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Difficulty & Intensity Guide

This comprehensive guide will help you find which series is right for you

Difficulty Levels

Difficulty refers to the level of skill and technique called for in a class.

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Beginner

Beginner series are most approachable for those who have little or no exposure to yoga. These series typically offer more modifications and detailed instructions on fundamental poses.

These series are perfect for someone who is looking to start a yoga practice and explore the benefits of yoga. These classes can help you to learn the basics of starting a practice, foundational poses, understanding breathwork, and learning to focus on the moment every time you come to the mat.

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Moderate

Moderate classes may include moderate pose modifications and less instruction than found in Beginner classes.

These series are perfect for someone who has previous exposure to yoga, whether at home or in a studio setting, and has a basic understanding of foundational poses and class structure. They are the perfect opportunity to grow your practice, maintain consistency, and enjoy classes designed to grow your pose library and increase your strength.

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Intermediate

Intermediate series tend to be more detailed tutorials on how to achieve more challenging asanas and end-goal poses. These classes help build strength and body awareness by exploring transitions, trying inversions, and mastering breath and movement.

These series are perfect for someone who has a consistent yoga practice and has established confidence in poses, progressions, and general yoga knowledge. They help students express creativity and find freedom in exploring flows and movement. There is less cueing than in Beginner or Moderate content.

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Advanced

Advanced classes are the perfect opportunity to explore your potential beyond what is found in typical in-studio classes. You’ll find your edge while exploring a greater level of strength, control, and skill work.

These series are ideal for students who have high body awareness, are comfortable with most poses, and have confidence in their strength and breath work. These classes allow opportunities to practice inversions, floating, or advanced transitions.

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Beginner

Beginner series are most approachable for those who have little or no exposure to yoga. These series typically offer more modifications and detailed instructions on fundamental poses.

These series are perfect for someone who is looking to start a yoga practice and explore the benefits of yoga. These classes can help you to learn the basics of starting a practice, foundational poses, understanding breathwork, and learning to focus on the moment every time you come to the mat.

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Moderate

Moderate classes may include moderate pose modifications and less instruction than found in Beginner classes.

These series are perfect for someone who has previous exposure to yoga, whether at home or in a studio setting, and has a basic understanding of foundational poses and class structure. They are the perfect opportunity to grow your practice, maintain consistency, and enjoy classes designed to grow your pose library and increase your strength.

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Intermediate

Intermediate series tend to be more detailed tutorials on how to achieve more challenging asanas and end-goal poses. These classes help build strength and body awareness by exploring transitions, trying inversions, and mastering breath and movement.

These series are perfect for someone who has a consistent yoga practice and has established confidence in poses, progressions, and general yoga knowledge. They help students express creativity and find freedom in exploring flows and movement. There is less cueing than in Beginner or Moderate content.

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Advanced

Advanced classes are the perfect opportunity to explore your potential beyond what is found in typical in-studio classes. You’ll find your edge while exploring a greater level of strength, control, and skill work.

These series are ideal for students who have high body awareness, are comfortable with most poses, and have confidence in their strength and breath work. These classes allow opportunities to practice inversions, floating, or advanced transitions.

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Intensity Levels

Intensity is not the same as difficulty; it refers to the amount of exertion that a workout requires.

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Level 1
This intensity level is ideal for students seeking slow-paced, restorative, or breath-focused content. Students often leave their mat feeling relaxed and at-ease.
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Level 2
Series within this level vary from energizing flows to entry-level strength content. They typically move at a slow-to-moderate pace. Students can expect to feel comfortably challenged and explore a wider range of movement.
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Level 3
Get sweaty with flow and strength content designed to increase your breathing and challenge your limits. Level 3 intensity classes will increase the pace of your movement and test your endurance.
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Level 4
Push your edge in classes designed to make you sweat. This intensity level moves at a fast pace to increase your heart rate and accelerate your breathing. Work hard to discover untapped levels of strength and endurance.
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Level 1
This intensity level is ideal for students seeking slow-paced, restorative, or breath-focused content. Students often leave their mat feeling relaxed and at-ease.
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Level 2
Series within this level vary from energizing flows to entry-level strength content. They typically move at a slow-to-moderate pace. Students can expect to feel comfortably challenged and explore a wider range of movement.
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Level 3
Get sweaty with flow and strength content designed to increase your breathing and challenge your limits. Level 3 intensity classes will increase the pace of your movement and test your endurance.
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Level 4
Push your edge in classes designed to make you sweat. This intensity level moves at a fast pace to increase your heart rate and accelerate your breathing. Work hard to discover untapped levels of strength and endurance.
Intensity Levels

Intensity is not the same as difficulty; it refers to the amount of exertion that a workout requires.

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Level 1
This intensity level is ideal for students seeking slow-paced, restorative, or breath-focused content. Students often leave their mat feeling relaxed and at-ease.
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Level 2
Series within this level vary from energizing flows to entry-level strength content. They typically move at a slow-to-moderate pace. Students can expect to feel comfortably challenged and explore a wider range of movement.
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Level 3
Get sweaty with flow and strength content designed to increase your breathing and challenge your limits. Level 3 intensity classes will increase the pace of your movement and test your endurance.
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Level 4
Push your edge in classes designed to make you sweat. This intensity level moves at a fast pace to increase your heart rate and accelerate your breathing. Work hard to discover untapped levels of strength and endurance.
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Level 1
This intensity level is ideal for students seeking slow-paced, restorative, or breath-focused content. Students often leave their mat feeling relaxed and at-ease.
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Level 2
Series within this level vary from energizing flows to entry-level strength content. They typically move at a slow-to-moderate pace. Students can expect to feel comfortably challenged and explore a wider range of movement.
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Level 3
Get sweaty with flow and strength content designed to increase your breathing and challenge your limits. Level 3 intensity classes will increase the pace of your movement and test your endurance.
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Level 4
Push your edge in classes designed to make you sweat. This intensity level moves at a fast pace to increase your heart rate and accelerate your breathing. Work hard to discover untapped levels of strength and endurance.

How This Fits Together

Each series lives at an intersection of Difficulty and Intensity. While one maybe Beginner and Intensity 4, another may be Advanced and Intensity 1. We have something for everyone in every mood.

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Series

Headstand
From Ashtanga Primary Series by Laruga Glaser

Total Run Time

Duration
9 min 0 sec

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Learn to practice headstand with confidence. In this class, you’ll learn techniques to achieve balance and body awareness in headstand (Sirsasana). Falling is common, but practice is key — when you reconcile your fear of falling, you can truly make progress.

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Laruga’s Bio

From the moment Laruga Glaser stepped on her mat, it felt like home. After extensively researching spiritual philosophy in her teenage years, she discovered yoga in 1996 and was immediately attracted to the mental aspect of the practice. She found Ashtanga Yoga two years later and committed to being a devoted practitioner.

Laruga eventually decided to leave her steady job in the corporate world to teach yoga full-time. She taught a Mysore-style class in Ohio for a few months before traveling to India to learn the Mysore method of teaching.

Now, after 20 years of practicing Ashtanga Yoga, Laruga heads the Mysore program at Yogayama in Stockholm, Sweden, and teaches workshops and retreats around the globe. She draws inspiration from her daily practice, her yearly trips to Mysore, and her long-term studies with her teachers, the late Sri K. Pattabhi Jois, and now his grandson, R. Sharath Jois. She is an advanced-level Ashtanga practitioner and a Level 2 Authorized Teacher from The Shri K. Pattabhi Jois Ashtanga Yoga Institute. Laruga aspires to create a space for students that opens, challenges, and inspires them to step into their own being and experience their full potential.

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