Bob Roth

Bob Roth was born in Washington, D.C., U.S.A. He is the son of Dr. Merall Roth, a radiologist, and Susan Roth, a teacher.^[3] He attended Redwood High School in Larkspur, California,^[4] and graduated from the University of California at Berkeley.^[3]

Roth learned TM at the Berkeley TM Center in 1969.^[5] In 1972, he took a semester off college to travel to Spain and study with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. After six months of study, Roth became a TM teacher himself.^[5]

Roth is the CEO of the David Lynch Foundation and has taught TM for nearly 50 years. His students include thousands of at-risk students in underserved schools,^[6] military veterans,^[7] women and children who have experienced domestic violence,^[8] and numerous celebrities like Tom Hanks, Oprah Winfrey, Hugh Jackman, Martin Scorsese, Katy Perry, Russell Brand, and others.^[9][10] Roth is the author of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's Transcendental Meditation^[11] and the 2018 New York Times bestseller Strength in Stillness: The Power of Transcendental Meditation.^[12]

Roth resides in New York, N.Y.^[3] He has three siblings: his sister, Ellen, and brothers Bill and Tom. Having grown up in the San Francisco Bay Area, Roth is a fan of the San Francisco Giants^[3] and Golden State Warriors. He idolized Willie Mays in his youth^[3] and is a big fan of Stephen Curry today.

In 2015, Roth was the recipient of the Disruptor Award from the Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards for David Lynch Foundation's innovative work serving at-risk populations.^[13]

• Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's Transcendental Meditation. Plume, 1988. 978-1556110856
• The Natural Law Party: A Reason to Vote. St. Martin's Press. 1998. ISBN 978-0-312-24316-6.
• Strength in Stillness: The Power of Transcendental Meditation. Simon & Schuster, 2018. 978-1501161216