Somatic Enneagram & Family Constellations Retreat
in St. Louis, Missouri | April 28-May 3, 2026
Led by Marion Gilbert & Hemla Makan-Dullabh 


Step away from the noise of daily life and enter a deeply immersive retreat designed to awaken the wisdom of your body, transform old patterns, and open space for authentic healing.

Over six days, we will engage in powerful somatic constellation work with the Enneagram’s type structures, exploring how shame, fear, anger, and grief live within us, and how they can be reconciled through embodied presence. This retreat offers an alchemical process of healing: recognizing what we’ve avoided, seeing how our idealizations keep us stuck, and learning to discern the life-giving path toward freedom.

Through a blend of constellations, guided practices, and somatic exercises, you’ll experience firsthand how the Enneagram’s wisdom reveals itself in the body and offers us a way home to love and belonging—our birthright.

About The Retreat: 

  • 6 days of immersive retreat programming blending Somatic Enneagram, Family Constellations, and guided practices at the Pallottine Renewal Center in St. Louis, Missouri (click here). 
  • Expert facilitation with Marion Gilbert and Hemla Makan-Dullabh, drawing on decades of teaching and healing experience.
  • Practical tools and embodied practices to apply long after the retreat ends.
  • Evening meditations, integration practices, and guided labyrinth walks for reflection and renewal.
  • Supportive community connection, with space for conversation, sharing, and co-learning.

Family Constellations Retreat

$2595 Early Bird Rate (expires Feb. 20, 2026)

Step into six days created for you to slow down, listen to your body, and release the patterns that keep you stuck. Through somatic constellation work with the Enneagram, you’ll discover how shame, fear, anger, and grief can be reconciled; opening you to healing, freedom, and a deeper sense of belonging.

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How does Family Constellation Work & The Somatic Enneagram fit together?

Family Constellation work offers a natural and powerful extension of Somatic Enneagram practice, because both approaches understand that our patterns of reactivity, perception, and identity are not created in isolation. They are shaped by our early environment, our family systems, and—often—stories and survival strategies that began long before we were born.

In the Somatic Enneagram, we learn that type structure forms from the nervous system’s best attempts to protect us and help us belong. Family Constellations reveals a deeper layer beneath that structure: the intergenerational field of loyalties, losses, and unresolved experiences that influence how our body contracts, what emotions we carry, and which roles we unconsciously take on in our families and relationships. Together, these modalities help us understand not only what we do, but why we do it—and for whom.

In constellation work, patterns that may feel “personal” often reveal themselves as ancestral entanglements—hidden dynamics in which we carry grief, shame, fear, or responsibility that originated with someone else in our lineage. These entanglements frequently reinforce the very type patterns we work with in the Somatic Enneagram: idealizations we cling to, survival strategies we default to, and emotional avoidances that keep us looping in familiar forms of suffering. When these unconscious burdens are brought into awareness through embodied, relational fieldwork, the type structure begins to soften. The body gains access to more space, presence, and agency.

This is why Family Constellations fits so organically with the Somatic Enneagram path. It invites us to feel the deeper roots of our type’s defenses—not to pathologize them, but to honor their origins and release what no longer belongs to us. As the natural order of the family system is restored, the body’s intelligence can reorganize around truth rather than inherited burdens. From this place, we can meet our type structure with greater compassion, clarity, and freedom.

Constellation work does not replace Somatic Enneagram practice—it expands it. It offers a doorway into the generational story behind our reactivity, the ancestral wisdom beneath our defenses, and the possibility of living not as a continuation of old patterns, but as a new expression of presence, love, and belonging.

About Your Guides

Marion Gilbert

Marion Gilbert, R.P.T. has been a practicing physical therapist since 1978 and is the founder of a wellness center in Grass Valley, CA. With advanced training in CranioSacral Therapy, Somato-Emotional Release, and Trauma Resolution, Marion brings over four decades of experience in body-based healing.

Since 2003, she has integrated the Enneagram into her professional and personal work, emphasizing a somatic lens of perception. She is the developer of the Somatic Enneagram™ Certification Program, now taught internationally, and continues to guide students in deepening awareness through the integration of body, heart, and mind.

Hemla Makan-Dullabh

Hemla is a Transformation Catalyst based in Los Altos, California. She founded 7 Rays Holistic Center over 20 years ago. Her workshops and retreats focus on one simple statement. Awaken the power within! 

Hemla helps people engage with their inner healer using the 3-centered approach. We have 3 centers of intelligence, and our journey is to connect with our body, mind, and heart, bringing wholeness and wellness to our Human "Being”. Hemla works with groups and individuals to heal inherited systemic trauma. 

Hemla is a certified teacher and facilitator of the Narrative Enneagram & Family Constellations TherapyHemla teaches various therapy modalities, including metaphysics, meditation, & Color Therapy; she overlays her passion for Color Therapy in all the modalities she offers. 

Hemla founded the  7 Rays Institute of Holistic Studies and offers certification programs in Family Constellations, Somatic Color Therapy, and Awakening Your Intuition -The 3-Centered Approach.

Hemla was born in Durban, South Africa, and now calls California home. Her background is as an artist and teacher.  Learn more about Hemla at www.7raysholisticcenter.com/

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