About Casey

All my life I have been passionate about movement. I grew up in Australia with a love for dancing and horse riding, both of which I was competitive in. When I reached high school I had to choose between dancing and riding in order to have enough time for my schoolwork, and as I had a very talented pony at the time, I chose horse riding.

In my early teenage years I achieved numerous state and national titles in dressage, which motivated me to move to Europe to ride professionally at age 16. For 10 years I lived between the UK and Europe, training with some of the world’s best dressage riders and competing internationally. I was selected to be part of several lottery funded athlete programmes which gave me the opportunity to work with the UK’s best strength and conditioning coaches and nutritionists. Through these programmes I gained insight into what is required to build the body and mindset of a high performance athlete, and my passion for movement evolved into a passion for how the human body functions at the highest and most efficient level. As a result I began working with personal trainers and learning yoga and pilates in my quest to be the best athlete I could be for my horses.

Of all the different types of training I had, I really connected with yoga. I began practicing with a great teacher at a time in my life when I needed to hone emotional and mental strength the most. The type of yoga I practiced was extremely physical and deeply spiritual, which taught me how to balance my fiery, ambitious energy with a more easeful, soft energy. The impact this had on my life and in my sport was so profound that in 2016 I trained to be a yoga teacher. I was already a dressage coach at the time so I began sharing the practice of yoga with my clients to help them improve their strength, flexibility, concentration and emotional regulation. I enjoyed teaching yoga so much that I also began teaching in local gyms and studios during the evenings, and converted a room in my house into a yoga studio.