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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...

Richelle’s Blog

New Blog Post: January Fitness Challenge: Day 1-3 Check in The first few days of the fitness challenge are underway, and I feel like I may be falling behind. Well, really, I’ve just been busy. And sick. Day 1 I was super motivated to get my butt moving so I ran to the...

Natasha’s Blog

Happy New Year everyone!! If you aren’t regular with your yoga practice now here are a few more reasons why you should be!   Aside from the obvious benefits of practicing yoga, i.e. improving your flexibility, strength and cardiovascular health, there have also...

Natasha’s Blog

Shanti Uganda How a Local Organization has Changed the Lives of Women in Africa   Since were only a couple days away from Christmas I thought it would be very appropriate to feature an amazing organization, Shanti Uganda that truly gives all year long.  ...

Natasha’s Blog

Drink & Appie Recipe for Your Holiday Party   I think at Christmas we all like to indulge, it’s the time of year when you don’t need to feel guilty about drinking wine or eating sugar cookies every night, because the cookies were a gift (would be rude if you...

Burn calories – just add weight(s)!!

Strength training provides an extra spike in metabolism for up to an hour post workout. It will melt away more 25% more calories just by doing nothing after a good strength training workout. Strength training also increases bone density, boosts stamina, improves...

Natasha’s Blog

Why you should be upside down…Part 1   So todays post is about how you can incorporate some more advanced inversions into your yoga practice.  I guess the simplest way to describe an inversion would be when your heart is below your head.   If you do practice...