About
Makayla Maniscalco
I am a transformational coach and retreat leader working from Denver, Colorado, with women, entrepreneurs, and leaders who look successful from the outside and feel exhausted underneath it.
My work sits where integrative health meets psychology. I use subconscious and somatic modalities to reach the patterns underneath the behaviour, rather than adding another strategy on top of them.
Since 2018 I have been creating spaces that feel like a pause. Places where the body softens, the heart opens, and people remember who they were before they started performing.
Why I do this work
For years I watched high performing women and leaders achieve everything they said they wanted, and quietly struggle underneath it. Burnout. Emotional overwhelm. Self doubt that no achievement ever seemed to settle. Perfectionism that looked like excellence from the outside. A slow disconnection from themselves that nobody around them could see.
What became obvious is that surface level motivation does not touch any of it. You cannot think your way out of a pattern that was never built by thinking. Real change happens when you address the subconscious patterns, the emotional conditioning, the nervous system dysregulation, and the identity level beliefs that shape how a person lives, leads, and relates to themselves.
So that is where I work. Not on the goal, on the thing underneath the goal that keeps rebuilding the same result. I will reflect your strengths back to you, and I will name your blind spots, with care and without softening the point. That combination is what makes the work move.
My aim is simple. That success stops costing you your health, your relationships, or your sense of who you are.
Training and credentials
Grounded therapeutic technique alongside embodiment practice. These are the certifications and methods behind the work.
Certifications
- 500 hour Registered Yoga Teacher, 500RYT
- Certified Integrative Coach
- Neuro Linguistic Programming, NLP
- Mental and Emotional Release
- Hypnosis
- Buti, Sculpt, and Deep Stretch
- Meditation
Methods I work with
- Subconscious reprogramming
- Nervous system regulation
- Somatic practice
- Breathwork
- Mindfulness
- Intuitive mentorship
Who I work with
- High performing women
- Entrepreneurs and founders
- Leaders carrying teams
- People who look fine on paper and know something is off
Peace is not found. It is remembered.
Where I work
I am based in Westminster, Colorado, just outside Denver. Private coaching happens in person across Denver and the Front Range, and virtually for clients anywhere in the world. Most of the people I work with are not local, and the work translates completely over video.
Alongside private coaching I lead international retreats in a new destination each year, and I deliver corporate wellness experiences and speaking engagements for teams and organisations across Colorado and nationwide.
Start with a free connection call
A focused, pressure free conversation about where you are stuck and what it would take to move. No obligation to continue.
Book a Free Connection Call