Schedule
of Laughter Events in the Lehigh Valley
A
great way to start your day!!
Tuesday,
December 3, 2002
- The FIRST public Laughter Club Session in the Lehigh Valley.
This is a LEHIGH VALLEY PREMIER! Location: West Park in Allentown, 7:30 a.m., in or near the band shell.
Rain or shine. See
below for more details.
Tuesday,
December 17, 2003
- Same place, same time as the session on December 3rd.
COME WITH HOLIDAY SPIRIT. I
have some reindeer antlers for the first ten people who show up!
Tuesday,
December 31, 2003
- Same place, same time as the sessions on December 3rd and December
17th. RING IN THE NEW YEAR WITH BELLS ON!!
Mary
Lilley-Thompson, Certified Laughter Leader, will facilitate the Laughter! The sessions last about 25 minutes to a half hour.
If it’s really cold outside, maybe shorter!
If you’re planning on attending, please leave a message on my
voice mail to let me know if you’re coming and if you’ll be bringing
anyone with you. All ages are welcome. 610.433.6444.
Dress warmly and bring a smile.
We’ll work into the laughter!
WHAT
IS A LAUGHTER CLUB, ANYWAY?
On
morning of March 13th, 1995, Dr. Madan Kataria, gathered five folks
together in a corner of a beautiful park in Mumbai, India.
He motivated them to start laughing, by explaining the health
benefits. The group started
growing, mostly men, aged forty plus, as well as some women and
children.
Initially,
they told jokes to each other to ‘inspire’ the laughter, but they
ran out of material! “It
was evident that it we wanted to laugh every day we could not depend on
someone telling jokes 365 days a year.
Jokes were banned and it was decided that the club members would
laugh without them.” (Laugh For No Reason, Dr. Madan Kataria,
Madhuri international, 1999). Dr.
Kataria developed a new technique of group laughter based on yoga.
A Laughter Club session consists of deep breathing, stretching,
‘laughters’, such as the Indian greeting laughter, the Arm Swing
laughter, the Cocktail Party laughter, the Lion, etc., and ideas for
Good Hearted Living.
Now,
seven years later, there are over a thousand Laughter Clubs in India and
several hundred here in the United States, as a result of The World
Laughter Tour (Think Globally. Laugh
Locally). The World Laughter Tour trains folks, from all over the
country, to become Certified Laughter Leaders.
The groups are non-political, non-religious, and non-exploitive.
And LOTS of fun! To learn more about Laughter Clubs, visit
www.worldlaughtertour.com.
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“Good-Hearted
Living:
Day
by Day the Laughter Club Way".
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MONDAYS
ARE FOR COMPLIMENTS
TUESDAYS
ARE FOR OPENNESS
WEDNESDAYS
ARE FOR APPRECIATION
THURSDAYS
ARE FOR KINDNESS
FRIDAYS
ARE FOR FORGIVENESS
THE
WEEKENDS ARE FOR CHOCOLATE!!
HEALTH
AND HAPPINESS THROUGH LAUGHTER
AND
GOOD-HEARTED LIVING
“Laughter
in Laughter Clubs in not meant to be only outer laughter or physical
exercise, but also inner laughter, that is, developing the spirit of
laughter by being happy and making others happy.
It is a joint effort to search for different formulas for
stress-free living.”
~Dr. Madan Kataria, “Laugh For No
Reason”
“Life
is an adventure in forgiveness.”
~Norman
Cousins, “Head First: The Biology of Hope”
