My inner voices are never silent. I am not good at meditating. I know it's so good against stress and hence such a healthy activity. Unfortunately I'm so tightly wound my inner voices never shut up - even in the lotus position. Labyrinth's unlike mazes have no dead ends. Walking it is a 'no-brainer' - one path to the centre and out again. As you walk a labyrinth turning 180 degrees each time you enter a different circuit your brain starts to relax and you feel increasingly calm and centred.

As you shift your direction you also shift your awareness from right brain to left brain. Somehow it works, even with someone like me, a most stubborn and unskilled meditation disciple.

I have walked a labyrinth once with my then 5 year old daughter. I could appreciate our individual journeys as well as our togetherness. I felt whole in myself and a closeness doing the same winding journey with her at the same time. It was a curious and most beautiful experience, making me weep in the end - in a cleansing and genuinely happy way.

Other members of our social board had their own experiences with labyrinths and were keen to pick up the project. We have decided as a group to give this project some thought and came up with the plan to manufacture a transportable labyrinth locally. Henrietta managed the project and I hope she will share the artist, the canvas provider, the process and progress in a post soon.

Everything going according to plan, we will premier the Noosa Biosphere Labyrinth on our Noosa Biosphere Day, 10th (ooops - thanks Henrietta for noticing) 19th! of September. Please be our guest and test it for us.

In the meantime here is one of many youtube clips talking about 'walking a labyrinth':

This flickr stream is showing the construction of a rock labyrinth:

I am so looking forward to see our own first experiment to be unravelled. Please come and say hello to the social board and test our labyrinth for us on Noosa Biosphere Day. Until then, yours truly, Bettina