In my youth, my days were filled with nature, play, athletics and the relative ease of small-town life. At 10, my family moved to the suburbs and by my mid-teens, I was feeling disconnected, rebellious and suffering from a lack of meaningful culture and spiritual touchstones. I felt like an odd bird in a deeply homogenized society.

I graduated high school in 1985 and boarded a plane overseas. I was 18-years old and very little if any knowledge of the world. Little did I know then that life experience, global exploration and cultural immersion would become some of my deepest teachers.

I spent the next years working in multimedia production in highly demanding environments and complex foreign locations. Living in metropolitan centers exposed me to the humanities, arts and sciences, culture, politics, and the importance of personal and professional integrity.

I learned a great deal during this period and felt a sense of accomplishment. I also felt a deeper calling– something more enigmatic, more meaningful. I decided to take a year off to explore my craft and expression at an art institute.

By 1991, I was living in Los Angeles, working in video and television production. While there, I was introduced to a local elder who offered Native American sweatlodge ceremonies. I immediately appreciated the way she spoke her truth and lived in her integrity without compromise. She was an artist and grandmother. She introduced me to traditional wisdom, ceremony and the sacred ways of Great Spirit. I was inspired by her guidance, knowledge, prayerful manner and sense of inner knowing. She encouraged me to walk my path, look into the unknown, release my mind and search for who I really am– my deeper Being.

Over the next years, I juggled the worlds of media production and a budding spiritual path. By 1994, I was burnt out by work demands and took time off to rejuvenate in the coastal redwoods of the Northern California. For six months, I slept in and regenerated myself while searching for answers to questions I did not have words for.

In 1995, I returned to Los Angeles to direct my first commercial project. In the midst of shooting, I had the stark realization that this type of professional life was incongruent with my personal and spiritual needs. I became acutely aware of the cost of having a fast-paced career and expense of living at a distance from Nature.

There, at 28-years old, I felt a profound shift of life-purpose.  Saturn had returned. I completed my work, sold my belongings and relocated to Oregon to focus on my personal wellbeing. I took a production job to cover expenses, began studying meditation and learning new spiritual practices.

Things were slowing down and new insights were opening. I  was spending a lot of time in Nature, contemplating and exploring. Then one evening, while mountain biking, I had a spontaneous mystical experience that radically shifted my reality. At a loss for understanding and comparative, I found myself needing proper guidance to navigate this newfound, multidimensional reality. 

I was introduced to a Chinese qigong master who invited me to study, explore the mystical arts and deepen my practice. The next year, I was invited to travel to Beijing and Lhasa to work with other Asian masters.

When our programs concluded in China and Tibet, I stayed in Lhasa to explore the mystical terrain. I wanted to better understand the Life Force that had presented Itself to and through me back in Oregon.

During my time in Lhasa, I had a mystical encounter with a group of monks in a monastery. While observing their ceremony, I found myself mesmerized by the their chants and collective resonance. Surprisingly, a monk motioned for me to come sit with them in the central temple and then encouraged me to join their prayerful offerings. I sat and began to emit guttural chants. The monk placed his robe and yellow hat on me. I suddenly experienced a deep knowing and familiarity across time. I didn’t know how, but I knew the chants and how to do them. I continued with them for some time. The monks and Rinpoche smiled and nodded. I smiled back. I found myself, sitting there in the temple amongst 50 or so of my brothers. I was full of surprise, joy, inspiration, ease and contentment. And my mind had a lot questions…

Days later, I travelled  into the high plateau to visit other sacred sites. While meditating in a monastery near Chomolungma (Mount Everest), I had an interaction with an elder, adept caretaker who had been watching me all day. He approach quietly in the afternoon and inquired about my reasoning for visiting. He then, rather insistently, told me to “go home. That I would not find what I was looking for there!” What?! Where then?

I departed for Nepal and onward to India to follow a vision I had received earlier in my journey. During an unexpected week-long stopover in Kathmandu, I experienced another supernatural event that stretched reality even further. Spirit was showing me the Way. And testing me.

I travelled onwards to the Buddhist enclave at Dharmsala. I met a western monk along the way. He pointed me to a quiet refuge to stay. I spent my days in silence, exploring, contemplating, sitting in temples, doing practices, visiting the birthplace of Gautama Buddha and immersed in the ways of the Himalayan people.

There, I found a deep resonance and knowing that had no reference to my western upbringing. I found myself face to face with my soul’s reflection.

I returned to America with the words of the adept Tibetan pointing me to my own country’s native wisdom. I began training in the Lipan Apache tradition and took free-lance work filming outdoor adventure programs and producing ecological and educational-based television.

In 2002, I ran into myself again when I sustained an injury while shooting a reality tv series. This became my own reality check and another fork in my road.

The recuperation process showed me the limitations of allopathic medicine and inspired me to pursue integrative health practices and psychosomatic-shamanic protocols. I spent the next four years studying, researching and certifying in a variety of interdisciplinary modalities and then weaving it into a professional practice.

In 2005, I traveled to an energy medicine conference in Peru where I was unexpectedly invited to apprentice with the Paqos of the Andean-Inkan Holy Mountain Tradition. This was an ever deeper homecoming for me, and a path to harmonizing my personal and professional pursuits. I dedicated myself 100%.

In January 2007, I was invited into the celestial realms of the Andean-Inkan Holy Mountain Tradition where I began a more intensive period of training. Nine months later, I was initiated by lightning and asked to begin bringing groups to the Andes, travel abroad to convey the lineage’s heart wisdom, and help modern peoples awaken to their divine consciousness.

A year later, I received a vision to make the film Wisdomkeepers, Paqo Andino while on pilgrimage with a group in Peru. When I got home, a friend offered philanthropic funding and pre-production began in earnest. Filming commenced in April 2009 and wrapped in October 2010. During this time, I was balancing filmmaking, teaching programs, client work, building a homestead and family while continuing my initiatory path.

In January of 2014, with completed film in hand, I began an extensive journey offering screenings, talks, programs and experiential retreats around the world.

In 2020, when borders shut down, I landed in the mountains of Montana to rest, reconfigure to online offerings and spend more time with my boys. When able, I travelled to the Andes to continue my work, receive initiations and deepen my comprehension of the Andean-Inkan/Pre-Inkan wisdom.

These past few years have been a time of deeper reflection, preparation, integration and listening. The Elder Ones continually saying, “continue what you are doing. Prepare yourself. It’s almost time...”

I am deeply grateful for the elder wisdom and guidance found in modern, ancestral and indigenous pathways. Looking back at my late teens and early twenties, I choose to bypass institutionalized education in favor of first-hand directed learning and professional apprenticeship. I  found that this mix of experiential education and wholistic cosmological training fed a part of me that sought deeper connection and meaning since my youth.

The work itself is not mine. I am simply a messenger. My offerings are based on animistic consciousness, psychosomatic harmonization, bioenergetic integration, yogic and shamanic principle, meditation, movement, prayerful ceremony and interdimensional guidance.

Back in 2007, I founded the Living Wisdom Project as a platform to record and convey wholistic life principles and practices that have, for the most part, been lost to modern society. Now known as Living Wisdom Education, our offerings provide immersive experiences and educational opportunities to a global community. Our principles are based on awakening consciousness, self-responsibility,   collective non-duality, freedom, trust, personal wisdom and wholistic living.

We create collaborative opportunities for people from all walks of life to come together and live a sovereign, interdependent life.