A Study of Teotl

A 13-week live study devoted to relationship, symbol, creative practice, and the living expressions of Teotl.

Founding Cohort · Live on Zoom- Recording available for limited time

Before we attempt to define the sacred, organize it, or claim over it, we learn to approach it. We observe and listen. We notice how it moves through symbol, story, the natural world, the body, and our everyday lives.

A Study of Teotl is a thirteen-week live gathering for those who wish to move beyond collecting information and begin cultivating a lived relationship with what they study.

Instead of approaching Teotl as a distant collection of deities to memorize, we will encounter Teotl through presence, reflection, movement, creativity, reciprocity, and the many relationships through which existence reveals itself.

This is the first formal course of study within Cihuateotcalli.

Within Each Gathering

Learn. Make. Witness.

Each two-hour gathering remains familiar from week to week.

Study  40 minutes

We begin with a foundational teaching explored through philosophy, story, symbolism, Nahuatl language, codices, and observation.

Experience & Create  40 minutes

The teaching moves out of the intellect and into creative practice.

Through art-making, writing, reflection, or another experiential process, participants give form to what they are encountering.

No artistic experience is required. 

Integration 40 minutes

We return to the circle to share what arose (if you feel called to share).

Questions, reflections, creative work, and lived experiences become part of the study. Through witnessing one another, individual understanding expands into collective conversation.

What we will study-13 weeks

Across twelve gatherings, we will explore Teteo (dioses/divinities) through a series of living relationships.Each relationship offers a different way of recognizing how Teotl moves through the world, through community, and through us.

Nehnemi
To live, Approach, permission, reciprocity, and attention.

Tletl
Presence, devotion, transformation, and the keeping of fire.

Tezcatl
Mirrors, shadow, perception, and the ways we come to see ourselves.

Ehecatl
Voice, movement, creation, and the animating force of life.

Atl
Flow, clarity, adaptation, emotion, and receptivity.

Centli
Sustenance, cultivation, stewardship, responsibility, and reciprocal nourishment.

Miquiztli
Continuity, release, transformation, ancestry, and return.

Xochitl
Flower, adornment, creativity, expression, and the making of meaning.

Ollin
Movement, change, rupture, becoming, and the forces that move life forward.

Calpulli
Community, mutual care, responsibility, belonging, and relationship beyond the individual.

Tlahtolli
Story, language, lineage, palabra, and ancestral presence.

Tlalli
Embodiment, place, belonging, nourishment, and relationship with the living world.

Ipalnemohuani

That through which we live. The sustaining presence that animates all relationships. Our final gathering returns to the whole, recognizing that every relationship explored throughout the course is not separate, but an expression of the same living reality.

Gathering Details

Format
Live on Zoom

Dates
Saturdays, September 12 – December 5, 2026

Time
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM Pacific Time

Length
13 weekly gatherings

Recordings
Recordings will be available for a limited time for those unable to attend live or who wish to revisit each gathering.

Materials
A simple list of suggested art and writing materials will be provided before the first gathering. Most exercises can be completed with supplies you likely already have at home.

Experience
No prior knowledge of Mexica philosophy, Nahuatl language, or artistic experience is required. All that is asked is a willingness to observe, create, and enter into relationship.

Investment

Founding Cohort

$333 USD 

Future cohorts will be offered at the standard tuition of $555.

Your enrollment includes:

• Thirteen live Zoom gatherings
• Limited-time access to recordings
• Guided experiential art and reflection practices
• Suggested readings and course materials
• A place within the founding cohort of Cihuateotcalli's first formal course of study

In the weeks leading up to our first gathering, you'll receive a welcome email with your Zoom link, a list of suggested materials, and a few notes to help prepare you for the journey ahead.