Labyrinths for Peace: Inner Peace to World Peace through Labyrinths.
Providing Labyrinth Experience and Education.
Home
Our Founder
Our Founder
Our Founder
The spirit behind Living Labyrinths for Peace, Inc., a 501c(3) a non profit organization, is artist, poet and teacher, Sandra Wasko-Flood. She gives great thanks for the gifts she received from her space scientist father, whose parents came from Russia; and her elementary school teacher and socialite mother, whose parents emigrated from P
The spirit behind Living Labyrinths for Peace, Inc., a 501c(3) a non profit organization, is artist, poet and teacher, Sandra Wasko-Flood. She gives great thanks for the gifts she received from her space scientist father, whose parents came from Russia; and her elementary school teacher and socialite mother, whose parents emigrated from Prague, Czechoslovakia. Born in Flushing Long Island, NYC, her dad was weather forecasting for Pan Am and got a job in Lisbon, Portugal, where she attended first grade. Returning to the U.S. after three years, they moved from coast to coast, he always getting a better job.
When her dad was weather forecasting for Douglas Aircraft in Los Angeles, she got her BA in English from UCLA and a Secondary teaching credential from the California State College in Los Angeles. Her first job was teaching English at Nobel Jr. High School. After three years, she quit teaching after being encouraged to become a full time artist by Gordon Nunes at UCLA. Rather than getting an art degree, she chose the right teachers with which to study wherever she lived. In 1969, she married Michael T. Flood, PhD, inorganic chemist, whose first job was with the National Academy of Sciences in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She so loved the Brazilian culture, especially the Carnival. She did portraits of the Brazilian people.
Taking private lessons from Marie Augusta Kaufman, she discovered she liked print making the best. Wherever she lived she found the best print making teachers with which to study and was introduced to the new Safe Etching methods by Keith Howard. She gave lessons in safe etching and monotype printmaking in her Alexandria, VA studio. Her art portrayed major archetypes: owl and snake, masks, totems, cycles, spirals labyrinths, and the peacock through whose eyes we see the creation of the universe. Her recent book: “The Labyrinth Path to Light and Peace” includes lots of poems and art having to do with Peace among People, Animals, Nature and the Universe. Having written poetry since a child, she is now working on an anthology of her poetry.In 1981, she became a founding member of the Washington Women’s Arts Center, and in 1985, she founded the Art Spirit Group in Washington DC, which still meets until this day to discuss the relationship between art and spirituality.
In 1991, she sat in the center of the Great Kiva at Chaco Culture National Historical Park, New Mexico. Sitting in the Great Kiva, she envisioned ceremonial dancers from all races, cultures and beliefs, peacefully ascending an underground spiral to do a labyrinth dance in the kiva, and ascending a spiral under a space dome to the sky. This visionary experience led her to a book by Sig Lonegren: Labyrinths: Ancient Myths and Modern Uses.In 1998, she become a founding member of the International Labyrinth Society.
She went on to create an interactive labrinth art/technology installation, “Dance of the Labyrinth,” symbolizing a peaceful dance of opposites for our times. Here visitors experience computer programmed light sequences: walk on light box images, see rotating wheels and pillars, and phosphorescent mulch glowing like moonlight. When she asked this labyrinth where it wanted to be, it told her four times in the U.S. Capitol. This led her to talk with Barbara Wolanin, the Curator of the Capitol Collection and to put a Labyrinths Demonstration for Inner Peace, the first project of the International Labyrinth Society on Capitol Hill in the year 2000. For two weeks, people from all over the world walked labyrinths for peace. In the year 2005, she formed the non-profit Living Labyrinths for Peace. Then the Washington Performing Arts Center, asked her to give her “Labyrinths for Creativity and Peace” workshops in the schools. For many years (2002-2016), she gave these workshops in the local DC schools, which changed the school system relating the labyrinth to every subject. Moving to New Mexico, she transferred the Living Labyrinths for Peace center with the light-up labyrinth there in 2012. The “Dance of the Labyrinth” is in process of being updated, and her main center is her octagon glass house, hi-tech teepee, in the pine forest wilderness of Angel Fire, NM. There she has a great backyard labyrinth called “Unirocks.” She did many programs in the Taos, New Mexico Schools and also in the local communities, and continues to do these programs nationally and internationally. Let Us Live Labyrinths for Peace!
