How Tapastry works.

Tapastry is built for the years after your training, when the teaching is real and the rest of the job is still being figured out. It holds three things that usually live in scattered Google Docs and notebooks: the classes you build, the way you teach them, and the record of the work you’ve done.

In the app those become three movements you return to: Prepare, Teach, and Reflect. The portfolio you can hand to a studio grows out of all three.

Everything you make is yours, and it stays private unless you choose to share it. Start with a single class and let the rest grow as you go.

Open Tapastry and sign in with your email. You’re sent a one-time link, so there’s no password to remember.

In Settings, claim a handle. It becomes the address of your public portfolio and the classes you share (like app.tapastry.studio/p/your-name), so choose it once and keep it on your resume.

The Class Builder lets you build a class the way you actually teach it: by section, by intention, by the rhythm of warm-up, peak, and cool-down. Add poses, set the breaths or holds, and write the cueing notes you’ll want in front of you. When you start a class you choose how it begins, from scratch or from a style template, and tag it with a style (or leave it unspecified and set it later). Style, length, and level are all editable from the builder afterward.

As you build, an energy curve shows the arc of the class, so you can see where it climbs and where it rests. Save the runs of poses you return to as Sequences, then drop them into any class as a repeatable block instead of rewriting what works.

Tapastry estimates the length as you go. Set the seconds per breath on each class so that estimate matches the pace you actually teach, and choose how each pose is timed: a number of breaths, a single inhale or exhale for the linking moves of a salutation, or a hold in seconds or minutes for the long stays of a Yin or restorative class. Drag poses to reorder them within a section, or across sections, as the shape of the class changes.

If you’d rather not start from a blank page, apply a style template. Each one lays down a real, lineage-true structure (the Ashtanga Primary Series, a Bikram 26+2, a Vinyasa flow) that you then make your own.

It’s the fastest way to a full class you can edit, rather than one you build from scratch.

Some runs of poses come up again and again: a Sun Salutation, the warm-up you always open with, a warrior flow you teach on both sides. A Sequence is a small, reusable composition you build once and then reuse, so you are not rebuilding the same shapes in every class.

Open Sequences from the Build tab to see your library, create a new one, or start from a template. The Sequence Builder works like the Class Builder, just for a single run of poses: add poses from the library, set the breaths or holds, write your notes, and reorder until it flows.

To use a Sequence in a class, open a section’s add menu (the same “Add a pose” you already use) and switch to the Sequences tab. Pick one and it drops in as a single block you can repeat, so “Sun Salutation A, five rounds” is one tidy row rather than fifty. The class’s length estimate, breath totals, and energy curve all count the rounds.

A Sequence in a class stays linked to the original, so when you refine the Sequence later, every class that uses it follows along. When you want to change just this one class without touching the others, choose Detach to customize and the block becomes ordinary poses you can edit freely.

To get started quickly, Start from a template offers a few ready-made Sequences, like Sun Salutation A and B and a warrior flow. Each one is copied into your library as your own, to keep or adjust.

The pose library is a reference you can browse on its own, not just a list you pull from while building. Open Poses from the Build tab to search and filter the whole library by category, discipline, level, and the part of the body a pose works.

Open any pose to read its teaching cues, modifications and prop options, contraindications, and a few suggested counterposes. Nothing is added to a class while you browse, so it is a calm place to look something up, settle a question before you teach, or learn a pose you have not worked with yet.

When you are building, the library works the same way from inside the Class Builder. Each pose offers View, to read the reference, and Add, to drop it straight into the section you are working on. You can also preview a pose first and add it from there once you know it fits. The add menu keeps poses, steps, and your saved Sequences on separate tabs, so each is easy to find.

You will also find the library promoted from your Dashboard and your Classes page, so it is always one step away.

Not everything in a class is a pose. A class also holds openings and chants, breathwork, a reading or a moment of stillness, and the transitions that carry one shape into the next. Tapastry calls these Steps.

