COVID compliant protocols with CDC recommendations in place.
12/17/2025
Wishing you all a peaceful holiday season! For those struggling and are in need to help your nervous system regulate and ease tension, anxiety and/ or stress, I still have openings Wednesday 12/17, Thursday 12/18 and Saturday 12/20. You can schedule online here: www.claudiahawkins.com
I will be out of the office for the holidays 12/23 to 12/28.
12/14/2025
Allergic reactions and Craniosacral therapy! Woo hoo 🙌🏼 and it’s CEDAR SEASON Y’ALL!
Allergic reactions especially anaphylaxis can be traumatic for the body to find resolution under extreme duress. So happy to see results this quickly and once this client was seen/ heard and supported with this experience the body was able to start healing.
Cedar season is also on the rise and have been noticing clients with heaviness, itchiness, stuffed up noses all getting a little relief from allergies 🤧.
In the Bach Flower system, allergies are emotionally related to intolerance. While we may be intolerant while allergic, what else are we intolerant of? Family, in laws, siblings.. and here we go into gatherings of all sorts through the holiday season.
I have openings still until 12-22 and will be out of the office from 12-23 to 12-28!
11/21/2025
As we move toward the Thanksgiving holiday, I choose to move toward gratitude. Grateful for each and every one of you for your support!
Should you need support before Thanksgiving, I still have openings today 11/21 and Monday 11/24! Kids, relatives and/ or spending holidays alone can bring up issues in your tissues.
Considering the body “wholly” and the position of tissue systems and the fascia that binds it all together. How did it get there? What is causing or has caused these movements? We also need to consider systemically the changes that have caused these adaptations, what is our position in our family, towards others and what is out of order?
Absolutely loved this article and in taking the body as a whole systemically and individually, a story unfolds. A story of the body moving towards what is safe, what is nurturing and what we have been loyal to; out dated belief systems, functioning, positioning, blind loyaties and more deeper issues into healing from the core.
Systemic Family Constelltions along side regular Craniosacral work helps to resolve the questions hidden beyond surface level.
How Shifting Our Position Helps Us Change Our Story
11/18/2025
Our thoughts and emotions affect our sleep, mood, energy levels, and overall health. Think about how you feel when you're anxious or depressed — your energy goes down, your joints hurt, and you can barely focus on the tasks at hand. Depression can also cause headaches, back pain, nausea, constipation, and other physical symptoms while increasing your risk of heart disease.
Emotional, mental, and physical health are strongly connected. For example, prolonged or chronic stress fuels negative emotions, which in turn can affect your heart, immune system, and brain function, notes a 2020 review published in Psychosomatic Medicine. Poor emotional health can also lead to high blood pressure, chest pain, heart palpitations, dry mouth, or sexual problems, warns the American Academy of Family Physicians.
Given these aspects, it's no surprise that about one-third of American adults are now attending therapy, according to a 2020 survey conducted by OnePoll. However, therapy can take many forms, and sometimes, it has nothing to do with clinical counseling. An example is Somato Emotional Release (SER), a mind-body approach that attempts to heal physical pain by addressing unresolved emotions
Happy 40 year anniversary Upledger Institute International! 🤗 Thank you for your training and support through the years!
For clients or new clients wanting to know more about what Craniosacral therapy can do for you, explore the vast education and information on the website.
🌟 Four decades of empowering therapists, expanding global access to healing, and staying true to Dr. John’s mission of compassionate, whole-person care.
🌍 As we reflect on this milestone year, thank you for being part of the Upledger family and helping carry Dr. John’s legacy forward. Upledger.com
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11/14/2025
Craniosacral therapy can be a game changer for those with chronic pain conditions. Pain can also be physically felt or emotionally and can also be found in the Glial Cells.
Glial cells play a crucial role in pain by responding to injury and inflammation. When activated, they release substances that can either amplify pain signals (making chronic pain worse) or, under normal conditions, help protect neurons. This complex interaction means that dysregulation of glial cell activity can lead to chronic pain states, making them a significant focus for pain research and potential therapeutic interventions.
