Walking a labyrinth in community offers a different experience and insights to walking solo. Labyrinths are contemplative pathways that support inner listening and self-reflection. This practice encourages openness to thoughts, sensations, and emotions as they arise. You may begin with a question and notice what insights emerge from within. For many, labyrinths awaken the intuitive mind and offer a gentle space to slow down, breathe, and be present. The labyrinth’s winding path mirrors life’s changes—yet it always leads to the centre and back out again. You cannot get lost. Each walk is a unique experience, often bringing clarity, calm, or a renewed sense of grounding. The labyrinth is a tool for mindfulness and meditation practice, and is wonderful for people who enjoy or focus better with movement.
Tash’s Peace linocut print labyrinth. Photo credit: Laneway Learning Melbourne
Events presented may be:
- public group labyrinth walks
- online handheld labyrinth walks
- arts based creative explorations
- workplace wellbeing programs
Life Spirals values inclusion. If events that are walking public space labyrinths that are not mobility aid accessible, there are options to use a handheld labyrinth which you can use seated or standing (sometimes also referred to as a handheld or finger labyrinth, where the walk is done with your hands or eye tracking).
Tash is a certified Veriditas labyrinth facilitator. She can’t remember not knowing the labyrinth. It has been a symbol and grounding tool she returned to over the years by walking, colouring, drawing and sewing them. The training she attended was a retreat to help navigate life’s twists and turns, and deepen her connection to the labyrinth. Then impulse to share the magic of the labyrinth developed.
This video gives wonderful insight into walking a labyrinth. Walking into Stillness: Encountering the Labyrinth was created by Brian Capener at the labyrinth at Grace Episcopal Church (St. Helena, California, United States).
