Gratitude Gathering for the Free-Flowing Klamath River at Deer Mountain Sanctuary
We invite you to bring your prayers, offerings, songs, and dances in shared intention and thanksgiving for the return of the Klamath River to its natural, free-flowing state, and prayers for the return of the salmon to their spawning habitat. The Deer Mountain Sanctuary is located just near the site of the removal of the Copco Dam and our springs are part of the Klamath watershed. This camping-style weekend gathering will include:
Council Fire to share prayers, songs, intentions
Offerings and prayers to the headwaters
Pilgrimage to make offerings to the Klamath River
Native plant tending and other land service
Please bring what you need to camp, including food to take care of yourself or to share - we will provide a simple hot dish for each meal (oatmeal, rice and beans, soup, etc).
Hot water for teas and coffee and dish station will be provided, outhouses and shower also available to use.
For those who would like to be part, we suggest an offering of $100 and up to help cover the costs of hosting this gathering and the care of our Deer Mountain Sanctuary. No one turned away for lack of funds.
We invite donations to help with the expenses for this camp and the support of the Deer Mountain Sanctuary. We also invite offerings for the fire, prayers, messages, etc to be sent in advance to be offered on behalf of those who cannot make it in person.
Contact Heddi at HeddiL@gmail.com for more information, directions and to RSVP.
Universal Alignment with our Sacred Connection to Life Santa Ynez Medicine Retreat
Join us for this transformational retreat in Santa Ynez, CA (45 min north of from Santa Barbara) as Tat Erick Gonzalez will guide us into greater universal alignment with our sacred connection to life through the sacred sacraments of plant teachers. Guiding the space for us to heal, vision, and to navigate into spaces where we can feed ourselves spiritually… allowing us to embrace the natural, planetary and galactic changes in which we find ourselves.
We will be working within the Mayan days of Caji (4) Kawok, purification and the waters that sustain life, into Wuku (7) I'q, a day of balance of our lifeforce and connection to Spirit, inviting us to come into universal alignment with our sacred connection to life. Space shall be limited for this intimate retreat -- your early registration is encouraged. Registration will close on Sunday, June 9th.
Summer Solstice Community Mayan Fire Ceremony in Santa Ynez, CA
Come make offerings for the Earth and a good path for your life in the Central Coast of California for a Community Mayan Fire Ceremony on Sunday, June 23rd.
Join us in a collective prayer in the Mayan tradition of creating a Stargate Fire to give gratitude, request healing, and make offerings for our Mother Earth at this ceremonial fireplace in Southern California (Santa Ynez). This sacred day of Wuku I’q in the Mayan Calendar holds powerful energy for finding balance with the Spirit and Breath of Life.
Followed by a potluck, please bring a prepared dish to share.
Suggested loving donation: $20 and up to support our Medicine People and cover ceremonial materials.
We strongly encourage bringing offerings for this unique fire that uses no wood (dried herbs & flowers, sugar, chocolate, honey, candles in the directional colors). Please contact us for more details...
Contact Nan Kirana at 602.758.1213 or kiranamiller@hotmail.com for more information and to RSVP.
Food of the Gods -- IxCacao, the Spiritual Food of our Soul. Mayan oral tradition and wisdom for today’s age.
Mayan Spiritual Guide, Tat Erick Gonzalez, will share this oral traditional teaching of how cacao has been one of the most sacred plants for the Maya for thousands of years, why it is revered, and how it is used. Its scientific name Theobroma cacao is fitting, as Theo “of Gods” and broma “food” in Greek means “food of the gods.”
Representing the breast of the Goddess of the Tree of Life, the cacao pod has a distinct shape, form, and symbolism that will be explained. This sacrament has an incredible amount of power, and it is a beautiful medicine with the consciousness to help heal us, reconnect us, make us whole, and unify us. Its essence is held in what is created when two circles come together, heart to heart. The feminine energy of IxCacao is very receptive and helps us connect to our heart and the earth.
This oral teaching will include a special share from Tat Erick’s daughter Maya Gonzalez who has been on the journey that many humans are on to find out what makes sense in this world and what they can do, leading her to volunteer at an organic cacao farm in Hawaii where she lives. Her connection and relationship with the IxCacao has been a tremendous blessing in her life.
The desire with this teaching is for each of us to learn and activate our own curiosity, so that we can each create a relationship with the IxCacao as a Goddess and find the gift she gives to us.
