Trainers

Lead trainer

Teaches all 8 modules.

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Co-teaches modules 3 and 5 together with Gitte Virkmann Larsen

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 certified 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 training throughout the world.

Co-teaches modules 2 and 6 together with Gitte Virkmann Larsen

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.

Co-teaches modules 1, 4, 7 and 8 together with Gitte Virkmann Larsen

Carme Renalias has over 20 years' experience as a registered Biodynamic Craniosacral therapist and her practice has been mainly influenced by Mike Boxhall's work, Deepening into Stillness, as well as the pre and perinatal somatic work developed by Ray Castellino.

She was a professional dancer for 25 years. This experience offers her an intimate knowledge about the body and its capacity to sense, express and make relationships.

Since 2014, Carme has had her own school, Contacting Stillness. It is in Fontcoberta (Girona, Spain), a small village in the countryside where she has lived for the past 33 years. She is a registered Biodynamic Craniosacral teacher and currently she is teaching her 11th two-year BCST training. She also travels to offer BCST and PPN workshops.

Carme has collaborated in the Castellino Training in Spain since 2012 and has been a part of the Castellino teaching team since 2021. She is an approved Womb Surround Process Workshop facilitator and supervisor and an assistant in the Family Practitioner Training.