Laugh Pact List: How to Laugh When Nothing is Funny
👋🏼 Hello! Welcome to the Laugh Pact List!
This weekly list features the latest Laughter Yoga news. You can find it here every other Thursday or you can get it through email (plus get a thank you gift of 3 songs).
How can we laugh with everything so wrong in the world?
Remind yourself why we laugh.
Sarah Routman (Laugh Healthy) is a Laughter Yoga Teacher in Minneapolis. Her Laughter Yoga session below is a beautiful example of the healing and hope we can experience through laughter.
Please take a moment and give yourself the gift of healing laughter today.
SESSION VIDEOS
- 5 Minutes: Take 5 Laughter Challenge Playlist with LYT
- 7 Minutes: Laughter Yoga Exercises for the Eyes
- 8 Minutes: Laughter Workshop With Becky
- 25 Minutes: Hasya yoga – Laughter Yoga
- 34 Minutes: Laughter Yoga with Marian Duven
EDUCATIONAL VIDEOS
- How to Laugh When There is Nothing to Laugh About with Laughter Guru Dr. Kataria
- Laughter Yoga to Reduce Stress and Anxiety: Caregiver Webinar – Fairfax County Government
- What is Laughter Yoga and how can you benefit from the practice personally and professionally? – Lotte Mikkelsen
- Zoom Laughter with Dr. Atsumasa Edahiro in Japan was featured on NHK World.
- Laughter Yoga: A Knee-Slappin’ Exercise for Joyful Living – PBS WHYY You Oughta Know
- De-stress with Laughing Yoga – CityNews Toronto
PODCASTS
- Deep Breaths: How Breathing Affects Sleep, Anxiety & Resilience – NPR Fresh Air
HAPPENINGS
- Online Laughter Coaching with Laughter Guru Dr. Madan Kataria
ARTICLES
- The Comeback: Cookies and Laughter: 13 WTHR
- What If You Pursued Contentment Rather Than Happiness?: Greater Good Magazine
- Just Humor Me: Laughter builds connection, health in good and bad times: Winston-Salem Journal
- The Science of Kindness: How can kindness help us with COVID-19 induced stress?
What’s YOUR Laughter Yoga news? Please reach out & let me know!
Take care and LAUGH ON!
😄Kara
Take 5 Laughter Challenge: Session Three
👋🏼Hello Laughter Friends!
Relieve stress through laughter. Take 5 minutes for yourself today. Please take care and laugh on!
p.s. This Friday. New Laughter Yoga Song. Woo!
Take 5 Laughter Challenge: Session Two
👋🏼Hello Laughter Lovers!
Take 5 with me and get your laugh on! Here’s #2 of this new series where we do 5 Laughter Yoga exercises in 5 minutes.
You’ll see Murmur the Laughter Yoga Cat on the back of the sofa in full support of my laughter antics. (And by “full support,” I mean pleasantly ignoring me while looking out the window. Very good, very good! YAY!)
Have a wonderful wonderful weekend and laugh on!
p.s. I’m working on the next Laughter Yoga song! It is called “Laughter Yoga Clap Along World Beats Rhythm Song.” I think you’re going to love it.
Take 5 Laughter Challenge: Session One
👋🏼Hello Laughter Lovers!
I challenge you to take 5 minutes and do 5 Laughter Yoga exercises with me! A quick session like this is awesome when you need a quick energy boost.
This is Session One in a new Laughter Yoga Together series called the Take 5 Laughter Challenge. Murmur the Laughter Yoga Cat hangs out with us in this one.
I hope you enjoy this new series. Take 5: Session Two will go live this Friday. Have a wonderful day and laugh on!
Morning Laughter Meditation: 8 Minutes
👋🏼Hello Laughter Lovers!
Start your day off right by with this Morning Laughter Meditation. Laughter is a wonderful way to give yourself a mood and energy boost. As a special bonus, Murmur the cat stopped by for a cat petting session. I think she’d like to be the official Laughter Yoga Cat.
So hey, come join us and laugh along for pure laughing! Let’s laugh for the health of it because laughter is the best medicine. Have a wonderful day and laugh on!
Laugh Pact List: May 21, 2020
👋🏼 Hello! Welcome to the Laugh Pact List!
This bi-weekly list features the latest Laughter Yoga news. You can find it here every other Thursday, or you can sign up to have it emailed to you (BONUS: 3 free songs when you sign up).
SESSION VIDEOS
- 3 Minutes: No More Monday Blues – Laughter Yoga With Archana Rao
- 5 Minutes: Joyful Vibraytions Laughter Yoga Session
- 11 Minutes: Laugh-Out Yoga – While Walking Around the Neighborhood
- 15 Minutes: Laughter Yoga with Sally Shaver DuBois of Do Life Well
EDUCATIONAL VIDEOS
- The ‘what, how and why’ of Laughter Yoga with The Roach Coach
- Lotte Mikkelsen of UnitedMind Interview with Sally Weather on ITV News
- Phillip & Holly Laugh Their Way Through Lockdown on This Morning
ARTICLES
- Houston Laughter Yoga: Keep Calm and Laugh On
- Goldie Hawn Encourages People to Laugh More as She’s Tickled by Kurt Russell
What’s YOUR Laughter Yoga news? Please reach out & let me know!
Take care and LAUGH ON!
😄Kara
Laughter Yoga Warm-Up: Emoji Laugh Along
👋🏼Hello Laughter Lovers!
Join me to cultivate childlike playfulness & warm-up your laughter muscles today with this Emoji Laugh Along! As you laugh, review the health benefits of Laughter Yoga.
When you’re finished, do one of these sessions:
I hope this gives your day a beautiful boost. Laugh on!
Quick Laughter Yoga Session: 12 Minutes Laughter in the Rain
👋🏼Hello Laughter Lovers!
Here’s a quick Laughter Yoga session with no instructions, all action, and lots of RAIN. Come join me! No rain jacket necessary!
Have a wonderful day and laugh on!
Laugh Pact List: Your Opinion Please
👋🏼 Hello! Welcome to the Laugh Pact List!
This weekly list features the latest Laughter Yoga news. You can find it here every Thursday, or you can sign up to have it sent to you through email (and get a thank you gift of 3 songs).
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VIDEOS
- 23 Minutes: Cristina Lorefice Zooming & Chatting with Dr. Madan Kataria
- 10 Minute Laughter Challenge – Laughter in the Rain / Laughter Meditation with LYT
- 11 Minute Laughter Yoga for Energizing the Chakras
- 15 Minute Laughter Yoga with the Boise Senior Center
- 38 Minute Laughter Yoga Session with Marian Duven
ARTICLES
- Woman’s World: Laughter Yoga Eased Alexa’s Pain
- Holly Willoughby’s bizarre laugh leaves Phillip Schofield in hysterics during Yoga segment on This Morning
- British Weekly: Why It’s So Good To Laugh in Lockdown
INFO FOR LY PROS
- From Laughter Yoga HQ: Guidelines for Online Leader Training
What’s YOUR Laughter Yoga news? Please reach out & let me know!
Take care and LAUGH ON!
😄Kara
10 Minute Laughter Challenge: Laughter Meditation in the Rain
👋🏼Hello Laughter Lovers!
The rain was cold, but absolutely invigorating! 10 full minutes of Laughter Meditation left me feeling so alive and energetic with my endorphins spinning! I hope you experience the same when you laugh along with me!
Have a wonderful day and laugh on!
