Alison Mann's Yoga offerings at The Hub, HR2 0RT: Getting there and the Yoga help make connections

Alan Wheatley, editor of this Web Log, wrote the Hereford Times Letters November 21, 2019 published item
cited below. That print copy is on sale till Wednesday, November 27

Alison's Monday 2019 classes at The Hub, HR2 0RT continue there until Monday, December 16. So that is four more Alison Mann Yoga Days at The Hub before Christmas break.

1. Monday, 25 November: 10am-11:30am: Kundalini Yoga | 12 Noon-1pm: Chair Based Yoga
2. Monday, 2 December: 10am-11:30am: Kundalini Yoga | 12 Noon-1pm: Chair Based Yoga
3. Monday, 9 December:  10am-11:30am: Kundalini Yoga | 12 Noon-1pm: Chair Based Yoga
4. Monday, 16 December:  10am-11:30am: Kundalini Yoga | 12 Noon-1pm: Chair Based Yoga

To book a place in one of Alison's classes, and/or get more information,
    • Text or Phone: 07900 335 968
    • E-mail: alison@pathstowellbeing.co.uk
    • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PathsToWellbeing

Scanned copy of the published 'last word' letter, plus a little decoration.
The printed copy Hereford Times concerned was published Thursday November 21, 2019,
and remains on sale till Wednesday, November 27.
In the same issue, the lead letter author is incumbent MP Jesse Norman (Con.)
who says that he will stand on his record and not go in for dirty tricks such as personal attacks on opponents.

Transcript of Alan Wheatley's published letter and the text box accompanying scanned image

Textbox content

The letter published highlights the value of attending Alison's Monday

• 10am-11:30am: Kundalini Yoga and
• 12 Noon-1pm: Chair Based Yoga

offerings at The Hub, St Peter's Church, Peterchurch, HR2 0RT while also spelling out public transport issues.

The published letter text

Experiences I've had regarding attending a Kundalini Yoga workshop in the same general HR2 postcode as my home help to highlight just some of the social exclusion problems caused by years of Conservative central and local government policy regarding travel logistics in HR2 at a time of Climate Emergency policy and with a December 12 General Election date cast.

Since September 2018, my health and vitality levels have benefited considerably through Chair Based Yoga at Belmont Community Centre and classes that have followed with the same teacher. In Autumn 2018 when I started helping that teacher with publicity for her other classes, I explored the possibility of my travelling to her mid-day Monday classes at The Hub in Peterchurch at HR2 0RT, but discovered via Traveline Midlands website that I'd have to start my journey on the Sunday to get there for midday Monday!

More recently my attendance at a November 9, 2019 Kundalini Yoga workshop at HR2 0RT run by the same teacher was greatly aided by a lift from that teacher and her offer of a lift back. (Last bus home would be before 4pm, though the Workshop ran till 5:30pm!) The offer of a lift from Locks Garage if I could make it for 1:30pm produced a Traveline Midlands-researched bus time requiring an hour's wait on a very cold Saturday, and teacher's feedback, "Crazy! I'll pick you up from Belmont at about 1:15pm" even though it added to her mileage from near the Welsh border.

That lift and the Kundalini Yoga workshop worked brilliantly, and another class member took over my lift home arrangements as Belmont was her next stop: family chauffeuring! Getting there and Yoga make connections!

My friendly chauffeur home also told me that her fitness levels have plummeted since she learned to drive rather than walk or attempt to walk everywhere. I'm sure that is a common problem, as reported to me by Hereford Transport Alliance!

I also learned though that whereas it costs me nothing to get from Belmont to Peterchurch by Senior Bus Pass after 9:30am would cost me nothing, it costs fare-paying bus passengers about £7 or £8! Something for my fellow pensioners to think about on December 12 regarding who pays for Conservative 'austerity' measures, perhaps?

ALAN WHEATLEY