An American woman who traveled to the Bahamas earlier this month for a yoga retreat has gone missing along with her family and the retreat’s organizers, local police said.
Taylor Casey, 41, was last seen on Wednesday, June 19, near Paradise Island, the Royal Bahamas Police Force said in a statement on June 21.
The Sivananda Ashram Yoga Retreat in the Bahamas, organizers of the yoga certification retreat Cayce attended, also confirmed her disappearance to People magazine.
Organizers were the first to report her absence, the group told People magazine on Tuesday.
Retreat organizers became concerned when Casey, from Chicago, didn’t show up for class on June 20 and decided she was missing.
Casey’s family believes she is at risk because she had big plans for her future once she completed her program in the Bahamas.
“We believe Taylor is at risk because she wanted to tell others about her experience at the yoga retreat when she returned home,” her mother, Colette Seymour, said in a statement on a Facebook page set up to help locate her.
“Taylor could never have disappeared like this,” Seymour said in a statement shared on the “Find Taylor Casey” page.
Casey has been practising yoga for 15 years and her participation in the Sivananda Ashram Yoga Retreat was part of a “long-term goal to deepen her yoga practice”, according to a statement from her family.
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According to local independent media CSJ Report, her friends looked through images and videos from the retreat group in the Bahamas, but she did not appear in any of them.
Casey is described as a black woman with a slender build and light skin, approximately 5 feet 10 inches tall, weighing 145 pounds, with brown hair and eyes, and natural hair, which she often wears covered by a durag.
Anyone with information is asked to contact the Royal Bahamas Police Force at 502-9991/2 or Crime Stoppers at 328-TIPS (8477).
