Mindful Adventures
Personal & Leadership Development
Meet Robin
Robin Patino
Founder of Mindful Adventures, MBSR Teacher, RYT500,
MBA, International Business
My personal story is one of miraculous recovery. Not once, but twice in my life, mindfulness and yoga have been transformative in healing my body when medicine could not help me.
First in 2007, when doctors told me that I needed an immediate hip replacement, I listened to my inner voice. I followed my intuition on a healing journey that was nothing short of miraculous.
Using the science of yoga, meditation and nutrition, I developed an holistic therapeutic program that enabled me to not only heal my own hip, but also to transition to living a happier, more balanced life.
Just three years later, as a testament to the healing power we possess inside, my original hips and I walked 500 miles in four weeks along El Camino de Santiago in 2010. I found a spiritual home on that famous pilgrimage across northern Spain, and have been guiding Mindful Adventures there since 2013.
You can read about my adventures in my first book, Do You Think You Will Break?
In 2021, I had just returned again from El Camino, this time walking 300 miles. In a less than mindful moment, I fell crossing my sister’s front yard, resulting in an injury that destabilized my spine.
All of the yoga and physical practices that had sustained me for years were no longer accessible. Mindfulness meditation kept me balanced while my doctors struggled to find the reason for my chronic pain and back spasms.
During these post-pandemic years, I turned to the evidence-based Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program after my injury. It changed my relationship to the uncertainty and limitations I was facing. The program helped me to cope with the three year journey through surgeries and physical rehabilitation to ultimately regain full functionality.
While recovering, I began the teacher certification pathway at Brown University in the Summer of 2022. And received my qualifications as an MBSR Teacher in 2024.
The evidence-based program aligns with my earlier career in behavioral research, as an MBA in the business world. It deeply aligns with my 20-year exploration of personal transformation, Buddhism and Yoga
philosophy.
My personal story of dramatic healing and purpose transition informs my work as a MBSR teacher and transformational guide for personal wellbeing and leadership development.
When I'm not on a journey, I can be found in the woods hiking, at the beach or on my yoga mat. And spending quality time with family and friends.
I would love to hear about your own journey.