Soul Centered Coaching
with Andrew Ragan
People come to me saying “I don’t feel like myself anymore.”
I help people feel like themselves again.
I work with high-performing humans who have built their lives by pushing through—tight bodies, busy minds, and full calendars—and are ready to stop running on tension and adrenaline.
This work supports those who want to show up more present with their partners and kids, make decisions without second-guessing themselves, and a body that no longer feels like it’s always on guard.
My coaching is for people who’ve achieved a lot… and know there’s more available when the nervous system, body, and soul are finally working together.
The Pattern I See
Most people who find me are not failing.
They’re functioning. Performing. Carrying a lot. And paying a quiet price for it.
When your nervous system lives in tension and control, the impact doesn’t stay contained. It shows up everywhere.
Over time, this pattern often looks like…
+ chronic tightness, pain, or injury that never fully resolves
+ sleep that doesn’t restore you, no matter how “healthy” you are
+ irritability, reactivity, or emotional flatness that strains relationships
+ a constant sense of urgency—like you’re always behind, even when you’re not
+ difficulty receiving support, rest, or love without guilt
+ overthinking conversations after they happen and rehearsing them before they do
+ saying “yes” when you mean “no,” then resenting it
+ leading, parenting, and partnering from depletion instead of presence
On the outside, life keeps working.
Many people tell me:
“I don’t feel like myself anymore.”
“I’m doing everything right, and it still feels off.”
“I’ve done everything I thought would bring my happiness but I still am feeling empty.”
Left unaddressed, this way of living narrows your emotional range, hardens your body, and slowly disconnects you from what actually matters. Not all at once—but inch by inch.
This work isn’t about fixing what’s broken.
It’s about stopping the slow self-abandonment that happens when survival becomes a lifestyle.
This looks like not listening to your inner voice, not speaking up for yourself, poor sleep because your nervous system doesn’t fully rest, and a chronic sense of something being “off.”
This is exactly where the Soul Centered Method begins—
not by pushing harder, but by restoring safety, ownership, and integrity at the level of the nervous system, the body, and lived experience. From there, real change becomes possible.
On the inside, something is quietly eroding.
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My Story
Andrew Ragan
We offer what we need, and I found this work because I needed it.
From the age of 13, my low back was a constant source of pain. I remember summer conditioning runs for pop Warner football—having to stop minutes in because my back would spasm.
At the time, I thought it was just physical. And part of it was. But the deeper truth was that my body was responding to an environment that didn’t feel safe.
My mom was struggling with alcoholism. Home was unpredictable—embarrassing, frightening, and chaotic. And that chaos didn’t just live in the air. It lived in me.
Without knowing it, I spent years in a state of fight-or-flight.
I clenched. I braced. I tightened my hips and carried tension along my spine like it was normal. My body learned early that vigilance was protection.
I also learned how to perform and make everyone think everything “was all good.”
At school and with friends, I wore what I now recognize as the “golden boy” mask: straight A’s, sports captain, do everything right, be liked, don’t need anything. I looked fine. I looked successful. And the cost was my vulnerability. I stopped crying. I stopped asking for help. I learned to override what I felt in order to function.
Strength training became my outlet.
I lifted ferociously. Muscle became my armor and my identity.
Training gave me structure, discipline, and a sense of control—but it also allowed me to keep avoiding the deeper pain. The stronger I became on the outside, the more disconnected I grew from my inner world. Protection slowly replaced connection, and I didn’t realize how far I’d drifted from myself.
From the outside, I looked grounded and together. Inside, I was managing, controlling, and hiding.
It was normal for me to say one thing and feel another. To think something and say the opposite in order to be liked or to keep the peace. I had learned how to survive by minimizing myself. At the time I didn’t even realize this was how I operated - self abandonment had become my normal way of being.
Fast forward over a decade and everything shifted in my early 30s, when my son River was born.
He came into the world perfect, and I burst into tears—the first time I had cried in over a decade. I remember feeling light emanate from my heart and ripple into the room. Something cracked open in me that I didn’t know was even possible.
