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Three-day Seminar in the United Kingdom
On the 14th to the 17th of September, 2010, Dr. Ray Castellino will offer a unique seminar in Seaford, Sussex, in the United Kingdom, titled An Introduction to Understanding, Recognising and Healing Early Life Imprints. The seminar will include theory, video material and practical exercises that will enhance your skills for working within the prenatal and birth community. The seminal will cost £595 if paid by the 1st of June or £625 if paid after. For more information please see the web page for this seminar.
Ray Speaking at Craniosacral Conference in Spain
Ray will be speaking at a conference titled The Pre and Peri-Natal Period September 23-28 in Valencia, Spain. He will also be giving a post-conference presentation titled Craniosacral Practices Applied to the Family and Healing Pre-Natal and Peri-Natal Imprints together with Tara Blasco, Ph.D., RCST®, following the conference. For more information on both please see the flyer for the conference.
Interview with Chloe Faith Wordsworth
On September 24th, 2009, Dr. Ray Castellino was interviewed by Chloe Faith Wordsworth of Resonance Repatterning on her internet radio show. You can listen to the show online for free (scroll down to #43, "From Birth To Breast"), or purchase a transcript for $12.00.
The goal of Castellino Prenatal and Birth Training is to make Prenatal and Birth Therapy available to the world community for children, adults, and especially for babies and new families with the highest possible integrity, efficiency and compassion.
Dr. Raymond F. Castellino facilitates people of all ages to resolve and repattern prenatal and birth trauma imprinting. This includes facilitating babies and children in the family setting and adults in individual and small group settings. He also offers phone support for parents, adults, and professionals seeking supervision. He works both alone and together with midwife Mary Jackson.
In addition to working with people and their families himself, Dr. Castellino also offers educational services to train others in these skills. His educational services include a two-year (48-day) Foundation Training, as well as several different clinical training opportunities.
He is also the author and producer of numerous papers and videos on the subjects of pre- and peri-natal therapy and early trauma resolution.
About Dr. Castellino
Raymond Castellino, DC (retired), RPP, RPE, RCST®, draws on almost four decades of experience as a natural health care practitioner, consultant and teacher. His current practice focuses on the resolution of prenatal, birth and other early trauma and stress.
He is currently involved in three major projects:
- He is co-founder About Connections with home birth midwife Mary Jackson, where they prepare families for birth, support the birth process, do follow up integration. The methods they have developed has reduced home birth transfers to the hospital from 20% to 3% in over 100 births. They also work with families and individuals of all ages to resolve the effects of early imprinting.
- He is the Clinical Director of BEBA (Building and Enhancing Bonding and Attachment), a non-profit research clinic in Santa Barbara devoted to strengthening the bonds between babies/children and their parents and optimizing children's physical, emotional and mental development.
- He is founder and director of a 2-year professional training on the work he has developed in BEBA and with Mary Jackson in About Connections.
Dr. Castellino is on the adjunct faculty of the Santa Barbara Graduate Institute, which offers masters and doctorates in both Pre- and Peri-natal Psychology and Somatic Psychology; he is a frequent presenter at national conferences including the Association for Pre- & Peri-natal Psychology and Health, the American Physical Therapy Association, the Craniosacral Therapy Association of North America, and others. He was a founding board member of the Alliance for Transforming the Lives of Children.
He has been practicing and teaching prenatal and birth therapy since 1993.