BJ Mosher: Well, I don't feel too "captive" - I can really leave anytime so "escaped to Paradise" is more like it!! The government here is doing an excellent job, we have no virus as of yet, but all incoming traffic is stopped.
We have been coming to the Bahamas for 44 years and it's amazing here. I build a labyrinth every time I go to the beach, it only takes me a few minutes to complete a beach Labyrinth and soothe my soul and anyone else who would like to walk until the tides reclaim the space again"
The beaches are now off limits too, though , like everywhere else at this time...
MAB: What first got you interested in labyrinths?
BJM: I was intrigued with the word "labyrinth" on the side of a game box when I was about five and the word has been in my being ever since!
In about 2001, I walked a homemade blue tarp labyrinth that my friend Norma Gee made, and I knew the instant I walked it that it was a true passion in me for life"now I offer lectures at holistic fairs and other events and I teach people how to build their own labyrinths. I am also the Labyrinth Facilitator for the Kripalu Yoga and Wellness Center in Adams Center, New York. That's where we usually do our World Labyrinth Day walk, but this year we are all doing the walk from home, tracing a labyrinth on paper.
MAB: I loved how you said that in March, when you walked the labyrinth with your friends in the Bahamas, knowing that you wouldn't be together on World Labyrinth Day, you all projected your thoughts into the future! That's so cool! So because of your intentionality, the previous labyrinth walk with your group is now connected with World Labyrinth Day this Saturday, and all of your energies will be reconnected! Can you tell us more about the labyrinths you built and walked back in March?
BJM: We do this walk together, every year but this time it was different because we projected our togetherness forward to World Labyrinth Day. We wanted to be in tune with the world and with each other's energy on that day when we were not able to physically be together. I so am grateful we were able to accomplish this before all the lockdowns!
This year we walked the permanent shell labyrinth that a family built on their property above the high tide mark. This one feels so deep and soul searching, nestled among the Casurina and palm trees.
At low tide the beach at Ten Bay is such an expansively large sandy area that it makes the best labyrinth drawing surface! We often draw three different labyrinths on the beach and this year the tide was so perfectly low that we were able to go out and build one on a little sandbar. We did a group smudging and this year I incorporated adding Molavite oil on the third eye area then we lovingly walked this 3-circuit Classical Labyrinth before the tide came back to totally engulf and reclaim her.
Being out on the Caribbean Sea surrounded by water in all directions walking a Labyrinth it felt like a huge release was taking place for all of us!
MAB: What can you tell us about the photo of the gal in the orange, she looks so intent...
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