Heine Bo Hansen, denmark: In 2003 I attended my first Laughter Yoga session in a local club near my home. It turned out to become a life changing experience. I went to the club, thinking I could work on my laughter like a muscle, making it stronger. But quickly I discovered, my weakness was not in the belly but inside my head. I was a very shy person with a quiet laughter. Did not have the nerve t...

Piotr Bielski, Poland: I was not always a funny, enertaining person. As a kid, I was rather a shy and solitary boy who preferred to read books or play computer games instead of having fun with other kids. I believed that nobody can like such a fat boy as me. However, a change of school environment helped me to develop love and kindness for myself and others. As a teenager, I switched to vegetarian...

Lauren Hunt, USA: Several years back things were not so great in my life and in my marriage. I wasn’t happy as two small children were stressing me out and I wasn’t getting time for myself. I felt isolated without much social support and my husband and I were also not getting enough time together. Everything between us was tense and heavy and conversations were typically about finances...

Chico Kanan, Okinawa: I’m proud to tell you that my Laughter Yoga Club (CHIBARIYO! Laughter Yoga Club of Okinawa) now has three days a week sessions, and it has really changed quite a few people’s lives. In fact, recently, laughter helped us to get over the sadness and grief due to sudden death of one of our members. We cried and laughed at the same time, doing Laughter Yoga exercises ...

Caryl Derenfeld, California: Laughter Yoga has been a paradigm shifting experience for me. In December 2008 I embarked on becoming a Certified Laughter Yoga Leader thinking I could add this activity to my cache of programs for senior citizens. I had no prior knowledge or experience with Laughter Yoga, didn’t know much about the history, but instinctively knew it would be a great addition to ...

Andrea Betke, Germany: I had my first Laughter Yoga experience in the year 2000, but it was only in 2010 that I became a certified laughter leader and started two Laughter Clubs. I worked for different major commercial enterprises. They hired me to increase their sales, to connect the staff and to find solutions for products and services. A year later, I felt that it was time for change and decide...

Amal, Kuwait: I recently did three Laughter Yoga sessions in Kuwait – the first was my family who at first thought it was peculiar, but soon accepted the idea and learned to laugh with me. We didabout 15 foundation exercises, gibberish conversations, and ended the session with chants of “We are the happiest people in the world”; “We are the healthiest people in the world&rd...

Shareen Richter, Johannesburg South Africa: Shareen Richter, laughter professor who lives in Johannesburg South Africa has been spreading laughter all throughout South Africa and the World. She first went to Mumbai in January 2009 to do Laughter Yoga training with Dr. Madan Kataria. It was a life changing experience for her. She had never laughed so much in her entire life and felt that all the st...

Dana Kaplan, Spain: La primera vez que escuché sobre Yoga de la Risa fue durante un segmento de fin de semana en mi entrenamiento de 200 horas como Maestra de Hatha Yoga en el 2009. En ese tiempo, estaba padeciendo mucho dolor de espalda baja y cadera debido a un antiguo accidente de patinaje. Me enfermaba casi cada dos meses y con frecuencia padecía dolor de cabeza por sinusitis. El...

Madhav Mhaske, India: It was a wonderful experience to go through the Silence Retreat program and observe three types of meditations namely Silence, Hearing and Humming. I felt very relaxed and light, especially during the exercise of writing a letter of forgiveness. I decided to write to my late father, seeking forgiveness for not being able to visit him before he died. All my life I carried this...

Gabi Pezo, Doha: A recent article in Gulf News reports the growing popularity of Laughter Yoga in Doha, thanks to Doha resident and certified Laughter Yoga teacher Gabi Pezo, who had seen tumultuous years while growing up in a “dysfunctional family”. After taking to Laughter Yoga, it changed her entire perspective towards life and helped her remain calm and positive even in the worst t...

Erdinc, USA: Though life still throws up the same challenges of the good and the bad, the joy and the sorrow; and yes, I do get hurt and disappointed, there is a fundamental difference. It is in the way I now react and counter these circumstances. Earlier, they almost ruled over me, and I used to find it difficult to deal with them. But ever since I started practicing Laughter Yoga, it has taught ...