I felt profound love from my heart. It wasn’t a conceptual idea of love, I FELT love in my heart and it rocked me to my soul.
Within days, my body followed. My low back pain returned with a vengeance. I was at my biggest, competing in power-lifting, and I couldn’t hold my seven-pound baby without searing pain.
I was strong. I was fit on the outside. And I was falling apart.
That moment forced honesty. The strategies I had relied on—discipline, strength, control—were no longer enough. I was in physical pain and emotional overwhelm at the same time.
The tears that began flowing with my son’s birth didn’t stop, and I didn’t know how to make sense of what was happening.
The years of pent up feeling and disorganization sent my life in a tailspin. The torrent of pent up feeling and confusion led to my wife and I separating, my business partnership with my best friend dissolving, and me all of a sudden living in my friend’s basement. I began seeing a somatic therapist and it gave me language for something I had never been taught: trauma isn’t just what happens to you. It’s what happens inside you when the system doesn’t get to complete what it needed to.
That insight changed everything.
I began seeking out approaches that worked with the body, not against it.
I learned how to build strength without bracing.
How to feel emotion without collapsing.
How to lead my life from my soul centered sense of self instead of protection.
Over time, my hard wired defense mechanisms softened.
My nervous system regulated. My relationships positively shifted. And a deeper sense of alignment began to replace the constant push.
That was the beginning of coming home. As the saying goes, we often end up offering what we needed most.
This work—integrating movement, mentorship, and medicine—became the bridge between performance and wholeness.
Between striving and truth. Between who I learned to be and who I actually am. And now, it’s the path I walk alongside others.
Practices that didn’t require more willpower or self-control, but instead taught me how to listen. How to slow down. How to feel without being overwhelmed. How to let my system unwind instead of override.
Strength training shifted from creating armor to practicing yoga and how to listen to my body.
Mentorship, therapy, and coaching gave me mirrors, language, understanding, guidance, and self compassion I never had.
And later, carefully held psychedelic medicine work allowed me to access parts of myself that had been protected and buried for decades—grief, fear, tenderness, truth.
The transformation didn’t happen all at once. It happened through patience, curiosity, and integration.
The Soul Centered Method
Movement × Medicine × Mentorship
Movement opens, strengthens, and grounds the body and nervous system
Mentorship provides accountability, reflection and integration
Medicine opens access to deeper truth and emotional material
The overlap is Soul-Centered Transformation: embodied integration, authentic living, and deep fulfillment.
No single pillar works alone.
Insight without embodiment doesn’t last.
Movement without awareness becomes armor.
Medicine without mentorship risks fragmentation.
Integration is everything.
Modalities
I Draw From
My approach is integrative & trauma-informed.
Depending on the client, I may draw from…
Somatic Coaching & Nervous System Regulation We pay attention to what your body is doing in real time—tightening, bracing, checking out—and work with those signals so stress doesn’t immediately turn into control, shutdown, or reactivity.
Strength Training as Embodied Practice Strength becomes a way to build trust with your body, not override it. We notice how you meet effort, challenge, and fatigue, and train strength that feels grounded and connected rather than armored.
Breathwork & Internal Awareness Breath is used to settle a busy system or allow held emotion and energy to move—always with choice and pacing. This helps expand your emotional range without overwhelming your nervous system.
Hakomi-informed somatic inquiry We slow moments down and explore your inner experience with curiosity—tracking sensations, impulses, and beliefs as they arise—so unconscious patterns can be felt, understood, and updated rather than analyzed or forced.
Parts-informed & relational inquiry
We work with the different parts of you that show up under stress—the achiever, protector, caretaker, avoider—so you can respond in relationships with more honesty and less reflex.
TRE (as regulation and recovery)
TRE is used as a tool to help your body release accumulated tension and complete stress cycles, supporting recovery, reduced chronic tightness, and a calmer baseline after intensity.
Psychedelic preparation & integration
When appropriate, we focus on preparing the nervous system, setting clear intentions, and integrating experiences afterward into daily life. The emphasis is on embodiment and lived change—not peak experiences.
