LOOK US OVER…..
Visit the BodyMind Awareness spa in a Salida mountain ranch environment.
View serene Colorado mountain wilderness from your session room.
Take time for a meditative labyrinth walk surrounded by pinon pines.
This spacious environment at BodyMind Awareness is available and perfect for your Retreat events
Beautiful mountain views surround BodyMind Awareness, located on the Circle Double L ranch just east of Salida’s city limits. Both the Sangre de Christo range and the Colliegate Peaks lend their wonderful energy and feeling of spaciousness to this relaxing location.
Ample and easy parking await you. During winter the parking driveway apron and sidewalk are heated to ensure your slip-free arrival .
An inviting waiting room with a variety of reading materials is provided for you. Every room has expansive mountain views.
Your comfort needs are listened to and met in the spacious therapy room with calming mountains views.
Meditative walking awaits you in the large outdoor double octagon labyrinth surrounded by pinon pines.
Healing Touch, Healing Touch for Animals and animal communication sessions also can be held over distance via the phone from the location of your choice.
A LABYRINTH FOR YOU TO EXPERIENCE ~
Learn Meditative Labyrinth Walking and
Leave with Inner Peace
The Double Octagon Labyrinth
“It was great to come to this place in nature, away from the rigors of life. This is a special place.” – C. P., Arvada, Colorado visitor
“What beauty and peacefulness there is in this special place.” – D. Pierce, Arvada, Colorado
“Thank you , this is a very peaceful space. We so appreciate the efforts and hospitality.” – Jean and George Sammeth, Arvada, Colorado
“Thank you so much for your lovely placement and design – it challenges my preconception of what a labyrinth could be.” – B.P., Arvada, Colorado
Call 719-539-4777 to Make an Appointment for your own
mediative walking experience of this wonderful Labyrinth
SO WHY WOULD I WANT TO WALK A LABYRINTH?
Labyrinth walking is one of the simplest forms of focused walking meditation
Think of Labyrinth walking as a Tool to:
- Calm anxieties and Reduce stress as found by Harvard Medical School research
- Elicit the “relaxation response” which benefits your health by lowering your blood pressure and breathing rates
- Bring about a meditative state of mind
- Clear your mind
- Guide your healing process
- Enhance your creativity
- Deepen your knowledge about yourself
- Allow for reconciliation
- Restore your feelings of belonging to a community
- Lead to your spiritual growth
- Help humans and animals recover from injury or surgery as movements are retrained
ARE THERE SUGGESTIONS FOR ME ON HOW TO WALK A LABYRINTH?
- Be Centered and Focused. If thoughts come to you just let them float through.
- Walk purposefully. Also be attentive on your way out of the labyrinth.
- When about to exit, give some acknowledgement of ending and gratefulness
- Reflect on your experience after you are finished. You may be inspired to journal or draw
- Create your own experience
- Walk labyrinths often
WILL THERE BE ANY EXPERIENTIAL LABYRINTH WORKSHOPS ?
Yes, plans are in the making for labyrinth workshops and special solstice meditative labyrinth walks. Call Lana at 719-539-4777 for details.
WHAT IS THE LABYRINTH LIKE AT BodyMind Awareness?
It is 67 feet long and 32 feet wide. The pathways are nearly 27 inches wide for ease of walking and for owners to walk their leashed dogs as well. The labyrinth is keep very clean at all times.
Located on the Circle Double L Ranch in a clearing amongst pinon pines it maintains the natural western flavor with its pathway markers of various height wood sawn fence posts. Soft shredded cedar bark lies underfoot for your meditative walking comfort.
Simply step out of the labyrinth area after walking the spiral in the lower octagon or, if you wish, you may continue on into the upper labyrinth. When you reach the center of the upper labyrinth you simply retrace your path to its entrance point. Your path always is clear and never is a mystery.
IS A LABYRINTH THE SAME AS A MAZE?
No, a labyrinth is not a maze!
