Labyrinth Designer
One of the best-known labyrinth designers in North America, Marty has to date created over 95 permanent labyrinths and numerous temporary installations in the USA and Canada, from Prince Edward's Island, Canada to Kauai, Hawaii and from Lewistown, Montana to Austin, Texas. She is a founding member of The Labyrinth Society, an international organization of labyrinth builders and keepers. In March of 2000, TLS sponsored the exhibit, Labyrinths for Peace:2000 created by Sandra Wasko-Flood and Marilyn Larson in the Rotunda of the House of Representatives. As part of the exhibit Marty installed a temporary 7-path labyrinth on the East lawn of the US Capitol for all to experience.

Labyrinths and Sacred Sites
Unlike the classic maze, which has countless traps and false turns, a sacred, healing labyrinth pattern has but a single, roundabout path leading to its center. Much like life, just when it seems you have the goal in hand, the path spins you back toward your starting point. When you least expect it, you arrive at the center. With Marty, beginners learn how to dowse the Earth's wisdom, how to enter into a dialog with its energy, and how to design and place their own Earth-honoring and energizing, sacred sites.

Because Marty holds the Earth to be a living, conscious, intelligent being, she begins every project by asking Mother Earth, through dowsing, "Is there an appropriate place on this property for me to work? If so, where?" When she and her students create and walk a Labyrinth, each of them is honoring the Earth and sharing his or her love and energy with a magnificent planet. In return, the Earth gently balances the physical, mental and emotional aspects of participants' lives.

Marty loves the seven-circuit labyrinth which was the precurser of the medieval eleven-circuit design in the floor of Chartres Cathedral in France. For her, this older pattern evokes ancient memory. When Marty first saw carved, seven-circuit labyrinths in the rock face of a cliff in Cornwall, England, and dared to step forward and run her fingers over their paths, she became aware as she never had before. She found all her senses exquisitely heightened, herself newly and totally connected. Though her feet were planted firmly upon the ground, she was connected to All Place in this one moment. There was a deep quiet, a white light, and a far-off sound of music.

Crystal labyrinth
1991 - Quebec

Garfield labyrinth
1996 - Pennsylvania

NEI labyrinth
1999 - New Hampshire

Peacewalk labyrinth
1994 - Cambridge, MA

Rochester labyrinth
1992 - New York

More of Marty's Labyrinths