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 over thirty years’ experience working with wholistic wisdom, conscious lifeways, education and regenerative health. His work includes project and program development, management, experience-based learning, media production, biointegrative design and green building practices.
In 1996, Jeffrey had a mystical experience that radically shifted his reality and life path. He began studying spiritual arts and undertook an explorative, educational journey in Beijing, Tibet, Nepal and India.
While abroad, Jeffrey had several supernatural experiences that led him home to study indigenous wisdom in the Americas and shift his media production 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 inspired him to pursue a path of wholistic health training, apprenticeship, initiation and accreditation that produced nine interdisciplinary certifications and ordinations.
In 2005, Jeffrey attended an Energy Medicine conference in Peru. While there, he was invited to begin a dedicated apprenticeship with maestros from the Andean Enqan lineage.
Two years later, Jeffrey was initiated into the celestial realms of the tradition where he began a more intensive period of training under the tutelage of the Ancestral Elders. Jeffrey was then tasked with bringing groups to the Andes and offering conscious lifeways programs in multiple countries.
The following year, Jeffrey and Tupaq received a vision to create a film conveying the sacred lifeways and ceremonial practices of the Andean maestros. The Elders asked Jeffrey to work as a solo filmmaker and Paqo in order to maintain authenticity, first-hand perspective and energetic clarity.
When the film was completed, Jeffrey began offering film screenings, cosmological talks, personal consultations and program retreats in twenty countries. In 21015, Jeffrey and Tupaq founded the Andean retreat center. In 2020, Conscious Living Series and Andean Codigos classes began being offered online to a global audience. In 2025, SEED (Socio-Ecological Education and Development) was established to bring conscious lifeways and business operations to a wider audience.
TUPAQ TTITO KUNTUR
South America
Tupaq is a direct descendent of the Enqa lineage. He is a traditionally-trained Andean practitioner, intermediary, facilitator, and consultant.
Tupaq began his spiritual consciousness training at the age of two under the tutelage of his paternal grandfather. This cosmological immersion and unbroken, nature-based culture provided the basis for his cosmic wisdom, collective consciousness, and interdimensional operations.
During his adolescence, Tupaq experienced a momentary death as a result of a disease. He was resuscitated by the Ancestral Elders and brought into an ongoing, multi-faceted relationship with terrestrial and celestial beings.
At eleven, Tupaq’s grandfather passed away. In the absence of a spiritual mentor, Tupaq began a period of exploration and self-directed learning in the mountains surrounding his village. He journeyed at length, deep into the highlands to follow insight, inspiration, and spiritual instructions. In his travels, Tupac helped people with food production and vary tasks while deepening his relationship with the Earth, Elements, and Ancestral Elders who had saved his life.
At sixteen, Tupaq’s father passed over. Tupaq returned home to support his mother and his six younger siblings. During this time, he continued his educational and ceremonial journeys, refined his knowledge, honed his technique, and attended to the needs of his family and community.
At nineteen, Tupaq moved to Cusco to extend his education. There, he began a series of apprenticeships with Andean celestial maestros to deepen his wisdom, practices, ceremonies, and prayers.
At twenty-one, Tupaq became a full initiate of the Andean Enqan celestial tradition. Since that time, he has focused on expanding his knowledge and sharing his wisdom while supporting the health and wellbeing of the local people, flora, and fauna.
Tupaq’s knowledge is a result of his long-held relationship with Pachamama, Mountain Spirit Benefactors, and the Andean culture which is rooted in animistic consciousness, equality, non-duality, generosity, and reciprocity.
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.