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Birth Process: The Healing Form Developed by Ray Castellino
​ You can see the dates and more at Birth Process and Retreats

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:
  • 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
A small group of people comes together for each workshop and forms a "surround," or a container for the person who wants to explore their history and repattern overwhelming events that have left an imprint that is still causing difficulty today.  Autonomic nervous system patterns are taught and discussed, then practiced. Overhwhelming imprint patterns can look like:
  • 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 patterns are somatic, or held in the body, and implicit, or held in an unconscious way.  We can often still feel these patterns when something in present time triggers this deeply held body memory that is often coupled with overwhelming feelings, such as panic, anxiety, rage, dissociation and more.  The facilitator employs very specific principles and a form that allows individuals to drop into these early patterns and repattern, with the consciousness of the group mind.  The pace is slow, and the process pendulates between the present and the wellspring of coherency he or she first establishes, and the history that is overwhelming in small, digestible pieces.  Then, the facilitator debriefs the session later so that the person taking a turn  and the group can learn more about the pattern.  It is an excellent way to learn as well as heal.

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 4 people plus one assistant, so this is a small group.  Fee $650 sliding scale for 3 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. You can see the dates and more at Birth Process and Retreats

"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
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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. 
Download and complete this intake form for your birth process workshop
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  • Home
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    • From the Baby's Perspective
    • Return to Practice COVID 19 Protocol
  • About Kate
    • Scope of Practice
    • Eye of the Needle (Near Death) Experience
  • Somatic Experiencing®, Trauma Resolution, Birth Process
    • Somatic Experiencing® >
      • SE and Scope of Practice
    • Pre and Perinatal Somatic Healing
    • Birth Process
    • Family Sessions
    • Stories from the Field
  • Integrated Bodywork
    • Advanced Prenatal and Perinatal Bodywork
    • Bodywork for Stabilization and Resiliency
    • Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy
    • Polarity Life Coaching
    • Stories from the Field
  • Healing Birth Trauma, FamilyCare VA
    • Healing from Difficult Births
    • Advanced Prenatal and Perinatal Bodywork
    • "I Had a Baby": Three First Steps
    • FamilyCare VA
    • Family Play Session
    • Whole Family Clinic
  • Baby Bodywork, Pediatric Craniosacral Therapy
    • Baby Massage
    • Infant Craniosacral Therapy
    • Pediatric Functional Bowen Bodywork for Babies
    • Working with Babies: A Biodynamic Craniosacral Approach
    • When Babies Need Help
    • Soothing the Sensitive Baby
    • Bodywork to Help with Breastfeeding
  • Testimonials
  • Contact