How to Teach Mixed Level Classes?

Let's Talk Yoga

Arundhati Baitmangalkar

Business, Health & Fitness, Alternative Health, Entrepreneurship

4.9 • 567 Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2026

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Teaching mixed level classes can feel overwhelming, especially when your students are all at different stages in their practice. In this episode, I share simple, practical ways to structure your classes, offer options, and create a more inclusive and confident teaching experience. Episode Highlights: Mixed-level classes are the norm and should be approached with that mindsetThe distinction between mixed-level and all-level classesThe importance of shifting from sequence-focused to student-fo...

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, it's Arundati and welcome to episode 216 of the Let's Talk Yoga podcast. As always, I hope that you are doing well. And I wanted to share a couple of updates before we begin. For starters, September 25th to October 3rd, I am leading my first international yoga retreat in southern Italy. So if you are looking for a big pause and you want to feel like you are back in yoga shala, then make sure you join me in southern Italy. I will no longer be hosting local retreats here in the US, but this one in southern Italy,
0:39.4	it's affordable, it's seven to eight days of being in our yoga shala, as I like to call it.
0:45.8	And I personally was someone who never really went to yoga retreats. I have led them so many
0:52.6	times locally because my community was asking for them. But
0:55.9	between you and me, I always thought they were a little too, they made yoga very elitist.
1:03.1	And it was something that I thought was a very frivolous way to practice yoga. And last year,
1:10.1	I went to a yoga retreat myself. In fact, I went to
1:13.3	the same place that I am taking you this year. And it was such a beautiful experience. It was not
1:20.5	what I imagined it to be. I've always had this notion that yoga retreats are like these luxurious spa-like vacations that you have to
1:30.5	spend a lot of money on and only then do you get access to it. But my experience in southern
1:37.1	Italy at this place called Agricola Samadhi was completely different. For starters, it is owned
1:43.3	and run by this Italian woman who used to travel to Mysore back in the day when Patabi Joyce was still alive to practice Ashtanga.
1:51.4	So it is actually owned by a yoga practitioner. And she has spent decades in practice. And everything about it was so organic, it was so earthy.
2:03.3	It was a simple olive farm with these rooms that were built on her property and its farm to
2:11.1	table, organic meals.
2:12.7	It's all vegetarian and it felt very not over the top. So I felt very at home. It reminded me of my days
2:22.0	in yoga shala when I used to live in India. The sun, the everything about it was just so
2:30.0	soulful. I felt truly connected. Sometimes I think I have this misconception that these yoga
2:37.1	retreats are uber luxurious and and it's not for everybody. I met the most wonderful people
2:43.9	in that retreat and we are still in touch today. And it was just so comforting to be in community, to be in Sangha, and the entire property there has so many stories.
2:57.3	And all they do is yoga retreats.
2:59.0	It's essentially a yoga shala.
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