Solstice Yoga Center in the Media
Doing Drugs in the Dental Office
- How dentists are coping with pain -By Dr. Eduardo Izaguirre Fernandez
An awkward work posture can cause long-term problems.
Dealing with the demands of the dental profession often takes a toll on practitioners and their staff, in the form of pain, acute or chronic, associated with an awkward physical posture and mental/emotional stress. Both accumulate over time, starting during university training and increasing over the years of professional practice.
Long hours at the workplace, demanding surgical procedures performed in a very limited and often inaccessible space (the oral cavity), dealing with the fear and emotional response of patients with their different personalities, plus demanding administrative duties often lead to pain medication intake on a constant basis and/or to alcohol or other drug utilization.
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Relaxed Shoulders in 9 Positions
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More and more we are experiencing 
our lives in our minds, as if our body trails many miles behind. Our respiration is not able to connect the heart to the spinal column, where the nervous system is located. Lying on a BackMitra creates a passive restorative posture that helps us to bring back inner peace, to exhale, and to get rid of unnecessary contraction in our physical, mental and emotional body. But it also works therapeutically: the structure of the spinal column changes, joints get more space, pinched nerves are released and due to the pressure of the BackMitra the density of the vertebrae changes. Again and again a blissful feeling overwhelms us!
“Gravity and breathing are the open doors
to the present”
This series of exercises helps us to create relaxed and stable shoulders. Anatomically the structure of our shoulders is as follows: the collarbones, the shoulder joint and the shoulder blades. These three segments need to communicate with each other in all postures.
1. Start from Utkatasana (the chair pose) with the arms forward. On an exhalation the arms are slowly stretched forward. Relax the joints of wrists, elbows and the shoulders, nothing feels hard or forced. While breathing, focus on the shoulder blades and feel a soft contraction on the base of the shoulder blades with each exhalation.
2. The second position is Utkatasana with both arms stretched all the way to the sides of the ears (as far as the shoulders permit). Guide this pose with your inhalation and exhalation. Feel a widening with every relaxed and deep inhalation at the bottom, middle and top of the rib....
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Yoga International Magazine - Summer 2017 edition
The life, loves and passions of a Flemish yogini under the Indian, Mexican and Spanish sun
A yogini, heart and soul, Brigitte Longueville (57) has spent almost all her life in her quest to deepen her passion as a yoga teacher, to inspire people through her teaching and to train yoga teachers.By Marciel Witteman
She was taught by great teachers, runs her own studio Solstice Yoga Center in Mexico, and will be training new teachers near Barcelona in Spain, from June 2016. Following a photo shoot in foggy Amsterdam, with tea and a large dark bar of chocolate, I find myself talking to a relaxed and tanned Brigitte, who has just returned from her annual trip to India.
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OM Yoga & Lifestyle - Spring 2016