Our History
Our Founder
Our Founder
Before founding LL4P (nonprofit), Sandra’s contributions were:
- Founding Member: The International Labyrinth Society, St. Louis, Missouri (1998) Project
- Director: “Labyrinths for Peace: 2000,” east lawn of the U.S.
- Capitol: First Special Project of the International Labyrinth
- Society (2000)
- Labyrinth 9/11 Event: Center for Being
Before founding LL4P (nonprofit), Sandra’s contributions were:
- Founding Member: The International Labyrinth Society, St. Louis, Missouri (1998) Project
- Director: “Labyrinths for Peace: 2000,” east lawn of the U.S.
- Capitol: First Special Project of the International Labyrinth
- Society (2000)
- Labyrinth 9/11 Event: Center for Being and Becoming, Bethesda, Maryland (2002)
- Labyrinth Advisory Committee: Washington National Cathedral, Wash. DC (2002-04)
In its short lifespan since 2005, LL4P has:
- Baltimore Office on Promotion in the Arts: Bright Star's After School Program (2006-09)
- LL4P Center, Washington DC, featuring art/technology “Dance of the Labyrinth,” open for walks, workshops, events (2006-2009)
- Director of Peace Events: LL4P Exhibit at Sub-basement Studios, Baltimore, MD: Peace Panel with Coleman McCarthy (author/director of peace studies, Georgetown U., Washington DC, Marty Cain (worldwide labyrinth builder), and Poetry reading by Sandra and other local poets. (2008-09)
- LL4P Workshop, Loyola University, Chicago, Illinois: ELCA Episcopal/Lutheran Campus Ministries Conference (2009)
- Conducted holistic educational programs and installed labyrinths in over 30 schools in the Washington DC area and Taos, NM
- Organized Town of Taos Labyrinth Sacred Spaces events (2010);
- Co-sponsored the Labyrinth Society’s Annual Gathering, Taos, New Mexico (2011)
- Moved the National LL4P Center from Washington DC to Taos, NM (2012)
- Sponsored inter-cultural programs and displayed the Mayan designed “Labyrinth for Liberation and Peace” at the Washington, DC Vietnam Veterans Memorial (2013)
- Co-sponsored labyrinth events for veterans with Virginia LoneSky’s Peaceful Endeavours, Angel Fire, NM (2013) Directed World Labyrinth Day Event at Washington DC, Vietnam Veterans Memorial where Maya Ac Tah built his new World Peace Labyrinth based on Sacred Geometry of the Pyramids (2013)
- Directed World Labyrinth Day Program—where everyone worldwide walks labyrinths for peace at 1 pm in their time zone-- at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Canter: Baltimore, MD (2014)
- New Door Creative Gallery, Baltimore, MD: Created new labyrinth design, Goddess of the Universe, for World Labyrinth Day (2015)
- Instructor Washington Performing Arts Society: “Labyrinths for Creativity and Peace Workshops” in over 40 schools in the DC area, relating to all grades and subjects (2002-2016)
- Serenity Retreat, Bosque Center, Albuquerque, NM: Labyrinth project for recovering alcoholics led by Jill Cline and Sandra (2016)
- Organization for Suicide Prevention, Kit Carson Park, Taos, New Mexico: Built temporary Peace Labyrinth with surveyor flags and did labyrinth presentation (2017)
- The Labyrinth Society Gathering, Bainbridge, Washington: Presented, “Co-Creating Peace with Technology and Nature” (2017)
- Unity Church, Sedona, Arizona: Gave lecture and power point presentation on Plans for building the Luminous Labyrinth Center for Peace in Sedona (2019)
Sandra Wasko-Flood’s vision from the Great Kiva of Chaco Canyon, New Mexico would lead to establish permanent Labyrinth Centers all over the world that would unite all disciplines, institutions and cultures in working and living in peace.
Our Goal
Our Founder
Our Goal
- Living Labyrinths for Peace, Inc., a nation wide operating nonprofit, aspires to bring Labyrinth Centers to all areas of the world where people can walk the labyrinth path of Inner Peace to World Peace with each other. Labyrinths have a single meandering path which goes to the center and back. While you can lose yourself in a maze with
- Living Labyrinths for Peace, Inc., a nation wide operating nonprofit, aspires to bring Labyrinth Centers to all areas of the world where people can walk the labyrinth path of Inner Peace to World Peace with each other. Labyrinths have a single meandering path which goes to the center and back. While you can lose yourself in a maze with its many false paths and dead ends, you can find yourself in a labyrinth. Many people find that the winding path slows the breathing, helps to focus the mind and induces a creative, peaceful state of being.
