Everyday Encounters: A Tiburon yoga teacher urges others to find calm in chaos

Tiburon’s Robin Gueth founded the Stress Management Center of Marin, a yoga therapy practice. Her yoga work has included teaching stretches to high-school football teams, training Detroit Lions quarterback Jared Goff and creating a meditation practice for New York Yankees pitchers before they take the mound. (Tyler Callister / The Ark)

While training to become a classical pianist at 16, Tiburon resident Robin Gueth says she experienced debilitating pain, including chronic migraines. To fix it, she turned to yoga. She says the practice had transformative effects, realigning her spine and steadying her body and breath.

She never became a concert pianist, but the experience pointed her to what she says is her true calling. Gueth founded the Stress Management Center of Marin, a yoga therapy practice. Her work has included teaching stretches to high-school football teams, training Detroit Lions quarterback Jared Goff and creating a meditation practice for New York Yankees pitchers before they take the mound.

Still, as Gueth, 65, walks at Blackie’s Pasture April 9, she laughs at the suggestion that teaching yoga must mean she’s a calm person.

“You teach best what you most need to learn,” she says.

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