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...

Self Discipline

Self-discipline is a life skill for the successful. It is having the power to stay focused and not giving into distractions. Finding a goal and sticking to it until it is a reality, or using self-discipline to maintain success or a particular lifestyle. Having...

Energy

Keeping a regular fitness routine can be a challenge. It isn’t usually due to the fact that we just don’t want to go, its find the energy and the motivation to go. With all that we do in our daily life and often in high stress environments, it is tempting to just kick...

Finding Stillness

Being at peace by finding stillness. This is related to mindful meditation. We are busy people, always on the go. A lot of people are more physically active, which is great the we are becoming more health conscious. Lots of people work multiple jobs now. Then add the...

Focusing your mind on one thought.

Focusing your mind on one thought. There is a myth that meditation only when the mind is empty of thought. This is not true, one form of meditation is focused meditation or mindfulness. Focusing on one simple thought during meditation can have the same benefits as an...

Power of Breathing

Power of Breathing

We take approximately 23,040 breaths per day but we should pay more attention to how we breathe. The power of our breath goes far beyond what many would think. Yes, without breathing we would not live. Our bodies don’t function without it, so if we improve the quality...

Grounding Yourself

It is no surprise we live in a very stimulated world. While this is an exciting time, it is important to balance things out by centering your energy and getting grounded again. Grounding yourself means to turn inward and be present in the moment. We spend so much time...

The Purpose of Meditation

The brain is a complex master piece, and even with all the magnificent scientific breakthroughs, the mind is still a big mystery. We know that our thought can manifest our realty and can have huge effects on your physical bodies. With all our technology and busy fast...

Project Happiness!

“If you are happy...you will project happiness”  take care of yourself and your needs The one thing everyone wants in life is to be happy. Happiness means many different things to everyone but at the end of the day we are all reaching for that same feeling. When we...

Time for Ourselves

Time for Ourselves

One thing most of us don’t do enough of, is take time for ourselves. There never seems to be enough hours in a day to get the things you need to do, done, let alone have time to spare. With todays economy, many statistics show that growing number of people have...

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