Founder of the Somatic EnneagramTM
Marion Gilbert, RPT
Uncover and soften the protective defense patterns of your Enneagram type that are wired into your nervous system — and create new neural pathways through somatic practices that empower your true nature to rise and shine with clarity, confidence, and a deep sense of inner peace.
What if your body held the map to feeling safe, whole, and authentically you?
What if the chronic stress, anxiety, or emotional blocks holding you back weren’t personality flaws — but signals from your body, illuminating the path toward the most empowered version of yourself ...
... free, confident, full of possibility and aliveness, and in total ownership of your purpose, passions, and gifts.
Registered physical therapist Marion Gilbert says the Somatic EnneagramTM, an embodied experience of the ancient personality tool and its nine types, can guide you in identifying the defense patterns that have conditioned your true nature and created inner duality.
This is essentially the path to self-remembering — that is, reintegrating all aspects of who you are into wholeness.
Marion teaches that 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.
Understanding the nine different neuropathways can be a powerful tool in self-remembering. We tend to organize ourselves in ways to avoid the pain in our lives, or enter a self-sabotaging loop of trying to “fix” or “improve” ourselves — but exploring these neuropathways can help us realize that what we’re actually seeking are the parts of us that we left behind.
This isn’t just another Enneagram course — it’s an invitation to finally feel at home in yourself.
In this somatic journey through your neuropathways, you’ll meet and embrace your essential nature — not by acquiring anything new, but by reestablishing what has been lost, so you can move through life with more ease, confidence, and self-acceptance.
Marion is a seasoned physical therapist with extensive training in Craniosacral Therapy, SomatoEmotional Release®, and Trauma Resolution, and has been a leading expert in the intersection of somatics and the Enneagram professionally since 2003 to help others dissolve their blocks and realize their full potential.
She teaches that each Enneagram type falls into one of the Three Centers of Intelligence — head, heart, and body — which can only work together to create an aligned and coherent experience of Self through direct engagement with the body’s felt sense...
... which, in turn, helps us pinpoint where we’re guarding ourselves on the inside. Once we know this, we can begin to release the unconscious habits that are holding us back from being our most authentic selves.
If you’ve felt stuck in cycles of self-doubt, weighed down by unresolved tension in your mind and body — or if your full potential or purpose seem to be just out of your reach — Marion will demonstrate how everything you’ve been searching for is already within you, waiting to be remembered.
During this empowering course, you’ll:
- Discover the Somatic EnneagramTM as a potent tool for cultivating a lived experience of wholeness
- Explore the somatic lens of perception and the Three Centers of Intelligence — head, heart, and body — and the missing piece to a sustained experience of Self
- Deepen your understanding of the human condition — moving from self-forgetting to self-remembering
- Observe live representations of all Enneagram types as they move through the three centers with facilitation of the somatic inquiry method
- Examine how your human nature becomes conditioned and splits into two opposing forces
- Explore how to consciously experience the Law of Three energetically to rewire your neuropathways and interrupt the automatic placement of attention according to the fixated beliefs you hold
- Understand how and why a part of you is always defending another part of you
- Gain an understanding of how to approach and apply the somatic awareness method to your defense system
- Contemplate transformation versus change — distinguish between temporary change and transformation through radical inclusion
- Learn to turn toward, and stay present with, what you don’t want to feel
Join us to experience how the Somatic Enneagram can take you beyond your conditioned, habitual neuropathway responses into greater self-awareness, self-compassion, and wholeness as Marion guides you in practices to reconcile your inner divides.
You’ll feel into where the negative charges are being held within you by your Enneagram type and discover what’s hidden behind your defenses to soften your type structure.
You’ll also learn how to create new neural pathways using powerful somatic practices that facilitate true and lasting transformation by interrupting the habitual organization of conditioned patterns.
What You’ll Discover in These 7 Weeks
In this 7-week transformational course, Marion will guide you through the fundamental skills and competencies you’ll need to create new neural pathways of wholeness using the Somatic Enneagram.
