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Mark Your Calendar
Friday Evening Laughter Yoga
Third Friday of Every Month, 7 – 8 p.m.
Amp up your mojo for a joyful weekend by joining us for laughing in community. Roll around on the yoga mat with laughter warm-ups, get your cardiac workout with group laughter exercises standing and moving around the studio and finish lying down with a joyful, juicy closing laughter meditation accompanied by my crystal bowls.$10 donation. Such a deal for how good you will feel!
Bodyworks Yoga Studio, 490 Second Street at G Street. Petaluma. 94952.
Free! Every Tuesday Morning at 10 a.m.
Generously Hosted by Merrill Gardens since 2007
4855 Snyder Lane, Rohnert Park.
A few miles north of RP Expressway.
707. 585. 7878.
Chair Laughter Yoga Club
Free and open to adults of ALL ages.
Get the benefits of a rockin’ laughter yoga practice seated in chairs and wheelchairs. No yoga mat required. Safe cardiac workout. Mood enhancing and oxygenating. Feel the joy!
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Carmela’s New DVD
Laughing with Older Adults: an instructional tool for
leading joyful chair fitness
Click Here to Watch now!
Three minute video promo for Carmela Carlyle’s new DVD:
This is an ideal tool for CLYLs and CLYTs, or for anyone who wishes to integrate the healing power of laughter into their work with older adults. The almost two hour-long DVD features laughter yoga practiced seated with elders at different levels of care, from four residential care communities. Carmela created the first Chair and Wheelchair Laughter Yoga Club in the world in 2007 which is also featured in this DVD.
Chapter One: Training – 45 minutes
Lecture, studio interviews with Monnet Zubietta on More Joy: The Television Show and live footage with practical tips for safely adapting Laugher Yoga for older adults. Carmela leads and explains original chair fitness exercises. Overview for working with adults in diverse residential settings.
Chapter Two: Testimonials – 35 minutes
Testimonials from elders effective for promoting the benefits of Laughter Yoga. Endorsements for Laughter Yoga from eldercare, yoga and laughter yoga professionals.
Chapter Three: Introductory Laughter Yoga session – 30 minutes
Demonstrates presenting at an eldercare community new to laughter yoga.
“Carmela is an amazingly talented teacher! I am so impressed with how she manifests Laughter Yoga in different fields. With this DVD, you can now share her professional knowledge and skills in adapting Laughter Yoga for our beloved elders.”
Madan Kataria, M.D.
Creator of the International Laughter Yoga Movement
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Experience the amazing benefits of laughter by practicing Laughter Yoga Solo! No jokes needed. No one else need be involved for you to laugh alone and feel your blood pressure go down as your endorphin level soars. Remember, with Laughter Yoga, you laugh for no reason and you feel better automatically. So why care what your neighbors think? Or those folks stuck in traffic with you? Practice extended laughter, for at least a minute, and reduce your stress while enhancing your joy. Need a little help getting into it? Visit this site every month for a tip on how to integrate Laughter Yoga into your daily life.
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Use laughter to ease your pain in every day life …
At a recent laughter yoga group one of the members lead his latest solo laughter yoga exercise that he is practices for daily pain relief. He has been experiencing some back pain and every time he gets into, or out of, the car it seems that he lets out an exhaling ”AGGHHH” sound. He did not realize he was doing this until his wife remarked that he was making “ugly noises every time he got into the car with her and again every place they arrived!”
Gentleman that he is, he realized that his painful outbursts were not attractive and came upon a solution. Given that laughter is long exhales and it serves to release endorphins for pain relief, he decided to laugh every time he put his car key in the door and every time he removed the key to get out of his car! He calls it “Laughing Coming and Going.”
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Sometimes we need to make a little noise to find a little peace.
Quietly meditating and practicing yoga in silence are often presumed to be the direct route to equanimity. Human beings, however, are hard-wired to relieve stress and pain by making sounds. The sigh of relief or the sigh of impatience and frustration are two examples. ”Ouch!” is another. Not that I recommend it, but studies even have shown that loudly cursing actually showed brain activity for pain relief for participants in the research. ”Letting it out” in order to “let it go” takes many forms and not always are they pleasant.
We also use our voices to release sounds of joy! Many yoga practices include the use of mantra and chanting. Some offer bhakti, devotional music and singing. Laughter Yoga not only offers laughter for the sound of joy, but we also repeat ”Very good, Very good! YAY!” At my last Laughter Yoga Class in an Alzheimer’s Community, I invited group members to remember sayings that expressed success or joy. They were happily shrieking “Hip Hip Hooray!’, “Yippppeeee!”, “Way to go!”, “Good on you!” “Better and Better!” and “Congratulations!” with lots of added laughter. I then invited them to make eye contact with their neighbors and offer thumbs-up with laughter. Then we all closed our eyes for a guided relaxation and every person there was able to sigh and murmur aaaahhhhhh and then ease into a quiet meditation. No small feat for those dealing with the anxiety of dementia.
Perhaps you were taught “If you cannot say anything nice, do not say anything at all.” Well, that may work some of the time and cut down on harmful gossip, but often we gag on swallowing truths. At a recent yoga workshop, participants enjoyed releasing “unspoken truths” with a little something I like to call “Throat Chakra Hairball Laughter.” Those of you who live with cats know the sound of a cat choking up hairballs. Imagine a whole group of humans (therapeutically) doing that! Afterwards we laughed and many reported a lightness in their throat.
Instead of “getting all choked up” release your jaws, your throat chakra and even your worries by laughing. And, studies do show that the more youlaugh … the more you laugh.
