A 3-level somatic journey into the body, energy system, and relational field. Train to facilitate transformative movement experiences.
YACEP Accredited
“Helping others do mad things with their bodies.”— The Metro
Somatic dance is a deeply felt practice of listening to your body's intelligence. moving from sensation, emotion, and inner awareness rather than the mind's agenda. As a facilitator, you learn to hold a space where breath, sound and movement weave together naturally.
Each session follows a deliberate arc. You open with pranayama. breath sequences that shift the nervous system out of fight-or-flight and begin to activate the vagus nerve, creating the physiological conditions for safety and release. From there, sound enters: voice, music, or resonance work that loosens the body before movement begins. Intuitive somatic dance follows, guided by the chakra framework so the work has energetic direction rather than wandering.
Woven throughout are personal development prompts. reflective questions that bring conscious awareness to what is moving in the body, so that what arises doesn't stay unconscious. As a facilitator you learn to read the room: to see where someone is holding, where they are contracting, and how to guide them gently through the layer rather than around it. The structure holds the space so that what happens within it can be genuinely free.
This training takes you through that journey yourself first, then teaches you how to hold it for individuals and groups. The work moves through three levels: Personal Practice. 1:1 Facilitation. Group & Advanced Work.
Moving from sensation rather than choreography, allowing the body's natural intelligence to guide, release and reconnect. Supports emotional expression and nervous system regulation.
Each energy centre holds both its empowering qualities and suppressed emotions. Through intuitive movement and felt sensation, we gently access, express, and integrate these layers.
Breath sequences become a bridge between sensation and expression. Weaving pranayama and sound into movement adds depth and embodiment, guiding the rhythm of the dance from within.
Simple rituals and grounding meditations create arrival, intention, and safety. The dance that follows unfolds with greater awareness, depth, and meaning.
Intentional techniques including shaking, tapping and vocal release. gentle, grounded tools for processing what arises in the body when held emotions begin to move.
Reflective questions and expressive writing make meaning of what arises. By bringing awareness into words, experience becomes more conscious and genuinely transformative.
Each applicant is reviewed personally by Pip.
Something inside you knows you're here to guide others through movement, healing and embodied experience. This training gives that calling a structure and a home.
Yoga teacher, therapist, coach, dancer, movement facilitator. You are ready to expand your offering and go deeper into your own embodiment at the same time.
"You don't need to know how to dance to be a somatic facilitator.
You need to know how to feel and how to help others do the same."
Release chronic tension, held emotion, and patterns stored in your tissues. Move with ease, flow, and genuine pleasure.
Develop the capacity to self-regulate, to return to ground when life gets overwhelming, and to feel genuinely safe in your body.
Access joy, self-love, and honest expression. Move through grief, rage, or numbness and find your authentic voice in motion.
Gain the skills, confidence, and ethical grounding to hold transformational somatic spaces for individuals and groups.
Personal Practice. 1:1 Facilitation. Group & Energetic Work. Each level builds deliberately on the last, layering somatic dance with meditation, pranayama, sound, personal development and intuitive enquiry.
The Inner Journey is your first step and the foundation of everything that follows. Before you can guide anyone else, you need to have lived this work in your own body. This is a guided somatic immersion drawing on intuitive movement, pranayama, chakra work, sound and meditation. A whole-body approach to releasing what's been stored.
Over three days or at your own pace, you'll move through each layer of self. emotional, energetic, physical. softening tension that talk therapy couldn't reach, and awakening a deeper, more grounded version of you. This is about coming home to your body. Everything in the facilitator training grows from what you discover here.
Level 2 opens the relational field. You will learn to lead another person through a somatic dance session, holding them with skill, presence and care. This is where your facilitation training begins in earnest.
Working with authentic voice, sound, and heart-led movement, you develop the capacity to guide transformative 1:1 experiences. You'll learn to use personal development questions to deepen the journey, hold safe and boundaried space, and work with the heart and throat chakra energy.
