There was a time in my life when I experienced a lot of challenges in my personal life. From a joyful, optimistic person under the influence of trouble and stress I became more and more depressed, sad, I lacked energy and the will to live.
While attending a mindset event in 2018, I met a lady who told me of her experience of Laughter Yoga, which inspired me to attend a Laughter Yoga leader training and that was the best thing that I ever did.
All of 24, I have a list of health conditions like Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Lyme Disease, Chronic Migraine, Fibromyalgia, Depression, Anxiety, Irritable Bowel Syndrome and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.
Laughter Yoga is helping me to live my dreams, without too many worries. My dream was to make people laugh and make them feel better by identifying positivity and talking to them and saying that “life is always beautiful”, and Laughter Yoga has fulfilled that for me.
Living as a single mother with two children, I was suddenly confronted with a series of challenges in 2015, when my son suffered a serious medical condition and I lost my job as well as a close family member. All of this left me completely overwhelmed and distraught.
The first time I discovered Laughter Yoga or Laughter Exercise was in a vacation camp as an activity I selected because I enjoy laughter, comedy and jokes. As one of the many exercises, we were requested to laugh about a problem that affected us.
A More Sensible Life With Laughter Yoga: Before discovering Laughter Yoga, I’d been writing and performing my off-beat storytelling shows in books, on stages, and on TV for over a decade and experimenting with how to create the right conditions for laughter in my work as a storyteller.
I am a Certified Laughter Yoga Teacher in addition to being a certified dietetic-nutritionist with 35 years of professional experience. For the last 20 years, I have had the privilege of working with individuals who have developmental disabilities.
My childhood memories are a mosaic of play, song, storytelling and adventure. I was brought up in Kerala, India, in a joyful and affectionate family. As I grew up, I became adept at making friends and blending in with different people around the world, by using tools I best knew namely, playing, singing and laughing.
When I first heard about Laughter Yoga, I decided to attend a session, where I learned about its several health benefits. Shortly after, I was diagnosed with cancer, which came as a big shock. But, it was regular practice of laughter exercises that made a significant improvement in my health and changed my whole life.
Having been committed to my daily sessions of Laughter Yoga for the past year, I became convinced that my contentment, positivity and generally laid-back approach to life was so engrained into my psyche that nothing could alter this state. I was also pleased with my state of health in that I have been cold-free over the past year.
I was initiated into Laughter Yoga in 2014. After doing it over the weekends initially, all of us in the Jalvayu Laughter Club, Noida, started doing it daily from Jan 2015. As the word spread, our membership kept on growing and now we have over 100 members. The results have been very beneficial and I personally have benefitted in physically, mentally as well as spiritually.
Joy has been a big word for me all my life and Laughter Yoga has helped me connect to that on a very deep level through my daily practice. Physically, it has strengthened my immune system and I definitely have less bouts of cold and cough. Even my nervous system is much stronger now, which has helped to manage some scoliosis in my back.
Edie W Moser, CLYL, USA: I have known of Laughter Yoga since I connected with Jeffrey Briar many years ago. Because I made a commitment to teaching Laughter Yoga, I know I need to be accountable and use it daily in my own life. I have been sharing it with adults and children in various settings and communities.
I found Laughter Yoga and meditation around eight years ago and have been a daily laugher and regular meditator for four years. Before establishing these regular practices, my mind seemed to swing like a pendulum from happy to unhappy in a matter of seconds, but with laughter and meditation, it has..
More Enlightened and Happier with Laughter Yoga Kathryn Kimmins, Canada:I have been laughing every day since I heard about Laughter Yoga. It has changed my life in every aspect. Physically, I am more health conscious as I breathe more deeply and do a lot more stretching and relaxing the muscles […]
The Gift of Unconditional Joy Rainee: I’ve always been a happy person, even when many things in my world have been painful. Many throughout my life have asked me, “Are you ever down?” Of course, being human, down times are bound to happen. Most of the time, I only talk […]
Suman Suneja: I first heard about Laughter Yoga when Dr Madan Kataria visited Dubai in 2002. I felt so relaxed and energetic after his laughter session that I decided to spread the word of laughter and its enormous benefits. I trained as a laughter professional in 2013, after going through […]
Don’t let anyone tell you that you have to live with bipolar disorder for the rest of your life. Because it is not true. You can take your life back.
