Stillness in Company
A house for the conversations women have been having alone.
Private yoga in your own home on the Main Line, and evenings in living rooms with other women.
Chelsea Nader is the one in the room: twenty years of teaching behind her and a master’s in the arts, which is why nothing she builds comes out generic. She holds the session, leads it, and hosts the conversation after, and when stilhaus is somewhere for a day, she is there for all of it.
See how it worksWe are on the Main Line, between Merion and Malvern, and that is where we are from rather than a building you come to. There is no front desk, no lease on a storefront, and no seven a.m. you have to make because you are paying for it either way. We come to you, into a living room in Wayne one week and one in Bryn Mawr the next, because every house belongs to the woman who opened it.
The Membership
stilhaus is a wellness concierge that begins with yoga and does not end there: one person who knows your name and your history, arranging the practitioner, the room and the women in it, so you are never the one searching.
Hold a key and stop counting, or come one room at a time. None of it requires a membership. One room, once, is a Spare Key, for yourself or for somebody else.
The membership
Starting at $1,250
Private sessions in your own home, in a slot that is yours every week, with every group evening included.
See the Haus KeyOur first event
A house is not warmed once; it is warmed by people being in it. The first one fills a room on the Main Line with women who have not met, and it opens with five minutes of quiet before anybody talks. That is not how any other evening like this begins, and it is the whole point.
Free, and you can come alone. Most people will.
Dates soon. Put your email in at the bottom of this page and you will hear before anyone else.
Live somewhere else? See Guest Haus, yoga online with renowned teachers, from anywhere.
For gifts, see Give a Key.
Tended, not treated.
A yearly membership, billed monthly, built around the private session: a teacher in your own home, in a slot that is yours. Every group session we run comes with it at no extra charge, and a month’s notice ends it.
Every week
$1,250
A monthor $12,500 for the year, two months free
Every week, only Chelsea
$2,500
A monthor $25,000 for the year, two months free
Every key includes, at no extra charge
Twenty-five keys in all, four of them hers alone, and then it closes.
Who is in the room with you
A Haus Key is the only way to train with Chelsea. Twenty-one women take one session a month with her and four take all four, and that is her month; there is no twenty-sixth key and no extra session behind it. Booking weekly at $1,250 buys more sessions, not more of her; the only key that buys more of her is the $2,500, and there are four. We would rather say so than sell you a session and send somebody else.
Every other private session is led by a stilhaus teacher: already certified, already teaching, and put through Haus Style by Chelsea herself. She chooses every one of them. She does not sub out the work; she trains the person who does it.
Add on to any key
A key covers the house and it covers Chelsea. It does not cover another woman’s fee. At an In-Haus every woman in the room pays $50 more, members included; the practitioner is paid whether you come or not.
There are other things worth giving, and they are on Give a Key.
Private instruction in your own home, in a slot that is yours every week. Movement into stillness, built for the body in the room rather than the room in general, and a standing slot is the thing that actually changes something, because none of this resolves in one morning.
Forty-five minutes
$250 a session
Ninety minutes
$500 a session
Your first, before any key
$250 once
Monthly, with Chelsea
$1,250 a month
You open your home. We bring the practice, the mats, whatever is being poured, and put the room back after.
We fill the room
$500 the evening
You fill the room
$1,250 the evening
If a building, hotel, company or brand is signing, see Haus Partners.
Closer to restorative and yin than to vinyasa or power. Long holds, props under everything, breath before movement. No heat, no music you have to shout over, no counting, nothing overhead, no inversions, and nobody at the front saying the word flow.
Chelsea has been teaching twenty years and holds a master’s in the arts, which is a strange qualification for a yoga teacher and exactly why a session is built the way it is. She teaches the body in front of her. That is the method, and it is why there are no levels.
On beginner, intermediate and advanced
There are none, and that is deliberate. A level is what a studio needs when twenty strangers arrive at once and nobody knows a thing about any of them. We know who is in the room, because a room in a house is never more than twelve and somebody asked you beforehand.
What we sort by instead is what you are actually working with: a pregnancy, a repair, a hip, a diagnosis, a bad year. That list is below.
Before anyone talks. Not a meditation, not an intention, nothing you have to be good at, just the length of time it takes a person who has been in a car to actually arrive. Every stilhaus room opens this way.
