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Healing depression, lonliness, grief and anxiety with embodied, contemplative beach labyrinth rituals: a transdisciplinary approach

Jacqueline Kurio

Photography

Labyrinth + place = belonging

Eco-psychology perceives the entangled interconnectivity between person and place. The beach is a liminal, elemental space of freedom and potential. Earth body as our body invites us to come home to ourselves and the Earth.

Ritual as creative practise in collaboration with nature’s design

Humans as essentially creative, caring beings. Drawing labyrinths = an artistic collaboration between self and the elements. Labyrinths as sacred geometry express fundamental truths about the nature of reality; as universal patterns they honour what is sensed but unseen. Rituals provide an opportunity to practise gratitude while embodying purposeful intentions.

Healing through actualising awareness of the whole

Washed by the ocean distributes the intentions held in the labyrinth to everyone/all of life; water consciousness is emergent field of study (Ho, 2012; Nuday, 2014). Healing through participating in the living whole imparts sense of belonging and sacred responsibility.

Dr Jacqueline Kurio, GP, artist and writer

Artist website: www.livinglabyrinths.net
Substack contribitions https://jacquelinekurio.substack.com/
Worldwide labyrinth locator: https://labyrinthlocator.org/ – so folk know if there is a labyrinth they can walk close to where they are or are visiting.