Laughter Yoga has been an empowering game changer in my life. From abuse and suffering, to freedom and abundance, my life was a disaster. I had neglected myself until nearly losing connection with several aspects of me, entirely.
I am a certified Laughter Yoga leader and work as a recreation therapist that includes working with seniors while running a senior’s outreach program in Hamilton, Ontario.
Laughter Yoga Healed My Fibromyalgia Dorothy Pincus, USA: I always considered myself a spiritual person, but nothing could have prepared me for the loss of my mother. Instead of dealing with the reality of her passing, I was in search of anything that could take my grief away. I tried […]
Dr Achyuta Samanta: Founder of KITT and KISS Universities: I laughed my heart out this morning and yesterday during the laughter yoga session conducted by Dr. Madan Kataria. This is practically the first time in more than fifty years of my life that I laughed so much and for so […]
I was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma in April 2009, which came as a terrible shock because I was not a typical fast food junkie, non-exercising American. In fact, I always followed a healthful diet with a regimen of daily walking.
I actually could have died many years ago but here I am, now in my 70s, very much alive and kicking! Thanks to Laughter Yoga which worked miraculously to save me from three cerebral strokes, a heart attack, bankruptcy and a divorce.
I Have the Best Job Ever – A Laughter Trainer! Monika Roth, Laughter Ambassador, Germany: In 2010 I was trained as a Laughter Yoga leader, after which I felt I was overflowing with happiness and soon started my Laughter Club in Abtsteinach, near Heidelberg, where we laugh every Tuesday. Before […]
Laughter Yoga – Truly Life Changing I first got to know about Laughter Yoga in October 2015 and it was a life changing experience. Though my job and family was stable, my life was very boring and I wasn’t ok from within. I sensed I wasn’t complete and was not […]
Laughter Helped Me Cope With My Deafness Lalla Laura Ribaldone: Since 2013 my life had almost collapsed due to my husband’s illness and a subsequent divorce. I faced accusations of leaving him because of his sickness and many known people hurt my soul, which led me to self- destruction. I […]
It was June 2006. We were 15 people sitting in a circle, waiting for the class to begin. I was attending a 2-day training program to become a certified Laughter Yoga Leader.
My Tryst With Laughter Made Me A Better Person Robert Rivest: My background is in performing arts. I have been presenting comic mime, health, literacy and stress management educational programs in schools, libraries, and theaters for over 30 years. In 2009, Mary Rives and Keith Carlson offered a Laughter Yoga […]
2 day Certified Laughter Yoga Leader Training A week ago I had the great fortune to spend a weekend taking the Laughter Yoga leader training with Kathryn Kimmins. It was a life changer. First, let me say what an amazing person you are! You not only led us through all […]
Early years of life were marked by some painful events because I lost my parents and my relationship with my elderly sister was not very great. I felt depressed and was not interested in my future anymore. I lost all faith in life because of some negative job experiences and rampant corruption in the world.
Laughter Yoga Eased My Labor Pains Eight years ago my son Cedar was born, changing my life forever. I had a water birth at home and during the last hours of labor, I got the giggles! Just when the labor got intense, it suddenly struck me as absurd that an […]
My mother always said that her two children had very hardy laughs. While my brother became an investment banker, I had to find something else to fall back
“Laughter Yoga is mindfulness based practice using fun and creative activity to reduce stress and create a sense of connection and well being,”
I am a massage therapist and also teach Hatha Yoga. When I was six years old, my parents owned a bar, but unfortunately they did not get along.
