Teachers
Tara Maria Blasco holds a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Santa Barbara Graduate Institute, (specializing in prenatal and perinatal psychology) and is a registered craneosacral therapist in Spain and USA. She has worked at the Beba clinic since 2001 when she moved to live to California. She co-directed the Beba clinic with Ray Castellino until his passing. Currently she is the director of the BEBA clinic, and works as a facilitator with families at both clinics, Santa Barbara and Ojai. She co-teaches the Castellino training with Mary in California and with Mary, Lin and Carme in Spain. She is a certified and experienced practitioner for the Womb Surround Process Workshops.
Tara also co-directs a US non-profit called Global Resource Alliance which is dedicated to support rural communities in Tanzania to find and implement solutions to the problems of poverty, malnutrition and diseases. She spends several weeks of the year in Africa. She presents at conferences internationally on subjects related to prenatal and birth psychology as well as topics related to sustainability and alternative health in developing countries.
She has published articles in several newsletters and has directed a movie about rural development in East Africa.
About
Tara Blasco
Mary Jackson, LM, RN, RCST® became a home birth Midwife in 1975. She has attended over 2000 births in the Santa Barbara, Ventura, and Ojai, California areas. She has incorporated the 2 year Craniosacral training and the 2 year Castellino Prenatal and Birth Training into her midwifery practice. In the first year since incorporating these new trainings with her midwifery practice she attended 63 consecutive births at home with no transfers from home to hospital, all labors less than 14 hours except 3 and all babies nursing.
She is participating in cutting edge research about imprints that occur around the time of conception, pregnancy and birth and how they affect us throughout the rest of our lives and what it takes to heal from challenges in these experiences. She has spoken internationally at conferences, elementary, Jr. High, and High Schools, colleges, graduate programs and at hospital trainings for doctors, nurses, and midwives.
She is featured in 9 books and 5 videos on the subject of early life.
Mary currently co-facilitates the 2-year Castellino Prenatal and Birth Foundation training with Tara Blasco in California y with Tara, Lin and Carme in Spain. She also worked with Ray with families and adults through About Connections until his passing in Dec. 2020.
About
Mary Jackson
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 located 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 assisted two Castellino trainings and been a part of the teaching team on the 16th Foundation Castellino Training in Spain. She is a certified Womb Surround Process Workshop facilitator.
She is also an assistant in the Family Practitioner Training.
About
Carme Renalias
About
Lin Vermeiren
In memory of the late Ray Castellino originator of this training that passed on Dec 13, 2020.
Raymond Castellino was a retired DC,RPP,RPE and RCST that drew on four decades of experience as a natural health care practitioner, consultant and teacher. During the last 18 years of his life he focused on the resolution of prenatal, birth and other early trauma / stress through an approach using birth simulation, pre and peri-natal somatic psychology, somatic experiencing, play therapy, polarity therapy, and craniosacral therapy. Dr Castellino co-founded and was the co-director of the BEBA clinic until his passing in 2020. BEBA is a non-profit research clinic in Ojai, Ca devoted to strengthening the bonds between babies/ children and their parents and optimizing children’s physical, emotional and mental development.
He was the Director of the Castellino Prenatal and Birth Foundation Training, a two-year training program for professionals developing therapeutic skills within the Prenatal and Birth field. He offered small group womb surround process workshops for adults and private sessions for adults and families both alone and with Mary Jackson as About Connections. He also consulted via phone/Skype and presented at professional conferences both nationally and internationally.