Join the Livestream — or Stream Later to Watch at Your Convenience
You’ll connect with Marion and experience her teachings through livestreaming video via any connected device. This connection is easy to use and will enhance the impact of Marion’s transmissions. Can’t make it live? After each class, you can stream the video and audio recordings to enjoy anytime and anywhere at your convenience.
Weekly Sessions are on Tuesdays at 1:00pm Pacific
This course will feature LIVE teachings, interactive sessions, experiential practices, and Q&A with Marion. Each session will build harmoniously upon the previous ones, so you’ll develop a complete holistic understanding of the practices, tools, and principles you’ll need to soften your defense patterns and unlock your full potential using the Somatic Enneagram.
Module 1: Use the Somatic Lens of Perception to Uncover the Obstacles to Embodying Your Essential Nature (March 18)
You’l explore the Somatic Enneagram — its foundational principles for accessing and working with your automatic survival strategies.
Marion will guide the class to illuminate the hidden, automatic defense system that creates the nine energetic underpinnings of our personality patterns…
… and explain how we cannot work with powerful dynamic impulses generated unconsciously and automatically.
You’ll also explore the somatic lens of perception as an entry point of self-discovery based on your type — and how to work with the necessary organization for your survival and your psychological beliefs.
In this session, you’ll:
- Discover the foundational principles of the Somatic Enneagram
- Explore the somatic lens of perception and the 3 Centers of Intelligence: head, heart, and body
- Learn to ground and orient yourself — and discover your inner landscape
- Understand how a part of you is always defending itself against another part of you
- Learn about the neuroscience involved as well as the defensive and nourishing reflexes that are in service to your survival
- Explore how your human nature becomes conditioned and splits into 2 opposing forces
- Move into smaller breakout groups to delve into how these preferred reflexes operate
Module 2: Explore Conditioned & Unconditioned Reality to Identify & Approach Defense Patterns at Their Root (March 25)
What if we could observe how our three centers organize and react to the reality around us? You can, by exploring how your centers store and inform these experiences and filter reality based on satisfactory survival in nine different ways.
Marion will share the principles of conditioned behavior along with nine different strategies for creating behavioral patterns…
… and how you can begin observing and witnessing your inner landscape and approaching the patterns at the root of where they begin.
You’ll explore what’s necessary to balance and include the two opposing aspects and return to a sense of wellbeing, freedom, and choice in where and how you’re placing your attention.
You’ll also delve into what’s hidden behind your defenses, how to access and stay present to the driving force of the defensive patterns, and when to activate and when to relax these patterns.
In this session, you’ll:
- Explore unconditioned versus conditioned reality via 9 different pathways
- Learn about the Law of Three and how to access the “missing” third force
- Discover the best-kept secret hidden in plain sight — avoidance as the convertible energy
- Contemplate transformation versus change — distinguish between temporary change and transformation through radical inclusion
- Learn to turn toward and stay present with what you don’t want to feel
- Be guided in a somatic awareness practice that reveals the missing method in how to stay present as you are
Module 3: Relax Type Structure & Witness Transformation With Three Centers Awareness (April 1)
The point is to reestablish what has been lost, not to acquire anything new. This is the purpose of development — the power of changing oneself lies not in the mind, but in the body and the feeling.
— Gurdjieff, Views from the Real World
This week, you’ll explore self-remembering as a path to rediscovering what is already fully available and is only available as a three-centered knowing, feeling, and sensing reality — as it actually is.
You’ll identify and do inner work with the deepest held contractions in the body as they act as inner disturbers that drive your attention outward.
In this session, you’ll:
- Gain an understanding of how to approach and apply the somatic awareness method with the defense system
- Be introduced to and develop inner observer attention by turning attention inward and becoming 100% responsible for your life experience
- Explore conscious placement of attention versus unconscious automatic placement of attention
- Discover the aptitude and obstacles to staying in the conscious placement of inner observer attention in 9 different ways
Module 4: Begin Creating New Neural Pathways by Working With Deeply Held Fixated Beliefs in the Mental or Head Center (April 8)
Through didactic, inner observer practice, somatic awareness, and the somatic inquiry panel facilitation, you’ll explore how the mental fixation (belief) and the holy idea in your mind can reconcile the inner split.
