Marion Gilbert – The Somatic Enneagram

Do you feel stuck in your relationships, repeating the same patterns that never seem to resolve?

Maybe you feel like you understand your behavioral patterns cognitively, but fall short in changing them, and feel drained from working hard to do so?

The answer to real, lasting change lies in your body.

A lifetime of defensive habits builds default behavioral patterns in your body, so that when you understand your personality type ONLY intellectually, it can still be painfully hard to change.

When we see the body as the key gateway to opening to our potential and releasing our traumas, things can shift far faster.

You can relax your automatic responses, learn to feel and sense your deeper truth, and consciously choose not to activate survival responses that are no longer needed in your life…

The Enneagram, a powerful psycho-spiritual framework, helps you illuminate where you are within nine primary personality types. Knowing your Enneagram type helps explain how you interpret the world, manage emotions, and react to different life situations, whether happy or stressful.

But that’s not enough. When you add somatic awareness to your Enneagram study, you gain insight into how you filter and perceive reality — and receive it in your tissues — enabling you to connect with the unconscious part of your brain and empowering you to consciously respond instead of being triggered.

According to Marion Gilbert, RPT, a physical therapist and developer of the Somatic Enneagram, while the Enneagram is about defining your behaviors, the Somatic Enneagram is about learning what drives those behaviors.

For many, it’s the missing piece to their Enneagram work, providing a next-level understanding of how you react in your body to psychological stressors.

In this brand-new course with Marion, you’ll discover how you can calm your default reactions by tuning in to your body’s unique reactions to psychological stressors — and life in general.

Marion will walk you through how to identify where you feel mental and emotional stressors somatically in three primary centers: your body center, head center, and heart center.

If you already work with the Enneagram in your private or professional life, the somatic approach will deepen your understanding of how your body responds to different stressors within your Enneagram type pattern, enabling you to ultimately change your default behaviors.

While most of the time people operate primarily from their brain/mental center, or their heart/emotional center, the Somatic Enneagram allows you to connect with and embody your physical senses for more effective integration of your senses with your emotions and thoughts.

By understanding your body’s wisdom in conjunction with your personality type, you can experience a more open mind, a less defensive heart, and a more vital and resilient body with a greater sense of grounded presence.

The Somatic Enneagram ultimately helps you integrate and embody wisdom beyond the intellectual, allowing you to create real transformation in how you react to and engage with others in your world —increasing your capacity for deeper spiritual experiences.

In this 7-week transformational intensive, Marion will guide you through the fundamental skills and competencies you’ll need to successfully relax your default behavioral patterns to experience a more grounded presence, and a more open mind and heart.