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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...

Natasha’s Blog

Get Your Best Body with Yoga   Last summer I gave up the gym. Why? because I don’t like going.  I know this isn’t something fitness professional should say, but it’s the truth.   I had a realization last summer at a Yoga Festival in Whistler.  Every time I...

Natasha’s Blog

Get Your Best Body with Yoga   Last summer I gave up the gym. Why? because I don’t like going.  I know this isn’t something fitness professional should say, but it’s the truth.   I had a realization last summer at a Yoga Festival in Whistler.  Every time I...

Strength or Cardio?? – Natasha’s Blog

Strength over Cardio?     In this post I wanted to outline some of the benefits of strength training, I know many women think its only for men and would rather run on the treadmill endlessly but then they wonder why they aren’t seeing the results when it...

Ripped Core — Natasha’s Blog

5 Yoga Poses for a Ripped Core     Plank   A yoga plank is like a regular fitness plank except the arms are fully extended rather then bending at the elbows. 1.Begin on all 4’s with your hands shoulder width apart and fingers. 2. Then step back one leg...

Natasha’s Blog- Cereal???

Super food cereal recipe   As healthy eating becomes trendy more and more food companies are offering gourmet products, but they come at a cost. When you make your own food at home you not only save tons of money but you can also make it exactly to your own...

Natasha’s Blog

5 “Healthy” Foods that are Crazy High in Sugar   Tons of food companies are using the words “natural” or “organic” in their marketing to convince consumers that their products are healthy.   Nutritional needs are different for everyone, kids and men...

Oxygen Saved My Life

Meet Rob. Injured at work, Rob's program at Oxygen Yoga and Fitness took him from barely being able to walk without to pain, to rejoining the workforce and completing a yoga teacher training program. He's shared his story at MyVancity.Ca, read it here