Something in You Is Ready to Come Home.
The Remembering Path
The Remembering Path
Deepen your relationship with your essence, with the Earth, with Spirit. Transform through a
practice that holds — one rooted not in productivity but in the ancient rhythms that have always
sustained life.
The Remembering Path is a year-long seasonal journey through the four directions of the
Medicine Wheel — guided by the Mayan teachings of Tat Erick Gonzalez and a growing circle
of guides and companions. Each season opens a new doorway. Each direction offers a different
medicine.
Summer · Earth · South · Opens July 11th, 2026
Season One — Restore
This year, we begin in the South — the direction of Earth, of the body, of coming home to yourself. The wheel turns from here.
Season One — Restore
Summer · Earth · South · Opens July 11th, 2026
Return to Earth
Stretch toward the light
Look at the green things climbing in your garden — persisting, reaching, living only to thrive and
bloom into that which they are. They do not question whether they deserve the sun. They simply turn toward it.
We are part of this. Part of Mother Earth and her Web of Life. The blood moving through our
bodies is rich with her elements, her minerals, her waters — waters that have traveled the
length of her body and are now beating in your heart as your own sacred waters, painted with iron.
Summer is the season of full light. The time to thrive — to make use of the old compost in our
lives, to cut away what no longer serves, to let this light help us see ourselves clearly.
This season is an invitation to soak that in. To receive it. And from that place of fullness — to
ask the question the Earth herself is always asking:
How can I live more fully, and give more life in return?
We are sourced. We have always been sourced.
The elements are ancient, impartial, and universal — available to everyone, in every season of
life. They carry original instructions, unchanged across time and culture.
When so much around us is uncertain, they offer something real to return to. A medicine to
embody. A relationship that deepens the longer you walk with it.
Season One
What This Season Offers
TEACHINGS
Mayan cosmological teachings from Tat Erick Gonzalez, Mayan Spiritual Guide and Aj Q'ij — the ancestral and cosmological foundation of the entire journey
Six weeks of structured teaching — followed by an independent journey through to the Fall Equinox, closing in ceremony on September 22nd.
The elements are ancient, impartial, and universal — available to everyone, in every season of life. They carry original instructions, unchanged across time and culture. When so much around us is uncertain, they offer something real to return to. A medicine to embody. A relationship that deepens the longer you walk with it.
Each week weaves together:
QIGONG
GATHERINGS
Elemental Qigong practice with Alfred Lerma, Qigong Therapist — bringing the South direction into the body through movement and breath
HEALING
PRACTICES
REFLECTION
GUIDANCE
Integrative health wisdom from Dr. Melissa Coomes, Integrative Functional Medicine Physician — weaving evidence-based medicine with the intelligence of the sacred calendar to support healing across the physical, emotional, energetic, and spiritual bodies
A daily South Anchor Practice — 5 to 10 minutes — that becomes the thread running through your days
Two live sessions on Zoom — a mid-season workshop and a Fall Equinox closing circle — both recorded for those who cannot attend live. (Dates pending — workshop approximately July 26th · Closing circle September 22nd)
Weekly reflection threads that give the teachings somewhere to land
Your South Seasonal Guide — a downloadable companion carrying the teachings, the Mayan Calendar cycles, and the sacred days of the season
You move at your own pace. The teachings are here when you are ready. The community walks beside you as you find your way.
Daily Practice
The South Anchor Practice
Connect to Earth physically.
At the heart of this season is a simple daily practice — five to ten minutes — rooted in the medicine of Restore:
Ground in the body.
Turn toward Spirit.
Name one truth.
You are invited — not required — to share your practice insights in the weekly reflection threads. The practice belongs to you. The community holds you as you build it.
Commit to one grounded action.
The Teaching Circle
Your Guides
Tata Erick Gonzalez
Mayan Spiritual Guide · Aj Q'ij · Founder, Earth Peoples United
Since his early childhood in Guatemala, Tat Erick Gonzalez has walked a path guided by Spirit and shaped by the living wisdom of indigenous elders across the Americas. Over thirty years, he traveled, trained, and was initiated by elders from Guatemala, México, Colombia, Peru, and throughout North America. Within the traditional circles of the Maya, he carries the responsibility of an Aj Q'ij and Kamal Bey — Spiritual Leader, Teacher, and Earth Wisdom Keeper. He has stood at the United Nations, sat in council with tribal elders from across the Americas, and led ceremony on five continents. The Mayan Medicine Wheel teachings he carries are the cosmological and ancestral foundation of every season of The Remembering Path.
Nan Heddi Gonzalez-Neale
President, Earth Peoples United · Program Holder · Lead Facilitator
Heddi Gonzalez-Neale is the President of Earth Peoples United and the founder of the School of Earth Wisdom. She has walked with these teachings for years — through the building of sacred community, the stewardship of the land at Deer Mountain Sanctuary, and her own deepening relationship with Mayan spirituality. She holds The Remembering Path not only as its founder, but as a fellow traveler on the path of remembrance.
Alfred Ray Lerma
Qigong Therapist · Meditation Practitioner · Unity & Peace Ambassador
Alfred brings the medicine of each direction into the body through elemental movement practice — grounding the teachings in lived physical experience. His Earth element Qigong practice for the South season offers participants a direct felt sense of what it means to restore and find your ground. Alfred is also a co-architect of the EPU Integration Model — the five-stage learning framework (Ground, Reflect, Share, Practice, Anchor) that structures every season of The Remembering Path.
The Remembering Path is a living program and its circle of guides and companions is growing — both in those who will be woven in over time, and in the gifts each of us discovers as we walk the path together.
Dr. Melissa Coomes
Integrative Functional Medicine Physician · G'omanel Ixoq'
With over twenty years in clinical medicine, Dr. Melissa weaves evidence-based healing with the intelligence of the sacred calendar. She is the originator of the Dimensional Medicine framework — an approach to health that integrates the physical, emotional, energetic, and spiritual bodies. Her seasonal health teaching supports restoration across all dimensions of the person, honoring the whole of who you are as you move through the medicine of each direction.
Enrollment
How it Works
The Remembering Path lives inside the EPU Hive — our living digital sanctuary on Mighty Networks. To enroll you will need a Hive membership — free or paid.
Join the Hive
Join the EPU Hive as a free Seeker or paid Steward/Guardian member
2. Enroll
Enroll in Return to Earth — Season One
3. Begin
Receive your welcome and orientation on July 11th — 1 T'zi, initiating community and right relationship
All sessions are hosted on Zoom and recorded. The seasonal space inside the Hive holds all teaching videos, reflection threads, live session replays, and your downloadable Seasonal Guide.
New to the Hive? Move through The Remembering Path Introduction first — a free, self-paced course that walks you through the spiritual, elemental, and health foundations of the Medicine Wheel. It is the best place to begin.
Join the Path
Investment
A Note on This Season
"Walk the sacred seasons. Remember who you are."
The South is the direction of self-love — and Restore is the foundation of everything else. You cannot pour from an empty vessel. You cannot tend the Earth if you have not first learned to tend yourself.
The Earth is ready to receive you.