INTENSIVE RETREAT: EQUUS EFFECT Meets Somatic Enneagram
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Equine Experiencing with the Somatic Enneagram!
MAY 07–11 2026 | Sharon, CT USA
with Jane Strong of Equus Effect and Marion Gilbert
TUITION: $2500.00
SEATS: ONLY 12 spaces available
TO HOLD YOUR SPACE: Email us: office@somaticenneagram.com | $500.00, non-refundable deposit required
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EQUUS EFFECT and SOMATIC ENNEAGRAM invite you to a four-day retreat to explore the impact of working with horses and the Somatic Enneagram. This extraordinary offering is designed to reveal and resolve barriers to grounded presence and emotional regulation, and to expand the space between stimulus and response.
The dramatic polarization of perspectives here and in other parts of the world have overburdened many people’s nervous systems and left us with a sense that we have no choice but to react rather than respond to situations – many of which are way beyond our control.
The issues of agency, autonomy and about what we react to and what we don’t.
Sometimes the nervous system forgets what safety feels like.
We spend energy on stories and defense-based reactions to potential and symbolic threats. We project, regret, withdraw and second guess our choices because we find powerlessness intolerable.
We need to stay in the game as well as develop our ability to make the best use of the ‘time between points’. That’s the difference between the capacity to remain present in the face of the hard parts and the skills and practices we have in place that support our ability to bounce back.
Enter horses. They’re big.They’re honest.Their hearts are coherent. Horses require emotional honesty from us because they resonate, connect, and collaborate through trust.
They are always 100% present so they are great models of how we can be more so.
They also bring up exactly what we need to work on in a most engaging and insightful way.
The Somatic Enneagram uses type-based defense mechanisms as catalysts for building capacity to adapt and meet life’s challenges as a catalyst for change.
Join us to identify defenses and track as well as move through the barriers to our aliveness in real time—all with expert guidance and support from Marion Gilbert, Jane Strong, and Jane’s magnificent herd of ‘equine coaches’.
TO HOLD YOUR SPACE: Email us: office@somaticenneagram.com | $500.00, non0-refundable deposit required
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IN-PERSON MODULES 1 & 2 | NOV 08–11 | ENGLAND
UPCOMING GLOBAL IN-PERSON TRAINING: MODULES 1 & 2 | Birmingham, ENGLAND, UK
MODULES 1, 2 SAT NOV 08 – TUES NOV 11, 2025 | hosted by Somatic Enneagram U.K.
LOCATION: Hillscourt Conference Centre, Birmingham, UK
Hillscourt is on the edge of the Lickey Hills Country Park, with opportunities for beautiful woodland walks. Program activities include teaching, meditations, practical activities, and panel work.
INSTRUCTOR: Certified Somatic Enneagram Facilitator Heather Brown
COST: $1000.00 Standard Rate. Tuition is charged in U.S. dollars | $875.00 Early-bird Rate through FRI AUG 29 2025
CANCELLATION POLICY: Registrations cancelled on or before FRI SEP 13 2025 will receive a full refund minus a $50.00 processing fee. Cancellations on or before WED OCT 1 1 will receive a full refund minus a $200.00 processing fee. Cancellations after OCT 1 2025 will not be refunded, but can be applied to a future Somatic Enneagram Certification training, minus a $200.00 processing fee. The program tuition credit (minus a $200.00 processing fee) will be held as a credit for one year. In the event that Somatic Enneagram cancels the event, a full refund will be granted.
ACCOMMODATIONS: Once you have registered for the modules, you will receive a welcome letter detailing how to book your accommodations, using a special group-rate code. Don’t try to book through a website (even Hillscourt’s) as you will pay more!
Single and En-suite rooms available. Rates will be charged in UK sterling.
