The community is invited to take part in World Labyrinth Day on May 7 at 1pm, at the San Remo Meditation Labyrinth.
World Labyrinth Day is on Saturday, May 7 and the community is invited to be part of a labyrinth walk at 1pm in San Remo.
The San Remo Meditation Labyrinth is located at the end of Back Beach Road, past Lions Park. The labyrinth is on the right of the unmade section of the road, alongside a row of Cypress trees.
Lorraine and Geoff Rodda are residents of San Remo and are organisers of the Walk for the Australian Labyrnth Network.
At this year’s walk, Lorraine said walkers will be “reflecting on the lived experiences of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and the need for their recognition in the Australian Constitution".
"This cannot be too hard. This country had a White Australia Policy and then a Multicultural Policy so now it’s time for a recognition policy.
“The original people of Australia are the longest living culture on the planet.
"In 2011, research on a 100-year-old piece of hair from an Aboriginal man from Western Australia proved his ancestors lived on this continent 70,000 years ago, and expanded into the world 40,000 years ago,” Lorraine said.
“At that time, Europeans and Asians were somewhere in Africa and the Middle East, not daring to enter the world until 30,000 years later.
A ten-minute video about the Murdoch and Copenhagen Universities Research is available at youtu.be/v8ToTv7ieO8
Lorraine and Geoff invite people across the Bass Coast to walk in recognition and celebration of the oldest living culture on the planet.
They also ask walkers to participate in the research being undertaken by the Labyrinth Society, Inc., Veriditas.
The Legacy Labyrinth Project, in partnership with the Australian Labyrinth Network Inc., have engaged The Baylor University School of Social Work to undertake the research. Register for the research here: www.legacylabyrinthproject.org/world-labyrinth-day
“Be the change you want to see in Australia by walking as one at 1pm as the world turns on World Labyrinth Day,” said Lorraine.
“Of course, you can walk at any time, but we ask you to register your walk in a journal provided onsite.”
For further information, contact Lorraine and Geoff Rodda on 0400 045 397 or email gjrodda@gmail.com.
