Homeless Offered Holistic Help
To help bring a little love, hope, and possibly happiness into their lives, the London Ontario Homeless Coalition and a local area yoga studio gave free massages, foot care, and meditation to local area street peoples this past Monday:
The event at the Downtown Yoga Holistic Centre on Dundas Street was intended to be a chance for homeless people to know they are cared for, said Ekatarina Nikiforova, manager of the new studio.
While she acknowledged few homeless people took part in being pampered, Peckham said it was a first-year outreach she hopes will grow in coming years.
She said some of the intended recipients might have been daunted by the unfamiliar environment. “For most of them, having the bread and soup is what they came for.”
Really, you mean the homeless were there for the food and not for the ear-candling and ozone therapy? You could knock The Mayor over with a feather. A holistic feather.
While I’m sure all the granola eaters are gently patting themselves on the back for being so nice to the homeless for one day, let’s see how Moonbeam and Rainbow Chakra react when the urine people start camping out on their stoop for the next three years. All is well and good when you can rope some idiot college student into rubbing a homeless guys disgusting boiled feet for a day, but when Gus the street urchin starts pissing on their storefront window, I’m telling you right here and now that the stoned smiles on the faces of the happy Ghandi’s are going to be gone quick smart.
Charity begins at home, and the yoga peoples should take care of themselves first. Trust The Mayor when he says that you’d be hard-pressed to tell the difference between a homeless urchin and a hippie yoga freak. Both smell, both are allergic to bath water, and both don’t have a full array of functioning brain cells.
**Paul sent this to The Mayor. I don’t think I know Paul, but it seems Paul knows The Mayor very well.
September 23rd, 2009 at 6:36 pm
Go get your foots rubbed, your ears candled, pee on a hippie, and grab some free bread and soup…then you’ll likely remember who Paul is.
September 25th, 2009 at 9:25 am
Is it true that there will be a HOMELESS rally at Reg Cooper Square behind City Hall in London Ontario from 12:00 noon to 2:00 pm on Saturday October 3rd ?
Will A Channel and the London Free Press cover the rally in depth?
Just wondering.