SANTA ROSA LABYRINTH

SANTA ROSA LABYRINTH

The Making of The Santa Rosa Labyrinth

BY LEA GOODE-HARRIS

The Santa Rosa Labyrinth with Heart-Space
over the span of over twenty-five years in Lea Goode-Harris’s backyard…

Since this is a seven-circuit labyrinth (eight circles make seven paths), each path matches the seven-energy centers of the body. The small open space between the entrance and the goal falls on the fourth-circuit and correlates with the heart-energy-center or fourth-chakra. It has come to be called the heart-space because of this and can be found in other contemporary labyrinth designs. This heart-space is approached from all four directions when you walk in and out of the Santa Rosa Labyrinth.

Memorial Day Weekend, May 23, 1997 ~ Marilyn Larson and I meet for the very first time and draw this new labyrinth design from the paper in my hands to the ground/sand with our feet at Salmon Creek Beach, Sonoma County, California…

One year later… Mother’s Day Weekend, five women gather to paint the first Santa Rosa Labyrinth on canvas, now with the addition of the heart-space on the fourth path/circuit. Sue Anne Foster, Alyssa Hall, Marilyn Larson, Kimberly Lowelle (not yet a Saward), and myself, Lea Goode (not yet a Harris).

Sue Anne Foster went on to paint the very first artistically expressed canvas labyrinth with ivy stencils that she made. And you will notice… that the only flat surface large enough on her property to paint on, was her rooftop…

And then the Santa Rosa Labyrinth began its first travels… with both Sue Anne Foster and then with Marilyn Larson in the late Spring of June, 1998. Spreading seeds all along the way…

Women at the center… Mineral Point, Wisconsin, 1998

Art, Santa Rosa Labyrinth Song, and Santa Rosa Labyrinth dimensions by Marilyn Larson.

Drawing by myself after the Salmon Creek experience with Marilyn, May, 1997.

Here are but a few of the many Santa Rosa Labyrinths that have been built throughout the United States and around the world. From left to right: The Santa Rosa Labyrinth on the Green Roof of the American Psychological Association, Washington, DC; The Santa Rosa Labyrinth on a bluff in Australia; The Santa Rosa Labyrinth at Standing Bear Park, Ponca City, Oklahoma, installation by Marty & Debi Kermeen of Labyrinths In Stone; Santa Rosa Labyrinth in South Africa created by Dawn Myburgh.

Please use the Santa Rosa Labyrinth design as a point of inspiration for your own labyrinth and artistic creations. Allow your creative imagination and ideas to emerge, embellish, and design, as you follow this path of discovery...

There is no charge for the 30-page Santa Rosa Labyrinth Instruction booklet (PDF). Please click on the following link. Nor any need to ask for permission to use the design. I do love to receive photos of your Santa Rosa Labyrinth creations! Let your creativity blossom!


The Santa Rosa Labyrinth Instruction PDF

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