$900

course overview and schedule

Instructor

Margaret Rosenau, RCST®, SIH owner and approved BCTA instructor

Upcoming Workshop Dates

• March 30th-April 2nd, 2025

• April 26th-29th, 2025

• November 3-5, 2025 (3 days, limited to 3 people)

Workshop Overview

This course is unique, spacious and powerful! Margaret Rosenau has created her own template for working with early material based on the format of womb surround workshops created by Ray Castellino (read the backstory below).

These intimate workshops are limited to 4 participants (some dates are limited to 3 participants) and intended for Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapists and other Somatic practitioners. 

Each participant has a 2-3 hour turn, with one turn taken each day of the workshop. Participants are active practitioners in support of each other’s turns, enhancing their skills of presence and perception. There is ample time given to preparation and integration. The orientation to long tide and resources throughout each turn creates a safe and supportive container for historical challenges to show themselves without taking over the process.

workshop objectives include:

• Increase participants’ somatic knowledge of their early history.

• Differentiate from early experiences in a supportive attuned container.

• Deepen understanding of the dynamics of how early material is relevant in participants’ current lives.

• Increase visual and somatic recognition of early states and patterns.

• Practice and increase skills of presence, listening, recognition and negotiation of early imprint and blueprint states.

• Increase professional practitioner capacity to recognize, support and differentiate early material with clients.

Prerequisites

• Previous experience with the subtle rhythms of the body and solid practitioner skills 

• Participants must be graduates of a 700 hour training in Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy like the one we teach at the School of Inner Health or another multi-year Somatic Training 

• A questionnaire and zoom or phone interview with Margaret is required before acceptance into the course

Margaret’s Early Journey Backstory 

I waited several years to study with Ray Castellino. I knew my birth story enough to know that it would not be fun to unpack. My birth was incredibly challenging and involved multiple losses. That was the part I knew I was scared to face. What I didn’t know was how Ray could make hard things both fun and meaningful.

In the late summer of 2000, I took my first workshop with Ray. Anna Chitty was assisting him. I was about to start my Biodynamic Craniosacral Practitioner training with John and Anna Chitty. I had no idea that my life was about to change, nor that Ray and Anna would be my loving guides and mentors for years to come.

Ray was so warm and welcoming to everyone. He didn’t just make everyone feel special, he was genuinely interested and cared about the details.

The workshop I took with Ray was a womb surround workshop. With Ray’s expert facilitation and the support of his assistants, seven participants each explored a part of their early birth-related history in individual turns that lasted several hours.

Minutes into my turn, Ray and I were laughing so hard we couldn’t sit up. We fell to the floor and began rolling in separate directions like two marbles out of a jar. When we stopped, we were facing each other, which just made us begin laughing again. Together our breathless, genuine and rolling laughter metabolized a part of my conception story that had caused my parents great pain. And that was just the beginning!

Which makes me want to laugh again, as we did that day long ago, about the beginning time before my life began, what pre and perinatal therapists refer to as the preconception period, and my conception. My work in the pre and perinatal realm is one of the experiences that have taught me that consciousness exists outside of the body and that the soul ready or willing to incarnate is fully conscious of what has occurred. More recently, scientists have shown that babies in the womb understand the feeling tones of the world their mother inhabits, including stress and calm and the feelings behind words, even if they don’t speak the language.

I was amazed by Ray and his approach and the power of the group container. And contrary to my expectations going in, I was already looking towards the next workshop and opportunity to explore my birth material, curious about what I would discover. I continued to take workshops with Ray and graduated from his two-year foundation training in 2004. The foundation training gave me the credentials to lead workshops in his style, but I haven’t. I chose instead to bring what I learned with Ray to clients one on one for decades and in the last two years in family sessions.

Class Venue

School of Inner Health