Hi, I’m Robin Patino.
I know burnout from the inside. As a stressed, overweight corporate executive, I was running on empty with an analytical mind working overtime. Then mindfulness and yoga changed everything. Through guided practices, yoga, and steady inner work, I found the quiet center I had forgotten. Today, I help others return to that same inner stillness through evidence‑based mindfulness, MBSR principles, and grounded guided practices.
My Story
Fifteen years ago, I was a corporate executive whose size 14 body was keeping score. Stress-related illnesses had accumulated quietly and then made themselves known all at once — including a hip that doctors said needed immediate replacement. Instead of surgery, I listened to a different voice.
I built a daily yoga practice and became a teacher. I explored transformational programs and became a coach. I took a sabbatical and changed my diet from processed to whole and organic food. The weight came off. The hip healed. Surgery was postponed not for months, but for 16 active years — including walking 500 miles on El Camino de Santiago in 2010 and returning repeatedly to guide others along the same route.
And, most importantly, I found an inner quiet that I’d never known before.
In 2021, a spinal injury took away the physical practices I had relied on for years. This time, I adapted my toolset. Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) — the evidence-based program I trained to teach at Brown University — carried me through three years of surgeries and rehabilitation when movement couldn't. The resilience I had built held, even when everything else changed. And I recovered full mobility.
What I learned through personal experience is the foundation of everything I teach: the capacity to heal, to adapt, and to find your center — even when life throws challenges at you — is already within you.
My Approach
Creating a New Now brings together evidence-based mindfulness practice and transformative experience to help burned-out, overwhelmed people change their relationship with stress in a sustainable way. Every program is built on the tools that carried me through my own hardest seasons, grounded in 40 years of clinical research and two decades of lived practice.
Find Your Center
Every offering draws on MBSR — the gold-standard mindfulness and stress reduction curriculum prescribed by the NHS, taught at Brown and Harvard, and validated by decades of clinical evidence.
Let Your Wisdom Lead
From the 8-week MBSR program to guided Camino retreats, coaching, and workshops — each experience is designed to help you access the clarity and resilience that are already present within you.