Cynthia Curtis - Certified Laughter Yoga Teacher

All joking aside, Laughter is therapeutic. Some say it's like medicine.

Are you sick, stressed or depressed? Are you lonely, and sharing a laugh sounds wonderful? Do you love to laugh but can't find a reason to, during these worrisome times? Laughter is shown to reduce stress hormones and increases the body’s uptake of feel-good endorphins. Laughter Yoga may be the right choice for you.

Laughter Yoga is not a comedy. It is an exercise program developed by Indian physician, Dr Madan Kataria. Laughter Yoga is a complete well-being workout. It involves mindful breathing (pranayama yoga), and mild aerobic exercises that stimulate prolonged, voluntary laughter.

Laughter is a surprisingly complicated process, engaging multiple regions of the brain and the body. Yet Laughter Yoga is easy and accessible. It can be done by anyone regardless of age or physical fitness and the results are long-lasting vitality and enthusiasm for life.

"Laughter keeps everyone feeling wonderful" ~Betty White

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Laughter Yoga

I am Cynthia Curtis, the teacher at Your Laughter Club.

Laughter Yoga is Pranayama Yoga, breathwork, combined with intentional laughter, to create the most fun exercise, ever. It's like jogging on the inside.

Everyone is welcome to try. There are no age restrictions or language barriers. Special abilities and equipment are not necessary.

Health, Happiness, and World Peace

Scientific research confirms that the body can’t distinguish between laughing at something funny, conditional laughter, and laughing unconditionally, without jokes or humor, so we ‘fake it until we make it.’ We improvise playful situations and laugh. We use laughter as exercise, to increase good health and our capacity for happiness.

Benefits of Laughter

According to Hans Selye, a pioneering Austrian-Canadian endocrinologist, laughter is a powerful way of completing the stress cycle.

It is not possible to think negative thoughts (or any other thoughts) when you are really laughing. So why not try having a good laugh with your friends or family when you are feeling stressed.

Research shows that laughing on your own, doing Laughter Yoga, can have a similar effect. Laughter is a freely available, fun resource with no adverse side effects. Why not give it a go next time you are feeling stressed… and help restore a healthy balance to your mind, body and spirit.

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“Laughter is the most inexpensive and the most effective wonder drug. Laughter is a universal medicine.”
~Bertrand Russell

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The Science of Laughter Yoga

"We don't laugh because we're happy – we are happy because we laugh." ~William James

The medical benefits of laughter and humor on the human body are based on the research work done by scientists all over the world over the last 50 years. Science indicates that it doesn’t matter if laughter is self-induced or spontaneous, the results are the same. We humans just feel better when we laugh.

Before the introduction of Laughter Yoga in 1995, most of the scientific research on the benefits of laughter was based on humor. Researchers induced laughter by using humorous interventions such as comedy movies and joke telling. This required the cognitive ability to produce laughter, eventually creating positive physiological and psychological effects on the body.

Since Laughter Yoga is not humor based, it bypasses our brains understanding of jokes and humor. There are no language barriers. We can laugh for 20 minutes, which science say is optimum. Laughter needs no special conditions or equipment to work. It is practiced anytime, under all circumstances.

Laughter Yoga has spread around the world. There are Laughter Clubs in hundreds of countries on six continents, joining people of different cultures, religions, and ethnic backgrounds. It's a grass-roots movement grown out of the positive health benefits it produces, along with the friendships and understanding about ourselves that we've gained. Laughter is contagious, and practitioners of Laughter Yoga are happy to spread it to others.

In Laughter Yoga Clubs, laughter is induced to begin with. As we laugh together, the laughter quickly becomes real and spontaneous.

Regular laughter exercise is proven to: