Laughter Yoga is a joyful and healthy exercise regime for all based on sound scientific principles and a truth that all children know: laughter makes you feel better. Laugh alone, join a laughter club or laugh with your colleagues at work and discover how laughter in the workplace can boost efficiency & profits! Laughter Yoga is in 80+ countries. This is not a joke.
Become a Certified Laughter Yoga Leader!
Provide Genuine Help and Hope, not Hype.
Learn everything you need to know about laughter yoga and its multi-faceted uses and applications. Build a solid foundation for a safe, rewarding, and fruitful Laughter Yoga practice!
This training is both a crash course into laughter yoga as well as an advanced training for all seasoned laughter yoga practitioners. Here is why:
Same, simplified, and more: You will learn everything that is taught by the Dr Kataria School Of Laughter Yoga in a simplified and more effective way. We have been practicing and teaching Laughter Yoga full time in North America since 2005 and have constantly strived to refine and improve the way we have led laughter sessions. Save yourself the learning curve! It took a while and what we now have is a simple yet very powerful protocol that anybody can follow to create, strengthen and sustain strong both personal and group laughter dynamics. You do not need to be a powerful laugher yourself. That is a gift that few have. We teach skills that anybody can learn. The end result is exactly the same, oftentimes better because it teaches that anybody can shine, as they are, where they are, regardless of where they come from and may be going. This includes you.
Far beyond the call of duty: You will also learn enhanced ways devised by the American School Of Laughter Yoga to demultiply the impact of your laughter sessions on all of the following topics covered in this training:
Focus on emotional wellness (pantomime any action and add laughter on top)
Focus on playful behaviors (engage in playful movements to help dissolve inhibitions)
Focus on a physical workout
Aerobic training
Balance and mobility training
Flexibility training / Range Of Motion
Resistance / Strength training
Improving Lung capacity
Focus on a mental workout
Call and response / hand-eye coordination
Cross-Brain exercises (neurobics)
Laughter and Ideokinesis
Empowering conversations
Empowering behaviors
Special techniques
Dancing & Singing exercises
Floor exercises
Group games
Laughing alone
Laughter meditation
Special applications
Laughter Yoga Alone
Laughter Yoga with seniors / the chair bound
Laughter Yoga with children
Laughter Yoga in corporate settings
20 basic variations for any given laughter exercise: Age / Gender / Coordination / Denture / Dexterity / Distance / Eyesight / Funny associations / “Make it more interesting” / Mood / Size / Smell / Social groups at different times in history / Sound / Speed / Style / Taste / Using different body parts / Using different objects / Weight.
Gain a deeper understanding of the philosophiesbehind Laughter Yoga: Laughter Yoga did not originate in a vacuum. The truths it conveys are ancient and can be partly summarized by the WORRY approach to stress management that the famous Indian scripture the Bhagavat Gita talks about:
Why think of the worst? Focus on the best possible outcome. 80/20 rule.
Be Optimistic, not obsessed.
Don’t Regret the past. Learn from it.
Rest less: don’t stop until you have reached your goal.
Don’t say Yes to worry. Yoke yourself to something higher than yourself.
We have been involved with Laughter Yoga on a full time basis since 2005 and train hundreds of Laughter Yoga Professionals every year. Expect to laugh a lot, recharge your batteries and learn enhanced ways to create, spice up and strengthen the (therapeutic) impact of your laughter sessions!
"I went wanting to learn more about Laughter Yoga to help all of my students, but found the entire workshop was also a session for my own personal growth. I have studied and taught yoga for years, but you clarified, enhanced and expanded my knowledge of yoga tremendously." [read more testimonials - see the photo album]
Who This Laughter Yoga Training Is Designed For
All the following people will greatly benefit
from attending this fun and empowering event, both on a personal as much
as on a personal level:
Everybody
Anyone who would like to add more laughter into their life and/or
start a Laughter Club
Activity and Recreation Therapists
Angry People
Anxious People
Chaplains / Clergy People
Clowns
Counselors
Couples
Depressed People
Elder Care Managers
Family Readiness Coordinators
Health Care Staff
Human Resource Professionals
Long-Term Care Staff
Marketing Professionals
Marriage and Family Therapists
Nurses
Psychologists
Sad People
Sales Professionals
Senior Centers Staff
Social Workers
Staff Members in Assisted Living Facilities
Teachers
"This past weekend marks one of those memorable times that remain
captured in my heart. I will look forward for our paths to cross somewhere
down the line. I know it will happen. The workshop couldn't have been
better. What a way to spend a weekend!" [read more testimonials - see the photo album]
Experience / Qualifications Required
No sense of humor or yoga experience is necessary. All can attend regardless
of their level of physical fitness (if you are in doubt do ask your physician).
We greatly appreciate if you can let us know ahead of time about any health
challenge you may be facing. Laughing remains optional throughout this
training and there is nothing you have to do if you choose not to participate
in the group activities. If in doubt please contact
us and we'll be very happy to talk with you.
What You Will Learn
This experiential (and often life-transforming) Laughter Yoga workshop
will:
Make
you feel good about yourself (we will laugh a lot for no particular
reason. Promised.)
Give you a thorough understanding of Laughter Yoga:
know how to laugh alone and add more laughter into your life
be able to confidently talk about it
never run short of laughter exercise ideas
Show you how to release tension in a safe and positive manner
Inspire and empower you to start and run a social Laughter Club both
for your own as much as for your community's benefit.
