Remember Where You Belong
Earth Peoples United is a living community devoted to ancestral wisdom, sacred land stewardship, and meaningful connection. Held online and in person.
What We Cultivate Together
The Four Pillars
When the world loses its balance, the pillars remind us how to stand upright again
We gather online and in person to deepen spiritual practice, care for Mother Earth, ourselves, and one another, and to carry living wisdom forward for future generations.
Reverence & Sacred Practice
Deepen your relationship with what is sacred
Ceremony and sacred practice are at the heart of Earth Peoples United. Rooted in Mayan lineage and ancestral traditions, we gather in ritual, prayer, and shared practice, welcoming people of all paths into a living experience of the sacred. Wherever you come from, there is a place for you at the fire.
Community & Kinship
Experience belonging in a circle of care
The EPU Hive brings together people across cultures, traditions, and paths of life. Through digital connection and in-person gatherings, we cultivate relationships rooted in care, mutual learning, and shared purpose.
Stewardship & Earth Wisdom
Cultivate care for Mother Earth, ourselves, and
one another
Through the School of Earth Wisdom and hands-on experience at our sanctuaries, you will develop practical skills, embodied well-being, and a deeper relationship with the natural world. These capacities are necessary to live in genuine reciprocity with the Earth.
Living Legacy
Carry wisdom forward for future generations
EPU is part of a living lineage of wisdom, care, and community. By tending sacred lands, sharing teachings, and nurturing future generations, we help ensure that the relationships and traditions we cultivate today continue to flourish for those who come after us.
Community & Events
Gather With Us
Join us for a weekend of shared labour and ceremony as we rebuild the Pop Jay, EPU's ancestral council house at Deer Mountain Sanctuary.
Come with your hands, your heart, and your stories.
Hands on the Land: Rebuild the Pop Jay
May 1-3 │Fri 11am - Sun 12pm
Hands on the Land: Rebuild the Pop Jay
May 8-10 │Sat 11am - Sun 12pm
Annual Summer Solstice Earth Wisdom Gathering
May 17 │10am-12pm
Unity Gathering: April 2026
June 19 - 24 │Fri 2:00pm - Wed 3:00pm
Twenty Years of Earth Peoples United
May 2026 marks twenty years of Earth Peoples United—a living thread in the weaving of this time. Through these years, EPU has been a home for sacred work: tending the land, the ceremonies, the community, and the teachings that continue to guide us. To all who have walked with us and gathered along the way—thank you.
As we honor this milestone, we also listen for what is still unfolding. There are many ways to be part of this moment:
Let us know how we’ve impacted you
Get involved and join the community
Keep this work alive in the world
Why We Gather
In a fragmented world,
we gather to remember.
Many of us carry the ache of disconnection - from land, from lineage, from one another. Earth Peoples United exists to restore what has been fragmented. Through ceremony, stewardship, and shared practice, we create spaces where belonging becomes a lived experience, not just a longing.
“EPU is the first place I felt spiritually nourished and practically grounded at the same time.”
- EPU Community Member
“Welcome Home”
— Tat Erick Gonzalez, Mayan Spiritual Guide
Sacred Land
Where Earth & Spirit Meet
EPU tends two sacred sanctuaries: physical land where ceremony, stewardship, and gathering take root in the Earth itself.
Deer Mountain Sanctuary
California, North of Mt Shasta
Deer Mountain is the home of Earth Peoples United in Northern California, just north of Mt. Shasta—a living sanctuary where land, community, and ceremony are woven together. It is the physical campus of the School of Earth Wisdom and a place where regenerative ways of living are practiced and demonstrated, grounding teachings in lived relationship with the Earth.
Patziapa Sanctuary
Guatemala, Mayan homeland
Patziapa is EPU’s sanctuary in Guatemala, resting on the shores of Lake Atitlán at the foot of San Pedro volcano and across the water from Santiago Atitlán—a place of pilgrimage, ancestral ceremony, and living connection to the lineage Tat Erick carries. It is a sanctuary where the wisdom of the ancestors is honored and lived in close relationship with the land, the lake, and the surrounding communities.
Our Digital Sanctuary
The EPU Hive:
Our Digital Sanctuary
for Shared Practice
The Hive is EPU's global online community, a living space where seasonal teachings, ceremonial rhythms, and ongoing learning continue between gatherings and across distances. It is the relational hearth of Earth Peoples United, and the place where members stay close to the fire.
Monthly live circles and Unity Gatherings
Community conversations and shared practice
Seasonal teachings and ceremonial guidance
Access to replays and recorded sessions
Hive Health: weekly practices for body, mind, heart, and spirit
Access to School of Earth Wisdom online teachings
A living fire, kept by many hands
The Hive is where the teachings continue, the relationships deepen, and the work of remembering never stops. Choose the membership level that meets you where you are.
Living Knowledge
The School of Earth Wisdom
The School of Earth Wisdom is EPU’s educational home—a space where teachings are woven into intentional
pathways for those called to go deeper.
It is not only a place to learn, but a place to practice, embody, and walk in right relationship with the Earth and one another.
Teachings are offered both online through the Hive and in person at our sacred sanctuaries.
3-Part Teaching Series
The Pop Jay Codex
Ancient wisdom for rebuilding sacred community, sacred geometry, consciousness, and the principles of the Kalpul.
Launching June 2026
Journey Through the Medicine Wheel
Seasonal paths of spiritual formation and embodied wellness through the teachings of the four directions.
Course Series
Re-Membering Series
A journey back to the knowledge written in bone and root: ancestry, the present moment, and the future we are becoming.
Tracks of the Jaguar
Storytelling and living history with Tat Erick González, ancestral transmission as a practice of presence.
Course Series
Donate & Support
Support Sacred Land
& Living Traditions
Your contribution directly supports land stewardship, accessible gatherings, and the preservation of teachings for generations to come.
Land care and maintenance at Deer Mountain and Patziapa
Community scholarships and accessibility
Event production and logistics
Support for elders, teachers, and wisdom keepers