Craniosacral therapy recreates the womb experience by gently holding the pelvic bones to trigger prenatal memories stored in the nervous system. The practice aims to shift clients into a parasympathetic state where tension releases, sometimes triggering lucid-dream states and involuntary movements like writhing.
The premise of craniosacral therapy is that you hold the bones in the body to mimic the memory of being in the womb. Because when we are in the womb, we're connected to the mother through our belly button, but also the nervous system. When we are in utero, the first part of the nervous system that forms is the base of the spine. So the stems grow up the spine, and then the brain forms as the last piece of the nervous system. When you hold someone underneath the pelvic bone, it mimics the body's memory of being in the womb. Then the body starts to heal itself. It's the idea that you go into the parasympathetic nervous system and the body starts to go into homeostasis because the tension that's held in the body starts to release on its own. Most people, they tend to have these experiences where they'll go into lucid dreaming states pretty quickly, or the body will start to move and almost like writhing.
