SPIRAL OF ILLUMINATION

Awaken              Embody            Transform

The path you were meant to walk has always known your name.

Through deep coaching, support in cultivating somatic awareness and discernment, and energy work, I help people to understand themselves, unwind old patterns, and move toward greater trust, alignment, authenticity and aliveness.

Welcome Dear Path Walker. You might Want to Work with me if……

  • You sense that your body holds wisdom the mind cannot access but are struggling to interpret and trust the signs

  • You are noticing energetic patterns that no longer serve you (ex: hyper-vigilance, urgency) as there is no real external danger but are unsure how to relate to them

  • You might feel increasingly hypersensitive, intuitive, alive—-sometimes painfully disoriented

  • You are on the cusp of change or are going through a major shift in your life

  • You long for greater meaning and purpose and to live a life that is deeply your own

  • You’ve glimpsed something mystical, magical and mysterious and don’t want to let it go

  • You long to feel both at ease and peace, and alive and vital

  • You are a sensitive, thoughtful and introspective person

  • You long for deep change, not surface level advice or quick fixes

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The Work we do…..

….sits at a cross section of empathic-intuitive- somatic coaching, energy sensing and guiding. I aspire to create a safe container for courage and soulful truth to come forth. The modalities employed are often emergent—AND they are based on the premise that in order to thrive and live a beautiful and joyful life, we must expand our capacity to fully be with the range of sensations and emotions that comprise human experience; including discomfort, grief, uncertainty and aversion, as well as truly relishing and celebrating joy on a somatic level and allowing ourselves to really receive and accept those lovely experiences too. There is no rush and the work can be deliberate, slow, titrated to meet any individual where they’re at. We co-create the work together, and your awareness of and access to choice and cultivation of personal power is of utmost importance to me.

Welcome beautiful humans in sacred becoming!

My name is Andy and this is the Spiral (Path) of Illumination.  

This path is not a ladder climb or a formula for fixing yourself.  

It’s a way of being in sacred relationship with your life: 

While it is true that there are many horrific things occurring in the world, most of us are not suffering because our lives are objectively terrible. We suffer from confusion and misunderstanding, and because our capacities to feel, to grieve, to experience joy without self sabotage, to hold paradox, beauty and ugliness, and to face uncertainty, are too underdeveloped for what life asks of us.

This framework arose from lived experience: years of seeking, surrendering, and awakening.  

From walking alongside others in upheaval, grief, bewilderment, transition and transformation.  

From listening to what is true beneath words and cultivating embodied knowing.

It’s not offered as a prescription.  

It is a poetic invitation. A map to help you orient to life, again and again.

Path of Illumination Diagram

Awaken

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Embody

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Transform

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Awaken ✹ Embody ✹ Transform ✹

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Spiral Walk With Me ;)

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Client Transformations

  • The most profound change I have observed within myself is discovering a deep understanding that I am safe, held, and protected by the world. Through working with Andy, I have moved through emotional, physical, and psychological barriers. Through energy work, conversation, and movement, I now flow through each day with more curiosity, creativity, and feeling lighter than ever! More self-loving than ever, and self expressed. Anxieties and vigilance have faded into appreciating each experience for exactly what it is. I now feel that I have practiced enough bravery with Andy as a safe container to enter into my life with unmasked passion, and the ability to relax with the unknown when I used to turn away.

    Sabina K.

  • Working with Andy Rupp as my life coach was truly transformative….One of the most impactful changes was around a deep-rooted belief that I couldn't—or didn’t deserve to—have a fulfilling relationship. With Andy’s coaching and encouragement, I found the strength to confront that belief. Today, I’m in an amazing, supportive partnership—something I once thought was impossible.

    Greta T.

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Santa Fe

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