Birth Process: The Healing Form Developed by Ray Castellino
This is a small group workshop is based on the work of Ray Castellino, DC (retired), RPP, RCST®. He originally trained a chiropractor, and then was influenced by formative teachers in the field of energy therapy, bodywork and trauma resolution, including Randolph Stone (founder of Polarity Therapy), Peter Levine (founder of Somatic Experiencing), Franklyn Sills (Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy Pioneer), and William Emerson (pioneer in prenatal and perinatal psychology). His work is also highly informed by his training as a musician and music teacher. Castellino is a master of sensing into the patterns that can arise from difficulties from the prenatal and perinatal period. He developed a training for a specific form where professionals could learn about the many patterns that can be generally associated with historical trauma, conception, prenatally, birth and attachment in the postpartum period. His observations, somatic skills, and passion for healing early overwhelming events in the nervous system of the families he was seeing came about after he started treating babies. Seeing how families' experiences affected the baby, he began to work with small groups to create a therapy that would help the whole family. The training he still offers creates practitioners in this field. This small group workshop is the product of the training and form he developed. It is ideal for creating a safe container and experiential exploring prenatal and perinatal somatic patterns and your own early history, especially finding places where there is coherency, or health in the nervous system. Using your adult presence, the group consciously creates the blueprint in human development, one of flow, connection, and safety. We offer:
About the Early Period and Small Group Learning: The foundation of the Womb Surround Process Group is that whatever happens for the developing baby inside the mother is influenced by what went on around him or her as well has what organically arises in the womb. There are many examples of how this can show up in an adult, including
These small groups offer an epigenetic form of healing while learning. We now know that an environment around a cell can influence whether or not genes are turned off or on. In a sense, working with positive, slow group energy, the issue at hand can be shifted with this experience. Participants report greater clarity, better health, great insights, and positive connections with others. It is also an opportunity to learn about helpful patterns around many of the issues of being human. Teaching supports understanding our interpersonal neurobiology and how our younger selves made sense of our lives by bringing these patterns to consciousness. It is great for parents as well as other curious adults, and for couples wanting to conceive.
Kate is highly trained in this process, starting in 1999 with William Emerson and his student, Karlton Terry. Kate completed a foundation training the birth process in the Emerson style. She continued to train with Ray Castellino's student, Myrna Martin, completing a full training in the Castellino method, assisting a second training, and assisting many smaller seminars from 2004 until 2014. She has continued to train with and assist Ray Castellino and is supervised by his clinical colleagues, Tara Blasco, PhD, RCST® and Mary Jackson, CPM, LM, RN, RCST® from the Building and Enhancing Bonding and Attachment clinic. She has also completed a full Somatic Experiencing® training, two full Blueprint Resonance Trauma Resolution Training with Anna Chitty, and completed studying with Ray, Mary, and Tara and their Family Practitioner training im 2021. Kate has completed all the requirements to become facilitator for this work, including many process workshops and two practitioner trainings specifically for Womb Surround Process workshop facilitators. She teaches about prenatal and perinatal imprints, especially from an autonomic nervous system perspective, and is Founding Director of Education for APPPAH, the Association for Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Health. This seminar is healing and continuing education in one. Currently she is Founder and Executive Director of the Center for Prenatal and Perinatal Programs in Charlottesville, VA.
