Excerpts from Laff-News, July 2005

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Excerpts from "Laff-News", July 2005

[ No. I Vol No.4 July 14, 2005]

 

Quote of the month

 

“You can’t change the outside world, but you can always change the way you look

at it.Laughter can definitely help you to make better sense, out of this

seemingly complicated world”

Dr Madan Kataria.

 

Laughter yoga changing Lives

 

I underwent a major surgery for cancer of the ovaries in year 2001 and my

husband died in 2002. I was very depressed and lost interest in life. I never

went out to meet people. I joined the Laughter Club in Koln, Germany, and it

has completely changed my life. I met beautiful people who supported me in the

Laughter Club, and we became friends. We have a weekly Laughter Session in

the Laughter Club, but I do Laughter Exercises on my own, every morning,

without fail. Thank you, Dr. Kataria, for introducing Laughter Yoga.

Margrit Wachter, Koln, Germany

 

 

Laughter Yoga in a Supermarket in Denmark

 

 

We have just concluded our 3-month tour to US, Canada and Europe, and one of the

highlights of the tour, was our visit to a Supermarket in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Inspired by the success story of Four Systems, an IT company in Copenhagen, our

Laughter Leader Thomas Flindt introduced Laughter Yoga in a Supermarket known as

‘Super Best’. About 15-20 employees including the boss, took part in a brief

Laughter Session, followed by Laughter Meditation, sitting on the floor.

Everybody enjoyed the Session and they were full of energy. They participate in

Laughter Session every Monday morning, and the results are very positive. We

will follow it up and keep you updated.

 

Laughter Yoga in Finland, Netherlands and Spain

 

This year Madhuri and I, visited three new countries and Laughter Yoga has

picked up momentum in these countries. We did weekend Laughter Yoga Leader

Training and public seminars, to bring awareness about Laughter Yoga. The news

about Laughter Clubs appeared in several newspapers, magazines and national

television networks. The credit goes to Taina Kalenius (Finland,

http://www.naurujooga.com),Wil Hendriks (Netherlands, http://www.lachyoga.nl),

Francis and Jose (Spain).

 

Laughter Yoga at HRD Congress in Malaysia

 

Our Laughter Yoga leaders in USA, Canada, Denmark, Germany, France and other

countries are conducting presentations and awareness seminars, to introduce

Laughter Yoga in companies and corporations, to release stress and improve the

work environment. I have been invited as Keynote Speaker in the HRD Congress.

The conference, aimed at human resource professionals, is to be held in Kuala

Lumpur 25 – 27 July (www.hrdcongress.com). About 800 HR Professionals from 30

countries of Asia-Pacific are participating in the Congress. This is the

beginning of Laughter Yoga making its way into the corporate world. We are also

going to China for the first time, to introduce Laughter Yoga seminar, in the

companies in Beijing, in the month of August.

 

Introducing Laughter Yoga Spiritual Retreats

 

Along with 7-day Teacher’s Training Programme, we are introducing the spiritual

aspect of Laughter Yoga for the first time. This is the result of my 10 years

of experience with Laughter Yoga movement. I would like to share with my

trainers how I used the spiritual energy to spread the Laughter Club Movement

world-wide.

This one-week journey will make you experience how to get in touch with higher

powers, and cosmic intelligence in a non-religious way. You will learn a

variety of meditation and visualization techniques, along with breathing

exercises from Yoga (Pranayamas). We will meditate everyday in the morning, so

that one gets enough time to learn these spiritual practices.

You will learn to get in touch with all the range of negative emotions (anger,

fear, sadness, grip, guilt, jealousy, hatred) and positive strengths like

kindness, compassion, empathy, forgiveness, appreciation and gratitude. The

most important feature would be: We all will stay with laughter, and still get

in touch with anger, fear and sadness.

There will be Dialogue Programmes on ‘Understanding Universal Laws which Govern

our Lives’, and learn to align ourselves, to flow with these laws and work with

effortless ease, to achieve maximum in our lives. This is based on the spiritual

knowledge of the East, and are drawn from Buddhism, Taoism, Jainism, Law of

Karma, Vedanta and Yoga.

You will also learn Western techniques of NLP, creative visualization to

programme your brain, for what you wish to achieve in life. There will be

talent nites, musical programmes, singing and dancing, along with fun games.

Dates : 21st – 27th August 2005 in Byron Bay, Australia, Contact : (Merv Neal

mervneal (AT) bigpond (DOT) com) 10th – 16th October 2005 in Interlaken,

Switzerland, Contact : laugh (AT) laughteryoga (DOT) org 4th – 10th January

2006, in Kerala, South India, Contact :

laugh (AT) laughteryoga (DOT) orgDo You

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