The Lancaster Labyrinth: Walking Wisdom
The Lancaster Labyrinth is free and open to the public for meditative walking and contemplation on the First Sunday of each month as well as New Years’ Eve and New Years’ Day. The labyrinth offers a non-denominational spiritual experience for personal inspiration and healing. Come to Walk…Trust the Path…Seek Peace.
The 2009-2010 season is now closed. Check back soon for our 2010-2011 schedule.
What Is a Labyrinth?
A labyrinth is a complex design creating a single pathway from the entrance to the center. Trust this path to lead you through the turns, meanders, and spirals without getting lost. Labyrinth walking is a practice of moving slowly, quietly yet purposely in a space that encourages relaxation, reflection, and spiritual insight. There is no prescribed method or goal for this journey, and it is a simple walk that supports personal empowerment and inspiration. It can lead to finding the authentic self while seeking answers to the mysteries and purpose of life.
Why Walk?
Your life is a JOURNEY. You are on THE path-exactly where you were meant to be right now. You can only go forward by expanding your vision, stretching your soul, learning anew, listening carefully, and taking challenges at every step along the way…one step at a time.
Experience COMMUNITY among seekers while finding SOLITARY pleasure within serene sacred space.
Walking WISDOM is circumambulating that releases your energies. A moving meditation creates inner focus directed to finding your own center in your own way.
Tapping the SUBCONSCIOUS mind to reach your infinite power that dwells beyond reasoning. Your gifts and talents are buried within.
Walk with the pilgrims of ANTIQUITY as they sought a bridge to understanding, forgiveness, and transformation—a bridge from the public to the holy, from the inner to the outer. Seek not from without, but from within.
HEALING HAPPENS in the labyrinth as connections between body, mind, and spirit are nurtured. Honor the process of letting go of anger and woundedness.
Join a REVIVAL as labyrinths are once again reclaimed as tools for hospitals, schools, prisons, and parks. This symbol for unity and wholeness sparks connectedness and our purpose for living.
Earth energy radiates a FORCE that holds and exerts power from above, below, and all directions on our bodies and psyches. Walking on the earth brings you as close to this source as possible.
Use PRESENCE power as your greatest ally. Creative potential lies in the moment at hand and it is all you ever truly have. Find life in the present time as you travel the labyrinth step by step, in and out, around and around, spiraling, walking with presence.
Sacred GEOMETRY gives labyrinths proportion and power. All sacred architecture and organic spirals are founded on geometric principles to let us take part in the power of creation and transcendence of this world.
CHAKRAS are centers in our body flowing with energies that function best when they are in balance. Walking levels of the labyrinth repairs the energy imbalances of our lives.
A desirable BALANCE between our rational and intuitive knowledge is fostered by walking a labyrinth because the clockwise and counterclockwise turnings map out a balance between the left and right hemispheres of our brain.
Lancaster Labyrinth Workshops
The labyrinth offers a way to create an inner space for personal comfort, reflection, and inspiration. It can become a spiritual practice that guides and supports individuals’ journeys to wholeness and connectedness. These workshops are facilitated by members of the Labyrinth Committee. Registration for each workshop is due one week prior to the workshop date; a single $5 fee covers any or all of these workshops. Contact Kate Prisby at the Church office to register.
