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Tara Labyrinth & Meditation

Locality: Innes Park

Phone: +61 400 709 069

Address: 15 Tara Street 4670 Innes Park, QLD, Australia

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23.01.2022 Yes. YOU are the medicine

21.01.2022 Some more pics of our Peace Day Labyrinth Walk

21.01.2022 A gathering of beautiful souls at sunrise this morning to walk the Labyrinth on this International Day of Peace. The theme for 2020 is Shaping Peace Together by spreading compassion, kindness and hope. We placed Olive branches in the Centre and read out Peace quotes at the end of our walk. Followed by singing along to John Lennon's "Imagine". May Peace Prevail on Earth

20.01.2022 I'm doing an online retreat tomorrow and rest is definitely on the agenda. How will you rest over this coming weekend?

20.01.2022 A wonderful Labyrinth walk last night under the magnificence of the Saturn/Jupiter Grand Conjunction. Women walked carrying small torches to embody the light of their future self. It was beautiful to see the circles of light moving around the Labyrinth. (Photo looks darker than it actually was ).

19.01.2022 But wait ... there's more thanks to Kay Shelton

18.01.2022 In the oft busy Labyrinth of Life, where is your Peaceful place? This is one of mine. Author's photo Innes Park, Queensland, Australia

16.01.2022 The International Day of Peace sunrise Labyrinth Walk is being held on Monday 21 September at 5.30am on the beach in front of the surf club, Neilsen Beach, Bargara. We would love to see you there to help us "Shape Peace Together ".

16.01.2022 Why the labyrinth is relevant in 2020: 'Buckminster Fuller wrote, ‘If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don't bother trying to teach them. Give th...em a tool instead, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.’ The labyrinth is just such a tool with the capacity to show us a new way of being in the world. It is a gift for uncertain times because it is that rare and precious thing, a universal symbol within which all our perspectives can find a home. The labyrinth teaches acceptance, inclusion and flow. Acceptance of the path and its obstacles. Inclusion of the other, both within and without, and to be in flow with all that is. We are held by the structure of its winding path and received by its mystery. Walking the labyrinth is often considered a threefold path: releasing on the way in, receiving in the middle and then returning. This idea blends well with Jungian analyst, Helen Luke’s principles of the Divine Feminine: ‘Receiving, Nourishing and Birthing’. If we synergise these concepts, then the path receives what we release on the way in, nourishes us with inspiration as we pause in the centre, then births us back out into the world, refreshed. It’s a symbolic integration of our capacity to give and receive, a true mystic path. Rather than merely a personal sense of activating the intuitive aspects of consciousness, it’s a much bigger idea of the Great Mother rising up to meet us, using the labyrinth as her portal. Being an archetype, the labyrinth has no opposite, but its shadow is the maze (ultimately just a complicated labyrinth). The labyrinth welcomes and soothes with the ease of its step by step journey, whereas the walls and dead ends of the maze are designed to frustrate and confuse. The maze has been the dominant paradigm for so long, most of us barely notice we're in it. To its detriment, Western culture has valued head over heart and thought over feeling. The rules and hierarchies are so deeply woven into our social fabric that it's hard to imagine any other way of being. The maze is a game with more barriers than freedoms, whose primary goal is power and control. In corporate life, an organisation which operates like a maze would be adversarial and competitive, a dog-eat-dog environment in which the end justifies the means. Employees chasing individual agendas rather than working as a team. The labyrinth is a game with more freedoms than barriers, whose primary goal is flow and acceptance. An organisation which operates like a labyrinth would be more collaborative, an interdependent community of individuals. The labyrinth is a form of ‘maze therapy’ offering us the opportunity to experience ourselves as vessels through which power flows, rather than seeing power as something external to self. It is a paradigm within which we can access real power. The power of our essential nature. Not power over, which is the obsession of the maze, but power with. A mutually expansive sharing of the destiny of our world. So how do we know if we're living in a labyrinth or a maze? It’s all a matter of perspective. When we feel lost and confused, we’ve probably turned our path into a maze. The signs are anxiety, comparison and a need to control things. The myth of the maze is that it is real, that there’s no alternative. When we surrender to fear we build walls and create dead ends. We can only be free when we accept our experience and see how it might be transformed into something useful; when we realize that what's in the way, is the way. We are the alchemists of our own lives and the lead with which that alchemist is working and we are the gold it becomes. The coronavirus has highlighted many problems at the heart of our social and economic systems. It could be seen as the minotaur of our times, the hidden beast that must be confronted in the maze of modern life. The minotaur represents the shadow of our nature, the unconscious material we choose to ignore about ourselves. In the myth, Theseus slayed the Minotaur and managed to escape the maze, but he couldn’t do it alone; he needed the spool of thread given to him by Ariadne, to find his way back out. The hero aspect of our nature ventures into the dark of the subconscious mind to slay the monster of fear or shame but it needs to be guided back to the light by the intuitive heroine within. The great task of individuation involves slaying all the monsters we keep locked in the heart of our interior labyrinth. Not just once, but over and over again. Our cultural minotaurs are the aspects of modern life that are draped in shame. The choices made to serve the few at the expense of the many. The malignant delusion of endless growth on a planet with finite resources. The rape of the earth, the pollution of the seas, the enslavement of millions. These are truly monstrous realities which, when fully acknowledged can be overwhelming. The answer is to do what we can from where we are, one step at a time. To clean up our small patch of ground and support those who extend their reach beyond. The gift of these minotaurs is to wake us up to the interconnection of all things. To show us our power to destroy and our power to create. We have the power to change our minds and change the game; to honour and revere the immense blessing of the earth instead of claiming dominion over it. The labyrinth invites us to tune ourselves to what is possible. To reach down into the earth and up into the stratosphere, bridging spirit and matter within the vessel of our being. As a living metaphor, it helps us remember that we are held and blessed by all that is. Even this.' (Emily Simpson, 2020. Image by Kyle Murraya) See more

