What a wonderful way to create joy in any social event or celebration……include a Laughter Yoga Session led by a Certified Laughter Yoga Leader and fill your guests with laughter and smiles!
Enjoy a unique experience on your special day of celebration with lots of fun and lots of laughs. Laughter Yoga is a terrific way to bring friends and family together by playfully creating a positive and energizing atmosphere.
Have your guests leave their inhibitions at the door and jump right into the party mode for:
- Bachelor/Bachelorette Parties
- Bridal Showers
- Bridesmaid Luncheons
- Engagement Parties
- Rehearsal Dinners
- Birthday Parties
- Family Reunions
- Baby Showers
- Break-up Parties
- Church, Synagogue or Temple Events
- Baptisms
- Bar Mitzvahs
- Retirement Parties
- To beat the Winter Blahs
- Holiday Parties
- Any occasion where you want lots of fun and lots of laughs
Patients find it very easy to laugh with Laughter Yoga. It provides laughter without medical clowns, joke books, funny videos or even a sense of humor. Hospitals have been using laughter for years. It is a proven fact that laughter speeds healing and greatly improves a patient’s mental outlook.
Hospital staff members are amazed at how a Laughter Yoga session energizes them and stress seems to melt away. Laughter Yoga makes it much easier to cope with their jobs and their cheerful, positive attitude and high energy levels rub off on the patients as well.
Every Monday morning you can hear laughter in the halls of the Cancer Treatment Center at Swedish Covenant Hospital.
Breast cancer patient Margaret Reid said, "I truly felt kind of silly, but after doing it for a little while, it became fun."
"It’s really about laughing for no reason – laughing to exercise," instructor Timothy Nelson said. "They call laughing, jogging for your insides. (read the full story at http://cbs2chicago.com/health/laughter.yoga.cancer.2.335183.html)
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Laughter Yoga exercises are structured, simple and entertaining. They are easy to do, safe and are a genuine form of physical exercise. They are appropriate for all, regardless of their cognitive, sensorial or motor abilities/limitations. Everyone’s participation is invited and never imposed.
Laughter Yoga lifts depression and replaces it with a positive outlook. The exercises improve mobility and the staff-patient communication and relations also improve.
People with senile dementia and the onset of Alzheimer’s show remarkable improvement.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tell us that up to 90% of the doctor visits in the United States may be triggered by a stress- related illness.
A tremendous strain has been put on our global workforce by today’s business demands. Fewer resources coupled with longer hours are pushing more employees and management to their breaking point. Combined with the need to achieve work-life balance, stress is taking a tremendous financial and personal toll on the United States’ business profitability.
- $300 billion per year or $7,500 per employee is paid out for stress-related compensation claims
- 1 million workers went on stress-related disability in 2004
- 8 of the top 10 prescription drugs marketed today are for stress-related conditions
- Approximately 100 million Americans suffer stress-related symptoms from chronic health conditions: heart disease, diabetes, hypertension and cancer
Companies are looking for solutions to this crisis. Laughter Yoga is an effective and economical way to effectively reduce workplace stress and help employees find wholeness, balance and happiness.
The emerging demand from today’s work force is for leadership that encourages self-esteem, cooperation, job satisfaction, creativity, and a place where people want to be. Today’s corporate owners and executives demand leadership that increases productivity and profit.
Laughter Yoga can help to create this workplace environment because laughter is the only management tool you’ll ever find that will do all the following:
- Engender trust
- Boost morale and motivate employees
- Create a joyful environment
- Build resilience
- Deflect criticism
- Get and hold attention
- Make communications more comfortable
- Create a good rapport with clients
- Manage conflicts
- Reduce burnout
- Alleviate tension, frustration and anger
- Remove intimidating barriers between employees
- Stimulate creative problem solving
- Sustain a positive attitude on the job
- Keeps everyday hassles and problems in perspective
Laughter is nature’s most economical and instant stress buster. Regular laughter sessions lead to scientifically measured stress reductions of 50% or more. In addition, it helps in coping with psychological problems like low self-esteem, depression and phobias.
Some companies describe the effects of Laughter Yoga as “revolutionary”, and yet a typical program consists of inexpensive weekly sessions lasting 20 to 30 minutes.
Laughter Yoga has exploded from just 5 participants in 1995 to hundreds of thousands of practitioners in 55 countries with absolutely no marketing or advertising campaigns. It is expected to grow even faster as businesses, governments and multi-national corporations discover the benefits and excellent return on investment.
Laughter Yoga is a very different approach to stress management that combines simple laughter exercises with gentle yoga breathing techniques.
Invented by a medical doctor from India, this revolutionary technique causes spontaneous, joyful laughter without using comedy or jokes. In Laughter Yoga you don’t have to be happy, or have a sense of humor. You don’t even need a reason to laugh. Laughter is used as a tool instead of an emotion. It is a tremendously efficient way to express and release tension in a positive manner, and is proven to relieve stress, improve blood flow and digestion, and strengthen the immune system.
Laughter Yoga combines ‘simulated’ (self-induced) laughter, yogic breathing (PRANAYAMA),and playful laughter exercises. It is a proven fact that your body cannot tell the difference between ‘simulated’ laughter and genuine laughter. The strong social dynamics of group behavior, eye contact, playful laughter exercises all work together, resulting in the simulated laughter soon turning into natural, free flowing and genuine laughter. Participants discover a deep, human connection with other laughers.
Led by a Certified Laughter Yoga Leader the session begins with gentle warm-up techniques to help break down inhibitions and to develop feelings of childlike playfulness. Breathing exercises are used to prepare the lungs for laughter, followed by a series of ‘laughter exercises’ that combine the method of acting and visualization techniques with playfulness. Nothing strenuous! If it’s not fun we don’t do it.
Energizing and motivating people to think creatively and work productively is easy with Laughter Yoga. Consider utilizing a Laughter Yoga session at these events:
Laughter Yoga is a surefire way to energize a large group. Our engaging sessions can be used as a dynamic, fun-filled opening activity; revitalize the group mid-conference or after lunch; perfect for delivering a high-energy, end-with-a-bang closing session.
Enable people to work cooperatively and collaboratively from the start with Laughter Yoga.
A great way to create enjoyable and memorable events that encourage everyone’s participation. Laughter Yoga is a fun and powerful way to help park inhibitions at the door and get into a serious and creative learning mode.
Energize and renew your staff. It makes good business sense. Laughter Yoga sessions help to dissolve tension within a group. Just after a session may prove to be the best time to promote new initiatives and strategies.
Contact us for more information about our engaging, high- energy, high-impact workshops as well as keynotes on laughter in the workplace.
Certified Laughter Yoga Leader Chris Graf
Email: Guru534@aol.com 847.251.8518
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