Click HERE to register.
Spring Equinox Community Circle & Prayer
Spring Equinox Connecting Call & Prayer
Sunday March 17th, 13 K’at
10 - noon Pacific
Circle with us on zoom to call in the Spring Equinox in our seasonal ritual of gathering in prayer to honor the change of season where Tat Erick will be opening us in prayer and pass the virtual talking stick with the Wisdom Keepers who can be with us.. This is the Mayan day of 13 K’at- a day of total empowerment of connecting to the Web of Life.
We hope you to see you there! Click here to register.
Our seasonal calls are open to all — your community, family and friends! We welcome you to extend this invitation and share the registration link with those you love.
Uniting Our Circles Ceremonial Weekend with Tat Erick Gonzalez in Nevada City, CA
Uniting Our Circles Ceremonial Weekend with Tat Erick Gonzalez in Nevada City
Friday Mar 8th (4 T’zikin), 4 pm - 8pm : Ceremonial fire, potluck dinner and community talk on Uniting the People. 19000 Augustine Rd. Nevada City. This is the Mayan day of 4 T’zikin – the energy of the four directions, visioning, beauty and abundance.
530.470.0319 or 530.913.7749 for more info.Saturday Mar 9th (5 Ajmak), 12-2 pm: Circles of Unification Council Fire and prayers for the ancestors in the Big House at Pata Panaka Village. 19200 Lake Vera Purdon Rd. Nevada City. This is the Mayan day of 5 Ajmak – a day of connecting to the ancestors and future generations, at the Tsi Akim Maidu village site.
Bring snacks and finger food to share, 4E will provide beverages; water, tea, coffee, coconut water for break at 2.
2:30 - 4pm Continue council/tour of grounds/time for one on one conversations.
Please RSVP to Tam at 360.775.0942 or Rick at 530.277.6829 or for more infoSunday Mar 10th (6 Noj), 1:30 - 5:30 pm: Mayan Fire & Pipe Ceremony to pray for the Mother Earth at a beautiful rolling meadow in Chicago Park, less than 20 minutes from Grass Valley. This ceremony is an offering to the earth, we invite you to bring dried herbs, natural candles, sugar, chocolate, honey for the fire.
Please RSVP to Asher for more info and directions: 415.595.5309
The Seven Houses of Enlightenment -- Mayan wisdom on the Journey to Activate our Light Body
Join us in this oral traditional teaching with Tat Erick Gonzalez, Mayan Spiritual Elder and Guide, as he takes us through the journey of the Seven Houses of Enlightenment. He will share Mayan ancestral wisdom to nourish our process through the immeasurable challenges we face as humans in these teachings on The Ajpus.
The heroes of the Popul Vuh Mayan Creation Story became the Lords of the Light by evolving in their process of discovering their true purpose through all they endured, beyond the limits of what they had been told.. They expanded to reach their full potential through the hardships of the great tests they overcame.
These teachings are encoded with keys of wisdom to navigate as we find the purpose of our life. They offer tools and action steps for us to consider on a quest to honor this gift of life and all we came to be. They invite us to ask why we are awake and incarnated at this time, and what are the codes within our own humanity to have a joyous, fulfilled life?
We seek to find a better sense of spiritual Oneness in this oral tradition, exploring what it takes to release veils of indoctrination needed to once again be in harmony with the natural and spiritual worlds, our own true nature and purpose. These teachings support us in our quest to reveal the steps of becoming the People Made of Honey in this New Era: luminous, fluid and clear in our gifts, our connection to each other and our collective potential.
This teaching is a continuation of the wisdom shared in The Quest to Find our Truth in Times of Challenge- Mayan wisdom as we journey into the underworld and the Shift of the Ages, completing the journey from the dark into the light being. We will also be exploring the significance of the number seven, the vibration of wuku in the story, what it means for the Maya, and for many spiritual traditions throughout the world.
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Winter Solstice Community Circle & Prayer
Join the circle with Tat Erick Gonzalez and other Wisdom Keepers to honor the Winter Solstice in the northern hemisphere on the Mayan Calendar day of 12 E. This is the energy of persevering on our path, enduring that is challenging while taking the next step forward towards our unique destiny. The Winter Solstice is the time of greatest dark, and we welcome the time of going within, letting go, and welcoming the light as it begins to return again.
