COVID compliant protocols with CDC recommendations in place.
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.
I found this very helpful and a good reminder when learning how to process emotions and even numbness. Great suggestions to scroll through written by a psychotherapist.
If you need help with feeling safe in your body and wanting to process while creating a safe space that you can explore these feelings, Craniosacral is a wonderful bodywork facilitated process that helps to get clarity, feel connected and calm.
As we close out August and welcome September, I’d like to remind you of some important lessons.
08/30/2025
Client education is one of the most important parts of working as a licensed massage therapist and craniosacral therapist.
In massage we manually manipulate tissue systems with pressure and techniques to muscle & muscle fascia watching how the body responds and releases but what if it does not respond or release and what if the restriction is not in the muscle or muscle fascia? Massage may not be the solution.
In Craniosacral we connect to all the tissue systems (muscle, bone, organ, tendon, nervous systems, whole body fascia etc…) by gently palpating through all the fascia following the craniosacral rhythm. CST also addresses “emotional entanglements” in the affected tissue system which may not be muscle or muscle fascia. A slowing down and listening to both the body and mind is helpful for bringing about nervous system and full body homeostasis.
When the client feels safe in their body, the mind calms and able to focus on releasing mentally and physically that which no longer serves to integrate lasting changes in the tissue systems. Pushing and pressure activates the sympathetic nervous system and CAN lead the client to “brace” and become rigid leaving massage difficult to administer and the client CAN become emotionally dysregulated.
Craniosacral Therapy IS a full body/ all tissues modality that has been taught since 1985 through the Upledger Insititute and is the gold standard for bodywork when all else fails.
08/29/2025
Avoidance CAN be a trauma response to feeling overwhelm in your body. The sensations we feel when overwhelmed in our bodies can be complex, and sometimes even contrary to each other. Our nervous system’s response to this can cause tissue systems to restrict, break down or malfunction.
SomatoEmotional Release or SER is a Craniosacral technique that is well in the scope of practice for body workers. Not all Craniosacral therapist are trained in SER or in diologing nor are they trauma informed.
SER is not psychotherapy but a following of the tissue systems response to overwhelm and other emotions that come up naturally in the body. We all have emotional releases and it is a simple way your body responds in order to regulate itself back into a healthy parasympathetic state (rest, reset & digest mode).
SER is a witnessed, guiding process to help your body naturally process trauma, the feelings that were not had at the time of overwhelm and helps to facilitate the body’s natural ability to heal leading to homeostasis.
Not ALL Craniosacral sessions follow an SER process. SER happens when you feel safe enough to be vulnerable and curious about what you are experiencing through this natural process with touch.
I offer a “New Client” special allowing for an extra 15 minutes to go over history & needs for your session by taking time to get to know you.
If you are ready to start your journey, or feel stuck on your healing journey, Craniosacral therapy may be the right choice for you. For more information and scheduling: www.claudiahawkins.com
08/28/2025
Thank you so much! 8 years in and the gratitude keeps coming. 🥰
08/28/2025
Súper grateful for the reviews!! 🙌🏼🥰🙌🏼
08/27/2025
Turning pain into purpose was something that took years for me to understand and one of the reasons I decided to become trauma informed and also a Craniosacral therapist. But I found it can be done.
If you are ready to get back on the table or would like to see what CST can do for you I do have openings this week and Saturday too! Schedule here: www.claudiahawkins.com
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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...