Level 3 is a 7-day in-person immersion in Bali. This is where everything comes together. You will learn to hold group somatic dance journeys, work with partner and energetic dance, and practise sacred touch as a facilitation tool.
The work integrates everything from Levels 1 and 2 and takes you into the most advanced dimensions of somatic facilitation. By the end, you are a qualified Somatic Dance Arts Facilitator. This level is about facilitating from full embodiment, intuition and trust.
Bi-weekly online group sessions open to all students across Levels 1 and 2. A living space for personal practice, integration and community, held every other Sunday by Pip.
Interest-free payment plans available. You do not need to pay in full to secure your place.
Levels purchased separately: £2,690 · Save £693 with the full certification bundle.
Described as “mesmerising, hypnotic even” by the London Evening Standard and featured in The Guardian, The Metro and Doyouyoga, Pip is a somatic movement coach, energy worker, and the 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. She stands at the intersection of art, healing, and the nervous system. She has spent her career doing what very few people can: helping others feel, move, and release what words alone cannot reach.
Over time, her path deepened into yoga, energy work and somatic healing. She trained under some of the most respected teachers in embodied practice and eventually wove everything into Somatic Dance Arts. A methodology that layers meditation, pranayama, sound, personal development and somatic dance into a journey that genuinely transforms people.
People come to her sessions and workshops feeling disconnected, stuck in their heads or unsure of how to inhabit themselves. They leave feeling alive, open and seen. That is what this training teaches you to create for others.
This certification carries everything Pip has learned across 25 years of professional practice. She will meet you exactly where you are and take you somewhere you have never been.
"The way Pip holds space makes you feel safe to go completely inward. This changed how I live in my body."CamillaInner Journey
"Chakra work, movement, and reflection all woven together. Unlike anything I'd experienced before. Deeply transformative."SamanthaInner Journey
"I left with a completely new relationship to my body and what it means to hold space. Worth every penny."EmmaYoga Teacher
“I felt like I was doing yoga and a workout at the same time.”ValeriePrivate Session
“It was something I really needed.”KirstyInner Journey
“Something moved in me that I'd been carrying for years. I didn't expect somatic work to go that deep.”RachelInner Journey
Book a free 20-minute clarity call with Pip. She'll help you understand the pathway, answer your questions, and let you know if this is the right moment for you to begin.
Book a Free Clarity CallAll you need to begin is curiosity, a willingness to move, and an openness to listening to your body. Pip personally reviews every application and will have an honest conversation about whether this is the right fit.
Absolutely. This training is designed to deepen existing practice. expanding your awareness, refining your connection and exploring new layers of expression. It supports you in developing the skills to safely and confidently hold space for others. It is ideal for those who want to go deeper into their inner world while learning to guide emotional release in others.
Levels 1 and 2 are held online via Zoom, with details provided upon registration. Level 1 is also available as a self-paced programme with lifetime access. Level 3 is a 7-day in-person immersion in Bali. Participants arrange their own travel and accommodation, and Pip will help guide you through the practicalities every step of the way.
You can begin with Level 1 on its own. It stands beautifully as a personal somatic practice immersion. Levels 2 and 3 are sold as the core facilitator training pathway, as they form one continuous arc of learning. Level 3 in Bali is the final stage of the full certification. If you are drawn to the personal practice first and not yet sure about facilitation, Pip is happy to talk through this on a clarity call.
Pip opens Level 2 cohorts once students have moved through Level 1. This ensures the group has a shared depth of experience and the container holds well. Joining the waitlist means you'll be first to know when a cohort opens.
Once you've made your purchase, it's all systems go. We do not offer refunds, so please be sure you are 100% ready and aligned before joining. If you have any questions before committing, please book a clarity call with Pip first. that is exactly what it is for.
For any questions, email hello@pipelysium.com. Pip personally responds and will help clear up any doubts. You can also book a clarity call before applying if you'd like to have a real conversation about whether this is the right fit for you.
