Swedish Instagram star is a pilot by day and yoga addict by night

MEET the Swedish pilot who splits her time between flying round the world and practising her bendy yoga moves.

Pilot Malin Rydqvist at work. Picture: Caters

MEET the Swedish pilot who splits her time between flying round the world and practising her bendy yoga moves.

Malin Rydqvist uses the exotic locations she flies to as picturesque backdrops for snaps of her perfecting her impressive poses.

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The 29-year-old, who has more than 45,000 followers on Instagram, can be seen pulling shapes against magnificent mountains, sparkling oceans and on scenic shores.

Swapping her Boeing 737 pilot uniform for beachwear, Malin soaks up the sun as she perfects advanced yoga headstands, the king dancer move and the tricky monkey pose which involves suspending herself in the air.

Many shots, like this one of her perched between two rocks overlooking the ocean, almost defy belief.

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Malin, who goes by the Instagram handle @flymeyoga, told how she took up yoga after a snowboarding accident in 2008, which left her with back pain.

She said: “I tried everything and the only thing that really worked for me was yoga.

“It helps me to understand myself better and also to be a better person towards others. It gets addictive.”

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Malin is currently planning her wedding and said it’s “really exciting to plan the day of me and my big love”.

Earlier this year we told how another Swedish pilot’s cockpit selfies have earned her more than 130,000 fans on Instagram.

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Maria Pettersson, 32, started documenting her life in the flight deck so her friends and family could see her at work.

This article originally appeared on The Sun.