Build a Labyrinth
Awaken Your Soul as You Walk
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Welcome. This page is designed to inspire you to build a labyrinth yourself. Tip #1: Quite frankly, If I can do it...you can do it! You are visiting the official "Doing a 360" site created and edited by The Reverend Dr. Nancy Ash. Enjoy these photos taken while creating a classical, 7-Circuit Labyrinth in our small backyard, 2010. The ancient Labyrinth (back by popular demand) is a wonderful, sacred yet simple tool for walking meditation, contemplation and prayer.
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Here you can see the layout in stone over grey weed prevention paper. Using that material is Tip #2: This was a two-person (Jon and I) project that took only a few weekends to complete. The circumference stones (360) are from Taos, New Mexico, and are therefore very special; all carefully, hand-picked for us from the river...
Tip #3: Start calmly and simply. Build a smaller one for your first project. This is a (17 foot) 7-Circuit, Classical Labyrinth. It is the smaller size used for portable, fabric labyrinth workshop set-ups. One of many labyrinth designs, this style is the oldest known on the planet, originating in Crete about four or five thousand years ago.
In order to really build a labyrinth you need to have a deep desire to establish a sacred portal to a vortex point in the earth. In other words...you don't really create these meditative spaces...they just sort of "build" you - so to speak. The earth calls...and you respond; you just know, in your-heart-of-hearts that the land wants it there. We are therefore sometimes referred to as "The Keepers" of The Circles.
Labyrinth Designs Still unfinished at this stage, my photo illustrates a little path of crushed stone that I designed to take us from our patio to this sacred space. It is important to have a clear path in and out. Remember, a maze (in which you can get lost) is not a labyrinth. Labyrinths represent life: "Doing a 360" ...there is a clear way in and a path out! So Tip #4 is definately plan ahead!
Doing a 360 Jonathan walks his new labyrinth every morning...weather permitting. What a great stress-buster as well after work! Here he is enjoying the fruits of his loving labor as "A Keeper" of The Circles.
Okay...so perhaps YOU are inspired to build a labyrinth now? We hope so; they are so wonderful to have available right there in your yard. I invite you to look at some other beautiful labyrinth designs available. A hobby of mine is walking labyrinths wherever I go which is a powerful 360 meditation method. I check online and browse through local papers. When I visited Kansas City in 2009 we walked the labyrinth at Unity Church. In 2011, in Florida, I was honored to ordain two ministers in a memorable ceremony on a marvelous, marble labyrinth. Here in New Mexico they are sprouting up everywhere. I am off to Sedona, AZ to walk a few more, so stay tuned...
Just click link below to continue...I have some lovely photos of labyrinth designs in the amazing New Mexico mountain town of Taos...
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