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WALK DETAILS
When: Saturday 14th March
Where to meet : Entrance of town car park behind fire station by allotments
What3Words: evening.calculate.touched
Time: 10.00am returning at about 12:30pm
Distance : about 4.5 miles
Ascent: 370m (1250ft)
Leaders: Kerry Andrews & Kate Dufton
A small group will be introduced to labyrinth walking through drawing and visiting a local garden labyrinth and will then proceed to walk up Table Mountain. Circuits of the top in a labyrinthine pattern will include, conversation, collaboration and may include pauses, with quiet and reflective meandering. This style of walking can be helpful in problem solving or creative ideas generation.
Participants should bring lunch to enjoy at a sheltered area near the top. Depending on weather and timing ,the return route might descend to Cwm Cwmbeth and the group will return to the start point of the walk in Standard Street for refreshments and writing/journalling/tanka/collage from the experience
DIRECTIONS TO START
CRiC - the Crickhowell Resource and Information Centre - is situated on the A40 in the centre of Crickhowell. The post code is NP8 1BN.There is a public Pay and Display car park immediately behind the CRiC building which is accessed from Greenhill Way by the Fire Station. At the weekends a voluntary donation allows you to use the School Car Park. Continue along the A40 to the Shell Petrol Station. Turn left and the school is on your right.
Note on Labyrinths
Labyrinths have been used for many purposes from pilgrimage to prayer, creativity and problem solving to games and exercise – much like any kind of walking. Labyrinths are everywhere including Lynne Allbutt’s gardens and artworks in the London tube system, medieval cathedrals and Cornish islands, the Duddon valley in the Lake District and Edinburgh and Canterbury Universities, Penpont, the Gower, Hereford and more. Many will know the Chartres labyrinth and an example of this pattern is in Hereford, not in the cathedral but nearby. Various patterns occur all over the world in multiple contexts and over millennia and have been used in interfaith work, and in secular contemplative practices and could well have been part of the long ago pre-Christian indigenous cultures of the UK.