Finding Stillness in a Digital World: #WAY_LamaTenzing

What did Alan Rexroth say about his film?

When I first met Lama Tenzing during a research trip years ago, I felt something I couldn’t explain: something still, quiet, and deeply powerful. He had never consciously healed anyone with his energy before, and when I asked if he thought he could, he just smiled and said, “I can try.” Two years later, we returned to Sikkim with a small crew, and with that one sentence still echoing in my mind, we began to film.

#WAY_LamaTenzing is not about spectacle. It doesn’t shout. It listens and encourages reflection.

We had to battle altitude sickness, shifting weather, and the fragility of navigating a completely different world, with no fallback plan. Darjeeling is both breathtaking and raw: tea fields, colonial echoes, and deep spiritual presence coexist with illness and poverty. In this space, a woman named Kamala lay bedridden. And in that same space, Lama Tenzing quietly began to change something.

As filmmakers, we sometimes have the rare privilege of bringing people together. That’s what happened here. And the result, Kamala’s recovery, to the disbelief of local doctors, was not just moving, it was humbling.

This film asks you to slow down. To resist the urge for digital clarity or dramatic structure. It’s a quiet act of presence in a world that moves far too fast. It belongs to the larger feature project #WHEREAREYOU, which explores what we lose when we disconnect from each other - while thinking we’re constantly connected.

#WAY_LamaTenzing is the beginning of that cycle. It's not a film about healing. It's a film about trust.