ESSENCE EMBODIMENT
Healing the Somatic Roots of Personality
Where Insight Becomes Sensation
Essence Embodiment is the felt experience of essence in the body.
Your Enneagram type isn’t just thoughts, moods, or habits—it’s a survival pattern wired into your nervous system, so real healing must move through the body.
When you taste the quiet nourishment of essence, your system recognizes what it has been chasing, and the somatic roots of personality begin to heal.
Your type is chasing inner nourishment
We enter life rooted in Essence—effortless safety, love, and vitality.
When childhood feels unsafe, the body flips its survival switch, and each Enneagram type channels that energy into a distinct pattern.
Insight helps us see the pattern, yet the real shift happens when we feel Essence again.
Even a brief taste of essence tells the vagus nerve we’re safe. The nervous system regulates and fixation loosens—the Seven’s chase eases, the Six’s scan quiets, the Two’s over-giving settles.
This work guides the body back to Essence so personality can soften and serve.
Free Enneagram Basics Course inside the Community Hub. Instant access, zero cost.
Ways to Work
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Enneagram Embodiment for Practitioners
6 Weeks Online · November 2025
Nature & animal energetics
Somatic practices
Two‑session deep dives per type
Capstone integration project -
On‑Demand Self‑Paced Certification
Start anytime
Recorded 9‑module curriculum
Downloadable practices
Upgrade path to live cohort -
Half‑Day Live Immersions
Practice‑ready deep dives
Type‑based nervous‑system repair
Parts work practices
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Private Mentoring ✦ Waitlist
Depth consultation & personal integration
IEA‑accredited clinical supervision
Next openings late 2025
IEA Global Conference
July 24–27, 2025 · Minneapolis, MN
Session: Embodying Essence—Healing the Somatic Roots of Personality ·
Meet Tammy Hendrix, LCSW
Lifelong Enneagram student
IEA‑accredited teacher & program director
Somatic psychotherapist · 20 + years
PhD‑level depth‑psychology education
Certified:
Enneagram Level 3, Embodiment Tradition
Somatic IFS Level 3, Fran Booth
Transpersonal Hypnotherapy Level 1, Michael Newton
Goddess Empowerment, Sally Kempton
Creator of the 5‑Step Essence Embodiment Model
What Grounds & Inspires My Work
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"Good Medicine."
I have been a student of the enneagram for some time now and have found it to be a helpful tool for self-reflection, but Tammy's focus on the essence of each type as a portal to healing and a gateway back to our truest self opened up a new world of possibilities for me in the application of the enneagram in my own life, my personal practice, and my work with others.
Ann Crews, LCSW
Holistic Clinical Psychotherapist, Certified Enneagram of Essence Practitioner
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"The Essence tradition brings clarity that rejuvenates the Enneagram and can provide the liberating reminder that we are fully alive."
Andrew Florence
Director of Experiential Learning, Certified Enneagram of Essence Practitioner
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If there was one word to describe Tammy's Enneagram of Essence certification it would be illuminating.
A teacher with knowledge, experience, intuition, and wisdom she has opened the portals toward embodying the Enneagram beyond personality fixation. The divine feminine qualities of personal growth and awareness. And bringing the Enneagram back to its roots of spiritual enlightenment. There is no other certification like this one.
Author, Animal Communicator and Medium, Certified Enneagram of Essence Practitioner
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"Hendrix brings a new perspective to our understanding of the Enneagram."
Based on her own life experience, Hendrix examines how each of us embodies all types of the Enneagram, not one. She also focuses on and gives exercises to help us embody the essence of each Enneagram.
Heather Hobbs
Author, Educator, Enneagram Student
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Tammy has taken the work I started to a deeper more profound level.
My training through the Arica School helped me understand the Enneagram as a tool for spiritual awakening. I began teaching the Enneagram 23 years ago and Tammy came to almost every training.
Tammy has a natural gift for embodying the energetics of the Enneagram—feeling the energy of each type within.
She has developed a way to help others feel the Essence of each type alive inside their being. I truly don’t know anyone else who can impart this knowledge.
Founder of the Enneagram School of Awakening and the Enneagram Embodiment Tradition
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"I was truly enriched by this experience."
This was the first Enneagram program I’d ever taken so I wasn’t sure exactly what to expect. Any enneagram knowledge I may have had seemed to be around the personality perspective of the types, which was not my ideal focus. I chose to take the Enneagram of Essence program because I was confident that it would be beneficial to my spiritual journey.
Tammy Hendrix is an excellent facilitator/teacher/guide and has a wonderful way of helping others to be open to experience all the amazing aspects of our spiritual selves through the essence of the enneagram program.
Joanna R Kidder
Certified Enneagram of Essence Practitioner
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"Hendrix helps you bring into focus what these small shifts feel like in your body and offers guidance for honing in on those feelings, or essence."
As you become more attuned to what the essence feels like, you can call it up more frequently when you find yourself falling back into unhelpful patterns. Essence feels grounded, empowering, and vibrant. It's good for our emotional health as well as our physical health and relationships.
I also appreciate how Hendrix’s approach can be used to understand others better, even those who may have habits that drive us crazy. Throughout the book, Hendrix shows how, by recognizing a personality trait in an individual, we can go deeper and understand the essence of this behavior and allow it to shine. By seeing the essence (the person), rather than the personality trait (the behavior), we will have much more appreciation for others and the journey we are all on.
Lynn Niederlitz, MEd
Educational Consultant
