learn to laugh more
more deeply ... more easily ... more often
Call Jo Eadie on 01908 605310
"The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow" - H.G.Wells
Serious laughter ...
If you want to know how laughter is being put to work to change
significant, social, personal, and medical problems - take a look at
these reports ...
* Laughter events played a large part in Wales's 2007 National Healthy Living Week.
* Clown doctors at Great
Ormond Street make regular visits to help children to deal with the
distress of waiting for treatment - and POD is a
theatre group that
specialises in brining laughter to children's hospitals around the
country
* Mariana Funes teaches laughter to organisations and has written
an excellent article on the
importance of laughter in the workplace
* According to research
conducted by the Wellcome Trust - the brain can't help but
feel happy when it hears other people laugh. This may help
explain why laughter sessions go so well - you only need to hear
other people having a good time for your brain to start to
produce the right chemicals to make you laugh too.
* Laughter helps your heart according to researchers
at the University of Maryland - it relaxes the blood vessels
and allows blood to flow more easily around the body
* Laughter lowers your tress hormones: for a summary of Dr Lee
Berk's research in this area read this
article in The
Guardian
* Is laughter everytrhing it's cracked up to be ? Two
doctors have sifted through the evidence and conclude that
the evidence for increasing heart rate and relaxing muscles is
better than that for decreasing cortisol. They have some doubts
about the claims that laughter is equivalent to aerobic exercise,
saying that "these changes are in effect only during periods
of intense laughter,
which are very difficult to sustain for any
length of time This makes it unlikely that
laughter
can
be regarded as a realistic substitute for aerobic exercise"
But then they don't seem to know about LAUGHTER YOGA -
any of us running laughter workshops know just how long you can
extend laughter for if you know the right exercises !
email me at:
jo.eadie@laughternetwork.co.uk
latest news
Residential laughter retreat May 7th-9th.
Book now for my course CELEBRATING LAUGHTER at Claridge House. more >
March 20th: Laughter, Yoga and Happiness with Jo and Fiona.
Don't miss our all-day event at the Special Yoga Centre, London. more >
Read all about it!
Primary Teachers Magazine wrote up a series of my workshops in Sandwell and Dudley. Read the full article here.
"I have
never done anyting like that before and it was great fun. You have a
lovely, warm and welcoming style which makes people feel at ease"
"Practical,
grounded, fun & thoughtful – left me
feeling buoyant & spacious"
"I certainly felt lighter and more alert for the rest of the day"
“It was such fun.
I felt really energised and found myself chuckling out loud for the
rest of the
day.”
More research on the benefits of laughter is appearing all the time
Find out the facts about the benefits of laughter ... more>
About me
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