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- Full-Board Rate (includes accommodation and all food for four nights) – £498.50
- Day Delegate Rate (does not include breakfast, but includes dinner on days 1-4) – Total £300.50
What is the Somatic Enneagram Foundation Program?
it is an in depth, experiential grounding in Somatic Enneagram practice. The Foundation Program also provides the fundamentals for professional certification for those of you who want to study further and develop greater competencies.
MODULE 1: Basic Introduction to Somatic Awareness Practice (2 days)
Learn how to use our body’s intelligence to relax type structure and cultivate inner resources, enabling us to experience a more open way to meet ourselves and the world at large.
MODULE 2: A Somatic Enneagram Approach to the Defense System (2 days)
Learn how to recognize the defense mechanisms somatically —at the point of arising—so that we can begin to free ourselves from on-automatic reactions to life and its challenges.
Come and join us as we deepen our awareness of how and why we react as we do and where this is experienced in the body. By listening to the body, we can access our highly conditioned patterns at their roots, and free ourselves from automatically following these impulses. We gain greater resilience and a balanced, grounded platform of receptivity where we can experience our lives from present moment awareness.” — Marion Gilbert
For more information or support with book accommodations, please contact event coordinator Heather Brown via email or by phone at +44 1962 717697
Module 5 in Spain | NOV 27–30
UPCOMING GLOBAL IN-PERSON TRAINING: MODULES 3 & 4 | SPAIN
MODULES 5: THURS NOV 27 – SUN NOV 30, 2025 | hosted by Gema de la Rosa y Pedro Espadas
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MARION will present in ENGLISH and will be translated into SPANISH | For questions and registration, please contact event host Gema de la Rosa via email
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SOMATIC ENNEAGRAM™ Trainings with Marion Gilbert
Join Marion Gilbert Online via ZOOM for Modules 1, 2, and 3
Join Marion Gilbert In-person for Modules 4 and 5
Cost: $450.00 | Save $50 with Early-bird Registration
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IN-PERSON MODULES 1, 2, 3! NEXT DATE: MARCH 2026 USA
WHERE: To Be Determined – New Venue Being Sought
WHEN: 3:00 p.m. MON MAR 16
CONCLUDES: 5:00 p.m. SUN MAR 22
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TUITION: Tuition: $1500.00 | EARLY-BIRD Registration $1350.00 (save $150.00) through NOV 30 2026
ACCOMMODATIONS: 6-days Single-occupancy Accommodations (includes three meals a day & facility fees): $1275.00 | Commuter option available.
MODULES 1, 2, 3 IN-PERSON • STAY the NIGHT of MAR 22 for INTEGRATION
We highly encourage you to add the night of SUN MAR 22 to your stay in order to have personal time to process and integrate, something that’s frequently requested both during as well as after one of our trainings.
For those not staying the night of MAR 22, we encourage you to add DINNER on SUN MAR 22 at the end of the program’s 5:00 p.m. conclusion in order to dine as a group before departure.
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THE POWERFUL BENEFITS OF IN-PERSON LEARNING
We are very excited to be offering our first three foundational modules, Modules 1, 2, and 3 IN-PERSON! Led by Marion Gilbert and supported by newly certified Somatic Enneagram Facilitators, in-person modules are something that just can’t be duplicated online, on ZOOM. While we do our very best to provide optimal learning experiences while online, there is nothing that compares to the energetic support and camaraderie of group learning, side by side, across a handful of days. Opportunities for discussion, sharing, and processing with others cannot be underestimated.
These three modules, each spanning two days, will include a multitude of experiences and teachings:
- Didactic learnings of the Somatic Enneagram’s Modules 1, 2, and 3.
- Inner Practices to cultivate the Inner Observer, Grounded Presence, and Placement of Attention.
- Interactive exercises for developing received knowing, feeling, and sensing.
- Breakout groups for sharing conversation and experience.
- Didactic Somatic Enneagram: understanding type structure and our defense system.
- Integration practices and movement.
- Includes guided meditations, guided inner practices.
- Includes labyrinth walks intending to highlight something that may be hidden in our shadow in order to receive new understanding and insight.