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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...

Benefits of Hip Opening Poses

The hip joint is the largest joint in the human body. It carries a lot of physical and emotional stress. The hip joint is where the top of the femur meets the pelvis, it is a ball-in socket joint. Back pain and knee pain can often be associated with tight hips....

Grilled Chicken and Blueberry Salad

The best part about summer is the warm weather and with the warmer weather still gracing us with its presence a nice summer salad is the perfect meal. Most of us tend to have lighter appetite at this time of year, and no one wants to be standing by the stove when its...

Yoga for Knee Pain

  Experiencing chronic knee pain? You’re not alone. Knee pain plagues many adults, both athletes and non-athletes, and is reportedly the second biggest complaint when it comes to seeing the doctor for chronic pain. When it comes to keeping up with your yoga practice,...

Water

Water, how complicated can it be?  Let’s put it this way, it can be very complicated. 97% of the world water is salt water and there for undrinkable. There is 2% of the worlds water frozen as glaciers and only 1% of the worlds water is available to us. Water has many...

The Power of Thought And Body

What we think about we bring about. Our thoughts and the way we speak have more power then most would know, or like to admit. We have all encountered a person who is a negative speaker or the positive person who is always looking on the bright side of things. Although...

Summer Food and Excercise

Summer time is about beaches, camping, traveling, patios and being outdoors. It is easy for you to get off your regular routine. It is not uncommon that we drink more, workout less (especially if traveling), and eat a not as healthy. It is important to indulge from...

Happy Birthday Canada from Oxygen Yoga!

This Canada Day we are celebrating 150 years as a nation. Coming into confederation in 1867, spanning more than 5,000 kilometers wide, holding second place for the worlds larges country. We are surround by 3 beautiful oceans, the North Pacific, Artic and North...

Yoga Teacher Survival Guide

Yoga teachers around the world can all agree that teaching is the best job in the world but it can be a surprisingly hard job. We take on a lot of other people’s energy, and we are also responsible for changing negative energy in our classes to reflect a positive...