Meet Casey Mauro
My Story:
I was a young, driven professional dancer studying neuroscience in New York City — fascinated with the brain, convinced I was going to be a neurologist until... One day, mid-rehearsal, the world started spinning. I had been dancing through an undiagnosed concussion and whiplash for three months without knowing it.
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The neurologist looked at my chart, handed me a prescription for vertigo pills, and told me I should probably stop dancing.​ I nearly cried in his office. I wanted to tell him exactly where he could put that prescription. Instead, I took the script, ripped it up, threw it in the trash, and never went back.
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"No one should be told to give up their dreams and take a pill. We have the ability to heal ourselves — with the right tools, the right community, and the intelligence of nature."
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That moment lit a fire in me. I searched for manual therapies, nature-based protocols, and science-backed ways to heal my brain and body so I could keep dancing, keep studying, and keep building the life I knew was mine. What I discovered changed everything — not just for me, but eventually for those I get to work with. ​​
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Over the years in NYC, LA and world travels, I observed how different communities regulate their nervous systems and heal through a combination of modern science and ancient wisdom.
Bali introduced me to cacao who found me like a lost puppy. My first cacao experience with incredible Lynette Allen gave me 15 years of therapy I couldn’t admit I needed. The pattern was undeniable: time in nature plus therapeutic tools I had learned de-stresses your nervous system better than any pill ever could.
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Meanwhile, my academic path led me to behavioral neuroscience research the brains of women with postpartum depression at Mount Sinai. What I found confirmed everything I had experienced firsthand: prescription drugs were not the answer. In fact, misdiagnosis and medication were making things worse. What actually changed neural chemistry — what genuinely moved the needle — was community, self-care, and the profound medicine of feeling loved, seen, and not alone.
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I co-authored a paper published in PubMed with the doctors at Mount Sinai. It was academically impressive, but research wasn't enough. I wanted to DO something. Women needed real actionable support, not just a study.
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So, I earned my YTRx-500 yoga therapy certification, my NASM personal training credential, and studied with the best of the best in the natural healing world built a private practice from the ground up while still pursuing my performance career — first on the Mainland, and then in HawaiÊ»i- the ocean is still my greatest co-therapist.
I've since co-written two internationally bestselling women's books with Lynette Allen — with a third on the way — with proceeds supporting Bali Street Mums. Because this is what women supporting women actually looks like.
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I didn't arrive here through a straight line. I arrived through a ripped-up prescription, many concussion, injuries, ,autoimmune disease, gut issues, brain fog, an ocean, and a refusal to settle for a life smaller than the one I was born to live. You deserve that same refusal. And I am here to help you find your way back.