Somatic Enneagram & Family Constellations Retreat
September 18–25, 2026
Sediba Retreat (Good Shepherd) Centre
Hartbeespoort, South Africa
Step away from the noise of daily life and into a sacred container designed for deep restoration, ancestral healing, and embodied transformation. Over eight immersive days, this retreat brings together two powerful modalities—the Somatic Enneagram and Family Constellations—to help you uncover the unconscious patterns that shape your life and reconnect with the truth of who you are.
Through experiential constellation work, somatic practices, and the profound insight of the Enneagram’s type structures, you’ll discover how shame, fear, anger, grief, and idealizations live in the body—and how they can be gently reconciled through presence, discernment, and compassion. This retreat offers an alchemical process of healing: honoring the origins of our patterns, releasing what no longer belongs to us, and awakening the body’s innate wisdom for living with clarity, agency, and love.
Guided by internationally respected teachers Marion Gilbert and Hemla Makan-Dullabh, and supported by a community of fellow seekers, you’ll soften lifelong strategies of survival and deepen into a grounded sense of belonging. Set within the beauty of the Sediba Retreat Center, this experience invites you to return home to yourself—your body, your lineage, and your truest inner orientation.
Family Constellations Retreat
$2395 Early Bird Rate for USA
(Ends June 22, 2026)
An 8-day immersive retreat in South Africa integrating the Somatic Enneagram and Family Constellations to release ancestral patterns, heal the nervous system, and reconnect you with embodied freedom.
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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 Therapy. Hemla 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.
