Don Theo Paredes, Ph.D.

Don Theo Paredes, Ph.D. is an anthropologist who consults with indigenous cultures world wide to maintain sustainable communities. Having grown up in Cusco, Peru, he has been intimately involved with communities isolated from the modern world. Don Theo has studied Andean healing techniques for over twenty years, emphasizing native practices of engaging energy. As passed down to him from the ancient masters, he possesses a deep understanding of the purposes for which the energetic centers of the Inkas were created. Don Theo is the founding director of the Poqen Kanchay Foundation (“where light germinates”) which seeks to rescue, research and teach ancient knowledge and techniques of managing energy to transform living into an art.