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.
The Four Pillars
What We Cultivate Together
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 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, our gatherings welcome people of all faiths and paths into ceremony, ritual, prayer, and shared spiritual practice. Whatever tradition you carry, there is a place for you at this 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 of 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 time at our sanctuaries, you develop practical skills, embodied well-being, and a deeper relationship with the natural world needed 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 supporting sacred lands, sharing teachings, and nurturing future generations, you help ensure that the traditions and relationships we cultivate today continue to flourish tomorrow.
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
In 2026, EPU marks two decades as a home for this work: the land, the ceremonies, the community, and the teachings. To everyone who has gathered with us along the way: thank you!
There are many ways to be part of this milestone:
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 thinned. 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 González, Mayan Spiritual Guide
Sacred Land
We gather on real ground
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
Home to the Pop Jay ceremonial council house, Deer Mountain is where EPU gathers for ceremony, land stewardship, and seasonal rites. This is land tended by many hands.
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 the village of Santiago Atitlán. A place of pilgrimage, ancestral ceremony, and living connection to the lineage Tat Erick carries.
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 organized into structured pathways for those ready to go deeper.
It is not only a place to learn. It is a place to practice, embody, and walk in right relationship with the Earth and one another.
Courses and series are available 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