MOTIVATION
It is human nature to seek understanding, expansion and fulfillment. We dedicate ourselves to living healthy lives, developing meaningful professions, nurturing loving relationships, and raising conscious children. And yet for many, there remains a yearning for something more primary, more comprehensive– a state of lasting contentment in a world of constant change.
For this, we must look within. Gautama Buddha taught that the mind’s perspective precedes all experience. Francis Bacon stated that all the world is a stage. Similarly, wholistic psychology and traditional wisdom recognize perception, thought, feeling, belief, and action as the building blocks of personal and collective reality.
Awakening consciousness is always an inside job, but life is not always easy. Ironically, we generally wait until we are sick and tired before we engage change. Symptomatic indicators such as frustration, injury, apathy, heartache, hypertension, isolation, and exhaustion are signs of mind-body imbalance. Our biology is stressed and communicating through dis-ease.
So where does it all begin? Around one year of age, the human mind establishes a personal identity based on interactions, feelings and observations. Our spirit observes from unity, but our environment generally operates from a state of separation. With this, lack of wholistic guidance, and incomplete education, our perspective develops into a dualistic state. Our survival mind can be fueled by comparison, competition, segregation, fear, trauma, drama, and protective 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, and conflict.
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. Humanity needs to learn how to operate in unified structure and mutually-beneficial ways.
MISSION
Conscious Lifeways is founded on providing based on wholistic wisdom, integrative guidance, and experiential education for individuals, couples, families, groups, businesses, and organizations.
Our offerings are based on deepening natural connection, unifying consciousness, and helping develop and sustain more grounded and fulfilling ways of operating– 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, educator, and consultant. He draws on thirty years’ experience working with wholistic wisdom, conscious lifeways, and regenerative health. His work includes entrepreneurial startup, media production, biointegrative design, and green building practices.
In 1996, Jeffrey experienced a mystical event that shifted his life path. He began studying spiritual arts, received the Buddhist Avaloketesvara initiation, and undertook an educational journey to China, Tibet, Nepal, and India.
While there, Jeffrey had several supernatural experiences that further expanded his reality. These events led to the study of indigenous wisdom in his birth country. Jeffrey trained with the Lipan Apache wisdom tradition and shifting his media production to focus on ecological, educational, and adventure-based content.
In 2002, Jeffrey was injured while filming a reality television series. This was a reality check. His healing process brought rejuvenation, contemplation, and the decision to become a wholistic health practitioner.
Over the next four years, Jeffrey put together a program of experiential learning, completing nine interdisciplinary health certifications and ordinations.
In 2005, while attending an Andean Bioenergetic Medicine conference in Peru, maestros from the Q’ero nation invited Jeffrey to begin an apprenticeship. This began twenty years’ initiation and working immersion within the Andean Enqan lineage.
In early 2007, Jeffrey was initiated into the celestial realms of the Andean Enqan tradition. This began a more intensive period of training under the tutelage of his Apu-Benefactor and ancestral Elders. Jeffrey was asked to begin bringing people to the Andes for cosmological retreats, and create/facilitate programs and retreats in other countries. Nine months later, Jeffrey was initiated by lightning.
In August 2008, Jeffrey and Tupaq received visions to create a film conveying the sacred lifeways and practices of the Andean Enqan tradition. Jeffrey received philanthropic funding a couple of weeks later and began pre-production in earnest.
Working as a solo filmmaker, Jeffrey and his Peruvian colleagues made ten trips into the highlands over an eighteen-month period.
In 2012, Jeffrey began editorial and soundtrack development. In late 2013, he mastered the film and began traveling the world to share screenings of Wisdomkeepers, Paqo Andino, offer talks, educational programs, and nature-based retreats.
TUPAC TTITO KUNTUR
South America
Tupaq is a descendent of the Enqa, a traditionally-trained Andean practitioner, intermediary, educator, and consultant.
Tupaq began his training at the age of two under the tutelage of his grandfather. Tupaq was brought up living the tradition’s ancestral lifeways. This immersion provided a basis for collective consciousness and interdimensional operation.
In his adolescence, Tupaq experienced a momentary death from disease. He was resuscitated by the Mountain Spirit Benefactors and to this day, they maintain a deep connection in daily life.
At eleven, Tupaq’s grandfather passed away. In his absence, Tupaq began a period of exploration and self-directed learning in the highlands surrounding his village. He journeyed into the landscape to follow instruction, intuition, observation and embodiment. Tupaq learned ceremonial offerings, helped people with food production and deepened his relationship with the Earth, Elements and the Apus who had saved his life.
At 16 years old, Tupaq’s father passed away and Tupaq returned home to support his mother and his six younger siblings. During this time, he continued his journeys into nature, refined his knowledge and honed his techniques while attending to the needs of his family and community.
At 19, Tupaq moved to Cusco to expand his education. There, he began a series of apprenticeships with celestial maestros to deepen his understanding, wisdom, ceremonies and prayers.
At 21, Tupaq became a full initiate of the Andean-Inkan celestial tradition. Since then, he has focused on expanding his knowledge base, sharing what he knows and supporting the health and wellbeing of the local people, flora and fauna.
Tupaq’s education and knowledge’s is largely a result of his long-held relationship with the Apu Mountain Spirit Benefactors and the Andean culture which is rooted in equanimity, equality, non-duality, generosity, respect and animistic consciousness.
Tupaq’ is dedicated to sharing Andean Enqan wisdom, sacred practices, cosmological principles and wholistic ways of life. He is a founding member of Tiwantinsuyo (the return of the Children of the Sun). In this, Tupaq and his family organize cultural exchanges with maestros and wisdomkeepers 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 planned for Montana, New Zealand, and Europe.