Wäicuni Foundation
Our team has worked together for five years, collectively executing 30 projects and deploying 30 million dollars in grants for lineage communities around the world. It has been our great honor to study for decades with teachers from ancient lineages of the Americas and Asia.
Adishvari has spent the last two decades living with indigenous tribes, where she has been formally adopted into the Uwọttüjạ tribe of Venezuela as well as initiated in the Vaishnava tradition. She co-founded and managed a community and non-profit in Perú dedicated to ancestral traditions, then later acted as an international grants manager for a large US Private Foundation.
Gopi brings close to 20 years of experience living and working alongside Indigenous communities throughout the Amazon, Andes, and the US. Utilizing his bio-chemistry degree, he established the first charitable traditional medicine laboratory in Peru's Urubamba River Valley. He is formally adopted as a 'spiritual son' and representative of the Uwọttüjạ tribe.
Dechen Gyalmo received her degree in Anthropology with emphasis in botanical and medical studies from NMSU in 2013. Having been an apprentice in traditional cultures in North America, in Mexico, the Amazon of Peru, and now in the East in Nepal & India, she has been compiling, translating, and practicing ethnomedicine & psycho-spiritual traditions for 15 years.
Vincent Ascolese graduated from Fordham Law in NYC in 2020, and since has been avidly involved in nonprofit & international philanthropic work. Through acting as a bridge between cultural traditions and legal infrastructure, his passion is creating successful networks that together preserve global traditions.
Born in France with a University degree in Socio-Anthropology & Community Projects at the University of Quebec in Canada. For more than 20 years, this path has taken her from Guatemala to Colombia. She has collaborated on projects with the Uwọttüjạ tribe (Venezuela), the Q'ero nation (Perú), the Kogi community (Colombia) and she is also involved in the US with the Washo and Lakota people.
Lancaster Pema Gawang is dedicated to preserving and promulgating the systemic requirements for human wellbeing and planetary flourishing. He has spent the majority of his life embedded in contemplative communities, participating in regenerative agriculture projects, and playing music.
Raised on his Indian tribe's ancestral land, Ken Lingad's work is anchored in millennia of cultural continuity and lived experience. As a trusted advisor to former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, he represented 23 Indian tribes, nations, and pueblos across the United States and China. He is a respected authority on American Indian affairs, economic development, healthcare, cultural arts, and sovereignty dynamics.