Currently she and Maggie McIlvaine support groups of 3 people plus one assistant, so this is a small group. Fee $450-$550 sliding scale for 2 days if paid one month before. You can do this via the internet. I can send you a way to reserve your spot. We recommend you pay in full. Email katercst@gmail.com
"This is an elegant tool for discovering a blueprint for human health based on deeper rhythms in our bodies and in connection with others. When difficult patterns that loop in the body are identified, the pace slowed, and a new pattern felt and reflected in the process, a new pattern can emerge, one of wholeness that resonates with our true essence. This is our birthright." ~ Kate White
- Whole body learning
- Experiential interpersonal neurobiology
- Embodiment practices to access blueprint in the body
- Tools to improve your educational efforts in prenatal and perinatal somatic health
- Didactic debriefing for each pattern for integration and understanding
- Further resources for learning provided upon request
About the Early Period and Small Group Learning: The foundation of the Womb Surround Process Group is that whatever happens for the developing baby inside the mother is influenced by what went on around him or her as well has what organically arises in the womb. There are many examples of how this can show up in an adult, including
- Our ancestral influences
- How we are conceived, and into what time, place or feeling state in our parents
- In utero development, including the events, feelings and emotions of the family around the developing baby
- Birth process
- Postpartum events, especially separations
- Attachment patterns
- Not feeling fully alive
- Difficulty with intimate relationships
- Deep feelings of ambivalence toward life
- Chronic pain or health conditions
- Patterns that often show up that talk therapy can't seem to change
- Feeling held in chronic double binds, or feeling like there is no way out
These small groups offer an epigenetic form of healing while learning. We now know that an environment around a cell can influence whether or not genes are turned off or on. In a sense, working with positive, slow group energy, the issue at hand can be shifted with this experience. Participants report greater clarity, better health, great insights, and positive connections with others. It is also an opportunity to learn about helpful patterns around many of the issues of being human. Teaching supports understanding our interpersonal neurobiology and how our younger selves made sense of our lives by bringing these patterns to consciousness. It is great for parents as well as other curious adults, and for couples wanting to conceive.
Kate is highly trained in this process, starting in 1999 with William Emerson and his student, Karlton Terry. Kate completed a foundation training the birth process in the Emerson style. She continued to train with Ray Castellino's student, Myrna Martin, completing a full training in the Castellino method, assisting a second training, and assisting many smaller seminars from 2004 until 2014. She has continued to train with and assist Ray Castellino and is supervised by his clinical colleagues, Tara Blasco, PhD, RCST® and Mary Jackson, CPM, LM, RN, RCST® from the Building and Enhancing Bonding and Attachment clinic. She has also completed a full Somatic Experiencing® training, two full Blueprint Resonance Trauma Resolution Training with Anna Chitty, and completed studying with Ray, Mary, and Tara and their Family Practitioner training im 2021. Kate has completed all the requirements to become facilitator for this work, including many process workshops and two practitioner trainings specifically for Womb Surround Process workshop facilitators. She teaches about prenatal and perinatal imprints, especially from an autonomic nervous system perspective, and is Founding Director of Education for APPPAH, the Association for Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Health. This seminar is healing and continuing education in one. Currently she is Founder and Executive Director of the Center for Prenatal and Perinatal Programs in Charlottesville, VA.
Currently she and Maggie McIlvaine support groups of 3 people plus one assistant, so this is a small group. Fee $450-$550 sliding scale for 2 days if paid one month before. You can do this via the internet. I can send you a way to reserve your spot. We recommend you pay in full. Email katercst@gmail.com
"This is an elegant tool for discovering a blueprint for human health based on deeper rhythms in our bodies and in connection with others. When difficult patterns that loop in the body are identified, the pace slowed, and a new pattern felt and reflected in the process, a new pattern can emerge, one of wholeness that resonates with our true essence. This is our birthright." ~ Kate White
Dates, Places and The Intake Form
Most workshops are held at the beautiful Bridge Between the Worlds retreat center in Keswick, VA. We love offering workshops there. The natural surroundings, water treatments, energy work, bodywork and beauty that is there, attended to by Maggie McIlvaine make the work so good.
September 10-12, 2022 Keswick, VA (2 spots)
December 11-13, Keswick, VA (3 spots)
3 days, Starts 1 pm 1st day, ends 1 pm 3rd day
3 People
$450-$550 Sliding scale
Email Kate, katercst@gmail.com
December 11-13, Keswick, VA (3 spots)
3 days, Starts 1 pm 1st day, ends 1 pm 3rd day
3 People
$450-$550 Sliding scale
Email Kate, katercst@gmail.com
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