A time to celebrate the changing of the seasons in our lives, weave spirit with one another and welcome change as we come into the elemental medicine of air in the Mayan medicine wheel. (Click here to join us on the Journey through the Medicine Wheel as a supportive member). Our free seasonal calls are potent times to gather and inspire each other… Please pass on the invitation to any others you would like to be part of the circle with us!
Register yourself on zoom HERE
Global Harmony Summit: Cultivating Peace Across Borders (with Regen Circle)
We are gathering to heal together and cultivate a collective moment of peace through the power of prayer.
We invite you to join a global movement dedicated to peace and harmony on Earth. In collaboration with Global Earth Keepers and Indigenous elders, Lakota Small Farms joins hands with international organizations—Unify, Earth Peoples United, Academy of Oracle Arts, Regen Circle, and Aniwa—to unify our global prayers.
This convergence aims to exchange wisdom and offer prayers for a world illuminated by peace, nurturing a powerful invocation for global harmony. Let’s stand united, transcending diverse backgrounds, as we come together in prayer for a world free from armed conflict, and for the protection of sacred life.
The purpose of this gathering guides us to source peace from within, creating a field of deep connection as we unite in prayer, urging humanity to walk toward one unified direction. This offering seeks to illuminate the world with love – nurturing a vision of unity and tranquility through our collective efforts, guided by the wisdom of our global Earthkeepers.
Register here: https://regencircle.com/event/global-harmony-summit/
The Quest to Find our Truth in Times of Challenge- Mayan wisdom as we journey into the underworld and the Shift of the Ages
Taught by Mayan Spiritual Guide Tat Erick Gonzalez, this oral tradition videoconference teaching of archetypal and universal stories from the Popul Vuh (Mayan Creation Story) offers wisdom to recognize the systems used by our ego and the modern world to give up in our efforts to transform and liberate ourselves. Tat Erick will share about the different “houses” of the underworld, helping us identify the challenges at this time and how to transform them into taking action towards crystallizing what we want for the New Era that began on December 21, 2012.
Learn more and register HERE.
Walking with the Medicines Pop Jay Ceremonial Retreat at Deer Mountain Sanctuary
Take this special opportunity to gather with Tat Erick Gonzalez and Nan Raquel Hugo who will be holding the altar for us in this transformative time of retreat in the open air of the Pop Jay at the Ceremonial Grounds at Deer Mountain Sanctuary for our all night meditation . In prayer for our wellness and the well being of the world, merging the teachings of unifying our duality and embracing sacred union to cultivate ourselves as strong staffs in our lives.
In this retreat we will learn more deeply the prophecy that the Pop Jay was raised to honor, preparing ourselves for our all night meditation in a Zoom call before the retreat dedicated to learning more about it’s sacred geometry and the matrix of it’s crystal grid, to ground ourselves and our intentions for the all night ceremony that is part of these days of wellness and rejuvenation.
We will be working in the Fall Equinox energies of balance of the light and the dark, and within the Mayan Calendar days of anchoring ourselves spirituality and planting the seeds of what we want to bring into our lives.
Click HERE to learn more and to register.
Waqxaqui B’atz Mayan Spiritual Renewal & Weaving Retreat
A time when we gather at Deer Mountain Sanctuary to honor the Mayan ceremonial days of Waqxaqui B’atz, a time of Spiritual Renewal, when we make offerings of beauty here in the north in synchronicity with the countless altars set and ceremonial fires burning in the Mayan world.
Over these sacred days, offerings are made for all life that has come through the matrix, making all of the living world. Consciously connecting again to our own place in the Universe that we are a part of, reclaiming our appreciation for the bundle of threads we have to weave with in the well of our own being. Taking time to vision the path to crystalizing our visions through the weavings of our every thought, intention and action. Through intention and ritual, we gather the threads of energy that flow from our center and connect us to our past and future generations – to our own infinite potential. And it is also a time when initiations and levels of spiritual training are marked in time through ceremony.
Join us this August when we will circle, feast, pray and create together. Sharing wisdom from the elders and connecting to each other and the elements in the nourishing embracing arms of the Siskiyou Mountains at the Deer Mountain Sanctuary.
This year we are honored to have Isabel Rorick, Haida Grandmother and Traditional Weaver with us to share her wisdom and guide us in an introduction to weaving workshop happening through the weekend right after these ceremonies.
