Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Katie Bull, left, and Dana Bain walk a labyrinth near Topanga. (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times) Katie Bull is hiking up a dirt ...

ROUND AND ROUND: Chuck Hunner, right, founder of the Asheville Labyrinth Society, paints a canvas labyrinth in early July at the Center for Spiritual Living Asheville, assisted by Johanna Manasse, ...

The labyrinth is an ancient idea made new. The spiral design has been around since before recorded history, though no one is sure where the pattern originated or why. In Neolithic times, labyrinths ...

When you ask a person about their first labyrinth, their speech slows down, voices get quieter. It’s not dissimilar to the way walking through a labyrinth disrupts pace: it forces deceleration, and ...

They may consist of inlaid brick, or stones, be carved from grass or sculpted from foliage. They provide an elaborate path to follow to a central destination — both with body and mind. For millennia, ...

Katie Bull is hiking up a dirt trail in Tuna Canyon to a destination that doesn’t appear on any map, a secret labyrinth. It’s high in the Santa Monica Mountains with a view out to the Pacific. The ...