You start lying down. The first ten minutes are breath and small movement, which is where most of the work for a pelvic floor or a stressed nervous system actually happens, and which looks like nothing from the outside.
Held shapes, two to five minutes each, with bolsters and blocks under whatever needs them. Strength where you want it: hips, back, the deep abdominals, bone loading if that is the brief. Slowly, never to failure.
Covered, warm, on the floor. Most women say this is the part they came back for, and a few say it is the only ten minutes of the week nobody needs anything from them.
How long everything takes
Not a level. A situation. You do not need to know which of these you are. Say what is going on and we build around it.
The commonest starting point by a distance, and the reason nothing here begins standing up. Nobody is going to put you in a headstand, and if you can lie down you can do this.
Different in each trimester and different again if it has been a hard one. No lying flat on your back after the first, nothing that squeezes the abdomen, and a lot of attention to hips, breath and the pelvic floor you are about to need. Bring your provider’s advice and we will build around it.
The fourth trimester and long after it. Pelvic floor, diastasis, a body that carries a person all day and is asked to do it one-handed. We start lower and slower than you expect, and we do not chase the abdomen you had.
The thing the whole house was built around. Sleep, joints, heat, mood, a body that changed without being asked. Slow strength and bone loading where it helps, long holds and breath where the nervous system is the problem, and an In-Haus with a menopause clinician when the question is medical rather than muscular.
Leaking, heaviness, prolapse, pain with sex, pain without. Not a slide at the end of a training here, a whole strand. We work with pelvic floor physical therapists, and if what you are describing needs one we will say so and give you a name.
A shoulder, a back, a knee, a hysterectomy, a reconstruction, a long illness. A private session is the right form for this, because it gets built around one body. Tell us the restrictions your surgeon or physical therapist gave you and we will teach inside them.
Balance, bone density, stiff mornings, a hip that was replaced. Chairs and walls are used without ceremony. Nothing here requires you to get up and down off the floor more than once, and nothing requires you to be able to do it unassisted.
Grief, anxiety, a diagnosis, a divorce, sobriety, a year that took something out of you. This is where the slow floor work earns its keep; it is aimed at a nervous system, which is the part that is actually loud. Come and say nothing if you want.
Come to one room and see. you can come alone. Most women do. The rest of what it costs is under The Membership, and the practical questions are answered in Haus Keeping.
Chelsea teaches one session a month for every Haus Key, and all four for the four women whose key is hers alone. She trains everybody else. Every other private session, and every room she is not in, is led by a stilhaus teacher.
We will name them here as they come through. The first cohort trains in the opening months, which is why for the first twelve keys Chelsea teaches every session herself.
Our practitioners and our advisory board, who are the same women. Each leads the In-Haus conversations in her own subject, is paid for the evening, and is the one who tells us when something is further into medicine than we should be going.
In-Haus Resident
Owner, Main Line Women’s Acupuncture · Wayne
The first, and the one we work with most. Acupuncture built around women: cycles, fertility, the long turn through perimenopause. Hers is the first In-Haus, and most of the ones after it.
Her subject is Chinese medicine, and it is the reason she keeps coming back rather than appearing once. It reads a cycle, a sleep problem, a temper and a hot flush as one system rather than four separate complaints, which happens to be exactly how the women in these rooms already describe their own lives. Nobody arrives saying she has a luteal phase problem. She says she is tired, and short with her children, and awake at three.
So an In-Haus with her is not a lecture. Ninety minutes on the mat, then forty where she takes whatever the room asks: what acupuncture does and how, where the evidence is strong and where it is thinner, and how any of it sits alongside the medicine a woman is already taking. She will say that is worth seeing a doctor about out loud, in front of everyone.
An In-Haus Resident is a practitioner we work with all year rather than once. She sees women privately in Wayne, and if what you are describing is hers rather than ours we will say so and make the introduction.
More to come. We are choosing slowly, and only women whose work we would send our own sisters to. If that is you, the honest offer is this: a place here, and paid evenings when there are evenings.
Partnerships
Where women live and stay
The same evening, in a residents’ room or a hotel, paid for by the building or the hotel.
