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Welcome To Castellino Training

We are dedicated to the training and personal growth of practitioners who provide support to those seeking to integrate pre- and perinatal trauma, both physical and emotional.

Who We Are

Castellino Training® is the culmination of decades spent developing and implementing a teachable somatic method for accessing and integrating pre- and perinatal trauma. Our Mission is three fold...

Experience the work

Founder of Castellino Training®, Raymond Castellino, dedicated his life to developing methods that integrate early traumatic imprints at core somatic levels. These methods make up the process workshop called Womb Surround, a transformative and impactful process that unlocks an individual’s full potential to be their truest self and the BEBA (Building and Enhancing Bonding and Attachment) Family Clinic that supports families with babies and children.

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Train New Practitioners

Castellino Training’s primary function is to train practitioners to effectively utilize the methodologies developed by Ray Castellino and key collaborators. The cornerstone of this work is the group relational process. We pay attention to the energy between the members of the family or small group and the quality of the relationships within the group. And foremost we pay attention to sensations within the “group relational energetic fields” that are accessible through co-regulated experiences.
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Proliferate the Method Worldwide

Castellino Training® is dedicated to the proliferation of our teachable methods on a global scale. We envision a world that is mindful of pre- and perinatal imprinting where parents have access to coaching that facilitates healthy families with secure attachment and bonding.

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Meet Our Founder

Raymond Castellino
Founder and Master Trainer

Ray began his growth oriented journey in 1969. He gained decades of experience as a natural health care practitioner, consultant and teacher before his passing in December, 2020. His roots were in Dr. Randolph Stone’s Polarity Therapy. This core paradigm was formative to how he thought and worked. Ray was a pioneer in the field of pre- and peri-natal therapy with the use of energetic and somatic approaches to facilitating secure attachment and bonding. At the time of his death his practice focused on the resolution of pre-natal, birth, and other early trauma through group process workshops that he developed for families and individuals called Womb Surrounds. Ray dedicated his career to developing and teaching this Castellino Training method. His ideas, inspiration and work continues on through all the people he helped and the trainers he taught to be within the field of healing.

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The BEBA Family Principles

The BEBA Family Principles

The eight BEBA Family Principles developed by Ray Castellino are present in healthy families and groups. These principles create a safe container that supports the discovery, repair and integration of early trauma patterns in people of all ages. In addition, the principles are consistently seen to foster cooperation, connection and healthy nervous system regulation for individuals as well as within families and social groups. These principles are the primary building blocks of Ray’s work.

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1. Welcome:

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We welcome you as a unique conscious being. We welcome all parts of you including any physical strengths and limitations. We welcome all the spectrum of your emotions and your thoughts.

We welcome those in the womb, newborns, children and adults.

To be welcomed and received for who we are is a conception right, a birth right and a primary developmental need. We welcome you here and now.

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2. Mutual Support and Cooperation:

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Come into connection in a way that mutually respects and encourages each other’s wellbeing. This is not cooperation at the expense of self or to try to get someone else to do something. It is non-competitive and it is a win-win. 
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3. Choice:

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Move at a pace or tempo that allows each individual to track their experience and to know if the direction feels right; having enough space to know and say yes, no or maybe. “No” is welcome and honored and is a repair for childhood forcing.
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4. Self Regulation — The Pause:

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Take time needed in order to be able to integrate our experience moment by moment. When a pause is taken, processing stops until the person’s pause is complete.
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5. Self Care:

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Eat, rest, sleep, hydrate, eliminate etc as needed. Self-care supports the individual and the group.
Self care includes two layers of support to mom, baby/child and the people who support them.

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6. Brief Frequent Eye Contact:

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Make brief frequent eye contact with the intention of mutual support and cooperation. Without brief eye contact (about every minute) distance grows and we often begin to make up stories about the other person (based on our own history). 
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7. Touch and Attention:

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Most adults have their attention and touch coupled together. Infants appear to be as responsive to what adults do with their attention as with their touch.
Come into touch contact with mindfulness and pacing so that every step of the way the person receiving the touch can have choice of whether or not they are touched. Differentiate touch and attention.
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8. Confidentiality:

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We can speak freely about our experience but hold sacred each other’s stories so ask for permission before sharing them.
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Our Community

We are a mindful group of dedicated practitioners and trainers. Our aim is to provide a road map to positive human connection for all who want to grow beyond the impacts of early imprint trauma.

We Are An International Community

Integral to the work of Castellino Training® is our collaborative relationship with our community of incredible practitioners. To you we say “Thank You!” The work grows and matures through you, and we are grateful. Click on the Read More button to meet these wonderful people.

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Join Us

Our community members enjoy the legitimacy, visibility, and support that stems from learning in an inclusive, close-knit environment alongside some of the most well respected leaders of the Castellino Training methodology. Click on the Read More button to learn more about Castellino Training®.

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