Eartheart Center

Eartheart Center is a non profit organization located on a 46-acre nature retreat, adjacent to Union Acres Community.

STATEMENT OF PURPOSE FOR EARTHEART CENTER

To support personal and planetary wholeness by awakening to our essential unity

with all of Creation.

           To remember ourselves as part of One Great Life and to serve that Great Life.

           To foster collaborative, co-creative relationships with spirit, the land,

           and one another.

           To provide practical skills for living in harmony with Nature.

           To model a sustainable integrated lifestyle, deeply attuning to the wisdom

           inherent in nature.

           To provide access to a sanctuary to individuals and groups for:

                   spiritual centering, reverence, prayer and contemplation

                   attunement and communion with nature

       personal healing

       emotional balance.

To provide infrastructure and support to indviduals and groups for:

                   healing (wholeness of body, mind, spirit)

                   personal growth

                   nurturing extended family relationships

                   rites of passage and ceremony

                   workshops and celebrations.

        To share information on healing modalities and practical spirituality by

        practitioning, teaching, guidance and inspiration.

        To foster spiritual family which embodies integrity, cooperation, respect,

        gratitude, trust, and love.

        To do all other things that are permitted to be done by a non-profit

        corporation pursuant to the General Statute of North Carolina.

        To be exclusively for charitable, religious, educational, and scientific

        purposes.

Relax or meditate by the waterfall

Enjoy the sunset from a grassy knoll

Workshop space and bathrooms under construction

Eartheart Center is cradled in the heart of the Smoky Mountains near Cherokee, North Carolina. Blessed with a sparkling mountain creek, waterfalls, bottomland, and ridge top views, this verdant, lush, womb-like environment can nourish your relationship with nature as well as renew your own nature. By honoring elementals, and enhancing the beauty already present, we hope to balance and nurture ourselves and the earth.

At Eartheart, the creation of a spiritual center is supported at concurrent levels:

Remembering our personal center of inner peace which is the ground of our being;

Rediscovering the synergy arising in spirit-centered collaboration;

Re-concecrating the earth as a sacred sanctuary, because we recognize the outer landscape as a reflection of our soul.

Our intent is to create a harmonious way of being by remembering our own wholeness. This involves reunification, balance and integration of all aspects of ourselves into oneness. This happens as we become grounded in our spiritual center, which is already perfect. Soul is inside us and all around us. The healing, remembering and balancing of our inner world corresponds with the healing and renewal of our outer world.

Facilities currently include space for workshops, bathrooms, and primitive camping. Plans for expansion include the addition of small retreat cabins. We hope to provide space for communions with nature, Essene practices, ceremony, meditation, and contemplation.

Would you like to become part of a Spiritual center in the Great Smoky Mountains? We invite healers, teachers, networkers, and others to share their talents, healing modalities, and inspiration. We offer you a place for renewal to work and play together in healing, balancing and empowering one another and the land. We invite you to participate in the co-creation of Eartheart at whatever level of interest or commitment you wish. For more information or to arrange a visit, contact Caroline at (828) 497-4964 or email ccarrstarr@gmail.com