WHEN Richard Hittleman virtually alone introduced yoga to Britain in the early 1970s, it was considered exotic and strange.Now every leisure centre in this country has yoga classes.
It is to be hoped that the temporary loss of our leisure centre will not restrict the availability of classes locally.
Incidentally, I heard it mentioned that some yoga practitioners had not heard of Mr Hittleman, who died in 1992.
He was a real trailblazer who dared to promote spiritual values in the largely materialist west. He believed, as I do, that the individual has huge reserves of untapped potential.
His books of practical yoga and philosophy are available through the library and are both fascinating and provocative.
He declares, for instance, that man has never been a primitive creature and that the only evolution that occurs is spiritual.
Richard Laversuch, Beales Close, Andover
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