The Inner Journey. Sat 12 & 19 Sept, 3 Oct 2026.  Spaces are limited. Secure your place.

Immersion · Level 1

The Inner
Journey

Awaken your beauty within by releasing what's stuck and feel more alive through the intelligence of your body.

Live dates: Sat 12 & 19 Sept · 3 Oct 2026 · via Zoom · No experience needed

3
Live Saturdays
5
Modalities
Lifetime Access
The Inner Journey, Somatic Dance Immersion
"Some pain doesn't respond to words. It lives quietly in the body, waiting to be released."

Does this sound familiar?

You're capable, caring,
and quietly exhausted.

You hold it together for everyone, but inside, something quietly feels off.

You feel things deeply but push it down, stay busy, and still wonder why you feel stuck.

You've tried therapy, self-work, being more disciplined, and still something sits heavy in your body.

You want a life that actually matches who you are inside, without it feeling forced or performed.

Tight chest, heavy hips, a fatigue that rest doesn't fix, your body is carrying more than it should.

You want to feel free and fully yourself again. Not woo-woo. Just honest, open, at home in your own skin.

Somatic dancer in movement

A message from Pip

Meet your guide & see what this is really about

Watch before you decide — this is Pip in her own words, sharing what the Inner Journey is, why she created it, and what becomes possible when you stop managing how you feel and start moving through it.

Ready to begin?

Join Live Immersion Self-Paced Access

Sat 12 & 19 Sept, 3 Oct 2026 · via Zoom · No experience needed

What this changes

What if your body already holds
everything you've been searching for?

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.

I'm ready, show me how
Somatic movement
Movement as medicine

The Inner Journey

An immersion into
the beauty within

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
  • Create lasting change through the body, not just the mind
Live Immersion Self-Paced

Sat 12 & 19 Sept, 3 Oct 2026 · via Zoom · No experience needed

Choose your path

Two ways to experience
The Inner Journey

At Your Own Pace

Self-Paced Immersion
£197

one-time · lifetime access

  • X3 Live recorded sessions
  • Bonus: Full somatic dance & movement extra recordings
  • 5x Modalities: nervous system regulation, somatics and sensual movement, emotion release practices, pranayama and breath and personal development
  • Bonus: Pranayama breath plan
  • Move through in your own time, at your own rhythm
Begin Self-Paced, £197

Start Sat 12 Sept · All devices

Somatic dancer in movement

What you'll experience

Five ways
into your body

Somatic and sensual movement

Body-led awareness and movement to access what's stored beneath the surface

Pranayama and breath

Breath sequences to open, regulate and resource your emotional body

Emotional Release

Gentle techniques to move suppressed emotion through and out of the body

Nervous System Regulation

Grounding practices to create safety, calm and presence from within

Personal Development

Tools and practices to support your inner growth, self-understanding and the woman you are becoming through this work

What becomes possible

What becomes possible

The feeling
on the other side

  • Alive in your body

    A body that feels like home — lighter, more open, more you

  • A calm, regulated nervous system

    No longer in survival mode, grounded, present, genuinely at ease

  • An open heart

    Room for joy, self-love, and honest expression, without needing to suppress it

  • Deep coherence

    A sense of wholeness that lives in your bones, clarity, expansion, coming home

Join Live Immersion Self-Paced Access

In their own words

Women who've taken
The Inner Journey

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

"I've grown so quickly over a short period of time. I didn't realise how much I was holding in my body until this gave me permission to let it go."

Camilla
Immersion student
★ ★ ★ ★ ★

"I am hugely pleased with my progress. I came in sceptical, I'm not a 'dancer', but that completely dissolved. This is about being human."

Samantha
Immersion student
★ ★ ★ ★ ★

"Something shifted in me that therapy never quite touched. I feel lighter, more myself, and I actually look forward to mornings now."

Emma
Immersion student
“I felt like I was doing yoga and a workout at the same time.”
Valerie
“It was something I really needed.”
Kirsty
Pip Elysium
Your guide Pip Elysium

About Pip

A Life in
Movement

Hi, I'm Pip Elysium

Nervous System Coach and former co-founder of AcroYogaDance.

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.

Pip x

The bigger picture

This is where the journey begins

The Inner Journey is Level 1 of the Somatic Dance Facilitator Training. If you feel called to guide others through this work one day, this is your foundation.

Level 1, You are here
The Inner Journey
Level 2
Facilitator Foundations
Online
Level 3
Facilitator Integration
In Person

Included with your immersion

Your gifts
to take home

Bonus Recordings

Full somatic dance and movement recordings to return to whenever your body calls for it.

Pranayama Breath Plan

A guided breath sequence plan to regulate your nervous system and open the emotional body between sessions.

Community of Women

A shared space to move, integrate and be witnessed alongside other women on the same path.

Join Live Immersion Self-Paced Access

Common questions

Everything you
need to know

Absolutely not. This isn't about technique or performance, it's about your body's innate intelligence. If you've ever swayed to music, breathed, or felt something in your chest, you're qualified. The only requirement is curiosity and a willingness to feel.
The self-paced version gives you lifetime access to all recordings to move through in your own time. The live version is the same content experienced together with a small group and Pip across three Saturdays on Zoom, with live guidance, Q&A, and a shared container with integration time woven between each session. The live experience tends to go deeper because you're held and witnessed. It also counts as Level 1 towards facilitator training.
Yes, actually especially for you. Many women who feel put off by overly spiritual language find somatic work the most grounded, practical thing they've ever done. There's nothing to believe in. This is body science: nervous system regulation, emotional release, and embodied presence. You just need to show up.
The next live cohort runs across three Saturdays: 12 & 19 September and 3 October 2026, via Zoom. Spaces are limited to keep the container intimate. Applications are reviewed by Pip to make sure it's a good fit.
Yes, you have lifetime access. That said, the magic tends to happen when you commit to showing up. I encourage you to move through it gradually rather than leaving it for "someday."
For technical help, email hello@pipelysium.com. For questions about the content or your experience, Pip is personally available, just reach out.
Once purchased, we don't offer refunds, so please make sure you're fully ready before you join. If you have any questions about whether this is right for you, reach out first and we'll have an honest conversation.

You've read enough

The body knows
before the mind does.

If something in you has been saying yes while reading this, that's worth trusting. This is where the real work begins. And it's gentler than you think.