THE OYF BLOG

Spooky Season with Oxygen Yoga & Fitness

Whether it means back to school or picking up pumpkin spice on the way to work, it’s officially fall. The days might be getting shorter and darker, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t make time for fun activities with our friends and family. There’s plenty of themed...

Exercise, Yoga & The Menstrual Cycle

Exercise, Yoga & The Menstrual Cycle Part of our mission here at Oxygen Yoga & Fitness is to help empower you to better know and understand your body. For those of us who are not cis men, achieving that goal might include filling in gaps in our knowledge...

3 Ways Heat Can Step Up Your Yoga Class

If you’ve been to one of our Oxygen Yoga & Fitness studios or checked out our yoga class options, you might have noticed that lots of our class options are performed in a heated room. Our studios are heated with FAR Infrared technology which raises your body...

An Introduction to Mindfulness

What is mindfulness and how can it enhance your practice and your life? You’ve likely heard the expression ‘You get out what you put in’. This couldn’t be more true than in our yoga practice. How we go about our practice, be it where our minds are or how we move...

Knowing Your Body: An Introduction to Menopause

How much were you taught about what your body needs? We’re taught a general understanding that some things are better for our bodies than others. Good nutrition, regular exercise, and getting enough sleep makes us feel good. Dehydration, all-nighters, and watching tv...

The Benefits of Yoga: Artistry and Innovation | New Ideas

Open your mind to new ideas, opportunities, and experiences through your yoga flow.  Whatever brought you into Oxygen Yoga & Fitness, we’re happy you’re here. And now that you are, we want to help ensure you get the most out of your time in the studio. In past...

Improving Your Cardio through High Energy Workouts

Turn up the pace for high energy workouts and you might be surprised by how it benefits you.  How much opportunity to move do you have in your day to day life? For those of us doing office jobs or work from home, it can be easy to go a whole day without moving a...

Five Reasons to Work Out with Friends

Why not invite a friend along to your next workout? Are you a person who prefers to work out alone or with company? While it’s always great to dedicate time to ourselves, there can also be advantages that come from working out with your friends.  If you typically use...

The Importance of Breath

How breathing can improve your yoga practice and your life. We all need to breathe. We do it all day, every day. But how much time have you really spent thinking about how you are breathing and how it affects you, outside of keeping you alive? At first thought, you...

An Introduction to Meditation

What is meditation and how can it enhance your yoga practice? There’s a lot of different benefits you can get from yoga, and many of them expand past the physical body. If you started yoga with a focus on shaping your muscles or improving your flexibility, there may...

Five Reasons to Work Out with Friends

Why not invite a friend along to your next workout? Are you a person who prefers to work out alone or with company? While it’s always great to dedicate time to ourselves, there can also be advantages that come from working out with your friends.  If you typically use...

The Importance of Breath

How breathing can improve your yoga practice and your life. We all need to breathe. We do it all day, every day. But how much time have you really spent thinking about how you are breathing and how it affects you, outside of keeping you alive? At first thought, you...

An Introduction to Meditation

What is meditation and how can it enhance your yoga practice? There’s a lot of different benefits you can get from yoga, and many of them expand past the physical body. If you started yoga with a focus on shaping your muscles or improving your flexibility, there may...

What’s the Right Workout for You?

Find the workout that fits into your life, instead of trying to plan your life around your workout.  We all know that exercise is good for us. You might have even realized that you really do feel better when you work out. So, why can it still be so hard to actually...

Chakra Series: The Crown Chakra

Bring together your opened chakras to reach another level of enlightenment through your crown chakra. In some belief systems, people are believed to have another layer to our bodies where our energy resides, and wherein it gathers in seven main areas which are...

Chakra Series: The Throat Chakra

Connect with the importance of speaking your truth and actively listening to others. If you’ve ever been interested in where the energy in our body resides, and how this affects us in our day to day lives, you might be interested in learning more about the ideas of...

Chakra Series: The Third Eye

Pay attention to the world around you with the help of your sixth sense, your third eye chakra. Over the past articles we’ve discussed five chakras  which, when balanced, are thought to help us connect better to our bodies, to the world, and to becoming our best...

Chakra Series: The Heart Chakra

Connecting with how we love others and ourselves. Over the last few articles, we’ve started an exploration of the chakras, the energy centers of the body. There’s thought to be seven main energy centers, which each connect to a different part of our lives, bodies and...

Chakra Series – The Naval Chakra

How to harness your naval chakra energy towards positive progress in your life.  In our last two articles, we delved into our discussion of the first and second chakras {link back to other articles}. The chakras are based on the belief that there is another layer to...