NELSON, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA

What is it about Canada that people just want to put Labyrinths in streets and parking lots? Yes, this labyrinth is painted in the middle of the side road, off the main street, in downtown Nelson, British Columbia, Canada. I found out that it was painted to raise awareness and funds to build another one in a park near the water. Which I can report has now been completed!

Please visit The Nelson Community Labyrinth Project on their website for more information: www.labyrinth.kics.bc.ca

FERGUS, ONTARIO CANADA

Labyrinth enthusiasts, Jim Honey and Sharon McClean - placed a Classic 7 Path Style in the Parking Lot of a local Convention Arena. Using only a diagram and a bag of lime, gloves and paper cups, they traced a temporary full size Labyrinth on the ground. Gives a new meaning to "paved Paradise and put up a parking lot" ….with Labyrinth! Jim is part of a family owned winery in St. Catherines, and operates a "Castle" bookstore and much more in the quaint town of Elora, near Fergus, Ontario. His website is Sangrael. Sharon is active in the community to promote Labyrinths, and is also an accomplished vocal artist and musician who plans on composing music to walk the Labyrinth by.

CARTAGO - (Near San Jose) COSTA RICA

Here they are, the three owners of the only Labyrinths in Costa Rica! All pictured together at the Labyrinth of Dr. Steven Kogel. Interesting fact: They were all born in the U.S.A., and migrated to beautiful Costa Rica.

ANCIENT LABYRINTH - YUCATAN REGION OF MEXICO

In a spiritual trip to the Yucatan, our Host Hunbutz Men took our group to a set of caverns, "Lol-Tun". At the end of one of the caves there was a huge open area with a high hill. Walking to the top of the hill, giving offerings, the cave revealed this etched picture of a Labyrinth on a subterranean hill carved in stone.

He also reveals that there existed Mayan temples, places of initiation, where subterranean pathways were cut out of interior temples that required the initiate to walk in darkness and complete a course, which may have included scorpions, poisonous snakes, and if they returned out after the ordeal, they became enlightened Shaman. This seems reminiscent of another story, sans Heroine, from Greek Mythology, about the Minotaur.  

BEAUTIFUL EARTH MOUND LABYRINTH IN NEW MEXICO

This beautiful raised mound style Labyrinth is on property owned by Sonia Hodsen. At the first International Labyrinth Society (TLS) Gathering in Colorado in 1999, I met Sonia, and we made an instant friendship. She was concerned that it was important that TLS remember how the sacred circles in North America were tied to traditional ancestors. And how the Labyrinth was a sacred circle that could now be tied into blending the two together. Sonia is a beautiful Elder holding sacred space.

PRAIRIE LABYRINTH - MISSOURI

No site could be complete without this breathtaking photo of the inspirational Prairie Labyrinth birthed by Toby Evans. Cut out of her field of prairie grass, it is one of the largest in the world that has a caretaker who organizes events and walks for the public. I also met Toby at the first Labyrinth Society Gathering in 1999, and found an instant "sistar" connection to the traditional roots that had guided my journey of service as well. She is a dedicated woman who has written about her phenomenal spirit guided story in her book, Keeper Of The Circles - Answering the Call to Wholeness ©2001. You can visit www.prairielabyrinth.com for more information.

SOUTHWESTEN UNITED STATES - TRIBAL LABYRINTHS

No site would be complete without the reference to the Labyrinth pattern often woven into baskets by early tribal people from the Anasazi, Hohokam and Mogollon cultures, and still used today by the Tohono O'odham and Pima tribes. Here is a rendering of that design that always shows a "man" and the Labyrinth.