Enneagram of Essence
A somatic and archetypal perspective on the Enneagram
From insight to sensation
Enneagram of Essence is an model that brings a somatic and archetypal perspective to the Enneagram, shaped by over three decades of clinical work, embodied practice, and sustained study of the nine types.
Here, the patterns of the Enneagram are explored as lived experience in the body, while the essential qualities of each type are approached as sources of nourishment, support, and wholeness.
Within each Enneagram pattern, I see a specific longing: a need for the felt sense of something archetypal, such as safety, connection, freedom, or worth.
Over time, we organize around ways of seeking that experience. These strategies become familiar and automatic, shaping what we recognize as type.
At the root of the pattern is a felt sense of something essential that seems missing. I am most interested in how that felt sense can be cultivated more directly in the body, so the system no longer has to work so hard to find it.
As that happens, new possibilities for healing, relationship, and fulfillment begin to open.