No dogma. No forcing. We meet the system where it is.
Learn more about my training & experience here.
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Testimonials
hear from the community
“What I enjoy most about training with Drew is not only does he make training incredibly fun and enjoyable, his deep understanding of the body and its functions are apparent in everything he has me do.
He is constantly using a variety of different movements and exercises that target multiple areas of the body simultaneously, with the intention of bringing strength and harmony within the whole body.
He also explains the why behind everything he has me do, which is both educational and helps align me with the mind body connection.
Since I started training with Drew, my proprioception has increased tenfold, I've learned to experience my body in different ways, and I'm proud to say that I'm in the best shape of my life.
Grateful for this generous human, who chooses a path to show up and serve others from the heart.”
- Travis Logan
“Working with Drew is hands down the best investment I have made for my physical / mental / spiritual health.
I love that I can be completely and authentically me in his presence, whatever that means, and he meets me where I’m at to help get me to where I want to go. He has helped me get incredibly strong, not only in my physical body, but —
I am stronger and more resilient as a parent, nurse, and human being since I started working with Drew.”
- Jenna Hardcastle
“I love working out with Drew because he knows how to hold space for the entire holistic experience of healing.
The physical work I have done in the past year with Drew has brought me into a strength I didn’t think was possible, I’m in the best shape of my life.
Drew has shown me what is possible when we train for a strong physical body to contain deep inner work.
It’s full system, multi dimensional transformation.”
- Roxy Jane Hunt
“I came to Drew needing help with training for an upcoming, crazy backpacking season. As an avid hiker and backpacker, this is my first time ever seriously training for the backpacking season and it’s been incredible.
Drew has been helping me work on my strength, balance and overall flexibility, which is essential with being able to do long miles and lots of elevation while staying injury-free when out on trail.
I love how Drew not only shows me what I need to do, but he also gives me the why I need to do it and explains how these exercises will positively influence my body and performance out on trail, both mentally and physically.
Each session I come in to see Drew, I always leave feeling way better in my body then when I arrived.”
Kathleen Neves
“Words cannot express how appreciative I am of Drew. He is not just a personal trainer, but a life coach. He built a plan for me that focuses on creating a lifestyle centered on self-love and overall well-being, while also including my fitness goals.
I appreciate his focus to meet me where I am at each session. His positive, calm demeanor, sense of humor resonates throughout the space and program.
He has helped me change my outlook on fitness from being a workout routine that I do a few days a week, to being a crucial aspect of my everyday life to create balance, relieve stress, and ensure my body and mind will be at its peak for the rest of my life.
Drew has created a program for me focusing on holistic strength and protecting areas prone to injury and pain, which has completely eliminated lower back pain that I have been struggling with for the past 10 years.
- Blake Drown
“What I love most about working with Andrew is his ability to support the entireness of my being.
Andrew connects with me personally to understand my emotional, spiritual and physical state and then cultivates a workout plan that helps me to work through my blockages while rebuilding my relationship with my body.
His deep wisdom and understanding of the physical and emotional body allow him to guide me into deeper states of alignment—
and strength on every level, at every phase of my life from injury recovery to strength building and beyond.”
- Meg Filer
Mentorship
Soul Centered Coaching
12 Month Coaching Sessions with Andrew
Coaching sessions are designed to be a long-arc container for people ready to live differently—not just understand themselves better.
This 12-month program includes two somatic mentorship sessions per month, personalized practices and integration, support between sessions and optional intensives or medicine-related work when aligned.
Ready to Begin?
Apply for Coaching Sessions by filling out this brief questionnaire. Once received, I’ll reach out to schedule a Discovery Call in which we can explore next steps together.
If you’ve built a life through effort, control, and resilience—and feel the quiet pull toward something truer—this work is for you.
The path back to self is not force.
It’s safety, honesty, and integration.
Soul Centered Coaching
12 Month Coaching Sessions with Andrew
Ready to Begin?
Apply for Coaching Sessions by filling out this brief questionnaire. Once received, I’ll reach out to schedule a Discovery Call in which we can explore next steps together.