What we’re about
Laughter Yoga is fun and revitalizing form of physical exercise practiced by every day people around the world who laugh on purpose, before anything is funny, without the need for comedy humor or jokes. Unlike any yoga yoga you’ve done before, this unique form of exercise harnesses the power of laughter in the body to create a surge of feel good and healing hormones. When we laugh on purpose, our body quickly relaxes and our mind responds by shifting its view of the world to one consistent with a joyful body chemistry.
Laughter Yoga delivers immediate results of good feeling, confidence and vitality, without anything ever needing to be funny.
As a facilitated experience, laughter is sustained deeply for longer periods of time than we normally laugh while we engage in light-hearted pantomime, free-form dance and play. As we warm up to laughing for a minute or more, it becomes easy to repeat and we stretch open this place that keeps our laughter in a constricted and limited state until it is flowing freely, jubilantly and unconditionally.
LAUGH MORE = STRESS LESS
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See all- Laughter Fusion at Studio Nia Santa FeStudio Nia Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM$15.00
Laughter Fusion is unique form of body + mind + spirit exercise that blends Laughter Yoga with freeform movement and play. Structured very much like a traditional yoga class, after an introduction to the daily intention we move into a series of exercises where we laugh on purpose before anything is funny while we engage in light-hearted pantomime. These laughter yoga postures are designed to stretch open this place that keeps our laughter in a constricted and limited state. As we move through the series of postures we will laugh for longer stretches of time and our pantomime will become more silly and be interspersed with play, games and freeform movement. The experience of laughing out loud creates magic in the body and we find it easy to laugh for a minute or more until it is flowing freely, jubilantly and unconditionally. We end the session with a laughing Savasana where we lay down on the floor in a sunburst pattern with our heads together and as we relax, a giggle is begun that encourages each to laugh their most authentic laugh. Often we will spend 5-10 minutes in pure laughter here, interspersed with periods of stillness.
Science has shown us that the body responds positively to laughter, whether anything is funny or not. Laughing out loud stimulates a release of feel good and healing hormones such as endorphins and dopamine. Once those body chemicals reach our brain our mind makes sense of them and we can quickly become relaxed, euphoric and a little giddy. It is universally accepted that “laughter is the best medicine” and yet we often find that when we need a dose of laughter, nothing is funny and the boost from laughing is hard to access. When we practice laughter yoga as an exercise, very much like we would do bicep curls to strengthen our arms, we make our laughter hearty, reliable and easier to access when we need it most.REGISTER HERE:
Michele Caskey has been teaching laughter yoga for 20 years and is an Ambassador for Laughter Yoga International. As a student of Nia and a White Belt the 52 moves play a role in her classes. She is passionate about demonstrating how intentional laughter can reduce stress, broaden creativity, calm worry and revive a zest for life. She has brought laughter to artists, cancer care centers, memory care units, senior living exercise classes, hospice and corporate settings. Increasingly she is viewing laughter as vibrational medicine for self-healing as the resonance of laughter in the body is the same frequency as angelic light. - Laughter Fusion at Studio Nia Santa FeStudio Nia Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM$15.00
Laughter Fusion is unique form of body + mind + spirit exercise that blends Laughter Yoga with freeform movement and play. Structured very much like a traditional yoga class, after an introduction to the daily intention we move into a series of exercises where we laugh on purpose before anything is funny while we engage in light-hearted pantomime. These laughter yoga postures are designed to stretch open this place that keeps our laughter in a constricted and limited state. As we move through the series of postures we will laugh for longer stretches of time and our pantomime will become more silly and be interspersed with play, games and freeform movement. The experience of laughing out loud creates magic in the body and we find it easy to laugh for a minute or more until it is flowing freely, jubilantly and unconditionally. We end the session with a laughing Savasana where we lay down on the floor in a sunburst pattern with our heads together and as we relax, a giggle is begun that encourages each to laugh their most authentic laugh. Often we will spend 5-10 minutes in pure laughter here, interspersed with periods of stillness.
Science has shown us that the body responds positively to laughter, whether anything is funny or not. Laughing out loud stimulates a release of feel good and healing hormones such as endorphins and dopamine. Once those body chemicals reach our brain our mind makes sense of them and we can quickly become relaxed, euphoric and a little giddy. It is universally accepted that “laughter is the best medicine” and yet we often find that when we need a dose of laughter, nothing is funny and the boost from laughing is hard to access. When we practice laughter yoga as an exercise, very much like we would do bicep curls to strengthen our arms, we make our laughter hearty, reliable and easier to access when we need it most.REGISTER HERE:
Michele Caskey has been teaching laughter yoga for 20 years and is an Ambassador for Laughter Yoga International. As a student of Nia and a White Belt the 52 moves play a role in her classes. She is passionate about demonstrating how intentional laughter can reduce stress, broaden creativity, calm worry and revive a zest for life. She has brought laughter to artists, cancer care centers, memory care units, senior living exercise classes, hospice and corporate settings. Increasingly she is viewing laughter as vibrational medicine for self-healing as the resonance of laughter in the body is the same frequency as angelic light.