This week, explore, play, and seek contact with the two opposing forces — the affirming and denying force. The merging of these forces allows the Third Force to emerge through facilitated somatic inquiry work. See how this happens by observing a panel with Type 5, The Observer… Type 6, The Loyal Skeptic… and Type 7, The Epicure.
Ultimately, you’ll learn how true and lasting transformation creates new neuropathways and interrupts the habitual organization of the conditioned patterns that filter your perceived reality.
In this session, you’ll:
- Deepen your understanding of the human condition — moving from self-forgetting to self-remembering
- Explore how to consciously experience the Law of Three energetically to rewire the neuropathways and interrupt the automatic placement of attention according to the fixated beliefs you hold
- Observe live representations of Type 5, 6, and 7 Mental or Head Center on a panel with facilitation of the somatic inquiry method
- Give the panel feedback and explore questions of what arose in participants during the panel
Module 5: Interrupt Conditioned Patterns by Working With Deeply Held Hurt Feelings in the Heart Center (April 15)
Through didactic, inner observer practice, somatic awareness, and the somatic inquiry panel facilitation, you’ll explore how the vice or passion and virtue in our hearts can reconcile the inner split.
This week, explore, play, and seek contact with the two opposing forces — the affirming and denying force. The merging of these forces allows the Third Force to emerge through facilitated somatic inquiry work. See how this happens by observing a panel with Type 2, The Giver… Type 3, The Performer… and Type 4, The Romantic.
Ultimately, you’ll learn how true and lasting transformation creates new neuropathways and interrupts the habitual organization of the conditioned patterns that filter your perceived reality.
In this session, you’ll:
- Deepen your understanding of the human condition — moving from self-forgetting to self-remembering
- Explore how to consciously experience the Law of Three energetically to rewire the neuropathways and interrupt the automatic placement of attention according to the fixated beliefs you hold
- Observe live representations of Type 2, 3, and 4 Emotional or Heart Center on a panel with facilitation of the somatic inquiry method
- Give the panel feedback and explore questions of what arose in participants during the panel
Module 6: Working With the Deeply Held Felt Sense Contractions in the Instinctual or Body Center (April 22)
Through didactic, inner observer practice, somatic awareness, and the somatic inquiry panel facilitation, you’ll explore how the defensive and nourishing reflexes in the belly can reconcile the inner split.
This week, explore, play, and seek contact with the two opposing forces — the affirming and denying force. The merging of these forces allows the Third Force to emerge through facilitated somatic inquiry work. See how this happens by observing a panel with Type 8, The Protector… Type 9, The Mediator… and Type 1, The Perfectionist.
Ultimately, you’ll learn how true and lasting transformation creates new neuropathways and interrupts the habitual organization of the conditioned patterns that filter your perceived reality.
In this session, you’ll:
- Deepen your understanding of the human condition — moving from self-forgetting to self-remembering
- Explore how to consciously experience the Law of Three energetically to rewire the neuropathways and interrupt the automatic placement of attention according to the fixated beliefs you hold
- Observe live representations of Type 8, 9, and 1 Instinctual or Body Center on a panel with facilitation of the somatic inquiry method
- Give the panel feedback and explore questions of what arose in participants during the panel
Module 7: Practices for Reinforcing Your Return to Self-Remembering & What You Are Created to Be — Without Trying to Change It (April 29)
Fully realizing a sustained inner experience of your essential nature will set you free — and allow you to be in this world with a free choice in how and where you place your attention.
The deep peace and release from automatic and habitual placement of attention can now be recognized and interrupted with a deep understanding of the greater reality in an unconditioned mind, heart, and body.
