This pose is a full-body practice that tones your core, arms, and legs. Energetically, this shape offers grounding, strengthening, and an opportunity for deep focus. It’s the perfect way to prepare the body for a full day of practicing dentistry. After all, it’s our core that holds us in the shapes we need to take in order to perform our work.
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Seated Cat-Cow Variation Focusing on Gentle Spinal Flexing
This cat-cow variation is great for loosening up a stiff upper and lower back after a long day of dentistry.
Camel Pose Variation: for Tight thighs and Chest opening
stretching the front body. Here is a simpler variation that will help stretch the front of the hips, the thigh muscles, and chest while strengthening the muscles in the back.
Child’s Pose Variation: Yoga for Stiff Lower Back
The other night, I must’ve slept funny because I woke up with a stiff lower back. Then I spent hours at my desk which didn’t help. Here’s a simple child’s pose variation that offered me some relief by stretching my lower back. Try this at work, in between patients or at lunch time to give your back a gentle stretch.
Back and Shoulder Stretch with Eagle Pose Variation
Prone Back and Shoulder Stretch with Yoga Block. Yoga for Dentists.
Goddess Pose
Goddess pose is a great lower back and hips release after a long day of dentistry. #yogafordentists #yoga #dentists
Balancing Table Pose
One-legged, knee-to-chest pose, or Eka Pada Apanasana, is a great lower back and hips release after a long day of dentistry. #yogafordentists #yoga #dentists
Lower Back & Hips Stretches (Eka Pada Apanasana & Apanasana)
One-legged, knee-to-chest pose, or Eka Pada Apanasana, is a great lower back and hips release after a long day of dentistry. #yogafordentists #yoga #dentists
Restorative Lower Back Release
Yesterday, I slept terribly and then ended up waking up with a stiff lower back. I knew that yoga would help my back but decided to take a more restorative approach to my practice as my body and mind were telling me to “be gentle”. So today, my offering is the three poses I didContinue reading “Restorative Lower Back Release”