2027-2030 Pre- perinatal training
Training will be undertaken by multiple instructors, with sessions taking place in Anstruther Scotland. Details regarding logistics of transport options and possible accommodations will be made available in due course.
Meanwhile, schedule of modules and dates can be found in table at right. Modules are five days in length.
Instructors
Carme Renalias
Carme Renalias has over 20 years of experience as a registered Biodynamic Craniosacral therapist. Her practice has been deeply influenced by Mike Boxhall’s work, Deepening into Stillness, as well as the pre- and perinatal somatic work developed by Ray Castellino.
Carme was a professional dancer for 25 years. This experience has given her an intimate understanding of the body and its capacity to sense, express, and connect.
Since 2014, Carme has run her own school, Contacting Stillness, based in Girona, Spain, in a small village in the countryside where she has lived for the past 33 years. She is a registered Biodynamic Craniosacral teacher and is currently teaching her 11th two-year BCST training. She also travels internationally to offer BCST and PPN workshops.
Carme has collaborated with the Castellino Training in Spain since 2012 and has been 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.
She is the mother of two wonderful young men.
Kristin Sipley
Klaus Kaeppeli
Klaus Käppeli, MSc, is a psychologist and psychotherapist of the Federation of the Swiss Psychologists (FSP). He worked as a school psychologist in St.Gallen, Switzerland. Since 1988 he has a private practice in somatic psychotherapy with a focus on pre- and perinatal psychology. He works with adults, families, couples, young adults, children and babies. His extensive training includes integrative body psychotherapy (IBP) (J. L. Rosenberg, B. K. Morse), integrative couple and family therapy (C.Gammer, M.Kirschenbaum), treating and integrating prenatal and birth trauma with babies and adults (R. Castellino, W. Emerson) and craniosacral therapy (J. Lichtenberg). He assisted the prenatal and birth foundation training with Ray Castellino in Santa Barbara CA. He is a certified adult group facilitator in processing and integrating pre- and perinatal experiences in the tradition of Ray Castellino. From 2012 to 2023, he cofacilitated the foundation training with Regina Bücher in Germany and Switzerland.
He worked for an extended period as a training therapist at the Institute for Integrative Body Psychotherapy (IBP) in Winterthur.
His lectures, both in Switzerland and abroad, focus primarily on topics relating to conception, pregnancy and birth. In addition to various articles, Klaus has published a book. Die Schule– Geburts- und Lebensraum des Kindes was published in 2022 in a second, revised edition by Mattes Verlag in Heidelberg. Together with Charisse Basquin, they translated the book into English. Welcome to School was published in 2024 by New Generation Publishing. Klaus can be heard on numerous podcasts covering a range of topics, including those hosted by Thomas Harms, John Wilks, Thomas Verny and Kate White.
Klaus was born in 1948, is married and father of three adult sons. His seven grandchildren are among his greatest teachers. Klaus is a member of ISPPM Switzerland, of ISPPM e.V. and of APPPAH.
Kevin Davis
Mary Jackson
Mary Jackson has been a home birth Midwife since 1975. She has attended around 3000 births in the California and was attending home births with her second generation of babies. She has incorporated the Cranio-Sacral training, Somatic Experience training, Circle of Security, and the 2 year Castellino Prenatal and Birth Training into her midwifery practice.
She is currently involved with co teaching the Castellino Foundation Training. She was a teacher on the adjunct faculty of the Santa Barbara PhD Graduate Institute, is an approved Womb Surround Practitioner, co teaches advanced trainings in the Castellino work and is the President of the BEBA Clinic in Ojai, Ca. She has brought the Pre and Perinatal Somatic work to 14 countries.
Charisse Basquin
Charisse received her Doctorate of Chiropractic in 1986 and attended her first birth the following year. Since then she has combined various therapies to release trauma held in the body/mind. In 2000 she became a midwifery assistant in Alaska. Charisse's private practice is in Anstruther, Scotland where she works with all ages. She also loves working with the Violence Reduction Unit of the Glasgow Police bringing bonding and attachment to ex-offenders. Charisse is a Certified Castellino Workshop Leader and has assisted and co-taught with Ray Castellino. Charisse and Mary Jackson co-taught Pre & Perinatal Therapy to professionals in Scotland and has taught throughout Europe, Asia and the US.