Click here for more information and to register…
Community Mayan Fire Ceremony in Santa Ynez, CA
Community Mayan Fire Ceremony at the Aj Xic Jay Ceremonial Arbor in Santa Ynez, CA
Sunday July 9th (Waqxaqui 8 E), 10 am - 5 pm
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Walking with the Medicines Retreat at Aj Xic Jay Sanctuary in Santa Ynez, CA
Circle around the medicine altar with us in this spiritual renewal retreat where Tat Erick Gonzalez will be holding the sacred ceremonial space for us, tending to the prayer for our wellness with Nan Kirana Miller at her ceremonial home, Aj Xic Jay Sanctuary.
These days in the Mayan Calendar are times of making spiritual offerings to manifest dimensional balance and harmony, within and without. Taking grounded responsibility for how we use our creative energy in the families, communities and clans that we are a part of. Making this time of healing and visioning for our wellness a gift to our lives, so that we might create beauty and stability through us and around us through the vehicle of our own healing. Clarifying our spirits to empower all that can emerge through us now. The circle will grow when more join on Sunday for the Community Mayan Fire Ceremony, falling on the Mayan Calendar day of 8 E…
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Art in Nature Family Camp & Teen Survival Quest at Deer Mt.
This is the second CA Family Week of 2023 with the 4 Elements Earth Education (see the first week HERE).
For years Juan Villarreal and Rick Berry have talked about an Art in Nature program, and it's finally happening! The week will include Nature Observation time, as the cornerstone of awareness and the doorway to the spirit world. Art? Yes! Drawing, painting, sculpting clay into vessels, making baskets out of willow, weaving fiber into cordage ropes and belts, making rattles out of rawhide, and more. They will join with Earth Peoples United in ceremonial spaces, campfires, councils, and sharing of the Mayan Traditions with Tat Erick Gonzalez. There will be time to wander the land, go for a swim, take a nap, relax and unwind from the hectic pace of the modern world. We will have activities for all age groups to engage every member of the family.
Our Wilderness Survival Quest for Teens (ages 14-17) runs alongside this Art in Nature Family Camp. This Quest is designed to challenge teens skills and mental well-being while wandering out in the remote backcountry with minimal gear. The Survival Quest is one way to discover who you are at the core. We require teens to apply for the program and they must have some experience with Earth Skills. Teens will begin at the same site as the Family Camp, having meals together and prepping for the Quest. Depending on the group, there will be up to 3 nights out in the bush, with minimal gear. There will be a ceremonial send off for the group from family camp and upon the return to main camp.
Learn more and register HERE.
Summer Solstice Community Circle & Prayer
Join the circle to honor the Summer Solstice in the northern hemisphere on the Mayan Calendar day of 6 Noj. This is the energy of dimensional balance of the wisdom of the Mother Earth and the time of the fullness of the sun in the Northern Hemisphere . It is a potent time to gather and inspire each other! Please pass on the invitation to any others you would like to be part of the circle with us…
Register for the free zoom HERE.
Wilderness Earth Skills Family Camp at Deer Mountain
From June 18th -23rd we will be partnering with 4EEE for their Wilderness Earth Skills Family Camp. This week is for the entire Family, all ages welcome, and will include honoring the Summer Solstice that falls within this week.
Everyone comes together for meals, councils, campfires, and ceremonies over these days with the main focus on learning wilderness earth skills, honoring the sacred order of Shelter, Water, Fire, Food.
Please note that any youth 4 years and younger would need to remain with parents. Youth ages 5-7-will have morning and shorter afternoon sessions, and youth ages 8-12 will be together as teen ages 13-17 will be on separate adventures.
Parents will have the option to take part in activities throughout the week as well with opportunities for enriching connection around the hearth and crafting space, the heart of where we will be circling our families together for meals.
Click HERE to learn more and to register!
Deer Mountain Memorial Day Weekend Land Service Camp
We invite you to Bring your love in action to the ceremonial lands for our Annual Deer Mountain Memorial day Weekend Land Service Camp. A time of collective spirit family village building when we tend to our shared spaces and do the preparations for the ceremonies to come this season. Evenings will be full of connection, laughter and love at Bear Paw Meadow. Pack your instruments and anything you’re inspired to share.
This is a potluck and camp-style gathering, so bring what you need to be self sufficient, work well in the elements, and weave beautifully others for our communal meals and time getting to being a village. Email us at heartofearthpeoplesunited@gmail.com to R.S.V.P. and coordinate to join us for camp.
