We Are Castellino Training®

Castellino Training is derived from the energetic templates for life and health that create and sustains the human body, drives our life processes, and organize our familial, personal and social relationships. Formative traumatic events create energetic imprints that take us out of relationship with our inherent personal and social health.

Our trainings provide a foundation in re-orienting to this somatic blueprint in order to integrate imprints derived from early, pre-verbal traumas, both physical, emotional and social. We train practitioners to use this work in a variety of settings, including with families, young children and adults. This work addresses and provides reparative experience that fulfills developmental needs that were missed in our pre- and perinatal years.

Our Mission

Castellino Training® is the culmination of years spent developing and implementing a teachable somatic method for accessing and resolving pre- and perinatal trauma.

Our Mission is three fold…

The Womb Surround is a small intimate workshop developed by its founder Ray Castellino. This workshop is a transformative impactful process that unlocks an individual’s full potential to actualize her/his truest self within the context of a small group

Castellino Training® is the culmination of years spent developing and implementing a teachable somatic method for accessing and resolving pre- and perinatal trauma. Our students develop therapeutic skills in a progressive and layered manner using didactic and facilitation instruction, and personal exploration.

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 and parents have access to coaching that facilitates healthy attachment and bonding.

Meet Our Trainers

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Mary Jackson, RN, LM, RCST®

Mary began as a home birth midwife in 1975, as a part of the trailblazing movement to bring home birth back into the mainstream in the US. She was a primary collaborator with Ray for almost 20 years through ‘About Connections’ work with families and co-facilitating and teaching. She brings to the work a deep understanding of preparation for conception and birth, birth facilitation, bonding & attachment, the ‘Circle of Security.’

Mary has been married since 1987 and is the mother of 2 children who were born at home.  She attended over 2,500 births in the Santa Barbara, Ventura, and Ojai, California areas including the home births of her second generation of babies. In the first year after incorporating these pre and perinatal approaches in her midwifery practice her home to hospital transfer rate went from 20% to 6 %.

She is an approved Castellino Womb Surround Facilitator and co-teaches the Castellino Pre and Perinatal Foundation Training (in Ojai, CA & in Spain), the Family Practitioner Training, the Sequencing workshop and Supervision groups for graduates. She is SE trained, a certificed craniosacral therapist (BCST) and is trained in Circle of Security. She has offered womb surrounds in 10 countries. She is a frequent speaker at national and international conferences and has led workshops and trainings throughout the world.

Tara Blasco, Ph.D, RCST®

Tara Blasco has a Ph.D in prenatal and perinatal psychology from the Santa Barbara Graduate Institute, and has worked at the BEBA clinic since 2001. She is the current director of BEBA (Building and Enhancing Bonding and Attachment) and was the co-director with Ray Castellino until he passed in Dec 2020. She is the in-person facilitator for families at the Ojai BEBA clinic and offers online sessions as well as offering a mentoring program for graduates which she developed in the BEBA style approach. She co-wrote and coordinated the writing & publication of BEBA’s book: “Supporting Families to Integrate their Birth Experiences.”

Tara is a certified craniosacral therapist. She is an approved Castellino Womb Surround Facilitator and co-teaches the Castellino Pre and Perinatal Foundation Training (in Ojai, CA & in Spain), the Family Practitioner Training, the Sequencing workshop and Supervision groups for graduates. She organized all the Spain Foundation Trainings and brings organizational skills to the continuation of Castellino Training. She is the co-director with her husband Lyn Hebenstreit, of the non-profit organization Global Resource Alliance dedicated to supporting orphans and the families who take them in by bringing wells, permaculture organic gardens, tree planting, herbs, educational support and more to communities in the Mara region of Tanzania.

Meet Sandra, MEd

Sandra is our primary administrator and Business Manager as well as a long standing contributor to the development of Castellino Trainings®. A major part of her roll is interfacing with participants and trainees. She is masterful in providing support to all who interact with and participate in our work.