Something in You Is Ready to Flow.
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 in the ancient rhythms that have always sustained life.
The Remembering Path is a 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.
Fall · Water · West · Opens September 22nd, 2026
Season Two — Release
The West is the direction of the emotional body — and Release is the second season's great gift. But water does not only take things away. It brings life. It nourishes before it moves on. It carries what matters across great distances and delivers it, changed and clarified, to where it needs to go.
The Remembering Path
The Four Seasons
Restore. Release. Reconnect. Rekindle.
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Come back to your body. Find your ground.
The direction of grounding, of self-love and nourishment. This is where the path begins — not in the sky but on the ground, in the sacred instrument of your own physical life.
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Let what needs to move, flow through you.
The direction of emotion, healing, and relational depth. What is ready to be released? The West teaches the wisdom of surrender and the grace of letting go.
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Listen for what has always been speaking.
The direction of clarity, discernment, and the deeper knowing of who you are at the level of Soul. The season of stillness — and of finding your way back to yourself.
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The fire lives in you. Learning to tend it is the work.
The direction of dawn, of new beginnings, of the spark that animates all life.
You can join at any seasonal turning. Each season stands alone and is complete in itself. Those who walk the whole year — restoring, releasing, reconnecting, and rekindling — arrive somewhere they didn’t know they were headed.
Season Two — Release
Into the Flow
Fall · Water · West · Opens September 22nd, 2026
The water knows the way
Look at the river moving through the canyon — patient, persistent, finding its way through every obstacle not by force but by flow.
Water gives life to everything it touches. It nourishes the roots before it moves on. It carries the memory of every place it has been — the minerals of the mountain, the prayer spoken at the spring, the rain that fell a thousand miles away — and brings all of it to you.
We are made of this. The water moving through our bodies has traveled the length of the Earth — through stone and root and sky and rain — and is now flowing through your veins as your own sacred waters, carrying the wisdom of your ancestors as blood and tears and the deep knowing that lives beneath all thinking.
Fall is the season of gathering and release — but first, it is the season of receiving. Of spreading before you the full harvest of what has grown, giving thanks for the abundance summer brought, and letting the waters move through what has been held too long.
This season is an invitation to feel what you carry. To receive the medicine the water is bringing. To let flow what needs to flow. And from that place of renewal — to ask the question the Water herself is always asking:
What am I being given — and what am I ready to release, so that life can move through me more fully?
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.
We are carried. We have always been carried.
What This Season Offers
Season Two
Six weeks of structured teaching — followed by an independent journey through to December 13th · Oxlajuj (13) Kan, where the season closes in a live circle — just before the Winter season opens at the equinox on December 21st.
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:
TEACHINGS
Mayan cosmological teachings from Tat Erick Gonzalez, Mayan Spiritual Guide and Aj Q'ij — the ancestral and cosmological foundation of the entire journey
QIGONG
Qigong practice with Alfred Lerma, Qigong Therapist — bringing the West direction into the body through movement and breath
EARTH WISDOM
A land-based teaching from Jackie Eshelman, Land Steward of Deer Mountain Sanctuary — offering a reflection from the Earth herself, through the eyes of someone who listens to her for a living
GATHERINGS
Two live sessions on Zoom — an Open Circle community gathering (October 22nd) and a closing circle (December 13th) — both recorded for those who cannot attend live
HEALING
Integrative health wisdom from Dr. Melissa Coomes, Integrative Functional Medicine Physician — bridging modern science and the wisdom of the Medicine Wheel to support healing across the physical, emotional, energetic, and spiritual bodies
PRACTICES
A daily West Anchor Practice — 5 to 10 minutes — that becomes the thread running through your days
GUIDANCE
Your West Seasonal Guide — downloadable companions carrying the teachings, the Mayan Calendar cycles, and the sacred days of the season
REFLECTION
Weekly reflection threads that give the teachings somewhere to land
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 West Anchor Practice
At the heart of this season is a simple daily practice — five to ten minutes — rooted in the medicine of Restore:
Connect to Water.
Ground in the body.
Turn toward Spirit.
Name one truth.
Commit to one act of release or flow.
You are invited to share your practice insights in the weekly reflection threads. The practice belongs to you. The community holds you as you build it.
Your Guides
The Teaching Circle
Tat 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 forty five 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 sat in council with tribal elders from across the Americas, and led ceremony in various parts of Mother Earth. The Mayan Medicine Wheel teachings he carries are the cosmological and ancestral foundation of every season of The Remembering Path.