Apartments · Haus Next Door
Starting at $1,250
Hotels · Bath Haus
$2,500 a person, a weekend
Haus Next Door: apartments
We run an evening for the women who live in your building, in a room you already have. We bring the mats, the practice, the light, the five minutes of quiet and the part where somebody puts it all back, so a residents’ gym stops feeling like a residents’ gym for an evening.
It is the same evening a woman buys for her own living room: same teacher, same practice, same price. The only difference is who signs for it.
What it costs
What we need from you
If you run a building, write to us at @stilhausyoga or leave your email at the bottom of this page.
Bath Haus: hotels
Two nights, built around water. The bath, the heat, the cold, and the long flat afternoon in between: yoga and conversation woven through it, in a hotel that already has the rooms and the spa. Hotel guests book it, and the women who follow us come too.
What it costs
If you run a hotel, write to us at @stilhausyoga or leave your email at the bottom of this page.
Where women work and shop
The same evening, for the women who work for you or the women you want to keep, paid for by the company or the brand.
Companies · Work Haus
Starting at $1,250
Brands · Haus Showing
Starting at $2,500
Work Haus: companies
An Open Haus, brought to a company. A team day, an offsite, a leadership retreat, or a women’s network that is tired of booking another panel discussion. Ninety minutes in a room you already have, up to twenty-five women, and nobody has to be good at it.
Not a trust fall and not a lunch-and-learn. It is the one meeting in the calendar where nobody is performing, and the conversation afterwards is the part people remember.
What it costs
One thing to know before you ask. stilhaus is built for women and the room works because of it. A women’s network, an ERG, or a team that is women, gladly. We will say so honestly if a mixed group is not what we do well.
Write to us at @stilhausyoga, or leave your email at the bottom of this page.
Haus Showing: brands
You are launching something, and you need a reason for the women on your list to come and stay. A collection, a new season, an opening, a client evening. We bring the practice, the mats, the props and the five minutes of quiet, and your room stops being a room with a rail in it.
A house showing is a home opened for women to come and look around, which is what an evening like this already is. The difference from Work Haus is who is in the room: there, the women work for you; here, they are the women you are trying to keep.
What it costs
Three conditions, and we do not move on them
No photography during the practice. Before and after as much as you like. Not during. The whole thing works because nobody is being looked at.
No branding on the mats, and stilhaus is credited as stilhaus. We are glad to be in your room. We are not set dressing.
Five minutes of quiet still opens it. Same as every other room we run, and it is the reason the rest of the evening lands.
And one thing we ask for. Two minutes at the start to say what stilhaus is, and a card on the way out for anyone who wants to hear from us. It costs you nothing and it is part of why the price is what it is.
Write to us at @stilhausyoga, or leave your email at the bottom of this page.
From their home to yours. A yearly digital membership for women anywhere. Work live with renowned yogis from across the country, from your own home.
From wherever you are
$250 a year
Guest Haus is not open yet. The first teachers are not set, and we will not take a payment until they are. Leave your email at the bottom of this page, say Guest Haus, and we will write when it opens.
Green Haus
Green Haus itself opens next year. Haus Style, for teachers who are already certified, runs this one.
A greenhouse is where things are raised before they are ready to go outside. Green Haus is our 200-hour training, and the only one built around the women who will actually be lying on the mats in front of you.
Two hundred hours of anatomy, asana, philosophy and sequencing, and twenty minutes on prenatal, if that. Perimenopause is not mentioned. The pelvic floor gets a slide. Then you graduate, and a woman in your Tuesday class asks a question you were never taught to answer.
Green Haus is taught alongside the clinicians who teach In-Haus. Pelvic floor specialists, perinatal mental health, menopause medicine. You leave able to teach the room you will actually be standing in.
What you learn
Asana, anatomy, philosophy, sequencing, and how to hold a room: everything a 200-hour is supposed to give you, taught properly rather than hurried.
How a woman’s body changes across her life, and what that asks of her practice. Cycles. Fertility and pregnancy. Postpartum and the fourth trimester. Perimenopause and after. Taught by the people who treat it.
Not a slide. What it is, what goes wrong, what helps, what to never cue, and when to send her to someone with a licence.
Because she will. How to hold it, where your line is, and how to refer without making her feel handed off.
Treat it as a part-time job, because that is what it is. Nine months is longer than most trainings run, deliberately: the women we want have jobs and children, and nobody in that position can disappear for two weeks in Costa Rica.
