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The Inner
Journey

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

Level 1 of the Somatic Dance Facilitator Training · Live from January 2027 · via Zoom

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?

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Level 1 of the Facilitator Training · Live from January 2027 · via Zoom

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.

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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.

Live in a small group (next round January 2027) 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
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Level 1 of the Facilitator Training · Live from January 2027 · via Zoom

How to join

Level 1 is part of
the full training

The Inner Journey is the first of three levels in the Somatic Dance Facilitator Training.

You experience the work yourself in Level 1, learn to guide others in Level 2, and bring it all together in Bali in Level 3. Places are by application, and Pip reviews every one personally.

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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

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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 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."

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
“I felt like I was doing yoga and a workout at the same time.”
Valerie · Private session
“It was something I really needed.”
Kirsty · Inner Journey student
Pip Elysium
Pip Elysium

A Life in
Movement

Hi, I'm Pip Elysium

Dancer, movement teacher and founder of Somatic Dance Academy.

I’ve been dancing since I was two and teaching since I was nineteen. I trained in ballet, studied choreography with Siobhan Davies as part of my degree, and co-founded AcroYogaDance in London, where my work was described as “mesmerising, hypnotic even” by the Evening Standard.

Over time, my path deepened into yoga, energy work, somatic healing and personal development. After a year unable to move with a back injury, and a period of grief, dance became my way of feeling and releasing what words couldn’t reach. I wove everything I learned into The Inner Journey: meditation, breath, sound, personal development and somatic dance, layered into one guided experience.

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.

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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.
Level 1 runs live with Pip and a small group on Zoom from January 2027. Every session is recorded, so you can catch up if you miss one, and you keep lifetime access. It is the first level of the Facilitator Training and is included when you join the full 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. It’s grounded, practical and body-based: nervous system regulation, emotional release and embodied presence. You just need to show up.
The next live round starts in January 2027 via Zoom. Dates are shared with applicants first. Spaces are limited to keep the group small.
Level 1 is part of the full training, so you join it by applying for the training. If you would like to experience the work just for yourself, without training to guide others, the Inner Journey is available on pipelysium.com.
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.