Marion Gilbert, RPT
Unlock deeper self-awareness and inner peace by understanding how your Enneagram type shapes the protective patterns in your body’s energy and neural pathways — and how dissolving these defenses enables you to access your authentic self and cultivate greater clarity, confidence, and self-compassion.
What if the path to feeling safe, whole, and authentically you isn’t about changing or acquiring anything new — but reintegrating the parts of yourself that you’ve lost?
Physical therapist and Somatic EnneagramTM creator Marion Gilbert affirms that somatically reclaiming the parts of ourselves that we’ve hidden away or subconsciously buried out of fear is the missing piece of embodied wholeness...
... and that reclaiming these parts can give us a deeply felt experience of ourselves as free, confident, alive, and full of possibility... and in complete ownership of our purpose, passions, and gifts.
Marion teaches there are nine different neuropathways in which we organize ourselves to avoid the pain of life, a process which inadvertently causes us to lose touch with our true selves. The body carries these as chronic tensions that create patterns of defending and protecting — ultimately holding back our life force and connection to spirit.
Engaging with the Enneagram, its nine personality types, and the body’s three energy centers (head, heart, and belly) in a visceral way empowers us to illuminate these defense mechanisms and soften them...
... allowing our true selves to feel safe to shine through and bless every aspect of our lives —from our health and relationships to our work and greater life contribution.
During this free online event with Marion, you’ll explore how your Enneagram type is not just a tool for understanding your personality, but an energetic pattern that lives within your body and carries potent clues to your path for lasting wellbeing, happiness, and fulfillment.
Marion will share how somatic practices like identifying your felt sense, or strongest bodily sensation, can help you hone in on where you’re guarding yourself on the inside — and access the gateway to your essential nature.
Marion, who has extensive training in craniosacral therapy, trauma resolution, and Somato-Emotional Release, has been actively using the Enneagram professionally since 2003 to help others dissolve their blocks and realize their full potential.
She teaches that the architecture of your Enneagram type — your neuropathways — are mapped out in your body and influence how you respond to life’s challenges.
Understanding these embodied patterns can help you release unconscious habits that hold you back from being your most authentic, present self.
During this event, you can experience how the Somatic Enneagram can take you beyond your conditioned, habitual neuropathway response into greater self-awareness, self-compassion, and wholeness as Marion guides you in an inner practice to engage the felt sense, which is a bridge to understanding the negative charges that you’re holding within you.
You can then experience for yourself that being at peace with your patterns as part of your greater wholeness can help you relieve suffering and allow your life force to flow freely.
During the hour, you’ll also experience a somatic practice using the inner observer’s three levels of attention — a scientifically proven method to bring you into present-moment awareness — by gently illuminating the neuropathway of your Enneagram type through a felt sense in your body.
You can then begin unraveling the habitual patterns rooted in these pathways, leading to a profound and immediate shift toward a sense of calm, clarity, and wholeness.
If you’ve felt stuck in cycles of self-doubt, weighed down by unresolved tension in your mind and body, or your full potential or purpose seem to be just out of reach, this event with Marion will help you see that everything you’ve been searching for is already within you, waiting to be revealed.
In this free online event, you’ll:
- Discover how the Somatic Enneagram and its focus on the body energy center may be “the missing piece” in your deeper spiritual work and understanding, or as Gurdjieff said, “to reestablish what has been lost, not to acquire anything new”
- Be guided in an inner practice to begin witnessing and softening your primary defense mechanism — as revealed through your Enneagram type
- Explore somatic intelligence as a pathway for liberating the life force that connects you with your true self
- Learn how to recognize and work with the obstacles to your spiritual nature of self-remembering
- Embrace radical inclusion and the understanding that all and everything has been created whole
- Learn how outer peace begins with the reconciliation of your core wound or inner conflict
Marion believes that to relieve suffering one must first understand what creates it. While pain is an inevitable aspect of our human lives, resistance to its deeper message and reason creates unnecessary suffering.
This event is an invitation to begin freeing yourself of buried pain and trauma using your body and the Somatic Enneagram as your map...
... and step into a more empowered version of yourself that embraces all that you are as a blessing on the path to wholeness.
In joining us, you’ll also be among the first to learn about Marion’s new 7-week live video course on the Somatic Enneagram, a deeply enriching journey to reconcile all of the aspects of who you are into a radiant, vibrant, confident expression of your authentic self.
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Join this FREE video event with Marion Gilbert to learn how the Somatic Enneagram can help you illuminate and soften unhelpful defense mechanisms — allowing your true self to shine through and bless every aspect of your path to wholeness.
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What People Are Saying About Marion Gilbert, RPT...
Learning skillful somatic practices and experiencing individual Somatic Enneagram type work with Marion is humbling, tantalizing, delicious, and mind-blowing. The discovery of my body’s unique and precise intelligence, thanks to inward realization and attention, has allowed me to trust and then follow what my body senses, feels, and intuits — and how it informs me as I awaken with renewed trust, open to continuing somatic work, gratefully receiving fresh opportunities to grow and develop in my precious life today. Thanks to Marion, I am learning to pay attention, breathe, and shift attention, and follow how my body is energetically moving me. My life is dynamic, as is the Somatic Enneagram with Marion Gilbert.
As a longtime student of the Enneagram, I jumped at the opportunity to bring my whole being to the study. The experiential way Marion integrates the body into the Enneagram practice more fully completes the picture for me. Learning to listen and respect my body’s communication has been key to more fully embodying my return to my whole self... an ever-evolving process.
I have studied the Enneagram on and off for 20 years. Somatic Enneagram has brought to me a greater understanding of type structures with a felt sense awareness of freedom that comes with being embodied. I have gained a capacity for greater holding of core wounds and trauma.
I first met Marion Gilbert while I was teaching in the Netherlands. She joined the core faculty of Enneagram Studies in the Narrative Tradition in 2007 and has become a powerful teacher over the years. Marion’s deep understanding and skill in working with the body (somatics) is revolutionizing the Enneagram work and integrates the psychological and spiritual aspects of the system. She brings a compelling energy and expertise to the Enneagram based upon her vast experience in somatic therapy. I recommend her highly, without reservation of any kind.
Adjunct clinical professor emeritus of Stanford University Medical School and founding board member of the International Enneagram Association
I have rarely heard such skilled interventions, particularly in the area of somatic relaxation for long-standing personality patterns. I currently co-teach several programs a year with Marion and typically come away enriched by her wealth of Enneagram understanding, clarity of delivery, and kindness of attention to students.
Enneagram thought leader and founding board member of the International Enneagram Association
About Marion Gilbert, RPT
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Marion Gilbert, RPT, who has been practicing physical therapy since 1978, is the owner of a well-established physical therapy practice and movement studio in Grass Valley, California. She has extensive training in craniosacral therapy, trauma resolution, and SomatoEmotional Release®. She has been actively using the Enneagram professionally and personally since 2003.
Marion emphasizes the role of the somatic lens of perception in facilitation of personal and spiritual transformation with the Enneagram. Her specific interest is in developing somatic awareness for reconciling 3-centered awareness, providing a platform for meditation, contemplation, and awakening practices.
Marion, who developed the Somatic EnneagramTM Certification Training, teaches locally, nationally, and internationally. She is an adjunct faculty member of The Narrative Enneagram and an advisory board member of the Enneagram Prison Project.
