Enneagram School of Awakening Blog
Creativity + the Enneagram=💜
What does it mean to invite the Enneagram into our creative flow? Plus, a writing practice for Type 9 (or the Type 9 within you).
How The Enneagram Speaks in your Dreams
As we move deeper into winter – which I think of as the dreaming season – I want to invite you to step more into dreamwork and bring the Enneagram along.
Holiday Eating Through the Enneagram Lens
Holidays can stir up so much around food—tradition, expectation, comparison, longing, joy, and overwhelm. And because each Enneagram type has its own way of navigating need, hunger, stress, and celebration, the holiday table often becomes a reflection of those patterns.
Taking the Embodiment Tradition to the IEA Enneagram Experience
The ESOA headed to Minneapolis, MN for the 2025 IEA conference – the Enneagram Expeirence.
Typing Yourself And Others
Typing is one of the hardest parts of Enneagram work—but by tuning into the energy of each type, we can begin to see beneath surface behaviors and connect more deeply to the essence within.
Embodying Each Type
Through guided embodiment practices and vivid energetic portraits, Dr. Lissa Friedman reveals how each Enneagram type lives in the body—and how that energy shapes our patterns, defenses, and path back to Essence.
Feeling Into the Energetics
Explore how each Enneagram type expresses energy—whether adapting, reaching outward, or turning inward—and learn to recognize the subtle ways these movements shape our patterns, defenses, and relationships.
Meeting The Nine Types
Dr. Lissa Friedman breaks down the nine Enneagram types into three energetic groups—adaptors, inward movers, and outward expressers—offering a powerful way to feel the Enneagram in the body and begin to sense each type's core motivation through its energy.
Exploring Embodiment
Dr. Lissa Friedman shares the origin story of the Embodiment Tradition—how stepping into the physicality and voice of her clients led to a deeper understanding of the nine Enneagram types as distinct energetic patterns living in the body.
Uncovering the Embodiment Tradition
Dr. Lissa Friedman traces the roots of the Embodiment Tradition to her discovery that Enneagram fixation—our patterned identity—creates an energetic block to true liberation, and that by feeling the type in the body, we can begin to loosen its hold and return to Essence.
Meet The Team
Ali McGhee and Valerie Wanamaker share personal updates, upcoming workshops, and what’s been inspiring their Enneagram work as they step into leadership at the Enneagram School of Awakening.
How Do I Really Connect to My Essence?
Tammy from the Enneagram School of Awakening has developed a practice for working with Essence called Sacred Nourishment. This is a practice that guides our essential ecstatic nature into a lived, embodied, and integrated being. ..