MOTIVATION
It is human nature to seek understanding, expansion, and fulfillment. We dedicate ourselves to living healthy lives, developing meaningful work, nurturing loving relationships, and raising conscious children. And yet, for many, there remains a yearning for something deeper, more primary; comprehensive– a state of lasting contentment in a world of constant change.
To achieve this, we must look within. Gautama Buddha taught that our mind’s perspective precedes all experience. Francis Bacon reminded us that all the world is a stage. Similarly, wholistic psychology and perennial wisdom traditions recognize perception, thought, feeling, belief, and action as the determiners of personal and collective reality.
Awakening consciousness is simply an inside job, but getting there is not always easy. We tend to wait until we are sick and tired before we change. There is no need for fault or blame. We were not taught that symptomatic indicators such as dis-ease, exhaustion, frustration, isolation, injury, apathy, heartache, and hypertension are all forms of intelligent communication that tell us that our ways of living are not working. We’ve learned to ignore, repress, or push through obstacles to try to reach a destination, or status. We never learned how to read internal roadmaps in order to engage personal responsibility, evolve consciousness, and bring our mind, body, spirit, and systems into balance.
So where did it all begin? Around one year old, the mind establishes a personal identity based on environment, interactions, feelings, and observations. While our spirit lives in unity, our mind generally develops to operate from a state of separation. With this entrained limitation, lack of wholistic guidance, and incomplete education, our life-perspective develops into a state duality, opposition, and protection. The survival mind is then fueled by difficult memories, comparisons, competition, segregation, fear, trauma, drama, and projective points of view. Left unchecked, these influences combine to obscure our original state of oneness, causing our lives to be fraught with confusion, compensation, acquisition, repetition, and self-created conflict.
Where do we go from here? Ancient wisdom traditions speak to a time when modern people will find the light in the darkness of their times. We feel that time is now, and see how conscious lifeways, integrative principles, and mutually-beneficial practices are humanity’s best means to regenerate physical, mental, emotional, energetic, and spiritual wellbeing.
MISSION
Conscious Lifeways is founded on providing wholistic wisdom, experiential learning opportunities, and multidimensional support to individuals, couples, families, groups, businesses, and organizations. Our offerings are based on time-tested knowledge, unified consciousness, natural connection, and harmonic ways of being– aka, lasting contentment in a world of constant change.
We call it the Living Peace.
AYNI : UNCONDITIONAL RIGHT RELATIONSHIP
JEFFREY WAMANCHEQ WIUM
North America
Jeffrey is a traditionally-trained Andean practitioner, intermediary, facilitator and consultant. He draws on thirty years’ experience working with wholistic wisdom, conscious lifeways, education, regenerative health. He integrates personal development, exploration, experiential education, media production, biointegrative design and green building practices.
In 1996, Jeffrey experienced a mystical event that shifted his reality and life path. He began studying meditation and Eastern spiritual practices, and undertook an educational journey to Beijing, Tibet, Nepal and India.
While abroad, Jeffrey had further experiences that led him back to America to study indigenous wisdom and shift his media to projects based on ecology, nature education and outdoor adventure.
In 2002, Jeffrey was injured while filming a reality TV series. This was a reality check that redirected him to become a wholistic health practitioner via apprenticeships, accreditation and initiations in nine interdisciplinary modalities and ordination.
In 2005, while attended an Energy Medicine conference in Peru, Jeffrey was invited to apprentices with maestros from the Andean Enqan lineage. Two years later, he was initiated into higher realms of the tradition where he underwent more intensive training under the tutelage of the Ancestral Elders and Paqos. Jeffrey was asked to begin bringing groups to the Andes and offering conscious lifeways programs in foreign countries.
In 2008, Jeffrey and Tupaq received similar visions to make a film conveying the sacred lifeways and practices of the Andean maestros. The Elders agreed and asked Jeffrey to work as a solo filmmaker-Paqo to create first-hand perspective, maintain authenticity and focus on energetic clarity.
In 2014, Jeffrey began offering film screenings, cosmological talks, consultations and program retreats in several regions of the world. In 2015, Jeffrey and Tupaq began construction of an Andean retreat center and in 2020, Conscious Living Series and Codigos classes were brought online to a global audience. The work is now being brought out as a series of books for global distribution.
TUPAQ TTITO KUNTUR
South America
Tupaq is a descendent of Enqa and Q’anchis families. He is a traditionally-trained Andean celestial practitioner, intermediary, facilitator, and consultant.
Tupaq began his spiritual training as a boy, receiving the tutelage of his grandfather. The unbroken, nature-based cosmology of the Andes provided his basis for operating with collective consciousness and cosmic wisdom.
During his adolescence, Tupaq experienced momentary death from disease. He was resuscitated by a celestial practitioner and Ancestral Elders that became is trusted teachers. His life experience and process of regenerating his health created an ongoing, multi-faceted relationship with terrestrial and celestial beings who work in association with the traditional maestros.
At fifteen and sixteen, Tupaq’s father and grandfather passed away. In their absence Tupaq began a period of intensive training, exploration, ceremony and self-directed learning in Cusco. He studied and journeyed at length, deep into the highlands with his elder teacher to learn from nature and deepen his relationship with the Earth, Elements and Ancestral Elders who had helped return him to health.
During this time in apprenticeship, he refined his knowledge and technique while attended to the needs of his maestro and community.
Ain his twenties, Tupaq became a working initiate of the Andean celestial tradition. Since then, he has continued working with individuals and group to share his knowledge and apply his craft supporting the health and wellbeing of the people, flora, fauna and biosystem.
Tupaq’s knowledge comes from years of applied learning and his long-running relationship with Pachamama, Mountain Spirit Benefactors and the lineage Ancestors. His teachings and practices provide an authentic way to be rooted in awareness, balance, reciprocity, generosity and unified consciousness.
Tupaq is a founding member of Tawantinsuyo (return of the Children of the Sun), organizing knowledge and cultural exchanges with maestros from many traditions.
Jeffrey and Tupaq founded Conscious Lifeways as a platform to share universal knowledge, wholistic practices, and unified consciousness. They operate an educational retreat center in the Peruvian Andes to support conscious living programs, cultural dialogues, and trainings for indigenous and western practitioners. Additional living centers are being developed in New Zealand, the United States and Europe.