Somatic Awareness
& the Enneagram

with Marion Gilbert, Sandra Orndorff
MEETING DATE
1st Tuesday of each month
TIME
11:00 AM ET
LOCATION
Zoom - Non-Recorded
FEES
Members FREE
Non-Members $7
Where Enneagram Wisdom Meets the Intelligence and Felt Sense of the Body

About This Group

This Subject Matter Expert (SME) group explores the intersection of somatic awareness and the Enneagram, connecting embodied experience with traditional Enneagram teachings. Designed for spiritual directors, coaches, therapists, and Enneagram practitioners, the group emphasizes sensing and experiencing patterns of fixation, regulation, and integration through the body. Rather than learning somatics conceptually, participants engage directly with sensation and emotion to deepen self-understanding and relational presence. This collaborative, reflective space supports embodied insight that naturally enhances attunement with clients, loved ones, and communities.

What You’ll Experience

Each 75-minute session begins with a brief somatic practice (5–10 minutes) designed to help you settle into the body and engage the head, heart, and body centers. From there, the group explores how somatic experience appears within specific Enneagram patterns. Through guided topics and participant questions, sessions ground traditional Enneagram teachings in lived, embodied experience—balancing structure and spaciousness to support deep insight and meaningful dialogue.
"The somatic approach offers a path to transcending the repeating enneagram patterns, and a new way of remembering emerges of who and what we were created to be.”
— Marion Gilbert

What You'll Gain

Embodied Understanding
Connect the wisdom of the body with traditional Enneagram teachings for deeper self-awareness and integration.
Somatic Clarity
Learn what somatic concepts actually mean through lived experience, not abstraction.
Nervous System Support
Experience practices that foster regulation, safety, and a deep exhale.
Collective Learning
Learn from how others experience somatic awareness across different Enneagram patterns.
Relational Application
Strengthen your ability to support clients, loved ones, and communities through embodied attunement.

Who Should Join!

Enneagram coaches
seeking to integrate somatic awareness with head, heart, and body intelligence.
Practitioners or enthusiasts
wanting to explore how somatic patterns influence integration and disintegration.
Helping professionals
seeking a safe, welcoming community that supports nervous system regulation.
Individuals curious
about the body’s intuitive guidance and its connection to Enneagram wisdom.
Those wanting to learn from facilitators
lived experience working somatically with Enneagram-informed clients.

Register for the next session today! If you are a paying member, please register here

ECG Members: FREE
Non-Members: $7

What Our Members Are Saying

"Participating in the Somatic Enneagram SME is enriching and supportive. Marion Gilbert and Sandra Orndorff create a grounded, well-held space that supports presence and connection. Thru their embodied facilitation, the sessions invite meaningful insights and the integration of somatic intelligence alongside Enneagram wisdom for both personal reflection and professional application. "
- Brenda Brown,PCC IEA Accredited Professional

Meet Your Facilitators

Marion Gilbert
Physical Therapist, Enneagram Teacher

Marion Gilbert, RPT, has been practicing physical therapy for more than 40 years. She is the owner and president of Spring Hill Physical Therapy PC and Stillpoint Studios in Grass Valley, CA. She received her degree from Arnhemse Opleiding voor Fysiotherapy in her home country of Holland in 1978. Her primary focus is on manual therapy and trauma resolution therapy, which she combines with acupressure, craniosacral therapy, myofascial release, Somato-Emotional Release, breathing and relaxation techniques.

Marion has applied the Enneagram personally and professionally since 2003. She is a Certified Narrative Enneagram Teacher and Adjunct Faculty member of The Narrative Enneagram (TNE), and teaches Enneagram classes to a global audience online, in Grass Valley and Nevada City, and throughout the Yuba River Enneagram Community. Her emphasis is on integrating her vast somatic experience as an avenue of personal transformation and for developing Three-centered Awareness as a platform for spiritual awakening.

Sandra Orndorff
Enneagram Coach, Certified Quantum Healer

Sandra is a visionary problem solver and intuitive strategist who integrates the wisdom of the Enneagram with a deep understanding of the physical and subtle body. Her work focuses on identifying and resolving the underlying energetic, neurological, and relational patterns that shape behavior and decision-making, creating conditions for sustainable change.With a background in management consulting, Sandra brings a systems-level perspective to her work, recognizing how challenges emerge from interconnected dynamics rather than isolated issues.

Clients rave after working with Sandra – here are just a few examples of what they have said: “I felt peace like I have never felt,” “I tried to make myself anxious and I could not,” “My 16 year old daughter went from isolated and feeling bullied to having girls connect with her at school because of her new found confidence.”

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Compliance/Disclaimer

This group provides a confidential, peer-to-peer environment for reflective practice and professional growth. It is designed for collaboration and shared insight—not as a substitute for therapy, clinical supervision, or certification.

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