Laughter yoga

He had them laugh together on purpose with no jokes at all, working from the idea that the body does not fully distinguish between real laughing and simulated laughter once it gets going.

He paired that forced laughter with yogic breathing and called it laughter yoga.

It worked well enough to leave the park, and by the end of the nineteen nineties it had crossed into the United States.

And today, according to the organization itself, laughter Yoga clubs meet more than a hundred and twenty countries in schools and hospitals and prisons, senior centers.

Katarina also started World Laughter Day in nineteen ninety-eight, held on the first Sunday of May, when laughter clubs in the world gather in public squares and parks to laugh together on purpose, a tradition that is still ongoing more than twenty-five years later.

Somewhere in that growth, the thing Mondavill prescribed for free at a patient's bedside turned into a certification that you pay for.

You can become a certified laughter yoga leader online right now for about two hundred dollars.

And there are also more advanced credentials, which are about a five-day workshop.

Putting it on my vision board would be so good.

But today's episode is laughter yoga.

Yes, we wanted to start the season in a really joyful tone because I think we could all do with that.

So yes, we are going to be talking about laughter today.

It's right up

my podcast.

This week's episode is all about laughter yoga.

Get ready.