New clients get 15 minutes extra to go over history and any questions prior to starting a session. Please sign up under “new client” special Craniosacral therapy.
Here is an interesting article about glial cells and pain for those that want to read up on this:
An introduction to glia cells – active players in shaping how sensitive and responsive our nervous system is.
11/04/2025
Holidays are near and keeping you feeling your best is here! Getting booked through the holiday season so schedule today at www.claudiahawkins.com
Ensuring you get your time in when you need it is the best insurance for keeping holiday stress to less.
10/20/2025
Update: ALL BACK TO BUSINESS. Let me know if you have any issus with booking please and text me.
Unfortunately there is a nationwide outage on my booking system and I cannot schedule, check out or send people a heads up or contact them due to not being to access my system. This has never happened before and quite frustrating!!
Please let me know if you are experiencing any issues. One client has already informed me she cannot schedule.e
10/03/2025
I have openings today 10/3 and Saturday 10/4 still. Ask yourself, is it time for peace, time to be seen, time to be heard?
All returning clients, those that have received their first session, this special is for you for Craniosacral work only 9/19 and 9/20. If you are feeling unsafe, ungrounded, off, upset, blocked, numb or any feeling that keeps looping back around - Craniosacral therapy can facilitate tissue system support to help your nervous system reset.
New clients have a “new client special” with an extra 15 minutes to go over needs and history.
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I help facilitate healing and change in unbalanced or undesirable physical and mental states. I use various modalities to help you get in touch with the states you want to change so that your body can do what it does best, repair and renew.
Using a wide variety of massage & craniosacral techniques, bach flower remedies and applied kinesiology, I help you to find the symbolism and patterns trapped in your body so that your mind, body and inner spark are restored. Finding these restricted tissues and supporting them to unwind in the way they need to is essential for overall well being.
As a former veterinarian technician I was exposed to many years of treating trauma in pets and learned to hold space for their humans. I walked through the process of birth to death for over 20 years and was a part of many recoveries of health restoration. It wasn’t until I moved to Spain and lived there for 19 years that I began to study the human healing components. I studied many healing modalities like Reiki, Homeopathy, Akashic records, Applied Kinesiology, Bach Flower Remedies, Jungian archetypes, the Tarot and dowsing. In 2012 I started my CranioSacral therapy journey and in 2016 began formally studying with the Upledger Institute International.
I am a proud member of The American CranioSacral Therapy Association (ACSTA), The International Association of Healthcare Practitioners (IAHP) and the Texas Department of Licensing and Registration (TDLR). I am currently a teacher’s assistant for The Upledger Institute International.
*Offering services in English, Spanish and Catalan
Solutions for People:
Upledger Craniosacral Therapy (CST) (SomatoEmotional Release (SER) and Brain work via the Glial Interface matrix): a holistic, subtle, hands on, body work modality that facilitates the detection and release of resistant tissue imbalances through the craniosacral system. The craniosacral system is the protective membrane that surrounds your central nervous system and has a rhythm or beat, just like the cardiac or respiratory systems. When this rhythm is out of sync or imbalanced throughout the body, your whole system can display a wide variety of malfunctions.. CST & SER works with your body’s own natural ability to heal and encourages the body to let go of restrictions in muscle, bone, organ, tendon, cartilage, lymphatic tissues, fascia and more allowing your body to have a better quality of day to day working capacity. CranioSacral Therapy works on the physical plane, emotional plane (psyche) and spiritual plane (inner physician, inner essence or “divine spark”) connecting you to finding your own symbolic path to empowering you to take back control of your well-being and good health. Glial work is the newest technique of CST which allows the practitioner to work through various listening stations working through the craniosacral membrane detecting cellular dysfunctions or irregularities and facilitating a self correction via the glial interface bringing about profound change to the body and mind as a whole.
