Raine Baljak

Raine Baljak started her career as an artist then print-ad and runway fashion model endorsing products and designers in the Asia-Pacific. Maintaining tip-top shape in these industries sparked her interest to optimize health and manage her eczema as a certified natural farmer, ashtanga and restorative yoga teacher, Barbell Rehab strength coach, and AIDA 2 freediver.

After earning the beauty queen title of Miss Cebu 2016 to represent the Cebu City Tourism Commission, she used this platform to spearhead projects to empower the youth and women through weightlifting, promote waste management, and develop remote communities in the Philippines through marine conservation and clean-up projects by freediving.

Baljak is a two-time TedTalk speaker who previously conducted diet and fitness workshops and one-on-one coaching at BaBeBoBs Beauty & Fitness Consultancy. However, when the pandemic hit, she moved to Japan to work as an orator and consultant, while helping co-found Japan Poster Shop then released her music compositions on Spotify.

In 2022, Baljak returned to Australia as an awardee of the UniSA Vacation Research Scholarship and is currently honing her knowledge and skills in the Bachelor of Health Science program at the University of South Australia while fulfilling her responsibilities as an executive committee member for the UniSA Rock Climbing and Women in STEM Clubs. For both 2023 and 2024, Raine was nominated for the esteemed New Colombo Plan Scholarship and was awarded in 2024.

This blog was created to connect by sharing suggestions for studying sciences, maintaining optimum health with a chronic condition, and her life’s adventures.