Divining the Sacred Path:
Labyrinths, Dowsing, & Living in Harmony

Marty Cain & Prue Berry

Jun 18-20, 2010

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The Sacred Path has taken many forms for many years—one of which is the labyrinth. Labyrinths have been with us for thousands of years and are found around the Earth from Iceland to deepest Africa, America to China. Unlike trickster mazes, labyrinths are single paths designed to take one on a meaningful journey to end or center and back to the beginning again—similar to how we may perceive the cycles of life from birth to death and perhaps back to another beginning, or another end.

Why has this single path form prevailed throughout time in so many cultures and spiritual beliefs? And what explains its popularity today?

Join Prue and Marty discovering a way through the many turnings of the mystical labyrinth. Participants will explore the forms, uses and purposes of labyrinths through history and the many new forms its ancient, mystical pattern can take today. “Meander with us as we learn how to make a labyrinth, uncover your own labyrinth’s personality, including where it might go, how to construct it, and what materials would be the best ones to use in your particular situation.” Among the techniques used during the workshop will be the ancient and useful art of geomancy called dowsing. Join Marty and Prue on this imaginative weekend of discovery.

Marty Cain is a world-renowned labyrinth designer who was taught to dowse by her Lithuanian grandfather. An artist, teacher and geomancer, she has experienced, researched, and documented hundreds of ancient sacred sites in England and Europe and teaches dowsing as a way to generate creative ideas. Her exquisite land-art focuses on the integration of art and geomancy. Her goal is to create, and enable others to create, new sacred sites that heal the Earth and all who enter them. A visual arts instructor in the MFA program of Vermont College, Marty has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Edna St. Vincent Millay Colony, among others. She has created more than 130 labyrinths. Her designs are located across North America—from Maine to California and Canada to Hawaii—and in Brazil and South Africa. Get ready; her enthusiasm is contagious.

Prue Berry is a nature spirit herself. She specializes in the creation of Sacred Spaces in her landscape design work. A graduate of the Radcliffe Seminars Graduate Program of Landscape Design, for 17 years she served as co–executive director of Rowe Camp and Conference Center. A guitarist, singer, therapist and ace workshop leader, Prue’s love of nature and natural sensibilities keeps her on her quest for new ways to impart awareness of this connection to others. People can’t get enough of her.