Nan Heddi Gonzalez-Neale
Aj Q’ij, EPU Founder & President · Lead Facilitator
Nan Heddi Gonzalez-Neale has walked alongside the Mayan teachings of her husband Tat Erick Gonzalez since 1998 — traveling throughout the United States, Guatemala, Canada, and Northern Europe to help organize, facilitate, and interpret for international councils and ceremonial gatherings with Mayan and other indigenous elders, and with non-native peoples from across the world. In 2005, she received her sacred bundle and spiritual mission as an Aj Q’ij in the Mayan tradition. Founder and President of Earth Peoples United, Heddi helps steward the land at Deer Mountain Sanctuary in Northern California, leads women’s ceremonies, and holds The Remembering Path as both a founder and as a fellow traveler on the path of remembrance — bringing to it the full arc of her own formation: the lineage, the land, the ceremony, and decades of walking between worlds.
Alfred Ray Lerma
Qigong Therapist · Meditation Practitioner · Unity & Peace Ambassador
Alfred brings the medicine of each direction into the body through movement practices — grounding the teachings in lived physical experience. His practice draws on decades of study in Qigong, meditation, and the elemental wisdom traditions, offering participants a direct felt sense of what it means to bring the teachings of each direction out of the mind and into the living body.
Jackie Eshelman
Land Steward, Deer Mountain Sanctuary · Savory Institute Accredited Field Professional · EOV Master Verifier
Jackie Eshelman is the land steward of Deer Mountain Sanctuary — the home ground of Earth Peoples United. A Savory Institute Accredited Field Professional and EOV Master Verifier, she trains land stewards and monitors landscapes around the world. Jackie is a genuine plant and soil nerd who listens to the land for a living — and hears what it is saying. Her contribution to The Remembering Path is a reflection from the Earth itself, offered through the eyes of someone who works with her daily.
Dr. Melissa Coomes
Integrative Functional Medicine Physician · G'omanel Ixoq'
With over twenty years of clinical experience bridging traditional Western medicine with holistic healing, Dr. Melissa views the human being as a dynamic, multidimensional system capable of profound healing. She is the originator of the Dimensional Medicine framework — an approach that integrates the wisdom of the Mayan Medicine Wheel with the science of how our psyche, nervous system, hormones, and immune system communicate as one. Her seasonal health teachings help participants discover how reconnecting with the rhythms of nature awakens the body's own capacity to heal.
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.
Enrollment
How it Works
The Remembering Path lives inside the EPU Hive — our living digital sanctuary on Mighty Networks. The Hive is where the teachings land, the community gathers, and the path unfolds season by season. To enroll you will need a Hive membership — free or paid. If you are already a Hive member, you can simply register!
Join the Hive
Join the EPU Hive as a free Seeker or supportive Steward/Guardian member (if needed)
2. Enroll
Enroll in Into the Flow — Season Two
or the full year program
3. Begin
Receive your welcome and orientation on September 22nd —
9 Akabal, the Mayan day of the new dawn
All live circles 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
Your Contribution
Season Two
$200
Supportive Members: $150
Payment plan available
3 × $67 public · 3 × $50 supportive members
Full Year Bundle
Restore · Release · Reconnect · Rekindle
$700
Supportive Members: $500
All four seasons included
Payment plan available
4 × $150 public · 4 × $125 supportive members
Your contribution supports the continuation of these teachings, the stewardship of our sacred sanctuaries, and the long-term vision of Earth Peoples United.
Become a Supportive Member of the EPU Hive: Steward and Guardian membership opens the full depth of what the Hive holds — seasonal gatherings and School of Earth Wisdom teachings, Tracks of the Jaguar storytelling with Tat Erick, Music Medicine and ancestral song, Hive Health practices for balance and well-being, guided integration tools, facilitated community dialogue, access to replays and the wisdom library, and 20% off select courses, teachings, and events. Membership is how this community sustains itself — and how you stay close to the path between seasons.
Steward: $20/month or $200/year · Guardian: $40/month or $400/year
A Note on This Season
"Walk the sacred seasons. Remember who you are."
The West is the direction of the emotional body — and Release is the second season's great gift. But water does not only take things away. It brings life. It nourishes before it moves on. It carries what matters across great distances and delivers it, changed and clarified, to where it needs to go.
You are mostly water. You have always known how to do this.
Come let the water move through you — bringing what it brings, carrying away what it carries.
The Water is ready to receive you.