Our Mission

The goal of Castellino Prenatal and Birth Training is to make Prenatal and Birth Therapy available to the world community for children, adults, and for babies and new families with the highest possible integrity, efficiency and compassion.

Mary Jackson, RN, LM, RCST® and Tara Blasco, PhD, RCST® are continuing the training of professionals in the work pioneered by Ray Castellino, DC, RCST®, BCPP, RPE


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Building Somatic Skills - Presence, Connection, and Blueprint - December 2, 3, 5, & 6, 2023

Somatic Skills Workshop

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Sequencing Workshop January 13-14, 16-17, 2024

Sequencing Workshop

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Foundational Teachings from Ray Castellino- Attuning to Our Core Essence

 

A 2021 5-week workshop series honouring the life and work of Ray Castellino, featuring previously unreleased video of Ray. Facilitated by Tara Blasco, Ph.D., RCST and Mary Jackson LM, RN, RCST.

 

 

Ray Castellino made a significant and lasting contribution to the field of prenatal and perinatal psychology. He passed away in December of 2020 after actively teaching his work around the world for 50 years. In this five-week series, recorded in the fall of 2021, you have the opportunity to hear some of Ray's lectures not previously available to the general public. His teaching team of Tara Blasco and Mary Jackson host this series to share this important work.

He created a unique framework for practitioners to support the health of all families and relationships. In this program you are guided in practices that were created by Ray.

This is a special opportunity as a practitioner to participate and work with these amazing teachers.

5 week live, virtual Lecture Series was held in October-November, 2021

Recordings are available upon registration

Available at any time(check your time zone here)

Five Workshops:

  • Session One:  Introducing the Unique Qualities of Ray Castellino's Work
  • Session Two:  Laying the Groundwork of Working With PPN Skills
  • Session Three: Ray's Eight Essential Principles of Relationship
  • Session Four: How Layers of Support Create the Field
  • Session Five: Words from Ray About Life and Death


Regular Registration: $275

APPPAH Premier Members: $225
(you can email Kristin at  castellinotrainingonline@gmail.com for a discount code.
 

Registration, more info, and video of Ray here



Ray's Memorial

The recording of Ray Castellino's memorial is now available https://raycastellino.life/2021/01/17/raymond-castellino-1944-2020



Ray's Transition Journey

Messages and videos from Ray during his final two months.


The Teachings of Ray Castellino: Dropping into Prenatal and Perinatal Implicit Memories with Ease


Seven Session Online Course

In these seven 2-hour sessions of explanation and exploratory exercises, Ray shared foundational skills needed to work with prenatal and perinatal implicit memory. The class topics are:

  • From Self to Social Nervous System: Working with Energetic Systems
  • The Principles: Creating a Safe Container for Deepening into Implicit Memory
  • Intention Setting and its Role in Working with PPN Implicit Memory
  • Leading Edge, Titration and Pendulation
  • Working with Movement and PPN Somatic Therapy
  • Introducing "The Form" as Part of a PPN Somatic Therapy Toolkit
  • Summary, Q & A, and Conclusions

  Sliding Scale: $275-$325

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Prenatal and Perinatal Somatic Psychology: The Essential Link for Human Development - July 28, 2020



Ray shines the light on working with families and the baby's experience in particular as an essential aspect of human development that we see throughout the lifespan. This part of our human development is implicit and therefore necessarily somatic. Ray will describe his specific somatic approach to supporting this particular part of our human development whether with babies or with the baby in each of us.



APPAH Talk: How Early Imprinting Affects our Current Lives & Q&A with Nina Ketscher APPPAH Education Director - July 6, 2020



More info about APPAH




Interviews with Rebecca Thompson

    Ray Castellino and midwife Mary Jackson are teaming up with Rebecca Thompson of Consciously Parenting to share cutting-edge information that brings scientific research to you in ways you can actually use in your parenting. These audio interviews will cover some of the most popular parenting topics. The series of classes is available for $75 at the Consciously Parenting website




Interview with Chloe Faith Wordsworth

About Dr. Castellino

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Raymond Castellino, DC (retired 1997), BCPP, RPE, RCST®, drew on 50 years of experience as a natural health care practitioner, consultant and teacher. He was a pioneer in the field of Pre and Perinatal therapy and of using energetic and somatic approaches to facilitate attachment and bonding. His practice focused on the resolution of prenatal, birth and other early trauma / stress and on developing teachable methods of supporting families and adults in small groups. He drew on decades of experience as a Polarity Therapist and a biodynamic Craniosacral Therapist as well as his extensive knowledge of the body from his Chiropractic practice.

He discovered and developed clinical approaches and skill sets for working with individuals, couples, families with children, small groups of adults and large gatherings. BEBA, About Connections, the Womb Surround Process Workshops, The Foundation Training, Body into Being, supervision and community outreach seminars and workshops constituted wings of an integrated pre and peri-natal facilitation and educational system.

These innovations include the Castellino 8 guiding Principles for small groups and families. These principles are cornerstones for the creating safety, the high level function and the optimal growth of babies and children in the context of relationships in their families. They are also the framework for working in small to large groups of adults.

He developed a teachable method for working with families and small groups of adults as an energetic relational field. This innovation is a major game changer for facilitating families and adults in a relational social nervous system field.

He developed approaches that support families and small groups of adults to efficiently and safely evolve into harmonic resonance and co-regulated states while supporting individuation and differentiation at the same time. Together with Mary Jackson, home birth midwife, he developed a system for evaluating the needs of pregnant mom’s, their babies and the father that involves establishing “two layers of support” for the baby, the mother, the father and also the birth team. They have clinically discovered that when the layers of competent support are in place, the mother and baby are free to find the impulses they need to birth from the inside out.

He worked with the primary rhythms developed in families and in small groups of adults; he discovered and continued to do ongoing clinical research on the slow rhythms that govern coherence and high level attunement in relationships. He measured this rhythm to oscillate at 5 minute cycles. This rhythm is substantially slower than the Tidal Rhythms as defined by the Osteopathic and Craniosacral healing disciplines. He called these slow occulting rhythmic cycles “relational field cycles” and observed that the relational field cycles govern the innate knowing of birth, bonding and attachment.

He developed a series of protocols for facilitating families and small groups when the families or groups were manifesting “double bind” paradoxical energies. These protocols are self-published as part of his professional training manual available to trainees in his professional trainings.

Ray researched and taught the manifestation of “sequential behavioral patterns” that originate from “sequential imprinting” from ancestral, conception, gestation and birth experiences.

He developed numerous integrated somatic/psychological approaches for discovering how all beings implicitly remember early pre and perinatal experiences. Some of these approaches include facilitated movement, supported attachment, dynamic creative opposition, dynamic squeeze.

Lastly, with his work with Mary Jackson, Tara Blasco and Anna Chitty he discovered and developed several ways to anchor into universal resourced states that he and Anna Chitty refer to as the “Blueprint Energies.” These blueprint states of consciousness provide a basis for gently and safely discovering and working with early imprint implicit somatic memories. Some of the key components are intention, the co-regulation tempo, movement in highly cooperative relational fields and connected social processes.

These approaches are all applicable for pre-nates, mothers, couples, families and small groups of adults and formed the basis for his work in BEBA, About Connections, Womb Surround Workshops, his Foundation Trainings, Body into Being and other professional seminars.