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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...

Natash’s blog

I thought I would touch upon food labeling, this chart refers mainly to meat because I think that’s where most of the confusion lies.   But the main point here is that you probably don’t want to waste the extra money on food at the grocery store labeled “Natural”...

Natasha’s Blog – Mission Member

Welcome to the Oxygen Yoga Blog!   This is my first post and I thought it would probably be best to start off by introducing myself.  So my name is Natasha Ingram and I’m a member at the Mission location.  I have taught yoga for several years locally, and I have...

Vancouver Giants Train at Oxygen

Building relationships, stronger teams and community spirit. Oxygen is proud to be working with the Vancouver Giants, in their training program! The Giants have incorporated yoga into their training regime, to stretch, meditate and detoxify in our infrared studios....

Switch up your fitness routine!

“It really is that simple! The more you move the more muscle fibres you will recruit - this in turn will burn more calories. With each exercise you perform, get into the habit of thinking ‘the more muscles I use, the faster I will get my results. For instance if you...

Have a sweet tooth??

Got a late-night sugar craving that just won't quit? "To satisfy your sweet tooth without pushing yourself over the calorie edge, even in the late night hours, think 'fruit first,'" says Jackie Newgent, RD, author of The Big Green Cookbook. So resist that chocolate...

An Instructors thoughts 🙂

It fulfills me and inspires me to see my students become stronger and happier, flow by flow. Teaching yoga is manual labor and for me, it’s a labor of love. I’m from a working class family and this feels like a working class profession, like farming, nursing or...

helpful tips for your practice!

1. Stick with a set sequence. Practicing the same poses every day repeatedly is a powerful way to keep consistent with your practice. This repetition offers you a clear vantage point from which to watch yourself grow and change. The nature and sequencing of Ashtanga...