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Pip Elysium

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➤ Founder of Somatic Dance Arts
✦ 20 years teaching movement | 2,000+ taught
✦ Train to guide movement, emotion & heal
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Somatic Dance: The Inner Journey

A 5-week Online Somatic dance Immersive to release emotional blocks and feel fully alive again. What if letting go was the strongest thing you could ever do?

Each week, we journey through one of the seven chakras.. gently dissolving what no longer serves, and awakening what has always been within you.

Created for those who are ready to move differently, feel deeply, and reconnect within you through simple, guided movement and exploring the breath, sound and personal development coaching.

You might be wondering… how are you supposed to feel confident and connected in your body again when life feels busy, stiff, or overwhelming?

The truth is.. most women never learned how to move for themselves. We were taught to exercise, to perform, to push… but not to listen. That’s why I created The Inner Journey: a gentle, step-by-step immersion that helps you release tension, rebuild trust with your body, and rediscover your natural rhythm.

Here’s what we’ll explore together: 

How to release stress and emotional tension through mindful movement through the chakras 

Simple tools and holistic practices to reconnect with confidence and self-expression 

Restoring energy and ease in your daily routine through sadhana 

Rebuilding body trust and self-belief with asking the right questions and integrating daily rituals  

Learning to move in a way that feels natural, not forced. Somatics and dance play a great role in this

This isn’t about becoming a dancer or mastering technique.. it’s about creating space to feel good in your own skin again.

DM me the word EXPRESS to secure your space

Imagine where you could be just seven weeks from now… feeling lighter, more confident, and completely at home in your body. Realigned.

Your next chapter starts here.

#somatics #somatichealing #somaticdance #yogatherapy #yogabali #dancetherapy #movementismedicine

Somatic healing | movement is medicine | yoga and dance therapy | bali retreat by @pipelysium

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9 months ago

My heart is filled with gratitude. .
🙏 Gratitude to all the Yogi’s & AcroYogaDancer’s who have supported and have allowed us to support.
🙏 Gratitude to the yogis all over the world who have attended our workshops and trainings over the past years. 🙏 Gratitude to my friends and family who put up with my weird acroyogadance obsession.
🙏 Grateful to Om Yoga Magazine @omyogamagazine for taking a risk 🙏 Last but not least big gratitude to @eugeneveganbutcher who has been by my side throughout this crazy journey and has been the backbone to acroyogadance. Always so much love to you
So!! Find us at Om Yoga Show, @omyogashow we are at stand K2, COME SEE US AND PLAY!!
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📷by @hanriphotography
Wearing @mandukaeurope .
#acroyogadance #omyogashow taken in Alexandra Palace by @pipelysium

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9 years ago

When you spend so much time in your head, it can be hard to switch off.

You overthink, analyse, replay conversations and try to figure everything out. Even when you finally have a moment to yourself, your mind is still running.

You can dance, practise yoga, stretch, move every day… and still feel disconnected from yourself.

Going through the motions, but not really feeling them.

Thinking about how you look, whether you’re doing it right, what comes next. Even movement, something you once loved, can become another thing to get right.

But what happens when you stop trying to control the movement and start paying attention to what you actually feel?

The tension you’ve been holding. The emotions you haven’t had time to process. The patterns you keep repeating without fully understanding why.

Sometimes, we need more than time alone to think things through. We need space to explore what’s really going on beneath the surface, to be honest with ourselves and to feel understood by other women who might be experiencing something similar.

That’s what the Inner Circle is about on Sundays. Through movement, guided reflection and sharing, we create space to understand ourselves a little better, reconnect with how we feel and explore new ways of moving through life.

🤍 I’d love to welcome you to a complimentary Inner Circle session on Sunday 25 October at 10am UK time.

Comment FREEDOM and I’ll send you the details.

For a little more space to feel, reflect and find your freedom.

#SomaticMovement #SomaticDance #YogaTeachers #WomensWellbeing MindBodyConnection EmotionalWellbeing MovementForWellbeing Somatichealing by @pipelysium

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5 days ago

Dear friends, it’s been a little while since I’ve shared a proper update. I’ve needed some time to step back, reflect and really think about what I want to create… and who I want to be in this next chapter. And funnily, that has been my chapter in Bali.

