We Welcome You to the
Beautiful Eagle Heart
Personal Empowerment Center
This is what happened after we created a ceremony for water that we added from Lake Tahoe and 3 inches of rain fell here.
We are located in the heart of America's friendliest city...Friendswood, Texas. Eagle Heart lies between two of Friendswood's most beautiful parks. It is 5.25 acres of Texas' most beautiful wooded land surrounded on three sides by Coward's Creek. Ironically our work is focused upon helping individuals transmute their fears into useful energies which can be employed to manifest a life filled with abundance, adoration, creativity, ease, fulfillment, gratitude, health, innocence, joy, love, peace, self confidence, self reliance, wealth, and wisdom and we are virtually surrounded by COWARDS's Creek. So we encourage those who visit here to leave their fears at the creek and to return to their world always expecting the best.
The facility itself is 4000 square feet with a 1500 square foot training center with two break out rooms and male/female restroom facilities. There is also a large 25,000 gallon swimming pool and hot tub. The magnificent landscaping enhances the natural beauty of the land.
Eagle Heart Center is the perfect facility for get away retreats for seminars to be held indoors of up to 50 participants or outdoor seminars of 100 or more when using our tent company.
Corporate seminars, spiritual retreats, birding expeditions, and more are perfect for Eagle Heart Center to accommodate.
Coward's Creek: Beautiful and serene Coward's Creek gently makes seven turns as it passes by Eagle Heart on its way to Clear Lake. It provides an excellent opportunity for visitors to observe nature in her finest grandeur. John Maisel, an active environmentalist and birding enthusiast has been feeding the plethora of abundant wildlife that takes refuge at the Eagle Heart Center since he acquired the land more than ten years ago.
The creek provides the necessities of life within a busy urban environment. Some of our inhabitants and visitors include raccoons, possums, squirrels, armadillos, coyotes, rabbits, and an occasional wolf or bob cat. Their final refuge within a vast urban area.
Visiting Eagle Heart for a weekend is like living in a nature preserve! The land is alive with the sound of nature's music. Weekend classes are available covering many topics.
Please call for more information 409-599-3700.
Majestic Trees Adorn our Nature Trail along the creek. The nature walk along Coward's Creek is particularly spectacular at sunrise when the light is perfect and nature is awaking. The sound of the morning symphony is trumpeted by a variety of feathered musicians who each seem to be attempting to "out" sing the other.
Our regular feathered inhabitants who live here include red tailed hawks (nesting on the land), osprey, turkey vultures, yellow crowned night herons, great egrets, great blue herons, great horned owls, eastern screech owls, mourning doves, ruby throated hummingbirds, black chinned hummingbirds, pileated woodpeckers, red headed woodpeckers, Stellar's jays, common ravens, chickadees, tufted titmice, wrens, robins (seasonal, mockingbirds, northern cardinals, meadowlarks, seagulls, and sapsuckers.
Our Mother Oak Tree majestically stands here providing shelter and homes to so many of our Eagle Heart residents. She is adorned with many bird feeders (sometimes squirrel feeders) and wind chimes.
Below her limbs sets a wooden swing with a view of Coward's Creek that acts as a soothing window through eternity. Many have come to her for solace and requiem. The sights of the birds as they feed, the scurrying of the squirrels, and the raspy sound of the hawks circling high overhead have helped many distressed individuals to find peace within.
Seminar participants seem to find answers while meditating near her.
FionaFiona, queen of the fairies, is honored on the land. She represents a never ending quest for knowledge, "uninhibited by reason". Eagle Heart Center represents a time and place where a Rebirth of Wonder exists. The land has been dedicated to helping all those who visit to learn how to embrace their fears and work with them in empowering ways.
What we resist... persists. And when we resist acknowledging our fear as a helpful component of living a fulfilling life, we tend to color all our perceptional experiences with fear. And fear is False Evidence Appearing Real. Sometimes the facts are the enemy of the Truth.
Our Native American teachers who have come here to Eagle Heart have taught us that we must embrace both life and death. Live life for the fun of it... and then die for the fun of it when that time comes.
Giving to Nature is Truly Receiving! As mankind continues to dominate the earth and her resources few refuges are left for the other inhabitants of Mother Earth. We, at Eagle Heart, feel that we must continually provide a refuge for what is left of nature after the urban expansion of mankind. We feed the birds, we provide food for the wildlife, and we plant flowers because they are the faces of angels. Someone has to do this and we are committed to continuing as long as we are able to keep the bird feeders full. We choose to embrace nature as she presents herself to us. We honor all the elemental forces and live our life as if our lives were a prayer... Light in Slow Motion... Love Frozen in Time.
