THE INWARD TURN RETREAT | Deepening Our Inner Work
What: Inner Practices Retreat with Marion Gilbert
When: Annually | See below for 2025 Locations and Dates
Eligibility: Everyone welcome, Beginning and Advanced Inward Turns offered
Upcoming Dates:
- JULY 2025: INWARD TURN (Beginner): JUL 20–23 2025 in Minneapolis, MN USA | REGISTER TODAY >>
- NOVEMBER 2025: INWARD TURN (Beginner): NOV 15–18 2025 in DENMARK | REGISTER TODAY >> | Accommodations for the NOV Retreat to be booked directly by registrant: Rødvig Kro og Badehotel: www.roedvigkro.dk
In the INWARD TURN Retreats, we practice together to loosen the grip of our type structure and learn to become more receptive to reality — reality as it actually is.
As you may have experienced, after we know our Enneagram type, we have learned that our personality is designed with certain gifts, but it also limits our lens of perception. Our Enneagram type tends to filter our reality and narrows our view through a habitual placement of attention.
Practicing with our Inner Observer, we can follow our placement of attention, learn to ground and orient ourselves, while learning how a more conscious and precise placement of attention will give us the freedom to actually witness and experience our not-on-automatic “essential selves.”
Learn to use our mental, emotional, and somatic lenses of perception for three-centers integration and discern between ordinary and subtle perception.
In order to evolve, we need to be guided into a conscious descent in order to understand how we developed and formed our type structure. This is necessary before we can awaken to our essential selves, and ascend.
The body holds crucial, often untapped information about how we respond to stress, form patterns of behavior, and experience life. Building on Peter Levine’s trauma resolution principles, the Somatic Enneagram approach—developed by renowned Enneagram teacher and physical therapist Marion Gilbert—offers a profound insight into how our neuropathways guide the way we react and respond, forming the physical, foundational structure of our Enneagram type.
Our Enneagram type is a highly organized and intelligent system, and we need it for our protection and survival when danger looms. But our nervous system likes repetition as to what makes it feel safe, so our type creates a habitual response that leads to automatic reactivity, even when there is no danger.
Somatic Enneagram practice involves consciously feeling, sensing, and engaging with the sensate signals our body sends us. This is not just an intellectual exercise but an embodied process of tuning into the deepest parts of our self. By becoming awake to the body’s sensations and signals, we can begin to befriend and understand what is happening within us. We can learn how to reduce automatic reactivity, loosen the grip of our personality type, and open ourselves to new, expansive ways of experiencing life with the freedom to choose our response.
The Somatic Enneagram approach is a powerful, safe and respectful method for compassionately bringing the hidden parts of ourselves in all three centers (Head, Heart, and Body) into awareness—and this awareness opens the door to true transformation.
Join us for this extraordinary retreat that is designed to deepen our practices. those that wil allow us to free ourselves more readily and more consciously from on-automatic, highly conditioned, reactive behavior.
By practicing together, we are supporting our growth and strengthening our own capacities for inner work.
**Knowing your Enneagram type is a prerequisite. Contact us if you need support determining your type and learning the basics of the system.
LEARN ABOUT the INWARD TURN Retreat as Heather Brown interviews Marion Gilbert with student guest,Zoe Stoker.
Our beloved clients’ VIDEO REVIEWS after attending trainings and events with Marion Gilbert:
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• Rates may vary due to the country in which the retreat is offered
• Installment plans apply.
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