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THE OYF BLOG

Back to Basics: Positions of Rest

The new year has officially started, which for many of us goal and dream oriented individuals means a desire to jump headfirst into our new workout goals. We at Oxygen Yoga & Fitness are happy to support you on that journey. Counter-intuitive as it may seem, one...

Back to Basics 2: Core Strength

Welcome back to our back to basics series. In our last article, we covered the importance of good posture and how it can affect us both in the studio and in our day to day lives. One important aspect of our posture is how we hold our core. Today, let's refresh...

Back to Basics 1: Posture

As we’re heading into the new year, many of us may be taking time away from our normal schedule . At Oxygen Yoga & Fitness, we find this can be a great time to return to our roots. Instead of focusing on how your workout routine may be disrupted, you can take this...

Ready, Set, Goals! Setting Workout Goals starts now!

Your OYF Guide to Setting Workout Goals We know everyone comes into our Oxygen Yoga & Fitness studios for different reasons. We want to be there to help you get what you’re looking for out of our classes, whether it’s an hour to get out of your head or a part of...

Pre-Holiday Workout Motivation trouble? Let us help!

Find Your Perfect Pre-holiday Workout Motivation We’re approaching that part of the year where time can fly by at an inexplicably faster rate than it has for the first ten months of the year. It can feel at this point in the year that the opportunity to accomplish...

Our OYF Gift Guide

The holiday season can come with a lot of excitement, but also a lot of stress. Picking out the perfect gift for our friends and family can bring us great joy, but if you’re stuck about what to get the loved ones in your life this gift can start to feel like a burden....

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...

Yoga For The Dogs

Do you have any old yoga mats that you don't use anymore? Wondering what to do with them? Well, we have good news for you! Yoga mats make excellent beds for dogs, and the BC SPCA is in need of them! We will be collecting your old yoga mats and donating them to the...

Hydration and Happiness

At Oxygen Yoga and Fitness we like to sweat and we like to make you sweat! With an increased body temperature you sweat a heck of a lot more. The average human sweats approximately 20-24oz of water during an hour of fitness according to active.com . We wanted to talk...

Yoga Mats Change Lives

This year Oxygen Yoga and FItness partnered with Yoga Design Lab and Earthchild Project South Africa to help change even more lives than just our clients and communities. By supporting an Oxygen Yoga Design Lab you are supporting at-risk Children in need. Just read...

Celebrating New Owners at Chilliwack Oxygen

A lot has been happening at Oxygen Yoga Chilliwack The 21 Day Challenge has been a blast!  The top three contenders at the Chilliwack studio will be put into a draw with all of the other Oxygen studios in the country to win a six month unlimited membership and a swag...

I Create Happiness

One of the biggest gifts in this life is the power to create. We create individually, and collectively we’ve created incredible things over thousands of years, things we still look back on with wonder. The power of creation isn’t one to be used lightly though. We also...

I Accept Myself Completely

Have you seen the movie I FEEL PRETTY? The opening scene depicts an average girl attending her very first spin class. She walks into the studio that is overcrowded with excited fit women ready to ride their souls out together. The room is buzzing as pretty smiles and...

I Love Who I am

In our Oxygen community we are committed to the growth of each member. We want to change the way people live, give them their power and show them the strength they possess. Every week we sing a mantra together to affirm this idea of self love, of growth, and of...

Kindness Cures

Kelsey Carignan and the rest of her Oxygen support system is going to kick Cancer in its metaphorical butt and we’re going to do it with KINDNESS! Meet Kelsey Carignan, a member of our Oxygen Yoga Family. Kelsey has been a part of the team for three years, most...