The Mat’ is a place for yoga teachers and studios to talk honestly about the work — the hard parts, the open questions, the things you can’t ask anywhere else. These guidelines keep it that way. The short version: be real, be kind, protect each other’s trust, and remember there’s a person on the other end of every post.
These Community Guidelines are part of our Terms of Service and are incorporated into them by reference. Using The Mat’ means agreeing to follow them. We’ve written them in plain language because we want you to actually read them — but they are the standard we hold accounts to, and the basis on which we act when something goes wrong.
1. Who The Mat’ is for
The Mat’ is a community for yoga professionals. At launch, that means two kinds of members:
- Teachers — yoga instructors at any stage of their practice and career.
- Studios — studio owners, managers, and the people who run yoga spaces.
Students aren’t part of the community yet. When we open The Mat’ to students later, we’ll update these guidelines first — it won’t be an automatic extension of what’s here today.
You must be 18 or older to use The Mat’. This applies to everyone, in every role. Accounts we learn belong to someone under 18 are removed.
2. The spirit of this place
Before the specific rules, the spirit behind them — because the rules can’t cover everything, and when they don’t, this is what we’re asking you to fall back on:
Be real
The whole point of The Mat’ is honest conversation about what the yoga industry is actually like. Bring your real experience — including the parts that aren’t polished or easy. Authenticity is the thing we’re protecting most.
Be kind
You can disagree hard and still be decent about it. Argue with ideas, not people. Assume the person you’re replying to is acting in good faith until they give you a real reason not to.
Be generous
This community works when people share what they know without gatekeeping it. The teacher asking a “basic” question today is the one answering someone else’s next month. Help the way you’d have wanted to be helped.
Protect the trust
People say things here they wouldn’t say publicly. That trust is fragile and worth guarding. Don’t screenshot private moments into public ones, don’t carry someone’s words somewhere they didn’t agree to, and don’t treat other members’ openness as material to use against them.
3. What’s welcome here
To make it concrete, here’s the kind of participation The Mat’ is built for:
- Honest questions about teaching, running a studio, pay, scheduling, burnout, ethics, business — the real texture of the work.
- Sharing what worked and what didn’t, so others can learn from it.
- Respectful disagreement and genuine debate — this is how a community gets to the truth instead of a single algorithmic answer.
- Constructive feedback offered with care.
- Pointing people toward useful resources, including your own, as long as it’s genuinely helpful and not just promotion (see Section 5).
4. What’s not allowed
These are the lines. Crossing them can lead to content removal, a warning, suspension, or account termination, depending on what happened and whether it’s a pattern (see Section 8). We enforce these as written.
Harassment & personal attacks
No targeting, bullying, threats, or sustained hostility toward another person. Criticism of an idea is fine; going after the human is not.
Hate & discrimination
No content that attacks or demeans people based on race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, body, or any similar characteristic. This community is open to every kind of yoga professional, and it stays that way.
Violence & threats
No threats of violence, incitement, or content that encourages harm to anyone, including the person posting.
Privacy violations
Don’t post other people’s private information — home address, phone number, private messages, or anything else that identifies or exposes someone — without their clear permission. Don’t repost what another member shared in confidence here to a wider or outside audience.
Sexual misconduct & inappropriate content
No sexual harassment, unwanted sexual attention, or sexually explicit content. Given the physical closeness of yoga teaching, conversations about consent, boundaries, and professional conduct are welcome and important — using the community to pursue someone is not.
Misinformation that can cause harm
Don’t present dangerous health, medical, or safety claims as fact. Yoga touches bodies and wellbeing; be especially careful with injury, medical, or therapeutic advice, and be clear about what is your experience versus established fact.
Spam, scams & manipulation
No spam, repetitive posting, engagement manipulation, fake accounts, impersonation, or schemes designed to deceive other members.
Illegal content & activity
Don’t post unlawful content or use The Mat’ to facilitate illegal activity.
Intellectual property
Post your own work, or work you have the right to share. Don’t copy others’ writing, images, sequences, or materials and present them as yours or without permission to share them.
