About Us - Castellino Training

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…

Experience the work within ourselves!

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

Train New Practitioners

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.

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

Meet Our Trainers

Mary Jackson, RN, LM, RCST®

CT Trainer and Practitioner

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 is a primary collaborator with Ray since the early 1990s. She brings to the work a deep understanding of bonding & attachment, the ‘Circle of Security,’ birth facilitation and preparation for conception and birth.

In collaboration with Ray Castellino (deceased), Mary has led the way in applying the Castellino Training work specifically to prenatal, birth and post-partum care. As a midwife, her work encompasses prenatal care, home birth, postpartum care, water birth, prenatal and birth trauma resolution, somatic experiencing and craniosacral therapy. Utilizing her unique approach to midwifery, she is renowned for her impressive record of facilitating home-births with a very low transfer rate. Mary is a certified Castellino Training Trainer, Womb Surround Process Workshop Facilitator and certified Family Practitioner. She teaches Castellino Training trainings with Tara Blasco in the US and Europe.

Tara Maria Blasco, Ph.D, RCST®

CT Trainer and Practitioner

Tara has a Ph.D in prenatal and perinatal psychology from the Santa Barbara Graduate Institute. Co-director and primary facilitator of the BEBA Clinic, together with Mary Jackson .

Tara is a certified Craniosacral Therapist, a certified Womb Surround Process Workshop Facilitator through Somatic Blueprint. She also teaches Castellino Trainings in Spain with. In her collaboration with Castellino Training, Tara brings an analytic mind that acutely organizes both teaching material and organizational structures, bringing the work forward with increased clarity.

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.