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Des’s Walk is a private labyrinth on a farm outside Somerset West that Vivien Routledge built 11 years ago to deal with the death of someone close to her. “In the beginning I sometimes walked it simply to be ‘with him’, and on the first anniversary of his death a few friends and I held a ceremony in the labyrinth,” she explains. These days Vivien works as a counsellor specialising in trauma and bereavement, and from time to time uses the labyrinth to help her clients. Contact her at

viv.souljourneys@gmail.com to find out more or to visit the labyrinth.

Holistic healer Terry de Vries is probably the leading labyrinth expert in South Africa. She lives and works in Barrydale in the Karoo, where she offers labyrinth walks and yoga workshops.

The pathways of My Shire labyrinth near Prince Albert are wide enough for a horse to walk them. Owner Lisa Smith’s late husband used to walk