Embodied Enneagram Retreat

October 20-22, 2006
Nevada City, CA
Three-day retreat with Peter O'Hanrahan and Marion Gilbert
Sponsored by the Yuba River Enneagram Community

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This workshop provides an opportunity to go deeply into work with the three centers by combining mindfulness with a somatic, or body-based approach to healing and relationship. We will use the breath to develop sensory awareness. Relaxing and opening the body will uncover resistance and enable us to engage sensations, feelings, thoughts and belief systems.

Through presentation, discussion and ample time for experiential work, we will explore personality type in all three centers - mental, emotional and instinctual - and discuss approaches to healing, trauma resolution and personal development.

Topics include:
. Psychological and somatic defenses for each personality type
. Healing methods and trauma resolution in combinati
on with the Enneagram
. The influence of body type and innate temperament
. Wilhelm Reich's seven segments of body armor
. The importance of internal and external "holding environments"

You will learn:
. Self-help techniques for working with the body, the breath and the emotions
. How to combine mindfulness practice with embodied presence
. Effective ways to work with your own character structure and defenses
. How the Enneagram and somatic work combined can support your relationships and professional practice

Experiential exercises will include:
. Simple breathing and stretching exercises to contact somatic awareness
. Developing skills to make safe and supportive contact through touch
. Experiencing the nine types through sensory awareness and movement
. Guided breathing sessions
. Integrating experience through three centers practice

Cost: $375 (includes meals and camping fees. Other lodging options are available nearby for additional cost.)

To register or for more information: Marion Gilbert at Stillpoint Studios,
530-274-2320.