Brazier (22), the Black Ferns utility back, has returned to her home town to play for the Otago Spirit in this year's national provincial competition.
She was last in the Otago jersey in 2009 but has fitted in plenty of rugby in between. She won a World Cup with the Black Ferns, played a season for Canterbury last year, and had two seasons playing club rugby in Canada.
Brazier has just finished a season in Edmonton, Canada, where she played for the Clansmen club, going straight to the city after completing the Black Ferns' tour of England late last year.
"I had a bit of a break when I started there. Had about three months off, which was good for me," she said.
"They play their rugby in summer over there, as it is too cold in the winter."
Her side was in a club competition with about 10 other club teams from Edmonton and also a couple of sides from Calgary.
"The standard was quite good.
There were a few teams there that were not that good but once you got down to a top five and in the playoffs, it was a reasonable rugby.
"I didn't keep a tally of how many points I scored but I got across the line in most games."
She played at first five-eighth and was not paid but had everything apart from food provided.
She worked as a recreational therapist at a mental health facility while in Edmonton, which entailed organising trips and activities for patients.
Her stint at the club came about through a contact of scrum coach Dan Cron, the son of All Black scrum coach Mike Cron.
"The women's team in the club had been struggling a bit and they thought they might have to go down to the second division. But with what they offered and that, opportunities like this do not come around that often."
Her side finished third, which she said was a good result.
She also played in a few sevens tournaments, with wins in a couple of them and sharing some of the cash on offer.
Sevens is something she has her eye on and competing at the Olympics in the women's version of the games at Rio de Janeiro in 2016 is an obvious temptation.
"That is something I really want to do. In Canada, sevens is quite big and the national team has done quite well."
She has set her sights on playing for the national women's side at an international sevens tournament in Dubai before the end of the year, and also heading to England again with the Black Ferns.
Also playing in Canada and now back for the Spirit are Black Ferns Claire Richardson and Kathleen Wilton.
The trio had their first training sessions with their new Otago team-mates this week and Brazier said there was a good feeling within the squad.
"We've got some pretty good backs in the side. They are almost bigger than our forwards."
With Black Ferns Anika Tiplady and Haile Hurring also in the squad, the team should do better than last year, when it failed to win a game.
The Spirit's campaign was almost shelved this year after the Otago union's financial troubles, but a campaign raised enough money to run the team.
Otago plays Wellington in the capital in its first match tomorrow and Brazier said that would be a good game to start the season.
"They made the final last year, so should give us a good gauge of where we are at."