We will explore the journey, the commitments, and the capacity to practice conscious awareness of the identification with your conditioned type patterns based on the need to survive…
… those patterns that are carried forward through memory, thinking, imagination, and planning in your conceptual mind, defended heart, and survival strategies in your body.
Explore and reinforce the practices each pattern can choose to implement to disidentify with the patterns, interrupt them when they are not congruent with the present moment, and freely choose to place conscious attention on your essence.
In this session, you’ll:
- Receive a recap on how to reinforce the 9 different pathways toward wholeness and essence
- Take with you guidelines for the steps to turn your attention consciously to what you don’t want to feel and the obstacles
- Join classmates in breakout groups per center or type for recognition of a shared understanding of how the mental, emotional, and instinctual conditioned perceptions created a dualist view of the life we live
- Share, if compelled, deeper insights and questions with the class
The The 9 Neuropathways of Your Enneagram Type Bonus Offering
In addition to Marion’s transformative 7-week online course, you’ll receive this special bonus offering to complement the course and take your understanding and practice to an even deeper level.
Cultivate Grounded Presence
Audio Meditation by Marion Gilbert to Engage With the Inner Observer
This 44-minute guided meditation by Marion Gilbert invites you to cultivate grounded presence through the practice of inner observation. By focusing on the breath and the subtle rhythm of inhalation, exhalation, and pause, the meditation helps you attune to the three creation forces — affirming, denying, and reconciling — which govern your experience of life. As you turn inward, the incessant chatter of the mind quiets, emotions settle, and physical tension recedes, allowing you to connect to a deeper sense of awareness and belonging. This practice opens you to a greater reality beyond habitual thought, helping you experience the mystery and radiance of life’s unfolding.
The Hidden Obstacles to Transformation in Human Development
Video Interview from the Enneagram Global Summit with Marion Gilbert
The missing piece of the Enneagram Work — 9 Different Aspects of Reality — has become hidden in each Enneagram-type structure. In this video, Marion Gilbert discusses with Jessica Dibb how the type structure lies beneath and fuels the type personality behavior. The defense system is an important and necessary aspect of living in a horizontal world. And that is where the original split began. Our essence is giving us the lived experience of our spiritual nature and self-remembering.
Inner Observer Guided Meditation
Audio Meditation by Marion Gilbert to “Receive Knowing”
In this guided meditation, Marion Gilbert leads you through the practice of cultivating the Inner Observer, a heightened state of awareness that allows for "received knowing" beyond intellectual knowledge. By relaxing the mind and disengaging from the habitual lenses of perception — thoughts, emotions, and sensations — you begin disidentifying with automatic survival reactions and enter a deeper, more grounded state of presence. This practice helps you objectively observe your experience and attune to subtle states of being, opening the door to spiritual awareness and intuitive insight. As the noise of ordinary consciousness recedes, you connect with a profound sense of presence and spiritual nature, fostering a deeper connection to life itself.
Resilience in Challenging Times: Understanding the Somatic Lens of the Enneagram
Video Interview with Marion Gilbert
Resilience is a state of optimal wellbeing with the capacity to adapt, learn, heal, and recover from challenging and often overwhelming situations. In nine different ways, we have aptitudes and obstacles to access resilience. In this session from the Enneagram Global Summit, we learn how to stay present in challenging times and be receptive to all aspects of the world we live in and the people in it. We discover how to turn our attention to our reactivity, and use somatic intelligence to relax it at the root of its arising.
What People Are Saying About Marion Gilbert, RPT…
My experience working with the Somatic Enneagram has been a rare and revelatory period in my life. As a Type 5 with a long history of retreating into the mind, learning to trust the wisdom and intelligence in my own body has been crucial for my inner growth. The simple practice of shifting my attention has allowed me to access a subtle intelligence in all three centers and has opened countless possibilities for genuine integration.
