Online Group Supervision

Beyond the Training: Online Supervision

An Opportunity for graduates and almost graduates.

  • Meet once a month for 4 months on Zoom for 3 hours with approved Foundation Training, Womb Surround and Family Practice facilitators
  • Each group is limited to 8 people with 2 participants having their supervision sessions each week with the support of the group.
  • Open to Foundation Training and Body into Being Graduates and Almost Graduates.
  • Each meeting is recorded for the viewing of only your group so that if one of the supervision dates doesn’t work for you, you can watch it later.
  • We do not put teacher / assistants in the same group with their students / clients.
  • Upcoming Supervision Groups with openings:
    • Mondays – 10:00 am- 1 pm Pacific time: Jan. 25, 2027, February 15, March 8 and April 19 or 26, 2027 – with Tara Blasco & Alison Greene-Barton: Currently 4 spaces available
    • Mondays – 10 am-1 pm Pacific time: Nov. 2, Nov. 30, Dec. 21 2026 and Jan. 25, 2027 – with Mary Jackson & Kristin Sipley: wait list only available
    • Mondays – 4 pm-7 pm Pacific time: Nov. 2, Nov. 30, Dec. 21 2026 and Jan. 25, 2027 – with Mary Jackson & Kristin Sipley: wait list only available
  • Other groups will be formed in the future. Let Sandra know if you are interested at sandra@castellinotraining.com.

Bios for Alison Greene-Barton, Tara Blasco, Mary Jackson, and Kristin Sipley, are below.

Alison Greene-Barton, RCST®, SEP

Alison is a pre and Perinatal somatic therapist who has been working with families at the BEBA Clinic for 11 years. She is certified as a Craniosacral Therapist (RCST) and a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP); she holds certifications in Pathwork, Energy Healing and Shamanism. A graduate of the Castellino Foundation Training, Alison is an approved Womb Surround Facilitator and Mentor and an approved Family Practitioner and Mentor.

Alison specializes in the healing of early wounding and trauma from conception through adulthood. In her private practice, she brings her unique blend of spirituality, psychology, energy healing and somatic prenatal and perinatal therapy to her work with families, individuals, couples and groups.

Alison has created Pathwork training programs that incorporate pre and perineal somatic work. She has implemented these programs internationally: in Japan, Israel, and the United States. Alison teaches and works with groups and individuals, in person and online, in North America, South America, Israel and Japan. She currently resides in Amherst, MA

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-authored 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 coordinates a team that organizes the Spain Foundation Trainings. She also brings her 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.

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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.

Kristin Sipley, RCST®, BCST, APP, PLC

Kristin is a somatic wellness consultant and practitioner, workshop facilitator, educator and mentor who assists individuals, couples, families, groups and other professionals across the globe to connect with the wisdom and health within and the field around us.

Her integrative, holistic approach is based on the belief that we are whole from the very beginning. She recognizes the inherent intelligence and health that supports each of us throughout our lives. She combines aspects from her training in pre- and perinatal (PPN) somatic health, parent-infant mental health, lifespan development, trauma integration, biodynamic craniosacral therapy, Polarity Therapy, Reiki and adult education.

Kristin is an approved Castellino Womb Surround Facilitator and Mentor, an approved Family Practitioner, a Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapist (BCST), Registered Craniosacral Therapist (RCST), A Polarity Practitioner (APP) and a Polarity Life Coach (PLC). In addition to her private practice and the workshops she offers, she contributes to various PPN and bodywork trainings throughout the US and Canada.