Pip Elysium's work sits at the intersection of dance, yoga, somatics and personal development, shaped by a lifelong relationship with the body and a curiosity about what happens when movement becomes a form of expression rather than simply something we do.

A trained ballet dancer and performer, Pip has been dancing since the age of two and teaching since she was nineteen. She trained through the Legat School of Ballet professional programme, studied choreography with Siobhan Davies as part of her degree, performed with Candoco Dance Company, and co-founded AcroYogaDance in London, teaching thousands of students along the way. She has headlined at the OM Yoga Show, taught at Wanderlust and Bestival, led workshops for Lululemon, Adidas Women and Sweaty Betty, performed at Wembley Stadium for an audience of 70,000, and been featured on Wanderlust TV, in The Telegraph and the Evening Standard, and on three yoga magazine covers.

Alongside movement, personal development has been part of her life since she was 27. She has completed most of Tony Robbins’ courses and part of his Leadership Academy.

Her work has been shaped by years of following movement through dance, performance, yoga, energy work and, ultimately, some of the most transformative experiences of her life.

Growing up dyslexic, Pip sometimes found it difficult to put what she was thinking and feeling into words. Art became another language and a way of connecting the dots and expressing what couldn't always be explained. From a young age, she knew she wanted to bring dance and art together, and that instinct has remained at the heart of her work.

There have been many chapters where movement became much more than physical practice, but one period changed everything. Within the space of two weeks, Pip lost her business, her home, her partner and someone she loved. She found herself in Bali, where she began a 300-hour yoga teacher training with Dylan Werner. Through the intensity of the practice, she became deeply aware of her body and began a six-year journey of self-discovery.

That journey wasn't always easy. A back injury took movement away from her for an entire year, and later she experienced the profound shock of witnessing her father suffer a stroke. Through grief, loss and change, dance became something different. Not an escape from what she was feeling, but a way of honouring it.

Alongside movement, Pip became fascinated by energy work and the way the body can communicate before the mind has found the words. It led her to question how much of the way we live, particularly as women, is shaped by conditioning and society.

For much of her life, she believed power meant pushing harder, working faster and achieving more. Over time, she discovered another kind of power: one that could be slower, more sensual, intuitive and connected to feeling.

That discovery is at the heart of what she teaches and facilitates.

Pip believes the body is communicating with us all the time, yet modern life gives us very little space to listen. We're surrounded by information, self-improvement and the promise of the next thing that will make us feel better, while often becoming increasingly disconnected from what we already know within ourselves.

Her work is an invitation to quieten that noise and reconnect through movement, feeling and embodied awareness.

She created her programmes because it is the work of her own life, because she wishes someone had shown her this way of relating to herself sooner.

This isn't about becoming someone new or finding another thing to fix. It's about becoming more deeply connected to who you already are, and allowing that connection to influence how you move through your life. From the decisions you make and the relationships you choose, to the places you live and what brings you joy.

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