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’ve been working with Marion Gilbert and the Enneagram since 2015, both in one-on-ones and in her weekly group. Although she easily identified my type, she allowed me to come to it on my own. Marion is skilled at allowing a client to come to answers rather than providing them. With her understanding of the Somatic Enneagram wisdom and her innate ability to ask questions, she has helped me to change many damaging lifelong habits. Through working with her, I have been able to understand how my patterns previously overran my life, as well as recognize and capitalize on my strengths. I truly appreciate how non-judgmental her approach feels as a client. Finally, I learned the important skill of recognizing how feelings come up in my body prior to reacting to them outwardly. This has helped me calm my nervous system and become a more relaxed person in every area of my life!
Marion Gilbert is brilliant at this work. The self-discovery that takes place in one of her sessions is remarkable for penetrating our most fundamental wounds and allowing us to explore and transform them into conduits for reconciliation and wholeness. Since studying the Somatic Enneagram with Marion, I am more able to remain in my body and heart, instead of my head, and have found a wellspring of emotional healing there.
Join the Global Community
The 9 Neuropathways of Your Enneagram Type offers some of the most transformational online teachings available, within a thriving global community of learning and practice.
Join fellow students and practitioners to support and inspire each other as you integrate the teachings and practices Marion Gilbert, RPT will share in this powerful program.
You’ll join an international community on the leading edge of manifesting a world grounded in the principles of cooperation, harmony, and reverence for all of life.
Here’s What You’ll Receive
Seven 90-Minute Class Sessions With Marion Gilbert, RPT
Experience a unique opportunity to be mentored by and learn from Marion Gilbert, RPT — owner of Spring Physical Therapy and founder of The Somatic Enneagram — from the comfort of your own home. Each class session includes a livestreaming video option and will guide you to self-remembering and a felt experience of wholeness. Course sessions are on Tuesdays at 1:00pm Pacific.
Seven Video Recordings of Class Sessions
After each class, the video will be available for you to stream in a high-quality format. You’ll never have to worry about missing a session, and you can watch anytime and anywhere at your convenience.
Seven Audio Recordings of Class Sessions
After each class, the audio will be available for you to stream. You’ll never have to worry about missing a session, and you can listen anytime and anywhere at your convenience.
Seven Transcripts of Class Sessions
You’ll also receive the entire class transcription after each session is completed. You can then review, print, and highlight the most important insights and practices you were given.
Seven 30-Minute Interactive Group Practice Sessions
With live class attendance, there will be a 30-minute optional interactive practice session directly following each class. You’ll be placed in an intimate group with several other participants on the Zoom call to interact, share, and do additional practices to help you further integrate the weekly lessons. Practice sessions are not recorded for playback; if you’re unable to attend the live sessions, the Facebook online community group allows you to connect with each other and find alternative times to interact.
Interactive Exercises and Questions for Each Lesson
Between class sessions, you’ll have the option of completing related exercises, practicing new tools, and answering questions to accelerate your learning and integrate each week’s lesson.
Online Community
Our exclusive Facebook online community is the perfect place to continue your discovery process after each class. Here, you can continue the discussion about your course materials and interact with your fellow students to take your exploration to an even deeper level.
An Unprecedented Opportunity to Join the Online Course, The 9 Neuropathways of Your Enneagram Type
We feel honored that Marion Gilbert has chosen to partner with The Shift Network to offer this exclusive LIVE online course. This is a unique opportunity to interact directly with the founder of The Somatic EnneagramTM whose powerful insights and pioneering work are helping us heal and awaken ourselves and our world.
If you’re serious about learning how the Somatic Enneagram can help you dissolve the subconscious blocks that have been holding you back in life, then you owe it to yourself, your loved ones, and our world to take this one-of-a-kind program.
If you’re ready to take the next step in your own evolution, click the register button below to reserve your space now.
Your Satisfaction Is 100% Guaranteed!
Your satisfaction is 100% guaranteed! If you don’t absolutely LOVE The 9 Neuropathways of Your Enneagram Type — or don’t feel that it meets your needs — please submit your refund request form on or before April 1, 2025 and we’ll happily issue qualifying customers a refund.
More Praise for 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.
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.
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