Instead, labyrinths are walking meditation devices. They have only one path which winds from the entrance at the edge to the center. Mazes require left brain analytic thinking to navigate the tricks, the choice of paths, blind alleys and dead ends. Labyrinth walking is a right brain intuitive, creative activity with clear pathways and no puzzles to figure out.
WHERE DID LABYRINTHS COME FROM IN THE FIRST PLACE?
Labyrinths are ancient human symbols that relate to wholeness.
Labyrinths create a sacred space and take us out of our ego. They allow us to journey to the center of our highest self.
WHAT IS NEXT TO THE LABYRINTH?
On each side of the labyrinth is a small grove of pinon pines. No trees were cut down to build this labyrinth located in a natural clearing. On the northwestern side of a pine grove on a hilltop you will find benches for meditating or just taking in the mountain and sunset views. An inviting gathering and fire circle is ideally located here for group campfires, fireside storytelling and drumming circles.
DO COME VISIT SALIDA, COLORADO
AND WALK THIS LABYRINTH!
Located along the Arkansas River the greater Salida, Colorado area offers hiking, river rafting, gold medal stream fishing, mountain photography, bountiful browsing of abundant art and antique galleries, award winning wineries, restaurants and the charm of a small town with historic preservations. Picturesque BighornSheep Canyon lies between Salida, Colorado and the Patterson Field Airport in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
The double octagon labyrinth described above is located at BodyMindAwareness just a mile and a half EAST of Salida’s city limit and in wilderness south of Hwy. 50.
This 67 foot by 32 foot labyrinth has 29 inch wide paths to also accommodate people while they are walking their dog on leash. The labyrinth is kept very clean for everyone.
Please view the Location section above for views of the beautiful mountain surroundings of BodyMind Awareness.
For an appointment and directions,
call Lana Hall at 719-539-4777
HERE’S THE “VILLAGE” IT TOOK TO CREATE THIS DOUBLE OCTAGON LABYRINTH:
Grateful Thanks to:
Bo & Becky Spino (and Tillie the Bernese Mountain dog) of Dirt Works excavation company: 6 truckload deliveries of top soil and roadbase material
Brady’s West Nursery: 12 foot wide weed block fabric source and 4 pallets of cedar bark
Daniel Egley & Michael Nunes: rake leveling of top soil
David Tolzmann, The Labyrinth Company, Connecticut: computer custom designed labyrinth pattern printed and sent on rolls of weed block fabric
Fed Ex: delivery of computer printed weed block fabric rolls
Hard Rock Company: road base material source
Lamar Claybrook: creative input, moving 11 railroad ties and placing them at entrance, final leveling and drainage sloping with railroad tie drag bar, hand raking, laying out & staking 12 foot width base weed block materisl, laying out and staking the design printed 6 foot width weed block fabric, loading & unloading 77 fence posts each 8 feet long, sawing 770 sections of fence posts, drilling 5 inch long holes in post sections, pounding over 750 twelve inch stakes into the ground where each of the post sections are placed, spreading cedar bark, leveling the adjacent Fire Circle area, assembling curved benches for Fire Circle, creating raised paver fire pit, clearing adjacent footpaths, keeping worksites clean and orderly at all times. Assistance in marking labyrinth post positions, pounding stakes, place posts on stakes and spreading cedar bark came from Lamar’s two teenage daughters.
Lana Hall: concept design, rough stakeout of labyrinth and fire circle areas, scheduling, co-ordinating, ordering materials and printed labyrinth design, gofer for equipment, pickup truck delivery driver, bark spreader, hanger of Good Karma flags and photographer
Hylton Lumber: long spikes, nails and washers source
Tommy Kilmer: skidster operation spreading four truck loads of roadbase material
Murdoch’s Farm and Ranch Store: 75 fence posts, drill press source
New Age Imports: Good Karma flags source
Poncha Lumber: railroad ties source
Tru Value Hardware : long spikes, nails and washers source
My Gratitude to all of you!