Your twenty hours of teaching are not practice on your classmates. They are real rooms, with real women, who came because it was free, the same arrangement a good hair school runs, and for the same reason.
It is how you learn the one thing that cannot be taught on a Saturday: what it feels like when eight strangers are waiting for you to begin. Chelsea is at the back of every room.
Green Haus graduates can go on to teach under the stilhaus name: Haus Calls and Open Hauses of their own, paid, with the practice you were trained in rather than one you have to reverse-engineer.
Not everyone, and not automatically. But it is the reason this exists.
The one that runs this year, for teachers who are already certified. You do not need another two hundred hours. You need ours. A short course in how a stilhaus room actually runs: the five minutes of quiet, movement into stillness, how to hold a conversation that turns personal without letting it turn clinical, and what to do when a woman says something true.
Paying for the course does not buy you evenings. We offer them when we have them, and to the teachers we would put in our own mother’s living room. Green Haus graduates come through it as part of the training.
Green Haus opens in our second year. Two hundred hours is a licence, a faculty of clinicians and nine months of somebody’s life, and we are not taking tuition for a course we are still writing. The founding cohort will be small.
If you already teach, you do not have to wait. Haus Style runs this year, and the teachers who come through it are the ones leading stilhaus rooms while Green Haus is still being written.
To be told when Green Haus opens, sign up below and say Green Haus when we write back.
Give a Key
A key opens a door. That is the whole job of a gift, and almost nothing you can buy on the Main Line actually does it. These do, and none of them need wrapping.
One Haus Call, ninety minutes, in her own house, with a stilhaus teacher. She does not have to get anywhere, park, change first, or be seen by a single person. Somebody arrives, the room becomes the room, and for ninety minutes nobody needs her for anything.
For the friend who is carrying something and has not said what.
A Haus Key in her name. Four private sessions a month for a year, one of them with Chelsea, every room in the house, and two evenings of her own to host. For a fiftieth, a divorce, a last child leaving, or a woman who has spent a long time arranging everyone else’s life.
Every gift arrives as a card with her name on it and nothing about a price. If you want it to land on a particular morning, tell us the date and we will hold it. @stilhausyoga.
The Team
Every house has a front and a back. The front is the session you came for. The back is the two of us, the practitioners we trust, and the work nobody sees, which is most of it.
The founders
Yoga Director
Yoga teacher by day, ceramist by night. Twenty years of teaching and a master’s in the arts, which is why nothing she makes, a class or a conversation or a bowl, comes out generic. She is the one actually in the room, and when stilhaus is somewhere for a day she is there for all of it.
She is also the mother of a kindergartener, which is its own qualification for anyone who has tried to get out of a house before nine. The conversation after a session is as much hers as the practice before it.
Managing Director
Pennsylvania born, Charlottesville bred. Years of freelance brand strategy and contract work in social media and influencer marketing, which is most of how a brand like this one actually gets built. She is the voice of the house: every word you have read here is hers.
She has wanted to run a house like this since college. She had an experience of her own that asked her to seek help and learn how to heal, and what she wanted then did not exist. Not a clinic, not a class. A room of women, and permission to be in it.
One of us spent twenty years learning how to hold a room. The other spent a long time looking for one. stilhaus is that room.
Not in a doctor’s office. In kitchens, in cars, on the edge of someone’s bed. Women telling each other things they had not told anyone with a licence, because there was nowhere designed for that conversation and fifteen minutes was never going to be enough.
So we are building the room. Somewhere you can move your body, ask the question, and not be the only one in it who has wondered.
The Practice
It is yoga. Slow, mostly on the floor, built for a nervous system rather than a physique. If you have been put off by a studio, it is almost certainly not this.
The method
Closer to restorative and yin than to power. Long holds, props under everything, no heat.
Read moreThe hour
Five minutes of quiet, breath, the long middle, and ten minutes where nothing is asked.
Read moreEvery stage
Pregnant, postpartum, perimenopause, an injury, a hard season, and what we are not.
Read moreFor teachers
For yoga teachers who want to teach the way we do.
Read moreHaus Keeping
What it costs, what it asks of you, what happens if you cannot come. The unglamorous part, answered straight, so nobody has to email to find out.
Six of them, and they are the same in every room.