Steps live in the Class Builder. When you add to a section, the add menu organizes its contents on tabs: Poses, Steps, and your saved Sequences. Switch to the Steps tab to search the full list, read what each step is and how long it usually takes, and drop one into the section the same way you add a pose.

If you need something the library does not have, create a custom step from the same tab: a class-flow marker like a music change, a cue to walk for adjustments, or any reminder you want in front of you while you teach.

From a class’s actions menu, export it as a PDF (a clean, printable sheet of the sequence) or as a spreadsheet. The download happens right in your browser.

Nothing about Tapastry is built to lock you in. Your classes are yours to take anywhere.

Teach Mode walks you through a sequence one pose at a time, with timing and cueing in front of you. Use it to rehearse before class. Step through at your own pace, or turn on auto-advance to let each pose move to the next when its time is up.

When you teach online, the same view becomes a full-screen companion you can stream, so your students see you and the practice together.

After you teach, log the class: the style, the length, where you taught it, and how many students came. It takes a few seconds.

Not every class you teach has to be one you built. When you log a class, you can pick one of your saved classes or choose Custom and type the name, style, and length right there, for the subbed class, the community drop-in, or anything that isn’t in your Classes list. It’s a one-off entry, just for the log.

Your classes live in the Journal, a page of its own in the main navigation. Open it any time to log a class or review your teaching history at a glance.

Every entry also feeds the hours and activity on your portfolio, so your record builds itself instead of you reconstructing it later.

Your teaching isn’t the only thing worth tracking. The Journal page has a second tab, Practice, for your own practice and continuing study: the led classes you take, your home practice, workshops, and trainings.

Logging a practice works just like logging a class you taught. Note the style, how long you practiced, who led it, and where, and it joins your running history.

Your practice journal is private. It stays on the Journal page and never appears on your public portfolio or in anything you share.

Your portfolio is a single page you can hand to any studio, gym, or wellness center: who you are, the styles you teach, the classes you’ve built, and the work you’ve actually done.

It gathers what you’d otherwise reassemble by hand every time someone asks, and you choose exactly what it shows.

Add the trainings and certifications you’ve earned (your 200-hour, a Yin or prenatal course, anything in between) with the hours and the year. Mark the ones still in progress.

Credentials are self-reported for now; third-party verification arrives in a later phase.

From the classes you log, Tapastry derives your total hours and a teaching history, the consistency studios hire for.

You choose how that shows on your portfolio. Every view (hours by style, a growth curve, monthly classes, a day-by-day heatmap, or “the rise”) appears with your own data, so you can see each one before you decide. A switch on each graph shows or hides it on your public portfolio. Show one, several, or none, and even a newer teacher can lead with the range of styles they’ve trained in.

From your profile, add a photo. Tapastry resizes it for you, so a large camera shot becomes a clean, fast image without any extra work on your end.

A face makes a portfolio feel like a person rather than a form, and studios remember people.

Add the places your teaching already lives, like LinkedIn, Instagram, a YouTube channel, or your personal site. They appear as small links on your portfolio.

When someone is deciding whether to hire you, the easiest thing you can do is put the rest of your work one click away.

Paste a YouTube link and your demo video plays right on your portfolio. Studios often ask interviewees for one, so having it ready is a quiet advantage.

A few minutes of your actual teaching, your pacing and your voice, says more than any description can.

Share any class as a read-only link. Choose a named link, which credits you with your handle, or an anonymous one with no name attached. Each link is stable and shows a clean preview when you paste it into a message.

Whoever opens it can import the class into their own Tapastry account as a starting point, credited back to you when the link carried your name.

When you’re ready, publish your portfolio from Settings. It becomes a public page at your handle that anyone with the link can view: your bio, your featured classes, your credentials, and your teaching activity.

It’s link-shareable but not indexed by search engines, and it never shows anything you didn’t choose to include. Turn it off any time.

Add a public contact email in Edit profile, and visitors to your published portfolio get a Contact me button that reveals it, along with any links you’ve added.

It’s optional and separate from your sign-in email, so you decide exactly how you’re reached. Leave it blank and your contact details stay off the page.