Sydney Labyrinth usually hold group walks at 9am on the first Sunday of every month. However, these are now on hold until the lockdown is over. The next one will (hopefully!) be at 9am on Sunday, 3rd October, led by Elizabeth Lee. 

WALKING WITH INTENTION at 10am on the first Friday of the month.  Spiritual Director, Elizabeth Lee draws on a different theme each month. For more information go to Elizabeth’s website, Vision and Action

The next one will be at 10am Friday 6th August.

Come and experience the profound metaphor of the labyrinth in a group setting. It’s an opportunity to remind yourself what it feels like to simply be in community in a peaceful, gentle way. Sydney Labyrinth events are free and open to all. The labyrinth is on Dickens Drive. Go to the location page for directions and sign up to our newsletter to receive updates about all labyrinth events.

If you don’t feel up for group walks, the labyrinth is still there for you. A place of refuge and sanctuary in complicated times. Use it as a contemplative tool to walk your way into the bigger picture, releasing anxieties on the way in, aligning with what truly matters as you pause in the centre, like a tuning fork between earth and sky, then following the path back out into the world, weaving into your awareness any insights or metaphors you may have noticed along the way. Walking meditation helps us accept whatever is going on in our lives and that what’s in the way, usually is the way.

FACILITATED MONTHLY WALKS 

• Sun 1st August: Matthew Evans @ 9am
• Fri 6th Aug: Walking with Intention @ 10am
• Fri 3rd Sept: Walking with Intention @ 10am
• Sun 5th Sept: Heather Middleton @ 9am
• Fri 1st Oct: Walking with Intention @ 10am
• Sun 3rd Oct: Elizabeth Lee @ 9am
• Fri 5th Nov: Walking with Intention @ 10am
• Sun 7th Nov: Wendy Rose-Williams @ 9am
• Fri 3rd Dec: Walking with Intention @ 10am
• Sun 5th Dec:  Elizabeth MacGregor @ 9am
• Sun 19th Dec: Summer Solstice with Maja Skrlj @ 7am

ABC TV’s Compass program ,”Walk the Talk” on the creation of the Centennial Park Labyrinth was broadcast on Sunday 26th April, 2015

ABC Radio National program about the construction of the labyrinth in Centennial Park, featuring Emily Simpson, William Zuccon (Architect) and Darren Finlayson (Stonemason). It was broadcast on 1st November and is now available online: http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/offtrack/it-is-solved-by-walking/5840076  or you can read a comprehensive article by Ann Jones:  http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/offtrack/walking-sydneys-parkland-labyrinth/5847518

Let the heartsick, let the empty,
let the searching come. Let the hopeless,
let the blissful, let the forsaken come.

When the days unspool on dark reel after
another, come. When sorrow haunts
the corners of the house, when the hours stack
like dirty plates, when solitude
becomes loneliness, come to the labyrinth. Continue reading →

Dr John James, architect, historian and psychotherapist specialized in narcissism talks about labyrinths. He is a world expert on the Chartres Cathedral and its labyrinth and helped us get the geometry right for the Centennial Park Labyrinth.  In this interview he offers some fascinating insights on astrology and the labyrinth. You can read an in depth article written by John in 1972 on the labyrinth in the Chartres Cathedral here: 36 labyrinth.  To find out more about this remarkable man go to http://www.johnjames.com.au/

You can see the full 30 minute interview here.

Emily Simpson explains the background for the labyrinth in Centennial Park