Labyrinth at M Health Fairview Woodwinds Hospital

At M Health Fairview Woodwinds Hospital in Woodbury, a healing labyrinth is built into the hospital campus, part of a facility designed around healing environments from the start. Patients, families, and staff walk it. The Labyrinth Locator's record lists it as a classical Baltic-type path, installed in 2010 and renewed in 2021.

Every labyrinth is a walking practice, not a puzzle: a single path winds to a center and back out, and the walk is done slowly, as prayer or meditation. The pattern descends from the medieval pavement labyrinth at Chartres, and the modern urban revival began in the 1990s when Lauren Artress brought replicas of that path to American congregations and public grounds through Veriditas and the Labyrinth Society, whose World-Wide Labyrinth Locator now catalogs thousands. There is no branching and no trick to the path; walkers of every religion and none use it.

Visiting

mhealthfairview.org carries the site's own information and schedule.

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