THE OYF BLOG

LIFE LESSONS FROM REFORMER PILATES

by | July 7, 2025 | Featured, OYF Blog | 0 Comments

We can learn a lot about ourselves through our workouts - not only about our bodies and how we connect to them, but also about who we are, our mindset, and how we look at the world. Every experience in our lives can teach us something new, and workout classes are no...
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Simplify Your Strength Training: The Hidden Power of Mat Pilates and Bodyweight Training

by | July 7, 2025 | Featured, Mat Pilates, OYF Blog | 0 Comments

If you’re someone who likes to keep up with the hot new thing or try everything new once, you may have noticed that the popularity of fitness classes, like fashion or music, tends to pass by in fads. The 80s brought aerobics, jazzercise, and home workout videos. In...
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FAR INFRARED & YOUR BODY: PAIN RELIEF

by | July 4, 2025 | FAR Infrared, Featured, OYF Blog | 0 Comments

One unfortunate inevitability of life seems to be that at some point, no matter what sort of life we’ll lead, we’ll experience some sort of pain. If you spend most of your day sitting in a desk chair, you might get aches and pains in your back or shoulders from...
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FAR INFRARED & YOUR BODY: SKIN PURIFICATION

by | July 4, 2025 | FAR Infrared, Featured, OYF Blog | 0 Comments

We know beauty comes from the inside out, but there’s nothing wrong with wanting to look and feel our best. In our past couple articles, we’ve covered many ways far infrared can help you, inside and out - relieving pain, relieving stress, or increasing immunity, but...
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FAR Infrared Heat & Your Body : Weight Loss

by | June 26, 2025 | FAR Infrared, Featured, OYF Blog | 0 Comments

There’s a lot of options you could pursue to fit fitness into your life, just like there’s a lot of opportunities you could choose to work in the fitness industry. But not all options are equal, and when we as our members and studio owners alike what led them to...
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Back to Basics: Positions of Rest

by | January 10, 2024 | OYF Blog | 0 Comments

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...
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Back to Basics 2: Core Strength

by | January 3, 2024 | OYF Blog | 0 Comments

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...
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Back to Basics 1: Posture

by | January 3, 2024 | OYF Blog | 0 Comments

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...
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Ready, Set, Goals! Setting Workout Goals starts now!

by | December 8, 2023 | OYF Blog | 0 Comments

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...
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Pre-Holiday Workout Motivation trouble? Let us help!

by | December 8, 2023 | OYF Blog | 0 Comments

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...
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Natasha’s Blog

by | Dec 27, 2013 |

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

by | Dec 24, 2013 |

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...

Natasha’s Blog

by | Dec 16, 2013 |

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...

Natash’s blog

by | Dec 10, 2013 |

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

by | Dec 9, 2013 |

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...