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Session 1: Mapping the Territory
In this first session you will learn where type structure comes from. An introduction to the 3 Centered approach will be given.
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Introduction to Type, the 3 Centers and Triune Brain
45:00
Grounded Presence and Felt Sense Breathing
20:00
Session 2: The Head Center
In this session we talked about the the nine lenses of perception. Each type has taken on a false paradigm that includes beliefs, perceptions and values. This paradigm leads to our main focus of attention.
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Distorted and Corrected Lenses for the 9 types
01:28:00
Session 3: The Heart Center
In this session we look at the Heart center and its 3 layers: the physical heart, the emotional heart and the spiritual heart. We learn to build our bridge to our essence with heart qualities such as self compassion, allowing emotions and the courage to be with what is true in the moment and align with authenticity.
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The Heart Center, Vices/Virtues and Healing Power of Love
00:00
Session 4: The Body Center Part 1
In this session we will learn about our Autonomic Nervous System from a Polyvagal Theory viewpoint. We will learn how each type responds to stress and some typical stress triggers. We will map our own system, tuning into the 3 centers when a stressful situation is called to mind. We will also learn some "Vagus Nerve Techniques" to quickly help the nervous system return to a calm and connected place.
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Your Nervous System and how Your Type Responds to Stress
01:40:00
Session 5: The Body Center Part 2
In this session, we continue our exploration of the body center by looking at what each Enneagram type avoids. The avoidances are born from an overwhelming experience in childhood. The intelligence of the nervous system moves to a coping strategy that contains the overwhelm so it maintains the equilibrium of the system. This energy however never completed itself, is contained in the body and continues to inform how we respond to life. It is like an outdated software program running in the background influencing our perceptions, relationships, emotions, and leads to reactivity. We will learn how to work with the Law of 3, bringing the polarities of each type together so we can free that energy to be expressed as our Essence. A guided practice will give us tools and resources to stay present to the hidden avoidance so it can be felt and encountered with compassion and curiosity without re-triggering the overwhelm in our nervous systems.
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Avoidances, Somatic Tasks and the Law of 3
01:30:00
Session 6: Working with Fear and the Head Center
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Somatic and Energetic Patterns of the Head Center types, Making Room for Fear in the Body
00:00
Session 7: Working with Sadness and Grief and the Heart Center
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Seeking Worth Outside of Self, Embracing our Authenticity through our 3 Centers
00:00
Session 8: Working with Anger and the Body Center
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The Body Center and how anger works in each type, somatic tendencies and ways to balance
00:00
Taking Care of Anger by Thich That Hanh
18:00
Protected: Building a Bridge from Ego to Essence: A Holistic Approach to the Enneagram and Embodying Your True Self

In this session we take a closer look at the somatic and energetic patterns of types 5, 6 and 7. We see how avoiding feeling fear in the body leads to seeking for solutions only in the mental center – becoming attached to feeling obligated to find understanding, troubleshooting problems and future planning and making others happy. This results in a distorted perceptions and conclusions in the head center.This split from the body also costs us our vital energy, our instinctual and somatic intelligence and just the joy and pleasure of feeling fully alive – from soul to cell!  

Please find under “Exercise files” a handout on the breath suggestions for each type. I also included Wonder and Inquiry questions for working with the avoidances. 

I invite you to practice the guided process this week. It starts at minute 40 and goes to the hour mark. Notice when stress, anxiety or fear comes up and where it shows up in the body. What does your nervous system want to do to get away from it? What happens when you just stay present from a place of sacred Presence?  We are tapping into the Holy Idea of Love in this practice which is all inclusive and results in wholeness and more aliveness. That becomes our motivation to do the practice which at times can seem counterintuitive! 

Exercise Files
Bridge2Essence Session 6 – Breathing Styles.pdf
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