HPS Weekly 035
outgrowing your old life, anchoring through movement, and what I wore to teach today
LATELY
The Repertoire: Body-Based Creative Practices To Transmute Heartbreak & Grief Into Reinvention is officially in full swing! We just finished our live lab focused on rooting, grounding, anchoring, and creating stability both physically through pilates strength programming and fascial release and energetically with creative writing and improvisation…and I gotta tell ya, I feel great.
We also had our first bookings for the Aug 20-25th Tuscany retreat, so it’s been an exciting week over here (you can claim your spot here if you wanna get into a little yoga, pilates, and breathwork with Beth Cooke and I!)
Apropos of nothing, in an effort to manage my DMs more effectively, I’ve started a new series “what I wore to teach pilates today” on reels and I’ll be linking everything on ShopMy should that be of any interest!
Recently for the paid subscribers:
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THE DIGEST
“The Unexpected Sign Your Nervous System Is Healing: You Become Horny for Life Again” — Eros and Honey
“How To Do The Shit You Say You’re Going To Do” — Miranda Does Brands
“12 Clues That You’ve Outgrown Your Old Life (But You’re Violently Avoiding Admitting It” — The Twelfth House
“What Your Basic Bitch Sneaker Says About You” — Selleb
THE SENSORY EDIT
SEE: American Ballet Theatre Studio Company at The Joyce May 13th-May 17th
SMELL: Le Labo Thé Matcha 26
HEAR: HPS IRL vol. 005
TOUCH: Capote’s Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era
TASTE: Táche Pistachio Milk
YOUR HPS SCHEDJ THIS WEEK
Peep the entire May program here
Full Body 062
Upper Body 042
Noon Zoom 039 Replay
Lower Body 0038
Core 051
Book into this week’s Live Friday Noon Zoom 12pm ET ( free for HPS members, and paid Substackers join for free 1x/month (if you can’t find your comp code, email hi@helenphelanstudio.com). Non-members can drop-in anytime for $25/class.
Peep the entire May program here
HPS is $44/month (with sliding scale pricing available for those in need) and you get access to 500+ on-demand workouts, monthly programs, challenges, and live Zoom every week.
Well Hell is a reader supported publication. HPS Weekly is always free, but to read the rest of Well Hell’s columns, receive product round-ups, technique guides, access to Zoom classes, and support my work, consider becoming a paid subscriber.
QUICK LINKS
Abs, Asana, Affirmations: The Catskills Retreat July 23rd-26th, 2026
Join Lulu Soni and me for a somatic summer camp— we have only 3 king bedrooms remaining! You can book ‘em solo for a luxe weekend or grab a bestie/lover to share the room.
The Tuscany Retreat August 20th-25th, 2026
Registration for my pilates, yoga, and pasta in Tuscany with Beth Cooke and opens this weekend! Comment below with your email to get on the early access list to ensure your spot.
Pilates, yoga, meditation, and journaling with Helen Phelan and Beth Cooke Body High with Beth Cooke at Skyting 05.30 2:30pm | Don’t push harder, feel more. Body High microdoses the most intoxicating elements of strength, stretch, rhythm, and release, slow burn style. First, heat rises through athletic mat pilates dosed with cathartic cardio pulses, then your edges soften in a haze of yoga flow and breath, leaving you feeling high on your body’s very own supply.
HPS Friday live noon Zooms (12pm ET, free for HPS members, $25 drop in, paid Substack subscribers get one free Zoom a month, too!)
xx,
Helen
