The Meditation Garden Features

Grand Portal

• Marks the garden’s entrance
• Passage into a sacred place of beauty, peace and reflection.

• Interlocking spirals reflect nature’s recurrent pattern (i.e. the nautilus shell)
• Fountain of pyramidal basalt rocks, juxtaposing permanence of mountains and fluidity of water
• Individual benches, for privacy and reflection

• Figure-eight design symbolizes eternity
• Shade offers comfort
• Planted with evergreen sasanqua, japonica, holly and ginger

• Modeled after the Chartres Cathedral labyrinth
• Fragrant herbs mark turning points
• Four quadrants (like a cross), culminate in central rose pattern
• Level surface allows those using walkers or wheelchairs to follow the pathway

Download a walking guide to the Labyrinth.

• “Christ of Comfort and Healing” by Tim Doyle from New Haven, Indiana
• Statue sculpted from custom-quarried limestone
• Stand of hollies symbolizes the Passion of Christ