Our Sweat Lodge
We have many great teachers who come to share their knowledge at Eagle Heart. Mary Elizabeth Thunder is a medicine woman who helped John Maisel heal a very serious case of Belles Palsy. She and her Sun Dancer Brave Jesse Fearing have conducted healing sweat lodges here for many years. The Sweat Lodge is a truly remarkable experience and has many practical applications in modern life, especially in the area of purification of one's body and mind.
Hawk Condo
We know that this great pine tree looks like a pine tree. But, in fact, it is a Hawk Condo. For the second year we have had a mated pair of hawks raise their young right here at Eagle Heart. We feel very honored to have their presence here to inspire all those who have the privilege of observing the majestic flight of this pair as the rise on the thermals without even moving their wings.
We all have the ability to ride our own thermals once we align ourselves with our life's purpose and nature. Many of the ills that face mankind today are as a result of the sense of separation from nature that is caused by urban life.
Simple acts like feeding the birds or providing for other wild or domestic animals can heal a broken heart and confused mind.
Abundance!!!
Our commitment at Eagle Heart is to provide a complete experience encompassing all the senses. The beginning of spring is heralded by the fragrance of our wall of confederate jasmine. Early summer through late fall is enhanced the the bouquet of night blooming jasmine and trumpet flower trees. Each year we celebrate the changes of all seasons!
The musky aroma of the creek bed at dawn is the perfect beginning to any day. In spring such visits to Coward's Creek at the break of dawn are complimented with wild berries along the way.
When arriving at Eagle Heart Center you are greeted by our two large eagles. One is waiting for you right at the entrance to the Eagle Heart property and the other at the entrance to our Seminar Room.
Our center has been used for corporate trainings, seminars, massage therapy training, church groups, birthday parties, christenings, family gatherings, and various certifications of spiritual disciplines. It is perfect for any group that appreciates nature and is willing to be nurtured by such beautiful surroundings.
Sundance Sharon prepares Prayer Ties for the Lodge The Sweat Lodge ceremony is filled with intention. Each action taken before, during. and after the Sweat Lodge has a meaning. There are intentions to be established, to be followed and respected. How else could one spend almost two hours in a small 12 foot circle with thirty other people in the dark with temperatures well above those one could ever imagine tolerating.
The temperature rises and the leader of the lodge says "Pray Harder". And what earthly purpose could ever be served by such an ordeal. John Maisel states, "The spiritual power of such an experience enabled me to endure the extreme pain of a broken back. In the lodge it would become so hot that I learned how to relocate my focus from the extreme heat on my face and upper torso to my hand which was contacting the cool gentle and nurturing earth. This one profound learning experience has brought me back time and again to the lodge in order to pray for my family, my friends, my country, our peace keepers and myself."
Ceremonial Drums and Buffalo Skull: For more information about Native American teachings please visit www.marythunder.com . Mary Thunder has a ranch in West Point, Texas just outside of Austin and she travels worldwide sharing her traditional teachings with all willing students. She is a true gift to the world.... do not miss the opportunity to meet her if she is visiting your area.
Her braves are all Sun Dancers. The process of becoming a Sun Dancer has transformed young men into confident leaders with that quality of "Uncommon Certainty" known by few, but recognized by all.
Building the Inipi Lodge: Final stages of preparing the Inipi (Sweat Lodge). The lodge must be tight so that not one bit of light enters the lodge. Our leaders have taught us that the lodge represents re-entering the mother's womb.
John Maisel states, "The remarkable healings that I have witnessed within the Sweat Lodge cause me to believe that this is an extremely effective form of prayer. The healers who conduct these lodges do not even require payment for their services. This equally remarkable.
Our Recreational Area: Virtually all of our landscaping has a purpose. We are dedicated to creating a natural refuge for humans, birds, butterflies, wildlife, and all of nature. Our landscaping includes many flowering, fruiting, and seeding plants that provide nourishment for all our visitors and residents.
Butterflies abound at Eagle Heart, hummingbirds dart about, and the color spectrum of the birds never ceases to amaze our guests. We do our best to be one with this land, to protect it, and improve it where we can.