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Health & Fitness Yoga

The Yoga Of Laughter: From Stressed Out To Blissed Out!

This simple, fun and laughter-filled Yogic practice will help you achieve emotional detox and personal empowerment.
Rating: 4.7 out of 54.7 (20 ratings)
239 students
Created by Sebastien Gendry
Published 7/2012
English
English [Auto]
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Description

Has life become too serious for you? Do you find yourself going days or weeks without laughing?

I certainly used to. I was in a job I hated and that filled my head with negativity and my body with rigidity.

In 1998 while in Mumbai, India, I read a newspaper article about a group of people that gathered every day in a nearby public park to laugh. It piqued my interest because they shared no jokes and didn't use any form of comedy. Instead they laughed purely for the sake of feeling good, just because.

I was puzzled but chose not to go and investigate. It would have taken a full one hour, and I was too busy complaining I was too busy. I mean, why would sane adults do this anyway? What was the point? This was ridiculous and they had to be crazy. Anybody can laugh like that. Ha ha ha. Done.

I quickly forgot about it all, and was so convinced I could laugh anytime anywhere that it took me 6 years to realize that I never did.

Eventually my heart took me back to Mumbai and its laughter clubs. I learned to laugh every day as a yogic practice using an exercise regime created by a medical doctor in 1995 called Laughter Yoga. This was a big turning point for me. I discovered how good laughing could make me feel and how easy it was to laugh, even when everything in my life seemed to be going astray. It was so profound that it triggered a cataclysmic reaction in my brain. The mask fell. I stopped being who I thought I should be and started being who I really wanted to be. I learned to always take full responsibility for my actions and how they made me feel. This did not change my life. It still is much better than that. It changed me.

The more I practiced and taught this exercise regime, the more I discovered complementary techniques that help to bring joy into everyday life. I also started to understand the underlying wisdom from both the East and the West that all these techniques pointed to. In time I combined this knowledge into a method that I call Laughter Wellness. It includes the Laughter Yoga approach of simulated laughter exercises, and expands its approach by offering a clear process that is easy to follow, and adding a greater variety of techniques and activities, insights, games, dances, songs and more – all glued together with lots of laughter.

What's in it for you

This introductory course will introduce to you the founding principles and key techniques of Laughter Yoga and the Laughter Wellness method, and how they can help you as an individual laugh more (we won't go into how to teach group sessions).

  1. It will remind you of the scientifically proven benefits of laughter. These are still best summarized by the quote in King James Bible "A merry heart does good like a medicine, but a broken spirit dries the bones." (Proverbs 17:22)
  2. It will help you remember how easy it is to laugh, and how good it can make you feel. You will learn many ways and techniques to create and maintain a personal and daily laughter practice.
  3. It will show you how to use laughter as a skillset to maintain a positive attitude even in the face of adversity, and redefine stress as a challenge, not a threat.
  4. It will share valuable insights on how to best use the power of your mind with the actions of your body to add more laughter and joy into your life, as well as become a better version of who you are.
  5. It will share valuable insights on how to achieve a healthy, happy and successful life from the ancient wisdom of Yoga and modern scientific findings from the world of positive psychology.
Course requirements

No particular equipment, clothing, or physical abilities are required.

What your personal history is doesn't matter. Who you are now is perfect and most appropriate.

All can practice and benefit, with or without limbs, because this method revolves primarily around the breath and attitude (it's of course going to be more fun if you have limbs because these allow for more movements.)

All you need is a big smile and the willingness to try something new that only adds and doesn't take anything away. This is a "yes, and" approach to life, not "yes, but."

My goal is not to persuade you of anything, but rather to make you conscious of what is available to you. As Zig Ziglar once said, "no man is clever enough to remember everything he knows." There is always value in being reminded of what's important.

Course content

14 sections • 48 lectures • 8h 39m total length

  • Preview01:24
  • Preview02:25
  • Preview03:13
  • Preview02:48
  • Preview00:15
  • Preview01:58
  • Preview01:03:53
  • Preview03:37

  • Preview02:25
  • How can we laugh more?
    14:43
  • Motions create emotions
    01:53
  • Playful, not silly
    01:44
  • The link between laughter and Yoga
    01:23
  • Importance of sincere enthusiasm
    01:23

  • Happiness is a skill than can be learned
    03:36
  • Important reminders before we laugh together
    07:00
  • 1-1 practice session #1
    22:51
  • The Ha Ha Mantra
    02:04
  • Laughter and tears meditation
    38:31

  • What do you really want?
    02:31
  • Change your questions, change your life
    01:52
  • How can I do this differently?
    00:17
  • 1-1 practice session #2
    32:23
  • How long can you go without complaining?
    03:08
  • Yes, and
    02:53
  • Always say yes
    48:51

  • What do you feed your mind?
    01:05
  • 1-1 practice session #3
    23:54

  • How to laugh alone
    49:12
  • The Five Laughing Tibetans
    06:10
  • The Chakras Laughter Meditation
    04:20
  • Gibberish and let-go
    01:09
  • More solo laughter exercises ideas
    04:17

  • How to achieve health and happiness
    01:23

  • Science of happiness
    00:52
  • Happiness exercises
    00:58

  • How humor can help you
    07:33

  • Why playing is important
    01:31
  • Theory of play
    53:42
  • The playful path: finding fun in the daily game
    7 pages
  • Fun Games
    00:45

Instructor

Sebastien Gendry
Founder of the Laughter Wellness method
Sebastien Gendry
  • 4.7 Instructor Rating
  • 20 Reviews
  • 239 Students
  • 1 Course

Sebastien Gendry is a Laughter Wellness Coach and the Founder and Executive Director of the Laughter Online University (a leading provider of online education on the therapeutic uses of laughter) and the American School Of Laughter Yoga, LLC (the oldest and largest provider of Laughter Yoga education in North America).

A professional trainer of global vision and great generosity of spirit he travels over 70,000 miles every year to train several hundred Laughter Yoga Professionals in North America, Europe and Australia.

Emotionally open and intensely thoughtful, he encapsulates and shares the power of positive and playful energy and creativity.

He has appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show and numerous other national mainstream media in the USA.

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