just passed by, yelling “yoga giiiiiiirl” as they sped away. It’s not fucking funny. Please respect my privacy. I know 99% of you wouldn’t even think to do something this violating and fully understand why it’s freaking me out. To the 1% that think that invading my privacy and showing up at my home is ok because I’m a public person online – it’s not. Not even a little bit. Please respect my privacy and connect with me on my terms. Practice with me online, come to a class, join a retreat, do a teacher training. Sharing my teachings is my favorite thing in the world and I welcome every single person looking to connect in that way because I’m inviting it. But don’t show up at my house. thank you

A post shared by Rachel Brathen (@yoga_girl) on Jan 4, 2017 at 2:37pm PST