A yoga instructor is launching a chatty café at her studio in Gravesend to help combat loneliness.
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00:00House of Lola really was about providing a home for people and people that are on similar journeys where they really want to focus on their mental and physical well-being and maybe find some kind of spirituality aspect to their lifestyle where it's not really believing in a God or anything else.
00:23It's just about believing on something higher, higher power or something where it gives people hope, you know, and a lot of people are not going to church or going to temples anymore.
00:37And I think a lot of people feel quite lonely. So the idea was to have a space that people would come to and go on this journey together.
00:44And however they turn up, whether they're happy, whether they're sad, whether they're just there to listen or have something to offer, it's a space for everyone to come to.
00:52So when I heard about the Chatty Cafe, I thought this is this is perfect.
00:56And we really want to appeal to the older generation as well.
01:00It really breaks my heart to think that there's elderly people at home with no one to speak to or nowhere to go because places don't facilitate and everything's online now.
01:11And it's about creating connection one to one again or in a group where we're actually face to face.
01:18And I think it's just so needed.