My family traveled to Seattle a few weeks ago... There was a Walking Labyrinth in front of the Music Project Museum. There is one way in to the center and one way out. Labyrinths are one of the oldest transformational tools to humanity. They are used as an ancient symbol of healing and for connecting the mind body and spirit. Research from Harvard Medical School has shown that walking meditations greatly reduce anxiety and stress. Labyrinths balance the right and left hemispheres of the brain and balance the masculine and feminine energies in our bodies. They represent life's journey, the journey to the soul.
Love walking the labyrinth. Studied a little with a druid teachers many years ago who walked us through calling out the turns within the chakras -- every turn takes you either inward or outward in a chakra so that by the time you've walked all the way in you've moved through all of them, looking both in and out. So balancing. I've long since forgotten the order of which turn is which but I love walking with the sense that every turn is connected to that inward and outward turning through the chakras.
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