Weaving Spirit Family Weekend Retreat, Women’s Lodge Initiation
This April family weekend retreat will be a dedication of beauty to life itself.. A time to come together and make offerings for balance between the feminine and masculine, within and without. Weaving spirit and prayer for the initiation of the Women’s Lodge held by Nan Heddi Gonzalez-Neale.
Children, youth, adults and elders of all traditions are welcome to join in this weekend full of heart centered connection and collective rituals for the renewal of this sacred feminine space on Deer Mountain, and the sacred creative channel within.
We will be blessed to have Mama Silvia Calisaya, Elder Aymara Medicine Woman, with us as our special guest, making offerings with the Earth Peoples United Nanas at the lodge fire in a collective ritual of beauty to bless all present and all of those to come.
Click HERE for more information and to register.
Spring Equinox Community Circle & Prayer
Join the circle with us at Earth Peoples United to honor the coming of Spring Equinox 2023, the time when there is equal light and dark in the northern hemisphere..
A midpoint and place of balance from which the force of life and new growth around us calls us out from our dreamy winter dens to embrace the light. And this year our circle will be aligning with the day of Oxlajuj (13) Ajpu on the Mayan Calendar. A day to appreciate our capacity to reach the potential within each of us to come into the full blossom of our beings.
Click HERE to register yourself on zoom.
These seasonal circles are always special times to gather virtually, share presence and see each other's faces, share our voices, prayers and songs, and stories to lift each other up. As always, please feel free to pass on the invitation to any others you would like to extend this invitation to to be part of the circle.
Walking with the Medicines Retreat
Join us for a ceremonial retreat at the Deer Mountain Sanctuary north of Mt Shasta, CA to journey home into our centers, heal and reconnect to spirit in this Ceremonial Walking With the Medicines Retreat. Tat Erick Gonzalez, Mayan Elder, Kamal B’ey and Aj Q’i, and Nan Raquel Hugo Mexica/Mayan Curandera and Aj Q’ij of the Earth Peoples United Lineage which Tat Erick leads will be guiding this circle together, facilitating a space of prayer and transformation to strengthen the spirit of gratitude in our lives and help us to cultivate a more conscious relationship with the sacred healing allies of Mother Earth’s flora and fungi teachers through traditional ceremony.
We will be working in the Mayan Calendar days of weaving our individual and collective threads to anchor ourselves on our unique path and destiny towards becoming the full blossom of our Flowering Tree of Life.
Click HERE to learn more and to register.
Wisdom Workshop on Navigating Darkness to Feed your Tree of Life
In this online workshop Tat Erick will be offering an oral traditional teaching on the dark passages denoted in the prophecies of many and share his keys of wisdom for how to navigate and come through the breakdown and decay that is part of the evolution and change we are part of. Sharing Mayan wisdom about the underworld and how we can make any offering a sacred gift and offering for the life we choose. There will be time and space throughout the workshop to discuss what the teachings may stir for you, welcoming personal experience in our collective process of navigating the darkness.
Register HERE.
Winter Music Medicine Workshop
Join us for this Winter’s Earth Peoples United Music Medicine Circle. Together we will learn songs and hear stories from singers in our community that have them helped connect to their authentic selves. Recordings will be made available to all who register.
Register HERE.
The seasonal music medicine workshops are included in our member offerings, learn more here about becoming a sustaining member of Earth Peoples United…
Winter Solstice Community Circle & Mayan Prayer
Saturday, December 17th, 2021
10 -11:30 am Pacific
Zoom videoconference
Join the circle with Tat Erick Gonzalez and other Wisdom Keepers to honor the Winter Solstice in the northern hemisphere on the Mayan Calendar day of 12 Q’anil. This is the energy of persevering with the seeds we have selected, to see what will bring us abundance. The Winter Solstice is the time of greatest dark, and we welcome the time of going within, letting go, and welcoming the light as it begins to return again.
A time to celebrate the changing of the seasons in our lives, weave spirit with one another and welcome change as we come into the elemental medicine of air in the Mayan medicine wheel. (Click here to join us on the Journey through the Medicine Wheel as a supportive member). Our free seasonal calls are potent times to gather and inspire each other… Please pass on the invitation to any others you would like to be part of the circle with us!
Register yourself on zoom HERE