Our Story
The Human Development Center (HDC) is located in Bellingham, Washington. We founded our business because we want to develop our humanity and kindle the light in ourselves and with the people we meet and work with. Through continually becoming better, deeper versions of ourselves, we strive to live in Truth, Simplicity, Love, and Service to all of life.
Our Teaching & Trainings
We teach classes and facilitate experiential learning in Craniosacral therapy, Pre and Perinatal Somatic Psychology, Attachment and Bonding, Nervous System Regulation, Embodiment, Interpersonal Neurobiology, Resilience Development, Meditation, Systemic and Family Constellations, Ancestral Healing, and Organic Beekeeping.
We incorporate all these teachings in the individual session work we facilitate.
What We Offer
We offer our services in the form of facilitation/teaching, mentorship, guidance, individual sessions, group sessions, and ceremonial work. We live by the paradigm that healing is an inside job, and we are helping people to help themselves by connecting with the resources that are already within them.
Clara Cunningham, Co-Director
Teaching & Professional Work
Clara is currently teaching a two-year personal development course in pre and perinatal somatic process work, and also assisting Myrna Martin in PPN trainings around North America. She has worked for many years internationally as a holistic health practitioner, which has included a variety of bodywork modalities, including myofascial release, somatic experiencing, Chi Nei Tsang, meridian massage, teaching yoga/breath awareness, meditation, and shiatsu.
Clara has apprenticed for the past 20 years in tai chi, sensory awareness, and pre- and perinatal somatic process work with both Judyth Weaver and Myrna Martin. She is a facilitator and educator in Pre and Perinatal Somatic Therapies.
Philosophy & Vision
Born with a natural curiosity and focus on living in the spirit, Clara's path has woven through many heart-centered disciplines, which have guided and manifested her course of life studies and learning of what it is to be truly human. She is currently the director of The Human Development Center, which she founded in 2016 in Bellingham, WA. Clara and her husband lead a simple life and are blessed with a thriving practice. Inspired by the process of personal transformation to live clearly in truth, simplicity, and love, Clara is devoted to the unfolding of the innermost nature in herself and others.
She operates her business under a massage touch therapy license through Washington state and specializes in body-centered education.
Clara Cunningham is co-director of The Human Development Center. She is a biodynamic craniosacral therapist in Bellingham, WA. She began studying craniosacral therapy 20 years ago while working as a care provider for children living with disabilities and in hospice.
Background & Training
Growing up in Alaska gave Clara a deep respect for and intimacy with nature and the raw elemental power of this earth that has shaped her views of life and the continuum of life. She currently works with prenates, newborns, infants, children, families, and individuals of all ages, offering somatic process work, attachment and bonding support, birth work/education, infant massage, BCST, and holistic resiliency.
She offers experiences to groups and organizations, facilitating womb surrounds, Systemic Family Constellations, intergenerational trauma resolution, trauma intervention, ceremony, guided wilderness experiences, and movement therapy for somatic reclaiming. Clara is a biodynamic organic Apiculturist of the symbiosis honey farm.
Michael Hiraman Reynolds, Co-Director
Michael ‘Hiraman’ Reynolds is co-director of The Human Development Center.
He has been meditating, keeping bees, and doing quantum contact therapy for over 45 years. He is a biodynamic craniosacral therapist and neurofeedback practitioner in Bellingham, WA.
Hiraman grew up in the Pacific Northwest as an avid climber, hiker, sailor, and outdoorsman. He lived in a monastery in India for many years and has been a lifelong organic gardener. He is a world traveler and has immersed himself in cultures and spiritual traditions all over the planet.
Having received all of his training through mentorship, foremost being his training and role as a priest, he operates under the license of ministry, under which is permitted the laying on of hands.
The Integrated Family Collective
In-home and office visits for education, conception, fertility, pregnancy, birth, postpartum, baby, and family support. Our collective offers lactation support, sleep support, birth integration for the whole family, developmental/ attachment support, birth doula/ postpartum doula support, death doula, craniosacral therapy, support with big life transitions, home tending support in the form of nourishing food/cleaning, and so much more.
