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Heal Your Body First.

When did you last feel fully alive?

Your body holds more than your mind has words for. This is a practice of returning through somatic movement, sound, breath and sensation

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Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Provider
YACEP YACEP Accredited
Continued Professional Development
“It will challenge your perception of what you can do.”
— The Telegraph
Something brought you here

Your body already knows
what it needs.

For your own healing

You're ready to stop
carrying it alone.

You've tried talking about it. Thinking through it. And still something sits heavy.
Tightness in your chest, weight in your hips. Your body is holding more than it should.
You want to feel free and fully yourself again. Not woo woo. Just honest and at home in your skin.
You sense there's a deeper kind of healing available, one that doesn't start in the mind.
Explore the Inner Journey
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For your professional practice

You already hold space.
Go deeper.

You're a dance teacher, yoga teacher, therapist, coach or someone who lives deeply in your body and feels called to guide others through the same.
You want a body based modality that reaches where words and cognitive tools can't.
You're ready to guide people through real transformation, not just manage their symptoms.
You may not tick every formal credential. If you're embodied and called, Pip will have an honest conversation with you about fit.
Explore the Training
Where the work begins

The Inner Journey

Most of us were never taught how to feel; only how to manage, suppress or explain our emotions. The Inner Journey offers something different: a way back into your body and sensation, where real change begins not by thinking harder, but by reconnecting with what you can actually feel.

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What this is

The Inner Journey is a guided immersion into your body, your emotions and the parts of yourself you may have disconnected from. Through nervous system regulation, embodiment exercises, somatics, feminine and sensual movement, and emotion release practices, you'll begin to release what's been held within and reconnect with your beauty, aliveness and inner wisdom.

Across three live Saturdays (or at your own pace), you'll explore the emotional, energetic, physical and spiritual layers of yourself, moving gently through the body to soften tension that words alone can't reach, while awakening a deeper, more grounded and embodied connection to who you are.

Gently release layers of emotion, shame, fear, grief and guilt, and feel lighter
Soften tension held in the chest, belly, hips and heart
Reawaken your natural rhythm, sensuality and embodied confidence
Soothe your nervous system and reconnect with a sense of safety
Reconnect with your feminine energy and the beauty within
Self-paced
Lifetime access · Portal
Start Sept 12th 2026
Prefer to go at your own pace? Self-paced access from £197.
“It changed my life.”
— Somatic student
Somatic dance movement

What happens
beyond words

Most of us were taught to manage our emotions, explain them, or push through them. Somatic movement, dance and transformational practices offers something different: a way back into the body, where the real holding happens, and where real release becomes possible.

A performance A private inward journey
A fitness class A healing practice
Something you need to be good at Something you only need to be willing to feel
About technique or steps About what your body already knows

No mirrors. No choreography. No right way. Just you, guided gently into the intelligence your body has been holding all along.

The Facilitator Training

You already hold space.
Now go deeper.

For dance teachers, yoga teachers, therapists, coaches and movement professionals who are ready to bring somatic depth into their work and guide others into the kind of transformation that changes everything.

The Somatic Dance Facilitator Training is a three-level pathway from personal experience to professional practice. It begins with The Inner Journey and grows from there.

Dance teachers & movement practitioners
Yoga teachers & pranayama facilitators
Therapists, counsellors & psychologists
Life coaches & holistic health practitioners
Retreat facilitators & workshop leaders

Level 1 open now · Level 2 accepting applications

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Three levels. One complete practice.
Your guide

Pip Elysium

Somatic Healing & Dance Practitioner | YACEP-Accredited Facilitator Trainer

Described as “mesmerising, hypnotic even” by The Daily Telegraph and featured in The Guardian, the Evening Standard and Metro, I'm a Nervous System Coach and former founder of AcroYogaDance, one of London's most celebrated movement studios. With 25 years in dance and embodiment, including work alongside renowned choreographer Siobhan Davies, I stand at the intersection of art, healing, and the nervous system.

Over time, my path deepened into yoga, energy work and somatic healing. I ran my own studio, trained under some of the most respected teachers in embodied practice, and eventually wove everything I had learned into Somatic Dance Academy, a methodology that layers meditation, pranayama, sound, personal development and somatic dance into a journey that genuinely transforms people.

People come to my sessions feeling disconnected, stuck in their heads, unsure of how to inhabit themselves. They leave feeling alive, open and seen.

This is what I want to share with you.
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In their own words

Women who've moved
through this work

I've grown so quickly over a short period of time. I didn't expect somatic dance to reach me the way it did. It bypassed everything my mind had put up as a barrier.

Camilla · Inner Journey student

I am hugely pleased with my progress. The three days gave me a ritual I actually look forward to, something that belongs entirely to me.

Samantha · Inner Journey student

It was much more than a dance class… it was a journey of awareness and self expression.

Ludo · Inner Journey student
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Your next step

Which path
is calling you?

Both begin with a body ready to move, and a self ready to return.

01
Personal healing

Begin your own journey

The Inner Journey is where it starts: a somatic dance immersion that moves you through five modalities and returns you to yourself. Self-paced or live with Pip on Sat 12 & 19 Sept, 3, 10 & 17 Oct 2026.

02
Professional training

Become a facilitator

The Somatic Dance Facilitator Training is a three-level pathway for movement professionals, therapists and coaches ready to guide others through transformative somatic work. Level 1 is open now.