Labyrinths have Physical, Psychological and Spiritual benefits. They help to alleviate such diseases as autism, dyslexia, Parkinson’s high blood pressure. They help with anxiety and PTSD by balancing both the left and right hemispheres of the brain. They help people to de-stress, resolve conflicts and make better decisions. Walking the meandering path is a form of meditation. It centers the mind and stimulates the pineal gland, enhancing a connection to one’s higher self.
Our founder’s dream is to build this Luminous Labyrinth Center for Peace in Sedona, Arizona. Sandra Wasko-Flood conceived it from a vision she received at Chaco Culture National Historical Park, New Mexico. There she saw ceremonial dancers from all races, cultures and beliefs, peacefully ascending an underground spiral to do a labyrinth dance in the Kiva and ascending another spiral under a space dome to the sky. In this light-up labyrinth, you can choose what labyrinth design to walk to project on the floor. Choose what you want walk on—grass, water, fire, stars; panoramic Images of where you want to walk—mountains, ocean or desert, and overhead Images in a dome: stars, sunrises, sunsets. You can walk for such occasions as birthdays, marriages, funerals, and most importantly, conflict resolution workshops.
Mark Goldman, head of the Architecture Dept. at the University of Taos, NM is doing excellent designs for this Peace Center as you can see in this picture on our home page. He will first help us produce a traveling exhibit of this to be used in schools and community centers worldwide. Your donations will so help in these constructions.
Also your contributions will help support “Labyrinths for Creativity and Peace” programs in the schools and the communities worldwide, both virtual and actual. Labyrinths relate to all subjects: history, geography, science, math, art, music, physical heath, relationships both intrapersonal and interpersonal. Our next book: “The Labyrinth Instructors Handbook” will have contributors relating the labyrinth to every subject.
Some testimonies from school children are:
- I walked because I am sad. I am happy now.
- Now I feel that I do not worry anymore. I am calm.
- The labyrinth told me what to do and what to be.
- Thank you, Miss Sandra, for bringing the labyrinth to our school. Our school is now more peaceful.
Your contributions will help finance our instructors, our school supplies—art and writing—as well as the labyrinth construction. You can buy or donate for a labyrinth of your choice-a canvas one or an outdoor one painted on a black top or a garden one formed on grass. You may also choose to support our adult programs at colleges or universities, as well as those in the communities—at retirement centers, and such places that Living Labyrinths for Peace has done: Veterans Center in Washington DC and Angel Fire, NM, Organizations for Suicide Prevention and for Alcoholics. Let us Live Labyrinths for Peace!
We are a 501 (C)(3) Non-Profit. Your contributions are tax-deductible.
documentary: Awakening to Spirit - Inner Peace to World Pea
NOW AVAILABLE ON DVD & BLUE-RAY-DISC
Get your copy today. The proceeds from this DVD's will all go towards our nonprofit organization (LL4P) making Labyrinth education affordable.
BLUE-RAY-DISC: $20.00 plus shipping direct from KUNAKI.COM (Blue-Ray 35 MINUTES)
DVD-DISC: $15.00 plus shipping direct from KUNAKI.COM (DVD 35 MINUTES)
Help Our Cause
You are invited to give a donation to Living Labyrinths for Peace. Help our projects: "Inner Peace to World Peace."
- By check: Make check out to "Living Labyrinths for Peace" and send to: Sandra Wasko-Flood, PO Box 406 Angel Fire, New Mexico 87710
- Through PayPal use link below:
1. Click on LINK below "Donate Now."
2. Enter Dollar amount you want to donate in the first window you see.
3. Choose and click on "Pay by Debit Card or Credit Card," which is the 2nd choice.
4. Fill out every detail and email address related to your Card account.
5. Click "Donate Now" after filling out all needed information.
- In the case it does not work, please check all information for accuracy.
- If it still does not work, PLEASE send check and write on it for "Donation for Living Labyrinths for Peace":
Sandra Wasko-Flood,
PO Box 406
Angel Fire, New Mexico 87710
THANK YOU
Help Our Cause
You are invited to give a donation to Living Labyrinths for Peace. Help our projects:
"Inner Peace to World Peace."
- By check: Make check out to "Living Labyrinths for Peace" and send to: Sandra Wasko-Flood, PO Box 406 Angel Fire, New Mexico 87710
- Through PayPal use link below: