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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...

Getting through the day

The average person probably works about 250 days a year, give or take. That’s with 2 weeks vacation and if you have weekends off. If you work 40 hours a week and work about 50 out of the 52 weeks in a year, that’s about 2000 hours per year. Most of us probably work...

Yoga for Forward Head Posture

Have you heard of Forward Head Posture (or Forward Head Syndrome)? Unfortunately for many who spend hours a day working at a computer or staring at other device screens, this postural phenomenon is a pressing, and sometimes painful, reality. Colloquially it is...

A Fun Workout

A successful workout, is one that you enjoy. It would be hard to stick to a routine that you hated and didn’t feel good or interested in doing. Everyone of course has a different definition of what a fun workout is for them. However, feeling motivated by good energy...

Stretches for Athletes

Stretches for Athletes Many athletes have a great deal of strength, but with this flexibility may be a challenge. Stretching for athletes is very beneficial for them, as it releases tension in over used and built up muscles. The stretching of tendons and muscles...

Embrace Diversity

Yoga instructors have the best job and a challenging job at the same time. Instructors have to sequence their classes, have on point queuing, ensure the safety of their class and create a pleasing environment for their students. The over all feeling and experience you...

Yoga for Dancers!

Martha Graham once said “a dancer dies twice — once when they stop dancing, and this first death is the more painful." Martha Graham is one of the most influential and most legendary dancers and choreographers. Performing and choreographing for over 70 years, I’m sure...

Yoga, the Performace Enhancer

Yoga is one of the oldest form of movement to promote health and well-being. There is an increase in research on how practising yoga effects the mind psychologically. This is why many professional athletes are taking to yoga. Even professional gymnast who are flexible...

Trust the Journey

Trust the Journey As much as the end results of a good workout is, there is a great deal of fulfilment in the journey. Yoga and fitness is about what you gain out of the process. It is about learning and enjoying the highs and lows along the way. This is what is...