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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...

The Power of Your Breath!

The Power of Your Breath is Amazing!   Do you ever feel so overwhelmed that you literally forget to breathe? When you are stressed do you take shorter more shallow breaths? When things feel crazy and you feel overwhelmed, take a moment away to focus on your breath......

Tips to Unplugging – Get off the Grid

Tips and ways to spend time off the grid or in other words get in a little more quality time. Time by yourself meditating, doing yoga or truly being and connecting with those you love. In this day and age we all have a need to feel connected, but maybe we are getting...

The Importance of Core Strength

What is core strength and why is it so vitally important? Actually let's not think of it as core strength but as your core system, a system of abdominal support for your spine! In your abdominal cavity you have a floating sac - for want of a better term - of organs...

Breakfast of Champions

We have all heard several time how breakfast is the most important meal of the day and if you are my age you probably even remember the old commercials that told you a particular cereal was the breakfast of champions? Well, I’d like to talk about some great breakfast...

Setting an Intention, Mantra or Sankalpa

Setting an Intention, Mantra or Sankalpa We often get asked about how to pick your own mantra or how to set an intetion in your yoga class. In yoga you hear a lot about setting your intention. We thought we would give you some tips and more information about creating...

How to Stay Fit Despite a Demanding Job

How to Stay Fit Despite a Demanding Job Do you work long hours? Do you struggle to find time to fit exercising into your schedule? It's not as hard as you think to make time... making exercising a priority and finding something you love to do will definitely help....

8 Tips on Healthy Eating

These eight practical tips cover the basics of healthy eating, and can help you make healthier choices. Base your meals on starchy carbohydrates Eat lots of fruit and veg Eat more fish – including a portion of oily fish Cut down on saturated fat and sugar Eat less...

Jen Talks to JR FM

Jen our CEO of Oxygen Yoga & Fitness visits Fort McMurray for their Grand Opening. This is our very first studio to open in Alberta. Listen to Jen live as she talks to JR FM. We are very excited to offer our program to our Oxygen family in Fort McMurray. Visit...

Why I Love Fast & Furious

Why I love Fast & Furious…. Our Most Challenging Fitness Class! I am a yogi.  Everyone who knows me understands that yoga is my passion and my joy.  It brings me contentment and allows me to be of service to my students in the community.  However…. There is still...