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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

When I first started preparing my meals at home from scratch I was very intimidated to cook grains. So in this post I will provide you with a simple cheat sheet for some of the healthier grains.   Quinoa- A major super food, quinoa is the only grain that is...

Natasha’s Blog

Really Good Smoothie Recipes   Since I wrote about Dr Oz’s meal plan earlier in the week I wanted to include some more smoothie recipes because he only has one in his program.  Right after my second son I went hard core on the protein smoothies and below I have...

Natasha’s Blog

2-Week Rapid Weight Loss Plan   On the weekend is when I tend to watch TV because really it’s my only downtime during the week, so I was scanning through my DVR and decided to watch a marathon of Dr Oz.  I don’t know if many of you watch Dr Oz but I really love...

Breaks are ok 🙂

Give Yourself a Break "You don't have to be a fitness saint to get results. Follow the 80/20 plan: Eighty percent of the year, you'll exercise regularly and eat well. Know that you'll slip 20 percent of the time due to holidays and work deadlines. When you accept that...

Natasha’s Blog

Tips on How to Lose Weight     So hopefully you read my post from earlier this week, because it works in conjunction with the tips here, but if not you can find it on the oxygen web siteJ   Anyways it’s a new year and I’m sure you want to read another...

Water, water, water

Make Water The Main Beverage Hydration is essential for any high functioning athlete. Decrease in performance occurs when the body is even two percent dehydrated . Approximately three to four liters of water is expelled every day at rest through breathing, sweating...

Natasha’s Blog

5 Healthy Eating Tips for 2014   After the holidays most of us are looking to clean up our diets, whether your trying to lose weight, tone up or just over all be healthier it’s a always a good idea to begin with your nutrition.   Now I’d just like to point...

Helpful tips when you are not at the studio!

30 Minutes to a Slimmer You This walking routine incorporates Tabata bursts, which are short intervals of heart-pumping resistance moves that help you burn more calories. If you simply strolled for 30 minutes at a brisk pace, you'd burn about 170 calories, but with...