Facilitated labyrinth walks for individuals and groups across Spokane and the Inland Northwest — quiet, unhurried, and open to anyone.
A labyrinth is a single winding path that leads to a center and back out again. It is not a maze. There are no dead ends, no wrong turns, and nothing to solve — you cannot get lost. You follow the path, and it brings you where it is going.
People have been walking them for thousands of years, in churches and cathedrals, on hillsides and beaches, in hospitals and gardens. The pattern belongs to no single tradition. What it offers is a way of moving your body slowly enough that your mind can catch up with it.
Some people walk with a question. Some walk with grief, or gratitude, or nothing in particular. All of that is a real way to walk.
You do not need a facilitator to walk a labyrinth. What a facilitator does is take care of everything around the walk, so you are free to just walk it.
Arrives early, clears and readies the path, and sets a quiet, unhurried tone before anyone arrives.
A short introduction to the pattern and to the four movements — Remember, Release, Receive, Return — so first-time walkers know what to expect.
Keeps time, manages spacing on the path, and stays out of the way. There is no right pace and no talking required.
An unhurried close — sharing if people want it, silence if they do not. Nobody is asked to explain their walk.
Every walk is built around who is coming and why. A grief group, a staff retreat and a solstice walk want three different things from the same path.
Individual walks. One person, one path, unhurried — with an introduction beforehand and space afterward if you want it.
Group and community walks. For congregations, retreats, staff teams, support groups and gatherings, at a labyrinth near you or at a venue we arrange together.
Seasonal and themed walks. Solstices, full moons, new beginnings, remembrance — and a Loving Kindness walk built on the metta practice.
Personal finger labyrinths. A digital labyrinth made for you, in your colors and with your words. See the labyrinths →
My working life has been spent helping people sit with difficult things without rushing them. That is most of what a labyrinth asks too. I bring the same steadiness to a walk that I bring to a session, and I leave the clinical work at the door.
If you want to go further on your own, start here.
The organization founded by Lauren Artress that trains labyrinth facilitators, with a free webinar archive and printable finger labyrinths.
Walking a Sacred Path and The Sacred Path Companion — the two books that brought the labyrinth back into wide modern use. The four movements described above come from her work.
A searchable map of public labyrinths, run by The Labyrinth Society and Veriditas. This is how you find one near you anywhere in the world.
A free page for tracking the labyrinths you have walked around the Inland Northwest. No account, nothing collected — everything you write stays on your own phone.
And if you like your practices evidenced: The Labyrinth Society research bibliography, or my science page.
Walks are open to anyone, of any belief or none. If you are curious, that is enough to start.
