A ladder, not a feed
Every discipline has its own skill ladder, and the built-out ones run from Tier 0 to Tier 4. You always know the next skill, and the app is built around getting there, not around scrolling.
Learn a craft in person. Keep the proof.
Follow the disciplines you practice, climb a real skill ladder, and collect cards that a named instructor signed off once they had seen you do the skill. Shibari, fitness, yoga, pilates, calisthenics, running and more.
- Free account, no invite needed
- Skills verified in person
- Your cards travel with you
How Arsclepius helps you
Proof that means something
An instructor signs off a skill they have seen you do, and the card carries their name. The platform marks the first two tiers on its own as your XP comes in; every tier above that needs an instructor, and nobody can sign their own.
Cards that travel
Your skills live on your profile, not inside any one class. Move city or switch instructor and a new teacher sees what you know and who checked it.
Learn online, transfer in person
Courses cover theory and drills at your own pace. Sessions and workshops are where the craft transfers. Both feed the same XP and levels.
A reason to show up
Every discipline starts a Seedling. It grows when you practice and fades when you stop. A small companion with an honest memory.
Your people
Say what you practice and who you are looking for: a training partner, a rope partner, someone to go to an event with. Buy tickets to workshops and jams, or join an instructor's experience.
The systems you can use
Each one is live today. What it is, and how you use it.
Disciplines and skill ladders
One ladder per discipline, every skill placed on a tier. Shibari is the deepest today; the fitness family, yoga and pilates have full Tier 0 to Tier 4 ladders too. Other disciplines start with a seeded set of beginner skills and grow.
How you use it: Pick your disciplines at signup, or add one later by joining a teacher's experience in it. In Settings, mark the skills you are working on as Focus and pin up to four as Showcase; Showcase leads your Home screen, and Explore leans on Focus when it recommends events and courses.
Verified cards
A card is one skill. Each verified tier on it names the instructor who signed it. The platform marks Tier 0 and Tier 1 from your own XP; every tier above that needs an instructor's sign-off.
How you use it: Join an instructor's experience. When you can do the skill, they verify it, and it appears on your profile with their name on it.
XP and levels
Practice earns XP, and XP moves your level inside each skill. Practice logs, drills from a practice sheet, online lessons and checked-in events all count.
How you use it: Log a practice session from Home, finish a course lesson, or check in at an event with your ticket. The level moves on its own inside a tier; past the first two tiers, an instructor's sign-off opens the next one.
Discipline pets
One pet per discipline that reflects whether you have been showing up. It starts as a Seedling.
How you use it: Practice, and it grows. Stop for a while, and it fades. Come back, and it recovers. What the later stages look like is yours to find.
Practice sheets and logs
Structured practice: drills with sets, reps, tempo and load, interval timers for work and rest, and session times, in four formats built for different kinds of training. Scores are kept.
How you use it: Work through a sheet your instructor has assigned to you, or log a session of your own. Each logged drill lands on the matching skill card.
Courses
Online lessons with video, text and drills, built by instructors on the platform.
How you use it: Browse eLearning without an account. Unlock a course, work through the lessons at your pace, and the XP goes to the same skills as your in-person work.
Events and tickets
Workshops, jams, classes and shows with tickets, Stripe payment and QR check-in. Paid tickets can be bought without an account, except for 18+ events.
How you use it: Find an event in Explore, buy the ticket, show the QR code at the door. A checked-in event counts toward your XP.
People search
Find people by what they practice and what they are seeking. It is opt-in per discipline, it never uses your location, and it sits behind the one-time 18+ ID check.
How you use it: Set what you practice and what you are looking for in Settings under Identity & Seeking, then search from Explore once you have passed the ID check.
Messages
Direct messages, and a group chat inside each experience you join. Message bodies are encrypted at rest on our servers.
How you use it: Open a conversation from a profile, or from the Group Chat button on an experience you have joined.
Your account, your data
Two-factor sign-in, privacy settings, and a self-service delete that closes your account and strips your name and details from it.
How you use it: All of it lives in Settings. None of it needs an email to support.
Straight answers
The limits, before you find them yourself.
A card is a word, not a certificate
A verified card is one instructor's word about one skill. It is not a safety certificate, and it does not make anyone qualified to teach.
Not every level is verified
XP and levels move with your own practice logs, courses and events. Only a tier an instructor signed carries a name. The two are shown differently on purpose.
No 'near me' for people
People search matches on practice and seeking, never on distance. Events have a radius filter; people do not.
Some crafts are adult
Disciplines that involve nudity or kink sit behind an age gate. That content stays hidden until you complete a one-time ID check from Settings. A date of birth alone does not unlock it.
Questions people ask
Does it cost anything to be a student?
No. An account is free and needs no invite. You pay only when you buy something: a ticket, a session pack, or a subscription an instructor sells. One-off purchases carry a small flat platform fee, shown as its own line at checkout.
Do I need to know anything before I start?
No. Every ladder starts at Tier 0. Pick the disciplines you want, and the first skills are the ones a beginner learns first.
Which disciplines are there?
Shibari has the deepest ladder today. Fitness, yoga, pilates, powerlifting, strength training, Olympic weightlifting, calisthenics, running, cycling and swimming have full ladders too. Aerial, muay thai, scuba and others are seeded and growing.
What happens if I stop for a while?
Your cards and the tiers you reached stay. After about a month away, the level inside a tier drifts down a step a week, and climbs back once you practice again. Your pet fades and recovers the same way. Nothing is deleted for inactivity.
Can I use it on my phone?
Yes. It runs in the browser on phone and desktop, and you can install it to your home screen like an app, with push notifications if you want them.
Who can see my profile?
Privacy settings in your account control what your profile shows. Appearing in people search is a separate opt-in, set per discipline under Identity & Seeking, and it is off by default.