Learn to Welcome your Wholeness & Broadcast your Brilliance
SHIFT: Somatic Healing & Integration Focused on Transformation
1:1 Somatic Enneagram* facilitation to come home to yourself
Encountering deeper layers of yourself is a delicate process — there’s a reason we spend so much energy avoiding it!
To walk this path, it helps to have a dedicated space to explore, methods that safely untangle old patterns, and a skilled companion to walk alongside you.
Using your Enneagram type as a foundational map for your growth, I offer somatic facilitation, intuitive guidance, and an assortment of practices from my clinical and spiritual toolkit to activate your most aligned path to self-remembering.
In this intimate journey inside the container we create together based on an invitation to radical honesty and radical compassion, you’ll learn to connect directly to your own wellspring of wisdom.
Through connecting with the felt sense in your body, you’ll develop the neuropathways to…
embrace the parts of you that have been living in the shadow.
disrupt the habits that keep you in cycles of unnecessary suffering.
consciously uncover the brilliance you were born to broadcast into the world.
This is an invitation to SHIFT your relationship with body, heart, and mind and embody a more authentic and dynamic expression of your Essential Nature
SHIFT is a 6-month container for folks who have already spent time getting to know the patterns of their dominant Enneagram type.
If you’re new to inner work or you are just beginning to apply an Enneagram lens to that work, I recommend starting with my Just My Type services.
To learn more about the Enneagram or take your understanding to the next level, check out these free Enneagram resources.
*My work is heavily informed by the teachings and mentorship of Marion Gilbert and her approach to The Somatic Enneagram™
There’s another way of being
You’re not new to inner work, so you know you are not who you’ve taken yourself to be.
You understand that you’ve been conditioned by a confluence of sociological and cultural factors that have helped you survive… but aren’t really YOU.
Plus, you’re familiar with the Enneagram, so you’ve likely uncovered some of your ego’s favorite thought loops, shame spirals, and go-to sources of existential dread.
The more closely you look, it seems that these ego patterns - mental, emotional, and behavioral reactions - play out in more subtle ways than your mind can grasp.
You’re psychologically “committed to growth,” but your Enneagram type’s patterns are wired deeply into your nervous system.
The world is filled with potentially overwhelming experiences and your nervous system is particularly attuned to any threats to your experience of autonomy, connectedness, and security.
In the face of complex interpersonal dynamics and unexpected life circumstances, you have mechanisms that push those highly charged experiences temporarily out of your awareness — so you can carry on with business-as-usual.
This automated system learned early on what "worked,” and it loves repeating the actions that will keep you alive and managing well enough without disrupting the status quo.
Your body is designed to automatically and unconsciously defend itself against what was overwhelming to you in the past by physically contracting against that perceived threat.
Without the conscious awareness you have now, your ego had decades to contract in the exact ways that were most important for you to survive the environment, relationships, and situations that you were exposed to early in your life — without alerting you to what it was doing.
By the time you found your Enneagram type, these patterns had become more rigid and restrictive.
When you began to paying attention to them, they likely seemed so familiar that you confused them for who you are.
But if you’re on this journey, you’ve started to recognize that you are so much more than your type.
As you wake up to this possibility, you can begin to practice noticing your patterns with more consciousness.
Through self-observation and practice, you get little tastes of what it’s like to have your essential nature shine through; how it feels when you see yourself and others see you for who you truly are.
And then, you bump into the unwritten rule: everything that could possible poke at your core wounds… does.
Your autopilot settings take over, causing you to brace against the life force energy that is designed to flow through you, ushering your unique gifts into the world for everyone’s benefit
That’s why, even with all of your hard-earned awareness, you keep encountering the same struggles.
The cycles of coping until you’re burnt out.
The repetitive issues in your relationships.
The difficulty of walking a spiritual path while being exceptionally human.
There is a way to shift from the exhaustion of outdated defensive patterns and learn to receive what it is you have been searching for.
When you free up the energy that’s been going toward survival, you can…
➡️ truly feel the tenderness of giving and receiving deep care, in the here and now, without comparison or urgency.
➡️ befriend the places that are used to being overwhelmed and learn to listen as they share with you exactly what they need.
➡️ awaken to the freedom of not having to know what will happen before trusting yourself to show up fully.
PLUS you get to keep the skills you’ve gained through the protective mechanisms you’ve developed — only now with increased discernment about when they are truly necessary.
The catch?
It involves adopting an entirely different orientation than the ego is used to.
This “unpopular proposition” is turning toward what your nervous system has been wired to turn away from — to stop looking “out there” and direct your attention “in here.”