Some of the issues CST may help with:
Stress, anxiety, PTSD, depression, headaches and migraines, chronic joint, neck and back pain, auto-immune related illnesses (Fibromyalgia, Chron’s disease, Rheumatoid arthritis etc...), learning disabilities,Alzheimers, ADHD, Autism, arthritis, allergies, organ dysfunction, TMJ, Parkingsons and many more symptoms, illnesses or diseases ... for more information see: https://www.upledger.com/therapies/index.php
Chair Massage a great way to say thank you and represent gratitude for your business, event or private party. I do outcall chair massage in the Austin area and come to your location. Call for a quote today for your special occasion.
Massage (Swedish, Deep Tissue, Deep Lauterstein, Pregnancy, & Sports massage)
Bach Flower Remedies are 100% natural essences of non-toxic, selectively picked plants, trees and water that are reduced to very small amounts of material in water. These 39 essences are diluted and preserved and can be taken orally or topically creating balance for emotional and physical imbalances found in the body.
Dr. Ricardo Orozco in Barcelona furthered Dr. Edward Bach’s study and developed treatments through much research for physical “dis-ease” in the body. Every state whether physical or emotional has markers that can easily be translated for each remedy and solutions can be found to balance these states. Cremes and oral essences are individually made especially for you depending on the current issues you wish your body is presenting. These are safe for any age or condition, do not have side effects and can be used alongside the medication you may be taking from your doctor or go hand in hand with other holistic treatments.
Solutions for Animals:
Craniosacral Therapy for Animals (CST) is a bodywork technique that uses a light touch from head to tail allowing the therapist to detect and free up restrictions in the animals tissues ensuring the animal to function better as a whole. CST relaxes the Central Nervous System, the powerhouse that gives orders for every movement and body response through every tissue group. It also ensures a better flow in the dura mater by helping your body better regulate the fluid in this protective tube that insulates your brain and spinal cord (part of the craniosacral system).
When the body is at rest it heals. Animals suffer in same way humans do and although the pathogens attacking them or the illnesses or discomforts and pain may be different due to their species and anatomy, the effect of CST is the same. Whether you have a structural issue in your horse/ dog or cat or a behavior one, CST can benefit your pet by adapting the CST techniques for humans to different protocols for animals. At the Upledger Institute for craniosacral therapy there has been much study done over the years regarding the treatment in animals and the benefits for them all. CranioSacral therapy can compliment any veterinarian treatments and there are no side effects.
Some of the issues treatable in animals are:
Horses - first rib problems and girthing issues, head shaking, gait difficulty, flexibility, behavioral issues, colic, digestive disorders, eye disorders, tendinitis, kissing spine, laminitis, fertility problems, cribbing, nervousness, organ dysfunction, diseases, coughing, cancer and much more.
Dogs & Cats: Behavioral issues, marking, aggressiveness, gait imbalance, disease (PARVO, DISTEMPER, KENNEL COUGH, FELV, FIV etc..), arthritis, pre and post surgical procedures, cancer, diabetes, hyperthyroidism, chronic diarrhea - gastrointestinal diseases, heartworm (alongside veterinarian treatment), cardiac disease, vestibular disease and more.
Bach Flower Remedies, as in humans, Bach Flower Remedies can treat behavioral, emotional AND physical issues in animals. Bach Flowers are 100% non toxic and come from plants, trees and water that is reduced and diluted into a formula to help the body to balance and heal. There are 39 essences, one of them being Rescue Remedy (RR) which is in the first aid kit of many holistic remedy followers. RR is excellent for trauma, emergency situations or shock and can be applied directly to the animals skin or dropped onto a treat to ingest.
Some of the issues with animals that have been treated successfully with Bach Flower essences are behavioral issues, training issues, inflammations, bites, kennel cough (in dogs), boarding fear or transportation fear, car sickness, jealousy, grief, tendon or lameness issues, separation anxiety, peeing in inappropriate places, mastitis, FIV, FeLV, Conjunctivitis, Coprophagia, psychological pregnancy, allergies, gastrointestinal disorders, heart disease and more...
