Workshop: The Living Peace, with Jeffrey Wium, filmmaker of Paqo Andino,
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Jeffrey Wium returns to Boulder! Workshop at Solstice Center
Note from Edie: Many of us who have studied Peruvian traditions have been profoundly touched by the film Wisdomkeepers: Paqo Andino,which was created by Jeffrey Wium from a place of deep respect and heart-felt connection to the elders of the Sacred Mountain Tradition.
The Living Peace, Sunday July 20
This one-day workshop explores a lifeway that embodies and understands The Living Peace. Participants develop awareness tools to map out what prevents Synchronicity in their lives and receive conscious practices to help align themselves to allow Grace to flow with and around them.
Jeffrey will facilitate guided meditations to strengthen one’s connection to the inherent state of Grace that dwells within us beyond cultural programming and offer information for strengthening manifestation at personal, regional and global levels to be more interactive with the planetary awakening. It is the primer for developing collectively, the How To.
The film is a heart transmission and a means to begin a conversation.
This day-long workshop continues that conversation.
Please join us to experience the relevance of ancient wisdom, assist global awakening and remember that which has always been within us.
Info:
http://www.paqoandino.com/workshop-boulder-may-jjuly
Register: $125 - through EventBrite or cash at the door
http://www.eventbrite.com/e/wisdomkeepers-workshop-the-living-peace-tickets-11765413669
Questions: Therese Wells < therese.wells@gmail.com >
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Photos from Wisdomkeepers: Paqo Andino
BACKGROUND ON JEFFREY AND THE JOURNEY OF CREATING THE FILM:
Filmmaker Jeffrey Wium is a lineage holder in the Andean Holy Mountain Tradition with a professional background in multi-media production. In 2008 he received inspiration for this project during a pilgrimage in the Peruvian Andes.
Here he shares his experience with the project:
"In 2002 I was injured while filming a television series and led into the realm of holistic healing as a result of my recuperative inquires. This 'accident' offered deep insights into the need to integrate physical, mental and emotional healing in order to experience a larger state of wholeness, and introduced me to the mystical realms of ancient spiritual healing arts.
After four years of directed learning, initiations and certifications in a variety of modalities, I came to recognize a deep resonance in my work with the maestros of the Andean Holy Mountain Tradition. In early 2007 I was called and initiated as an Andean Paqo and began traveling to Peru every six to eight weeks to facilitate my work. A year and a half later the inspiration for the film came to me during a high mountain pilgrimage.
Returning home from the trip I shared my vision with a close friend who recognized the value of the project and unexpectedly offered initial production funding and additional philanthropic resources on the spot. I realized then that my two seemingly separate worlds were coming together and began gathering my skill sets to coordinate multiple production trips while continuing my work as a Paqo.
I knew that accessing and recording the historically secretive lifeways of the Andean Holy Mountain Tradition would require cultural sensitivity and operational invisibility. To meet the film's technical requirements, maintain access to sacred sites and ceremonies and assure cosmological integrity, I would have to work solo, drawing on all of my experience as an Andean lineage holder and producer/director/cameraman.
In 2010, following completion of principle photography, I allocated time to wind down my teaching and client responsibilities, relocate my family and bring in our second child. This period provided space for reflection and to remind myself not to get in the way of how the project wanted to present Itself.
The editorial process took fourteen months to complete. It was an unorthodox approach, executed in a single pass from beginning to end using the Paqos native Quechua language. When my colleagues completed the Spanish and English translations, I set about clarifying the dialogue to make it more accessible to western audiences and generated subtitles.
The film’s inspiration, coordination and production has been one of deep faith, listening and inter-cultural / inter-dimensional integration into an ancient way of being, a personal and professional paradigm rooted in our natural, unified state of reality and "ayni”, unconditional right relationship.
This project has Directors beyond myself, and as such, has drawn support from people and organizations that have recognized the call. I am deeply grateful for this collaboration and for the opportunity to receive the gifts of their experience and wisdom. And, it is to our Ancestors that I offer thanks for setting this all in motion so long ago."
Workshop: The Living Peace, with Jeffrey Wium, filmmaker of Paqo Andino,