Unconscious beliefs embedded in your body are certain this is not a good idea (and without skillful means, it’s true that this can be retraumatizing).
Doing this safely means going at the pace of the body.
With skillful means, your nervous system can learn to establish a new paradigm - one where being present to reality no longer feels overwhelming.
In fact, when we get underneath all the distractions, what is waiting for you is so alive, so beautiful, and so freeing that you have to experience it to believe it.
I want to show you how.
SHIFT: Somatic Healing & Integration Focused on Transformation
The Details
What You Get
My Foundations of Somatic Enneagram Work Mini Course.
Through short video lessons with downloadable audio and transcripts, you will:
identify the key principles of somatic awareness practice and how your Enneagram type is most likely to show up in the process.
experientially access your body’s felt sense of well-being
be primed to deepen your capacity for transformational work (facilitated and on your own)
(12) 1:1 sessions with me, rooted in Somatic Enneagram Work
In a potent and sacred space, learn to draw upon your inner resources to connect with your Essence and embody your deeply desired shifts
Sessions are 75 minutes and we’ll meet at an average rate of twice/month
Recordings are available to revisit
Witnessing, support, & celebration throughout
I offer email, voice messaging, and/or video messaging to stay connected between sessions
Your inner work also happens outside our sessions - so I’ll be available to you along the way!
Special Bonuses, To Be Announced!
Think: chances to connect with others on the path and resources to keep serving you throughout our time together and beyond!
The Investment
1 payment of $2475
OR
6 monthly payments of $415
OR
9 monthly payments of $280
Note: I have room for 2 sliding scale clients at a time. If money is the only obstacle, let’s chat!
How do I sign up?
Spaces will be opening in February 2024!
My commitment is to show up fully as I hold space for and walk alongside you in your process, so I have limited spaces for this offering. Goodness of fit is important to me — I don’t work long term with anyone I haven’t had 1:1 contact with.
Click the Let’s Chat button below to connect with me. Bring your questions, and let’s get clear on whether this is in alignment for you. I’ll be honest about whether I see this as a fit for you at this time. And if it’s a YES, we’ll talk scheduling and payment options.
I’ll be your guide
You cannot override the body’s intelligence. Instead, start where you are and work with what you find. You will be amazed at what you discover is waiting for you from within, if only you learn to listen.
~Caryn
For the last fourteen years, I’ve been steeped in professional trainings on active listening, strengths-based counseling, and way too many research papers on different therapeutic modalities (thanks, grad school).
Some of it was fascinating, some was dull, and very little of it truly helped me in my client sessions.
In fact, all that “learning” often put me so far in my head that the moment my mind couldn’t understand something, I would have the urge to denounce my capabilities and declare that I couldn’t possibly be of service to anyone.
I had no idea what “trust your gut” or “follow your heart” meant, and no one’s explanations were satisfactory.
It wasn’t until I encountered the Enneagram that I had a framework that made sense on every level.
I learned to honor what role my mind, heart, and body each had to play, and how they can work together to help me feel truly alive, compassionate, and open-minded about the paradoxes of life.
Most of this was by piecing together insights from traditional psychotherapies and allowing myself to open to the world of energy work and spiritual development, but I was wary of attaching to any particular method.
Until…
I met my teacher, Marion Gilbert.
She combined her knowledge of the body and energy systems from her 4+ decades of work as a physical therapist with her nuanced understanding of the Enneagram, and the way she worked with people was unlike anything I had seen before.
So, for the last three years, I have been learning her approach to The Somatic Enneagram™.
This work combines scientifically validated trauma resolution principles with the spiritual wisdom teachings of the Enneagram to support recipients in developing consciousness by work skillfully with the nervous system.
It helps us identify and update the expression of our Enneagram type structure at the level of the body.
Through ongoing experiential learning, and through facilitating over 100 sessions with others, I have seen such remarkable shifts that I intend to continue this practice for the rest of my life.
I’ve witnessed people embody a felt sense of Essential States that they have never been to before — even in their very first session!
But true transformation takes time, practice, and a willingness to meet the obstacles that will appear along the way with a Beginner’s Mind.
This path requires a bit of unraveling, so I invite you to consider if you:
— are tired of coping in ways that keep you stuck in cycles of suffering
— have enough stability, connection, and safety in your life to support you as you try something brand new
If that’s you, I’m here to walk alongside you, hold space for you to access your body’s wisdom, and support the integration necessary to lower your defenses and show up in the world as more of your Essential Self.
(While Somatic Enneagram facilitation is the primary method, I will always bring in other skills and tools as appropriate for the person in front of me.)
Why I do Somatic Enneagram Work
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