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 deeper, more primary; more comprehensive– a state of lasting contentment in a world of constant change.
For this, we must look within ourselves. 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 perennial wisdom traditions recognize perception, thought, feeling, belief and action as the determiners of personal and collective reality.
Awakening consciousness is always an inside job, but getting there is not always easy. Ironically, we tend to wait until we are sick and tired before we begin to change. We were not taught that symptomatic indicators of dis-ease such as frustration, injury, apathy, heartache, hypertension, isolation and exhaustion are all forms of internal communication that tell us our ways of living are not working. We’ve learned to ignore, repress or push through obstacles to try to reach a status or destination. We were never shown how to read our internal roadmap to rewrite consciousness and bring our systems into balance.
So where does it all begin? Around one year of age, the human mind establishes a personal identity based on interactions, feelings and observations. While our spirit observes from unity, our mind generally operates from a state of separation. With this limitation, lack of wholistic guidance and incomplete education, our life-perspective develops into a state duality, opposition and protection. Our survival mind is then fueled by memory, comparison, 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 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, unifying principles and mutually-beneficial practices are our best means to regenerate physical, mental, emotional, energetic, and spiritual wellbeing.
MISSION
Conscious Lifeways is founded on providing wholistic wisdom, experiential learning opportunities and integrative support to individuals, couples, families, groups, businesses, and organizations. Our offerings are based on age-old knowledge based in unified consciousness, natural connection, and harmonic ways of living– aka, lasting contentment in a world of constant change.
We call it the Living Peace.
AYNI : UNCONDITIONAL RIGHT RELATIONSHIP
JEFFREY WAMANCHEQ WIUM
North America
I am a traditionally-trained Andean practitioner, intermediary, educator and consultant. I draw on thirty years’ experience working with wholistic wisdom, conscious lifeways, education and regenerative health. My work includes entrepreneurial startup, management, media production, biointegrative design and green building practices.
I worked in commercial media production from 1986 to 2003. In 1996, I had a mystical experience that altered my reality and life path. I began outdoor adventure filmmaking, studying spiritual arts and undertook an educational journey to Beijing, Tibet, Nepal and India.
While there, I had several experiences that led me home to study t indigenous wisdom in the Americas. I began training with the Lipan Apache tradition and shifted my media projects to ecological, educational and adventure-based content.
In 2002, I was injured while filming a reality television series. This was a personal reality check. I began a process of wholistic healing and focused on balancing my mind-body-spirit, inner-awareness and rejuvenation.
A year later, after completing a filming expedition in the arctic, I began a four-year path of apprenticeship, accreditation, initiation and modality training– receiving nine interdisciplinary certifications and ordinations.
In 2005, I attended an Energy Medicine conference in Peru. While there, maestros from the Andean Enqan tradition asked if I’d like to return and begin an apprenticeship of their ancestral lifeways. I accepted.
Two years later, lineage Elders invited me into the celestial levels of the tradition where I began an intensive period of training under their tutelage. I was also asked to bring groups to the Andes and offer conscious lifeways programs in other countries. We started our mountain retreats and journeys in May of 2007 and initiated expanded operations in September.
The following year, Tupac and I received visions to create a film conveying the sacred lifeways and ceremonial practices of the tradition. The Elders asked that I create it as a solo filmmaker/Paqo in order to maintain clarity and record the experience in first-person perspective. All together, we did ten filming expeditions over an eighteen month period.
In January of 2014, we began offering screenings of Wisdomkeepers, Paqo Andino, cosmological talks and program retreats in twenty countries. In 2020, we moved online to begin seeding Andean Codigos and Conscious Living Series via Zoom. After international borders reopened, we continued our nature-based programs in Peru, Europe, America, and New Zealand.
In 2025, Hannah Gentle and I created ConsciousLifeways.org and SEED (Socio-Ecological Education & Development) as a vessel for collaborating with additional regional and global partners.
TUPAC TTITO KUNTUR
South America
Tupac is a descendent of the Enqa, a traditionally-trained Andean practitioner, intermediary, educator and consultant.
Tupac began his training at the age of two under the tutelage of his grandfather. Tupac was brought up fully living the tradition’s ancestral lifeways. This immersion provided a basis for his collective consciousness and interdimensional operation.
In adolescence, Tupac experienced a momentary death from disease. He was resuscitated by the Ancestral Elders, and to this day, maintains a deep connection to them in daily life.
At eleven, Tupac’s grandfather passed away. In his absence, Tupac began a period of exploration and self-directed learning in the highlands surrounding his village. He journeyed deep into the highlands to follow insight, instruction, and spiritual observation. In his travels, Tupac learned ceremonial offerings, helped people with food production and deepened his relationship with the Earth, Elements and Ancestral Elders who had saved his life.
At 16 years old, Tupac’s father passed away. Tupac 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, Tupac 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, Tupac 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.
Tupac’s knowledge is largely a result of his long-held relationship with the Mountain Spirit Benefactors and the Andean culture which is rooted in animistic consciousness, equality, equanimity, non-duality, generosity and reciprocity.
Tupac 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, Tupac 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 planned for Montana, New Zealand, and Europe.