THE OYF BLOG

LIFE LESSONS FROM REFORMER PILATES

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...

Simplify Your Strength Training: The Hidden Power of Mat Pilates and Bodyweight Training

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...

FAR INFRARED & YOUR BODY: PAIN RELIEF

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...

FAR INFRARED & YOUR BODY: SKIN PURIFICATION

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...

FAR Infrared Heat & Your Body : Weight Loss

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...

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...
Thinking To Much

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

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

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...

The Power of Your ‘Breathe’

The Power of Your Breathe is Amazing!!!   Do you ever feel so overwhelmed that you literally forget to breathe? When things are getting crazy, taking a moment away to focus on your breath is essential. It may often seem like it’s the last thing you actually have time...

Beautiful Abs

Beautiful Abs

Let's all have beautiful abs -- do this every morning before you brush your teeth, set a routine!! #1 Long Arm Crunch This exercise targets the upper portion of the rectus abdominis. *Lie on a mat and extend the arms straight out behind the head with hands clasped,...