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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...

The Hot Yoga Glow

Have you experienced the "hot yoga glow"? Doesn't it make you feel "fantastic"? It's a fact however, that many many students are drawn to hot yoga for the more "obvious" benefits - typically: * Losing weight * Stress relief * General fitness. I also find that the...

The Importance of Core Strength

What is core strength and why is it so vitally important? Actually let's not think of it as core strength but as your core system, a system of abdominal support for your spine! In your abdominal cavity you have a floating sac - for want of a better term - of organs...

Thinking To Much

Take those quiet times and enjoy them!! Do you think too much? Chances are the answer is yes! It's true that what we're trying to do when we go to yoga is to manage that busy head, control the massive amount of thinking and find some peace and calm. ... And I'm...

Faith and Intuition

Blind faith is sometimes called on to keep us moving in the ?right direction. It's NOT all there is to it though. It ?certainly can help you discover the magic of this crazy yoga. It's  faith  that keeps you going to class when you really don't want ?to.  It keeps you...

Stay Fresh In Practice

Here's what else I have learned: To keep your practice fresh and so it's not the same path trodden every day (*or indeed if?you want to expand your path in untold ways) then you need to find new things to pay attention to. The biggest spoke in your yoga wheel is just...

Asanas and Pranayama

(Asanas) may be practiced at any time of day except within 2-3 hours of having eaten. You can do postures when the body feels stiff, tense, tired or hyped-up. Be aware not to do too many over-stimulating postures just before bedtime. Asanas are best practiced first in...

Equanimous

When you first started hot yoga, didn't you find ?yourself looking around the room at others - or checking yourself in the mirror to see if you had managed to "go deeper"? Or perhaps you've felt yourself comparing your poses to othersin the room (better or worse)? And...

3 Reasons to love Indoor Bootcamp

Find out how we can get you the results you desire in just 2 to 3 workouts per week. We’ve already helped hundreds of people achieve their goals, and now, it’s YOUR turn! Our Indoor Bootcamp program Rocks! Every single bootcamper we’ve ever had, lost inches, gained...

Jessica’s Story

Hi all! My name is Jessica and I've been a member at Oxygen Yoga since early May and I feel compelled to share a few words. First ill start off saying what I tell everyone, "Oxygen Yoga has changed my life".  I came in a little anxious and nervous, I had never done...