Before you come
Then you are exactly who this is built for. Nobody is going to put you in a headstand. The practice is movement into stillness: slow, mostly on the floor, aimed at a nervous system rather than a physique. If you can lie down, you can do it.
No. You can come, move, listen, and leave without saying a word, and plenty of women do exactly that the first time. The conversation is offered, never extracted.
Women eighteen and up. The rooms run wide: someone in her twenties and someone in her sixties in the same circle is the point, not a scheduling accident.
Whatever you would be comfortable lying down in. Bring a mat if you have one; there are spares if you do not. Everything else is ours to bring.
Yes. A Spare Key is one room, once: no membership, no commitment.
The membership
Four private sessions a month at $1,250: one of them with Chelsea, the rest with your own stilhaus teacher. At $2,500 all four are with Chelsea, and only four of those exist. On any of them: every group session we run, unlimited; two closed evenings a year to host and $750 after that; the Archive; and four Spare Keys.
What it does not cover is another woman’s fee. At an In-Haus every woman there pays $50 more, members included; we would rather charge the $50 than raise the key for women who never attend one.
Yes. It is billed monthly, and a month’s notice ends it: no fee and no conversation you have to have. If you pay for a year up front you get two months free, and that one does not refund part-way, so take the monthly option if you are not sure yet.
Only if you hold a Haus Key. Twenty-one of the twenty-five get one session a month with her; the other four get all four, and those four keys are the rest of her year. Added up that is her whole month, which is why there is no twenty-sixth key. Every other session is led by a stilhaus teacher she chose and trained herself; we would rather say that here than let you find it out in your own living room.
One room, once. It is how anybody comes without a membership, and it is also what you hand to someone else: same door, same room, her choice of night. The only difference is whose money it was.
A membership comes with four, for the friend who has been saying for a year that she needs to do something for herself and is never going to book it herself.
It is held for as long as you hold your key. Twenty-five keys, and then it closes. If you let the key lapse, the rate goes with it.
In your home
Floor space for the number of women you invite, and somewhere to put their coats. We have run a room of eight in a living room with the couch pushed back.
Depends which evening. Open the doors and we fill the room with ten women you have not met: they pay and you come free. Close the doors and choose them yourself, up to twelve: you pay $1,250, or $750 with a key, and nobody you invited pays anything.
Open the door and invite the women you would want in your house. We bring everything else. You do not cook, you do not collect money, and you do not pay for your own place in the room.
A quiet room, enough floor for a mat, and the forty-five minutes or ninety nobody interrupts. That is the whole list.
The talks
A stilhaus teacher leads the practice and hosts the conversation: Chelsea in the rooms she takes herself, and a teacher she chose and trained in the rest. When a subject goes further into medicine than we should, one of the licensed practitioners we work with is in the room, in her own subject, under her own credentials. That is what makes it an In-Haus.
No. stilhaus hosts gatherings and conversation. Nothing said in one of our rooms is a diagnosis or a treatment plan, and a clinician speaking to a group is not your clinician. What we can do is make sure you leave knowing what to go and ask.
We ask everyone for the same thing: what is said here is not repeated outside with a name attached. It is an agreement between women in a room, not a legal instrument, and we would rather be straight with you about the difference. Nothing is recorded.
Tell us before, not during. Most things can be worked around and the practice is built to be adapted; a few things need your doctor’s yes first, and we will say so rather than guess.
Practical
The Main Line, between Merion and Malvern. That is where we are from, not an address you come to; we do not have a building and we are not trying to get one.
Every room is in somebody’s house. A member who opened hers, or yours if you are the one hosting, or a venue you already belong to. We send the address when you book. The Hauswarming will be somewhere on the Main Line, and we will say where when it is set.
For a closed evening we travel further: New York City, Charlottesville, Virginia and California. Beyond the Main Line, the travel is quoted with the evening.
Twenty-four hours’ notice and a Haus Call moves, no charge. Inside twenty-four it counts, because the slot was held and cannot be given to anyone else. For an Open Haus, let your host know. She is the one counting chairs.
Leave your email below and reply to anything we send; it comes to the two of us, not to a help desk. Or find us on Instagram at @stilhausyoga.
We will write when the dates are set, and when the twenty-five memberships open.
We read every reply ourselves. If you would rather just ask us something, write to us on @stilhausyoga.