Pause 9 - Art That Reflects the Journey Within

Like all of Deep Living Lab's work, Pause 9 is rooted in Roxanne Howe-Murphy's, The Four Sacred Portals: Your Journey of Wholeness and Deep Kinship with Life. These portals invite you to increase your capacity to trust yourself and your life's path even in times of disruptive change and uncertainty. 

Connect with Your Innate Wisdom

Download our free Somatic Workbook—deepen in clarity and trust as you embody The Four Sacred Portals™.
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Somatic Practices

Trust Your Body

Learn to tune into the subtle signals and sensations that arise within your body - from gut feelings to your clear mind to the wisdom of your heart. Deepen in trust that even the subtlest insights hold valuable information for your journey.

Through somatic-based audio meditations and written prompts, uncover the depths of your wisdom. After your journey with Pause 9, this experiential workbook supports your deepening and exploration.

Engage Fully

The Four Sacred Portals—Holding, Trust, Connectedness, and Engagement—invite you to relate to the Enneagram symbol in a completely new way. They offer a deepened sense of  your innate capacity to engage with presence.

The EnneaCrossings™ map reveals new lines of connection—pathways that support your inner development in real time. These aren’t abstract ideas, but living movements for these times that connect your inner development to your impact in the world.

Cultivate Clarity

By developing a deeper connection with your body's innate intelligence, you'll cultivate greater clarity and confidence in making decisions that align with your true self.

Born from Roxanne’s decades of work with the Enneagram and presence-based transformation, this is not just a resource—it’s an invitation. Unlike static models, this framework is responsive, grounded in lived experience, and designed to evolve with you.

“Through sound, light, and gentle sensory elements, this immersive experience invites you to soften into who you think you are— and remember the deeper truth of who you truly are. No fixing. No striving. Just a pause... A breath... A return."

-Irma Velasquez

About Roxanne

Thought Leader | Pioneer in integrating the Enneagram and Coaching

Roxanne is the author of the multi-award-winning Deep Living with the Enneagram: Recovering Your True Nature (ed and revised, 2020) and Deep Coaching: Using the Enneagram as A Catalyst for Profound Change (second edition 2022). She founded an Enneagram coaching school, and is founder and board emeritus of the Deep Living Lab. She teaches internationally and has been a frequent presenter at International Enneagram Association conferences since 2011. Her latest book, The Four Sacred Portals: Your Journey of Wholeness and Deep Kinship with Life, was published in November 2025.

Pause 9 - Art That Reflects the Journey Within

A powerful visual experience that debuted at the IEA Global Conference in July 2025, this installation reflects the inner movement from patterned identity toward greater presence and truth. In collaboration with The Manas Collective.