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A Laughter Coaching workshop normally consists of:
- Fake laughter session followed by,
- Real laughter session followed by,
- Free laughter session,
- Guided relation session,
- Grounding exercises.
Workshops are normally a duration of a 60 – 90 minute session. It can be used for team building, de-stressing workshops for call centres, conferences, corporate wellness days and motivational days for schools and the corporate world.
Laughter Therapy is a unique mind-body technique that is safe, simple, and easy to master and has changed the lives of thousands of people around the world. The movement is gaining popularity in every country around the world and is still spreading.
Laughter Therapy is a fun, healthy and easy exercise practice that combines simple playful movements with Laughter and deep breathing. This wonderful concept is based on the sound scientific principles and truth that all children know: Laughter Therapy makes us feel good. It is non-religious and non-political. It is unconditional laughter in its purist form.
What Is Laughter Therapy?
Laughter Therapy is a unique concept where anyone can laugh for no reason, without relying on humour, jokes, or comedy.
We initiate laughter as an exercise in a group, but with eye contact and childlike playfulness, it soon turns into real and contagious laughter
It is called Laughter Therapy because it combines laughter exercises with deep breathing exercises. This brings more oxygen to the body and the brain which makes one feel more energetic and healthier.
The concept of Laughter Therapy is based on a scientific fact that the body cannot differentiate between fake and real laughter if done with willingness. One gets the same physiological and psychological benefits.
In addition to social laughter clubs, Laughter Therapy is also practiced in Companies and Corporations, Fitness centres, Prisons, Centres for Seniors, Schools, Colleges, Universities, Physically and Mentally Challenged and Self-help Cancer groups.
Three Reasons for doing Laughter Therapy
Most people feel that if they can laugh naturally, they don’t need Laughter therapy. Here are the 3 basic reasons why one must do Laughter Therapy to get maximum health benefits:
- To get scientifically proven health benefits of laughter, we need to laugh continuously for at least 10 to 15 minutes. Since in Laughter Therapy we do laughter as an exercise, we can prolong our laughter as long as we want; it brings measurable physiological changes like oxygen levels in the blood, muscle relaxation, blood circulation and release of certain positive hormones in the body.
- To reap the health benefits of laughter, laughter has to be loud and deep, coming from the diaphragm. It must be a belly laugh. It might not be socially acceptable to laugh loudly, but Laughter Therapy provides a safe environment where one can laugh loudly and heartily without any social implication.
- Natural laughter that occurs through our life depends upon many conditions, but there are not many reasons which make us laugh. That means we are leaving laughter to chance; it may happen it may not. In contrast, in Laughter Therapy, laughter is not left to chance, but done with commitment. This guarantees getting the health benefits from laughter.
Several studies were conducted by many Universities around the world. Clinical research conducted at Bangalore, India and in the United States proved that Laughter lowers the level of stress hormones (epinephrine, cortisol, etc) in the blood. People are often surprised by the powerful changes that Laughter Therapy make to their lives and is a perfect way of putting the ego aside to ensure a loving, caring, and giving state of mind. It can be one aspect of bringing Mindfulness into your life.
Laughter Therapy will cultivate a positive mental attitude and an understanding based on unconditional love, forgiveness, generosity, and compassion and will allow patience and tolerance to emerge in your life. Laughter Therapy will make you happy and the people around you happy. It is important that we seek our own happiness and bring more awareness into our own mindfulness.
Laughter Therapy is a unique mind-body technique that is safe, simple, and easy to master and have changed the lives of thousands of people around the world. The movement is gaining popularity in every country around the world and is still spreading.
Laughter Therapy is a fun, healthy and easy exercise practice that combines simple playful movements with Laughter and deep breathing. This wonderful concept is based on the sound scientific principles and truth that all children know: Laughter Therapy makes us feel good. It is non-religious and non-political. It is unconditional laughter in its purist form.
Heinrich Visser is a South African expert on laughter and knows how to unlock its many benefits to promote wellness and well-being in everyday life, at home and at work. Heinrich fell in love with the world of laughter coaching in 2008. In 2009 he went to study with Dr. Madan Kataria (Laughter International University, Bangalore, India) for his Laughter Therapy teacher’s qualification. He has since traveled through Southern Africa over the past decade offering a variety of laughter and empowerment programs to thousands of people. Heinrich is one of a few Certified Laughter Professors in South Africa and is also South Africa’s only International Laughter Ambassador and loves bringing laughter coaching to the Corporate world, Schools, Universities, NGO’s and NPO’s.
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