JEFFREY WAMANCHEQ WIUM

North America

Jeffrey is a traditionally-trained Andean Enqan practitioner, program facilitator, lifeways educator and consultant. He also has a professional background in media production, biointegrative design, project management and green construction.

In 1996, Jeffrey experienced a mystical event that changed his life. He began studying spiritual arts, received the Avaloketesvara initiation, and undertook an educational journey to China, Tibet, Nepal and India.

While there, Jeffrey had deeply inspirational and emotional experiences: in spirit with monks, in nature with temple monkeys, and in kind, with an Elder who pointed him to the wisdom of his birth country.

Back in America, Jeffrey began training in the lifeways and ancestral wisdom of the Lipan Apache, and refocused media production to ecological, educational and adventure-based offerings.

In 2002, Jeffrey was injured while filming a television series. His recuperation brought contemplation and a decision to change professions. Over the next four years, he completed reiki, psychosomatic bodywork and yoga trainings as well as six other interdisciplinary certifications and ordinations to support his work as a wholistic health practitioner and consultant.

In 2005, while attending an Andean Energy Medicine conference in Peru, maestros from the Q’ero nation invited Jeffrey to begin an apprenticeship to learn the wisdom and lifeways of the Andean Enqan tradition.

In 2006, the Apus (Mountain Spirit Benefactors of the lineage) asked Jeffrey to begin bringing people to Peru and to create/facilitate program retreats in other countries. This was the beginning of the Living Wisdom Project which shared wholistic wisdom, supported conscious awakening, and facilitated Nature/Spirit connections in day-to-day life.

In early 2007, Jeffrey was initiated into the celestial realms of the Andean Enqan tradition. This began a dedicated period of training under the tutelage of his Apu Benefactor and colleagues. Later that year, Jeffrey was struck/confirmed by lightning– as is tradition for this level of Andean practitioner.

In August of 2008, Jeffrey received a vision to create a film conveying the sacred lifeways and practices of the Andean Enqan tradition. He received philanthropic funding and pre-production began 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. Film mastering, marketing, and private screenings followed.

In January 2014, Jeffrey began traveling the world sharing Wisdomkeepers, Paqo Andino screenings, offering talks, educational programs, and expanded cosmological retreats.

TUPAQ TTITO KUNTUR

South America

Tupaq is a direct descendent of the Enqa, Andean celestial practitioner, program facilitator, lifeways 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 an 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.

Tupaq is an extraordinarily humble, grounded and wise man. As a father, teacher and mystic, Tupaq speaks from his heart, extending ancestral wisdom for generations of his ancestors and multitudes of interdimensional beings.

Tupaq shares his wisdom via personal consultations, educational programs, talks, mentorships and immersive retreats.

Jeffrey and Tupaq founded the Living Wisdom Project, now 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 wholistic ways of living, train indigenous, and western practitioners.

Additional living centers are being developed in Montana, New Zealand and Europe.