Basically Laughter Yoga gives people the opportunity to bring out the ‘child’ in themselves and embrace a sense of fun.

Sessions consist of:

chanting ‘ho ho, ha ha, he he’ (to warm up facial muscles) combined with hand claps, which touches the acupressure points to energise.

handclaps again with chants of ‘very good, very good … Yay’, which is full of enthusiasm and positivity.  (Both formats of handclaps act as ‘transitions’ between the laughter exercises.

Playing out exercises from every day activities like a greeting hand shake—with laughter

Deep Pranayama Yogic breathing exercises to clear the lungs and fill with fresh oxygen.

Grounding relaxation at the end of the session.

Participants need to be:

willing to have a go

happy to have eye contact with others

prepared to pretend to laugh to start with so that it soon becomes real and contagious laughter