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 was a school psychologist in St.Gallen, Switzerland. Klaus trained therapists at the Institute for Integrative Body Psychotherapy (IBP) in Winterthur. Since 1988 he has a private practice in somatic psychotherapy with a focus on pre- and perinatal psychology. He works with all ages. 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.

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. Klaus can be heard on numerous podcasts covering a range of topics, that were 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

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 received an MSc in Psychological Trauma and performed research on birth trauma and it's association with fear of giving birth. Charisse's private practice is in Anstruther, Scotland where she works with people of all ages, including the time of pre-conception. Charisse is a Certified Castellino "Womb Surround" Workshop Leader, Castellino Family Practitioner and Supervisor of family practitioners, Supervisor and mentor for facilitators-in-training. She 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.

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