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.
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.
"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."
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 Hawaiʻi- 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.
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.