Since being in Bali from August, I’ve had more space than usual to look at some of the things that have been coming up for me. There’s been a lot around worthiness, letting go of old ideas of who I should be, and finding the confidence to step more fully into who I actually am. It’s been exciting, uncomfortable, co-existing at once!

My partner has been a wonderful mirror throughout this too. We’ve just returned from Level One of Soulmate Training, which we chose to do together, and I’m honestly so grateful we did. I learnt a lot about myself, about us, and about the kind of relationship we want to create. It’s brought a closeness and depth of connection that I haven’t experienced before, along with a much deeper appreciation for tantra and what it can teach us about ourselves and each other.

Next week, we’ll be closing this chapter in Bali and heading to another island to try a different way of living. We’re curious to see how it feels and whether it could become somewhere we’d want to call home for a little longer term.

I’d love to share more of this journey with you, as well as more of the somatic work I’ve been developing behind the scenes.

I’ll be honest, I’ve also found myself becoming a little tired of the perfectly polished world of AI captions and content that can all start to sound the same.

Does anyone else feel the same?

#bali #tantra #soulmate by @pipelysium

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10 days ago

I hear so many women say, “I don’t feel like I’m in my feminine.”

But femininity was never something a man or someone else admiring you was supposed to give you.

It’s not about how you look, how desirable you are, or how well you fit into an idea of what a woman “should” be.

It begins with feeling.

Feeling your emotions.Feeling your body.
Feeling your sensuality… (your senses)
Slowing down enough to actually notice yourself.

We live in a world that asks us to do, achieve, perform and keep going. So of course we can lose touch with that part of ourselves.

But you can choose to come back!! 💗💗

This is through the practices that bring you back into your body and back into feeling.

Because your femininity isn’t something you need to find in someone else.

It’s something you remember within yourself. 🤍

This is what we discover, explore and integrate on The Inner Journey. DM or comment ‘remember’ to learn more 💗🥰

#somatichealing #somatics #movementismedicine #womenspower #embodimentpractice by @pipelysium

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a month ago

For the woman who knows there’s more.

For the woman who has felt disconnected from herself.

For the woman who wants to feel her sensuality again… not for anyone else, but for herself.

For the woman who doesn’t always feel safe enough to fully let go.

For the woman who feels deeply, and sometimes feels overwhelmed by her own emotions.

For the woman who has spent so much time holding it all together that she’s forgotten what it feels like to simply be.

The Inner Journey is an invitation to come back to yourself.

To your body.
To your emotions.
To your softness.
To the parts of you that have been waiting to be felt.

A 5 week journey for 12 women ready to reconnect with themselves through somatic movement, nervous system regulation and emotional release.

Registration closes tonight.

Comment IMMERSION and I’ll send you the details.

#somatics #somatichealing #embodiment #somaticdance #movementismedicine by @pipelysium

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a month ago

It’s been there all along.

Perhaps life simply taught you to look outside of yourself for the things that were always waiting within.. validation, safety, permission to feel.

And somewhere along the way, you became disconnected from your body, your intuition, your softness, your aliveness.

Coming back to yourself isn’t about becoming someone new.

It’s about remembering.

The Inner Journey is an invitation to do exactly that.. to slow down, reconnect with your body, and rediscover the parts of you that may have been quiet for a while.

I’m opening this next immersion to just 12 women.

If something in you is ready to return to yourself, comment IMMERSION and I’ll send you the details. 🤍

📷 by @pica.fo

#somatics #somatichealing #nervoussystemreset #femininity by @pipelysium

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2 months ago

You can read all the books, understand yourself on a deeper level, learn about feminine energy… but at some point, you have to come back to the body. You can’t think your way into feeling more feminine.

Because femininity isn’t something you have to become.

It’s something you begin to feel when you slow down enough to listen to yourself.

To your sensations.
Your emotions… Your intuition. Your desires..
The parts of you that perhaps haven’t had much space to be felt.

This is what we explore inside The Inner Journey.. a space to step out of your head and back into a deeper relationship with your body, your emotions and yourself.

