Personal Garden Labyrinth in Garden Valley, California - click on photos to enlarge

This is a classic seven circuit design initiated in the fall of 2002 after attending the Sacramento Labyrinth Society Conference in California. It has two foot wide paths and is 32 feet in diameter. Missing is the initial stage of painting the design as a temporary labyrinth in 2002. The top row of phostos were taken in 2003 when we placed all the rocks on top of the painted lines as a three day family project. All the stones were gathered from the property. The following year we added gravel to the paths, placed a planter bed around the labyrinth and planted several species of deer resistant flowers. The photos in the second row were taken in June of 2006.

THE ABODE OF PEACE COMMUNITY LABYRINTH

This is a much larger labyrinth using the Chratres pattern that incorportated the use of over 150 tons of serpentine stone and boulders that took to months to place from February 12th thru April 12th of 2008. The labyrinth is 123 feet in diameter and the center is 30 ft across. It is built at the Abode of Peace Yoga Retreat Center in Georgetown, California and it is open to the public. Addional landscaping within and around the labyrinth is planned and it will continue to be a work in progress for years to come. This labyrinth is so large that I couldn't get it all into a single frame so I used PhotoShop to merge 6 photos to create this panorama.

BUILDING THE ABODE OF PEACE LABYRINTH

The video clip to the left shows our progress up to March 25, 2008. The featured music is from my Land of the Midnight Sun CD recorded with Jon Allasia. I'll update this later with additional images of the completed labyrinth.