Robin Deen Carnes, once a corporate consultant, is a yoga and meditation teacher and life coach. She is co-author of Sacred Circles: A Guide to Creating Your Own Women?s Spirituality Group (1998, Harper San Francisco) and offers classes and workshops nationally and internationally. Robin was the instructor for the first Yoga Nidra research study conducted at Walter Reed Army Medical Center with servicemembers suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, She currently teaches yoga and iRest yoga nidra to military servicemembers for the at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.

Robin's teachers include Dr. Richard Miller, Rod Stryker, Swami Satyananda Saraswati, Pema Chodrun and Annie Johnstone.