Through somatic movement, nervous system practices, emotional release and feminine embodiment, we’ll explore what it means to feel more connected, expressive, grounded and alive in your own skin.

For this next immersion, I’m bringing together just 12 women for a small, intimate group beginning September 12th.

Maybe you’ve been feeling that quiet pull towards something different.

Maybe you’re in a transition, craving a deeper connection with yourself, or simply know there’s more aliveness waiting for you.

If something in you is curious, I’d love to tell you more.

Registration of interest closes this Thursday.

Comment “INNER JOURNEY” below and I’ll send you all the details. 🤍

#somatics #somatichealing #femininepower #embodimentpractice #femininerising by @pipelysium

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2 months ago

Maybe you’ve been feeling it for a while.
That something in you wants more.
But you’re not quite sure what’s missing…!!

Maybe you’ve been through a period of change that has left you feeling a little disconnected from who you used to be.

💔Maybe your heart has been broken, your body has asked you to slow down, or life simply hasn’t gone the way you thought it would…

Or maybe nothing is particularly wrong at all.

You have a good life. You’re functioning. You’re doing all the things you’re supposed to be doing.

And yet there’s a quiet feeling that says:
there has to be more than this.
I know that feeling!!

And I’ve come to realise that finding more doesn’t always mean changing our lives on the outside.

Sometimes, we have to find our way back inside ourselves first.

Back into the body. Back into feeling.

Back into the parts of ourselves we’ve learned to quieten, control or put aside while we get on with life.

That is where The Inner Journey came from.

A space to step out of the noise for a moment and listen to yourself again.
Not to fix yourself.

Not to become someone new.
But to remember what it feels like to be fully here, in your own life.

I’m bringing together just 12 women for this next immersion, beginning September 12th.

If something in you is curious, I’d love to tell you more. Registering your interest closes this Thursday!

Comment “INNER JOURNEY” below and I’ll send you the details. 🤍

#somatics #somatichealing #embodimentpractice #nervousystemregulation #nervoussystemhealing by @pipelysium

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2 months ago

There’s a kind of beauty that has nothing to do with how you look.

It’s in the way you move through the world when you’re no longer trying to be anything for anyone else.

When you can feel yourself again.

When your body isn’t just something to look at, improve or control.. but somewhere you actually live.

That’s the difference between looking good and feeling alive.

And perhaps that’s what so many of us have been searching for without realising it.

Not a new version of ourselves.

Just a deeper relationship with the one already here.

The Inner Journey is coming soon… an intimate immersion for 12 women who are ready to come back to themselves.

Pre-register by commenting IMMERSION 🤍

#somatics #somatichealing #womensupportingwomen #movementismedicine #embodiment by @pipelysium

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2 months ago

There’s a version of sensuality that has nothing to do with being desirable.

It’s what happens when you feel safe enough to come back into your body.

You stop performing.
You stop holding everything so tightly.
And slowly, you begin to feel again.

Your movement changes.
Your voice changes.

Not because you’re becoming someone new.. but because you’re finally returning to yourself.

That, to me, is the real power of sensuality.

And it’s the heart of The Inner Journey.. an intimate immersion for 12 women ready to reconnect with their body, emotions and sense of self.

I’ll be sharing the details soon.
If you’d like to be the first to know, comment IMMERSION below and I’ll add you to the list. 🤍 by @pipelysium

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2 months ago

There’s so much we learn to be as women.

The good girl.
The easy girl.
The agreeable girl.
The girl who doesn’t ask for too much.
The girl who keeps everything together.

And somewhere along the way, we can lose touch with the woman underneath it all.

Not because there’s anything wrong with who you’ve become.. but because perhaps there are parts of you that have been waiting to be felt, expressed and remembered.

Your body often knows before your mind does.

The Inner Journey is an invitation to come back to that place… through movement, emotion, expression and deeper connection with yourself.

✨ 12 women. One intimate journey.

The Inner Journey is opening soon.

Comment IMMERSION and I’ll send you the pre-registration invitation 🤍

#somatics #somatichealing #embodimentpractice #womensupportwomen #movementismedicine by @pipelysium

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2 months ago