Focus
Summer has arrived in force and with it, emotions spilling over at events beyond my control. I focus on what I CAN do and how I CAN help, so that I can assuage some of the rage and frustration rising inside.
Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy is EXPANSIVE, INCLUSIVE, and HOLISTIC, yet I’m a bit of a science nerd, and I like to focus on the details. Once of the knotty things grabbing my attention and the attention of many of my Craniosacral colleagues is the pervasiveness of Covid-19 sequala and the prevalence of Long Covid. A key theory to have emerged recently proposes that Covid-19 is an Endothelial disease. And what, you may ask, is that? Let’s step back and look at what the Endothelium is and what “it” does.
The Endothelium is a single layer of cells lining the inside of the heart and the blood and lymphatic vessels and covering 48,000 square feet (about the size of a football field). The Endothelium maintains homeostasis in our vascular network and communicates between the blood and the tissues. In addition to maintaining vascular tone by controlling vasodilation and vasoconstriction, it also regulates the blood’s clotting function by regulating the blood’s viscosity. Particularly relevant for Covid-19, the Endothelium functions as our early warning system, responding to toxic invaders by activating Leukocytes (AKA white blood cells, agents of the immune system) and directing them to the site of the injury or infection.
Severe Covid-19 infection disrupts the Endothelium’s function and triggers an aggressive inflammatory response, known as a “cytokine storm”. This hyper-immune response is thought to be the cause of the widespread organ system impacts- from heart and lungs to stomach and brain. Restoring the integrity of the endothelium is necessary for recovery. Because the endothelium is innervated by sympathetic nerves, restoring the balance between the Sympathetic and Parasympathetic systems constituting the Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) can support the recovery of the Endothelium*.
Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy (BCST) restores balance to the ANS and can restore homeostasis to the vascular system while releasing restrictions in the respiratory system and addressing headaches, ear-ringing, brain-fog and other common sequala of Covid-19 and Long Covid. BCST quiets the nervous system and helps reduce the “noise” in the system by facilitating access to your inner and transformative healing.