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...
An Introduction to Meditation

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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...

Chakra Series – The Sacral Chakra

Chakra Series – The Sacral Chakra

Take the time to focus on your creativity, energy, and sexuality in your sacral chakra In the first article of our chakra series , we explored the root chakra and it’s impact on our bodies and lives. Today, let’s move on and up the body to the sacral chakra and how it...

Chakra Series – The Root Chakra

Chakra Series – The Root Chakra

How to focus on staying grounded in your yoga practice for your root Chakra. If you’re leading a health conscious life, odds are you’ve spent a fair amount of time considering how best to take care of your physical and mental health. But, have you considered what role...