Antonella Manna,Italy:health professional: For several months now, I go regularly to the oncology department to bring more laughter
Fla Geyser,Thailand:To share this story I need to go back in time to 2008 when I arrived at a point when I had to make some big changes
Sharon,malaysia: I got to know about Laughter Yoga a few years ago at a Yoga Studio where I attended a 2 days laughter workshop.
VarunaKhullar,India:Little did I know on completion of my Laughter Teacher Training on 31st May, 2015, that it will change my life forever
Mi vida yóguica comenzó a finales de los años 90, pero fue hasta el año 2006..
En enero de 1997 comencé a tener pensamientos de suicido frecuentes y para abril de 1997 fui oficialmente…
A la edad de veinte años dejé mi hogar y comenzé a viajar en busca de la respuesta …
Dick Yu (MCYR) de Hong Kong se convirtió recientemente en Embajador de la Risa…
No me siento enferma cuando tengo montones de trabajo. Pero siento pánico…
A continuación un reporte del profesional de la risa Dave quien ha experimentado con…
Habiendo pasado por tiempos muy difíciles en los años recientes, incluyendo…
La primera vez que escuché sobre Yoga de la Risa fue durante un segmento de fin de semana…
He estado trabajando en el Instituto de Enfermedad de Tórax de Tailandia Central como..
soy terapeuta familiar y trabajae muchos años con desarrollo personal y con familia…
Mientras crecía, siempre había una sonrisa en mi cara, pero en algún momento de…
Crecí en un ambiente violento y abusivo, y tuve un matrimonio tóxico que me descompuso…
Hace algún tiempo, mi jefe me envió un artículo acerca del fenómeno de los Clubs de…
Mi hermano David y mi cuñada murieron en un accidente aéreo en EU y al mismo tiempo a mi madre
Unos días después de la cirugía de reemplazo de cadera de mi madre, le reportó a mi padre..
Fui invitada a hablar sobre los beneficios de la risa al departamento de Salud…
Mi vida yóguica comenzó a finales de los años 90, pero fue hasta el año 2006 que Yoga de la Risa me encontró a mí. ¡Sí, me gusta decir que Yoga de…
En enero de 1997 comencé a tener pensamientos de suicido frecuentes y para abril de 1997 fui oficialmente
A la edad de veinte años dejé mi hogar y comenzé a viajar en busca de la respuesta…
Dick Yu (MCYR) de Hong Kong se convirtió recientemente en Embajador de la Risa…
No me siento enferma cuando tengo montones de trabajo. Pero siento pánico…
A continuación un reporte del profesional de la risa Dave quien ha experimentado con…
La primera vez que escuché sobre Yoga de la Risa fue durante un segmento de fin de semana en mi entrenamiento de 200 horas comon,…
He estado trabajando en el Instituto de Enfermedad de Tórax de Tailandia Central como…
soy terapeuta familiar y trabajae muchos años con desarrollo personal y con familia , tube un crisis y me quede sin ejercer mi profesion…
Mientras crecía, siempre había una sonrisa en mi cara, pero en algún momento de la edad adulta, la perdí. Mucha gente notó que había perdido mi sonrisa…
Crecí en un ambiente violento y abusivo, y tuve un matrimonio tóxico que me descompuso…
Lo yoga della Risata è molto di più di una disciplina.Sono sempre stata una persona sorridente ma la mia gioia era vincolata ai momenti felici
Loretta Bert,Italy:I had experience with physically and mentally challenged participants, with prisoners, with blind people.
Vijay Sabharwall,India:My husband after seeing the change in my health continues to encourage me to go to the Laughter club
Laughter Yoga is very enjoyable. It makes people laugh even when they are sad and have problems. It removes stress
Bernadette Mcgree, Ireland:It’s just laughing for no reason with a bunch of other people that are laughing for no reason and you feel good afterwards.
Kitty, Hong Kong:The only ‘decoration’ in the venue was yellow flags representing different laughing clubs from all over Taiwan.
Angela Essick Dykes,USA:Even though her first round with Laughter Yoga wasn’t that great, she came back for a second time and felt different after leaving