Teach you the skills and and give you the confidence to teach laughter
yoga classes and take individuals and groups to deeper level of joy
and happiness with the laughter meditation.
"Thank you so much for an experience that far exceeded my expectations. I came in expecting to add an enjoyable something new to my "bag of tricks" to help others, and found myself transforming my own attitude and reactions toward stress and problems that have beset me for several years. As a yoga teacher, hypnotherapist, and vision improvement teacher, I have always personally reaped the benefits of what I shared with others, but Laughter Yoga has put things in perspective as never before. You have lightened my heart and opened my eyes and mind.....thank you laughs forever!" [read more testimonials - see the photo album]
As a participant you will be able to:
Laugh
more anytime, anywhere, for no particular reason
Discuss the history of Therapeutic Laughter and Laughter Yoga
Answer frequently asked questions about Laughter Yoga and Laughter
Clubs
Describe the benefits and contra-indications of Laughter Yoga
Explain why humor, happiness or reason are not necessary to laugh
Start and run a Laughter Club for the general public
Describe and demonstrate the different components of a laughter session,
including a Laughter Meditation.
Be familiar with group dynamics and know how to effectively manage
group laughter with a variety of participants
Add more laughter into one's life
Take groups to deeper levels of joy and inner peace through the Laughter
Meditation
How You Will Be Assessed
There is no formal assessment for this training, and we've never had
anybody refuse to practice and refine their skills. There are several
practice sessions both on day one and day two where each participant is
asked to explain to the group in their own words what Laughter Yoga is
and how it works, what the benefits of laughter are, what happens in a
laughter session and what its 5 essential reminders are. Each person is
also asked to lead a group in several laughter, breathing and clapping
exercises, as well as create their own laughter exercise.
Material Included In Our Training Package
What you will receive before
the workshop
A very comprehensive training manual (sent to you by email). You do not need to print it nor bring it to the training itself. It is intended as a reference copy. You will have the opportunity to buy a printed version at cost on-site should you wish to have one.
What you will receive on-site
A printed summary of what you really need to know.
A Certified Laughter Yoga Leader Diploma. This certification
is for life. You will not need to pay us any fee to maintain it
every year. We are affiliated with the Dr Kataria School Of Laughter Yoga. This certification officially welcomes you into the international Laughter Yoga family.
What you will receive shortly after the workshop
Contact list of all workshop participants + group picture (sent by email)
A summary list of valuable files you can use (sent by email)
Flexible And Empowering Beyond Your Wildest Dreams
Even though you will learn in this training a standardized and structured
program of light laughter exercise, how you apply it is up to you. This
is where our training becomes hugely different from others. Regular practice
of this method will develop your creativity to levels you may not believe
you had in you. You get to bypass
the learning curve at the speed of light!
Note that Laughter Yoga can be learned and delivered entirely as chair
exercises. Adaptations have been successful in bringing Laughter Yoga
to those with mobility, visual, hearing, and cognitive limitations. We
have trained Certified Laughter Yoga Leaders with hearing and also some
with visual impairments. Some had cardio-pulmonary conditions. All still
greatly benefit and enjoy this program. We have even heard very touching
stories where people used Laughter Yoga with their loved ones until their
very last days on Earth.
Complete Freedom
When you complete the training, you are independent in how or even if
you organize as a business. This training gives you a foundation for systematic,
repeatable, appealing and desirable laughter-related programs with healthy
values, that leave plenty of room for your personality to shine through
with your own creative expression. As such many Certified Laughter Yoga
Leaders practice their newly acquired skills or add to their existing
abilities as paid speakers, class instructors, seminar leaders, or provide
other health-related services that are significantly enhanced with Laughter
Yoga. But, there is no financial connection to the American School Of
Laughter Yoga nor to the Dr. Kataria School Of Laughter Yoga. When you
generate revenue with your laughter programs, it is all yours.
This Certification Is For Life, Not 1 Year
Just like it says.
Official Affiliation
The
"Certified Laughter Yoga Leader" diploma (trademark of Dr Kataria
School Of Laughter Yoga and only official Laughter Yoga certification)
will be handed out to graduates upon completion of the workshop. You may
then acknowledge your affiliation to both the Dr. Kataria's School Of Laughter
Yoga and the American School of Laughter Yoga, and use our
affiliate logos online and in print material:
The American School Of Laughter Yoga is the oldest and largest provider of Laughter Yoga education in North America (2nd most successful of its kind in the world) and currently serves the educational needs of people in 125 countries and territories. We teach enhanced ways to create, strengthen and sustain in the long run both personal and group laughter dynamics, leading to better physical and mental health, improved social skills, a higher resilience to stress, emotional intelligence and overall cognitive abilities. We were the first to introduce Laughter Yoga in Russia and deliver trainings worldwide. Laughter is not a joke. Let us inspire and empower you.
American School Of Laughter Yoga, 122 Hurlbut Street, Suite 9, Pasadena, CA 91105, USA
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The
"Certified Laughter Yoga Leader" diploma (trademark of Dr Kataria
School Of Laughter Yoga and only official Laughter Yoga certification)
will be handed out to graduates upon completion of the workshop. You may
then acknowledge your affiliation to both the Dr. Kataria's School Of Laughter
Yoga and the American School of Laughter Yoga, and use our
affiliate logos online and in print material:
Everybody
Make
you feel good about yourself (we will laugh a lot for no particular
reason. Promised.)
