Km ThomasLaughter Ambassador

“Laughing at your own mistakes

can lengthen your life”

-Shakespeare

Laughing at your wife’s mistake can shorten your

life-shakesphear’s wife

WELCOME to

LAUGHTER

YOGA

KM ThomasLaughter Ambassador

Laughter Yoga with Al Ahlia Students

Laughter Yoga

Laughter Yoga is a revolutionary idea – simple and profound. An exercise routine, it is sweeping the world and is a complete wellbeing workout

The brainchild of Dr. Madan Kataria, a Medical Doctor from Mumbai, India, launched the first Laughter Club at a Park on March 13, 1995, with merely 5 people. Today, it has become a worldwide phenomenon with more than 7500 Social Laughter Clubs in about70 countries

Laughter Yoga combines Unconditional Laughter with Yogic Breathing (Pranayama). Anyone can Laugh for No Reason, without relying on humor, jokes or comedy. Laughter is simulated as a body exercise in a group; with eye contact and childlike playfulness, it soon turns into real and contagious laughter

The concept of Laughter Yoga is based on a scientific fact that the body cannot differentiate between fake and real laughter. One gets the same physiological and psychological benefits.

The goal of Laughter Yoga is to bring good health, joy and world peace through Laughter..

Theory of Motion Creates Emotion

How do you laugh , when you are in no mood ?

There is a well-established link between the Body and the Mind. Whatever happens to the Mind happens to the Body as well. If you observe sad and depressed people, their bodies are also depressed. They walk slowly, talk slowly and their body functions are slow and sluggish

The opposite is also true; whatever happens to the Body also happens to the Mind. If you’re sad, don't sit idle. Keep doing some physical work or go for a walk and jog, you will feel better’.

Even when unhappy, behaving or acting

happy will bring the mind to a state of happiness. Bring

laughter to your Body and your Mind will

soon follow.

Benefits of Laughter Yoga

Laughter Yoga With Teenagers

Teen stress is an important health issue. They are faced with demands of college and parents to perform and achieve goals that may be unrealistic. Not meeting these goals often leads to anxiety that is detrimental to physical and mental health, in some cases even resulting in suicidal tendencies.

Major Teen Stressors

Puberty: The child changes physically and emotionally at the onset of puberty. Even the child's attitude towards his or her parents is likely to change. Often, children think their parents are hopeless, old-fashioned. In return, parents may find their child cheeky and sullen. Obviously, it can be a time of conflict between parents and children. In fact, it may be more alarming to the parents if there are no conflicts at all, as it may be a sign that their child is hiding their problems, which can lead to suppressed feelings and emotions

Extended hearty laughter induced by Laughter Yoga is extremely beneficial as it helps to release these pent up feelings and emotions from the sub-conscious mind through effective emotional catharsis.

Parental Inconsistency: During this transitional phase parents raise their expectations and become quite inconsistent in their behavior. They sometimes want their children to behave like kids and sometimes like adults. 'Don't do this, you're a kid'; 'You can do this, you're big enough'. These instructions send confusing signals to children and they become self protective and draw back into their shell.

Laughter helps to dissipate thoughts of distrust and hostility arising out of continuous confrontations with parents. Laughter releases endorphins that kick starts good feelings and changes the mood state almost immediately.

Laughter Yoga is a physical exercise that works on the body and mind simultaneously. It boosts systems that are 'switched off' or disrupted by stress, especially the circulatory and digestive systems. It stimulates willingness to learn and retention improves creativity and self discipline. It provides tools to deal with stressful situations in new ways, providing an alternative to anger and aggression and resulting fear.

Laughter is indeed the best medicine for both young and teenage children. in the educational context laughter boosting is used to prepare students for examinations, and also to prepare sports teams for optimal performance before competition

Benefits of LY at work place

Happier workplace, Increased efficiency,

Better communication, Increased productivity, creativity

And better teamwork, Decrease in illness and absenteeism

No gossips

People who laugh together, Work better together!”

Four steps of LY1. Deep Breathing Exercise2. Clapping Exercise3. Child Like Playful Laughter. 4. Laughter exercises.

Breathing Exercises

Warm-up Breathing

Palm Breathing

Palm Breathingone of the best breathing exercises is “Palming”: Close your eyes and cover with the palms of your hands. but don't add too much pressure on your eyelids. Breathe in deeply to a count of 5. Hold for a count of 5. Release to a count of 5. Repeat

Namaste Breathing

Breath in like a flower

Earth.sky . stretch

Tension Release

Humm…..

Pendulum swinging

• 1.Clapping in rhythm

Clap hands parallel to each other for full finger-to-finger and palm-to-palm contact, thus stimulating Acupressure points in our hands to increase energy levels

• Hearty Laughter

Greeting laughter

Milk shake laughter

Appreciation Laughter

Traffic Signal Laughter

Laugh at yourself

• Best Ego bursting laughter.

Alohaaaaaaaaaa

HI FI Laughter

Wi fi Laughter

Argument laughter

Forgiveness laughter

Lion laughter

No money Laughter

NO MONEY

Silent Laughter

Ganganam Laughter

Swinging laughter

Chain laughter

Yoga nidra

Closing techniqueand

Prayer for world peace

We are the happiest people in this world

We are the healthiest people in this world

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Keep laughinggggg….KM THOMAS

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