A labyrinth is a path that offers a peaceful and tranquil environment for relaxation, meditation, and slowing down. 

Begin at the entrance and journey to the centre. Pause, reflect, meditate, and when ready, return outwards, retracing your path.

In the course of a walk, we usually find out something about our companion, and this is true even when we travel alone.

Suggested duration: Start with fifteen minutes.

Where to find the labyrinth in Princes Park

•   The Princes Park Labyrinth is close to the tennis courts, see map here...

•   Walking in an anti-clockwise direction on the perimeter path the labyrinth is fifty-hundred metres walk from the tennis courts. There is a sign at the entrance to the Labyrinth. 

How a labyrinth can be used:

•   To slow down

•   Fun

•   To reset, refresh and reengage your senses in space and time you live.

•   Mindfulness

•   Connection with the past/history

•   Spiritual.

 A Labyrinth is not!

•   A maze, or a riddle

 The difference between mazes and labyrinths is that labyrinths have a single continuous path which leads to the centre, and as long as you keep going forward, you will get there, eventually. Mazes have multiple paths which branch off and will not necessarily lead to the centre.

 Suggested further reading and research:

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labyrinth

•   https://www.labyrinthsociety.org/

•   https://www.veriditas.org/

  World Labyrinth day, May 3^rd 2025