15.01.2022 Today is World Kindness Day. 2020 has been a very different year and we have seen so many inspiring acts of human kindness. There is even a FB page for acts of kindness and reading some of the things that people did for each other is heart warming. So - on Kindness Day today as well as being kind and feeling empathy for others, remember to also be kind to yourself, smile and give yourself a big hug for all that you have done and for all that you are.

14.01.2022 I'm preparing the Tara Labyrinth this morning for the Sacred Embodiment Women's Healing Retreat led by Carissa Lane. The final day of the retreat is being held here. Look who I came across. I think the message for today is to Trust

10.01.2022 Time to relax ...

09.01.2022 Merry Solstice! On this most potent of days, we gathered at Tara to celebrate Summer Solstice and walk the Spiral and the Labyrinth. We made Solstice Spirit Pouches using herbs, stones and essential oils, infusing them with wishes as we held them while journeying to Uluru in our meditation. A very empowering experience. Much gratitude to all who came to share.

09.01.2022 The Labyrinth found me when I went on this pilgrimage to Crete 8 years ago. I am forever thankful

08.01.2022 I couldn't settle to do my morning meditation today so I walked my Labyrinth instead. I asked for a word or a message thinking it would pop into my awareness later. The Labyrinth had other ideas. The stones placed around the paths of the Labyrinth provided my word/message immediately. What is your word or message for today?

07.01.2022 It was the last day of the Sacred Embodiment Women's Healing Retreat today and it was held at the Tara Labyrinth. A beautifully moving, emotional ritual involving a Spiral walk spiralling into our Soul and a Labyrinth walk of Soul connection. Deep gratitude. And I get to keep the roses

05.01.2022 I am soooo excited to share my new branding with you. Deepest gratitude and thanks to Katarina Lottchen from Her Umbrella Designs for her creativity, design and insight. I love the simplicity and elegance. Tshirts coming soon.

04.01.2022 Preparing for another Summer Solstice Labyrinth walk this evening at the Bargara Peace Prayer Labyrinth

04.01.2022 Another Labyrinth sunrise ...