Advanced Inward Turn Retreat
Val de Consolation Retreat Center in France
November 25-30, 2026 | Led By Marion Gilbert

You are invited into a deeply immersive retreat designed to support your continued journey into the Somatic Enneagram. Guided by Marion Gilbert, this advanced Inward Turn experience offers personalized somatic practices to deepen inner observing, integrate the three centers of intelligence, and reconnect you with your essential nature. Held in a contemplative, monastery setting surrounded by natural beauty, this retreat creates the conditions for profound inner work, transformation, and embodied presence.

This is not simply a retreat to learn something new — it is an opportunity to enter more fully into your lived experience, to deepen your capacity to witness yourself, and to reconnect with your essential nature through the body.

Guided by Marion Gilbert, this immersive experience builds on your foundation in the Somatic Enneagram, offering personalized, experiential work that supports real transformation from the inside out.

Through carefully guided practices, you will begin to recognize how your defense system operates in real time — not as something to fix, but as energy that can be transformed and integrated. As your inner observing capacity deepens, new possibilities emerge: more space, more presence, and a greater ability to meet life as it is.

This event will be taught in English with French Translators.
This retreat is intended for participants who have already completed:
 Somatic Enneagram Modules 1–3 + Modules 4–5 are strongly recommended

Advanced Inward Turn Retreat

$1970.00 USD - Early Bird Rate

Full price ($2200) begins October 12. 

A sacred, immersive retreat with Marion Gilbert to deepen your Somatic Enneagram practice, integrate body, heart, and mind, and reconnect with your essential nature.

The retreat begins on November 25 at 5:00 pm and ends on November 30 at 10:00 am. Additional and helpful travel information will be provided via email after registration. 

Advertised Registration Fee includes Teaching, Accommodations & Meals. There are multiple purchase options. Click the "Add To Cart" button below for a standard solo room for the advertised fee. Click a link below for the option you are interested in purchasing a different option. 

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What You Will Experience

During this retreat, you will be guided through a series of deeply experiential somatic practices designed to support your ongoing development:

  • Personalized guidance to deepen your inner observing capacity
  • Practices to cultivate three-centered awareness (body, heart, and mind)
  • Direct work with your defense system as a source of transformation
  • Somatic exercises to connect with the intelligence of the body
  • Movement-based practices, including walking the Enneagram symbol
  • Opportunities for reflection, integration, and supported inner process
  • A rhythm of communal living that supports presence and connection

 

 

What You Will Gain

This retreat is designed to support not just insight, but lasting inner change.

Through your participation, you may begin to experience:

  • A more stable sense of grounded presence
  • Increased capacity to observe patterns without being overtaken by them
  • Greater integration of body, heart, and mind
  • A deeper connection to your essential nature
  • The ability to work with reactivity as convertible energy for growth
  • Expanded awareness, compassion, and inner spaciousness
  • A felt sense that all parts of you belong in awareness

This is the kind of work that continues to unfold long after the retreat ends.

 

Retreat Setting

We will live in community at Val de Consolation, a former monastery that now serves as a retreat center nestled in a landscape of remarkable natural beauty (visit website). 

With peaceful walking paths, streams, and waterfalls just minutes away, the environment itself becomes part of the experience — inviting stillness, reflection, and connection.

Accommodation is simple and communal, in former monk dormitories supporting both intimacy and a shared sense of journey.

About Your Guide(s)

Marion Gilbert, RPT

Marion Gilbert, R.P.T. is the founder of the Somatic Enneagram Method and an internationally recognized teacher with over 25 years of experience in body-based psychotherapy and transformational work. Integrating somatic awareness with the Enneagram, her approach supports deep, sustainable change by working directly with the nervous system and the body’s patterns of defense. Marion is known for her clarity, depth, and ability to guide individuals into direct experience of their essential nature.

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