5. Self-promotion & commercial activity
Many members run studios, teach workshops, sell trainings, or build products — that’s the industry, and it’s welcome in the right measure. The test is simple: are you contributing to the community, or just advertising to it?
- Welcome: sharing your offering when it genuinely answers someone’s question, mentioning what you do as part of a real contribution, being transparent about your stake when you recommend something you profit from.
- Not welcome: posts that exist only to advertise, repeated promotion across threads, drive-by links with no contribution, or recommending your own thing while hiding that it’s yours.
FlowMads™ and HostGuru™ exist for the transactional side of the industry — finding substitute teachers, renting space. The Mat’ is for the conversation. Keep marketplace activity on the marketplaces.
6. AI on The Mat’
You’ll sometimes see a post that starts a discussion topic and is clearly labeled as AI-generated. We use AI in one narrow way: to write an opening post on certain topics, to get a conversation going. That’s it.
AI starts conversations here. People have them. Our AI doesn’t reply to you, doesn’t make decisions about you, doesn’t decide what you see, and doesn’t moderate anyone. Every AI-generated post is labeled as such, so you always know whether you’re reading a model or a member.
We also ask something of you in return: if you use AI to help write a contribution, that’s fine — but the thoughts should be genuinely yours, and don’t pass off raw AI output as lived experience you didn’t have. The Mat’ exists partly as a human answer to a world of homogenized machine answers; honoring that is part of being a member here.
7. How posting works
A few things about how the community is structured, so the mechanics are clear:
Roles and permissions
Members participate as a teacher or a studio, and some content and spaces are organized by role. Not every member can write in every space — some areas are scoped to a particular role — and that’s by design, so each kind of member has room for the conversations specific to them. Where roles overlap, studio-level access takes precedence, then teacher.
Reactions
Reactions are a quick way to signal agreement, gratitude, or recognition. They’re aggregated and shown as community signal rather than a public tally of who reacted to what — the emphasis is on the conversation, not on scoring each other.
Your content
You keep ownership of what you post. By posting, you give us permission to display and distribute it within The Mat’ so the community can function. What happens to your content if you leave is covered in Section 9.
8. Moderation & enforcement
We moderate to protect the community, not to police tone. Here’s how it works, plainly.
Reporting
If you see something that crosses a line in Section 4, report it. Reports go to our team for review. Reporting in good faith is always welcome, even if it turns out nothing was wrong — we’d rather you flag it. Don’t abuse reporting to harass someone you simply disagree with.
What we may do
Depending on the severity and whether it’s a repeated pattern, we may take any of the following actions:
| Action | When |
|---|---|
| Remove content | A specific post or comment breaks these guidelines |
| Warning | A first or minor violation, where a heads-up is enough |
| Temporary suspension | Repeated or more serious violations |
| Account termination | Severe violations, or a pattern that continues after warnings |
| Immediate removal | Threats, hate, sexual misconduct, doxxing, or anything that puts members at risk |
Fairness
We aim to enforce these guidelines consistently and in proportion to what actually happened. We consider context, intent, and history. Serious or repeated harm moves faster than a one-time misstep.
If you think we got it wrong
If your content was removed or your account was actioned and you believe it was a mistake, email help@fuesera.com and a person will look at it. We don’t promise to reverse every decision, but we promise a real human will review it.
9. Leaving The Mat’
You can delete your account anytime. When you do, we follow a clear principle:
Contributions stay, the person disappears. Your connection to your content is removed — your name and identity are stripped away permanently. But a discussion that helped other teachers doesn’t vanish and break the conversation for everyone who relied on it; it remains, no longer tied to you. Data that only describes your personal activity — your saves, follows, and the like — is removed outright.
If you want specific content taken down rather than anonymized, you can ask — see our Privacy Policy for how data requests work, or email privacy@fuesera.com.
10. Changes & how to reach us
The Mat’ is new, and these guidelines will grow with the community. If we make a meaningful change, we’ll let members know through the app before it takes effect. The “Effective” date at the top of this page tells you which version is current.
Community & moderation: help@fuesera.com · Privacy & your data: privacy@fuesera.com
Thanks for helping build something real. The Mat’ is only as good as the people on it — which means it’s only as good as you make it.