Emma Ferguson, USA:  Joy has been a big word for me all my life and Laughter Yoga has helped me connect to that on a very deep level through my daily practice. Physically, it has strengthened my immune system and I definitely have less bouts of cold and cough. Even my nervous system is much stronger now, which has helped to manage some scoliosis in my back. In fact, my chiropractor says th...

Ashok Sahwney Noida, India: I was initiated into Laughter Yoga in 2014. After doing it over the weekends initially, all of us in the Jalvayu Laughter Club, Noida, started doing it daily from Jan 2015. As the word spread, our membership kept on growing and now we have over 100 members. The results have been very beneficial and I personally have benefitted in physically, mentally as well as spiritua...

Manal al-Attar, CLYT : When I first heard about Laughter Yoga, I decided to attend a session, where I learned about its several health benefits. Shortly after, I was diagnosed with cancer, which came as a big shock. But, it was regular practice of laughter exercises that made a significant improvement in my health and changed my whole life. After three surgeries and several sessions of chemothera...

Ranga: My childhood memories are a mosaic of play, song, storytelling and adventure. I was brought up in Kerala, India, in a joyful and affectionate family. As I grew up, I became adept at making friends and blending in with different people around the world, by using tools I best knew namely, playing, singing and laughing. Throughout my adult years of international travel, study and living in eve...

Donna Bernstein – New York: I am a Certified Laughter Yoga Teacher in addition to being a certified dietetic-nutritionist with 35 years of professional experience. For the last 20 years, I have had the privilege of working with individuals who have developmental disabilities. I have always laughed and love to laugh. Throughout grade school and high school, I was known as the girl with the...

Slash Coleman, CLYT: Before discovering Laughter Yoga, I’d been writing and performing my off-beat storytelling shows in books, on stages, and on TV for over a decade and experimenting with how to create the right conditions for laughter in my work as a storyteller. The work it took to get a laugh was unbelievable. I’d sometimes spend 20 hours writing, rewriting and rehearsing one joke...

Ariane: The first time I discovered Laughter Yoga / Laughter Exercise was in a vacation camp as an activity I selected because I enjoy laughter, comedy and jokes. As one of the many exercises, we were requested to laugh about a problem that affected us. As my father had passed away recently, I was carrying a lot of sadness and had not got over it. But I forced myself to laugh through tears. It was...

Sam Rehan, Laughter professional, Sussex, England: Living as a single mother with two children, I was suddenly confronted with a series of challenges in 2015, when my son suffered a serious medical condition and I lost my job as well as a close family member. All of this left me completely overwhelmed and distraught. I tried several methods to manage my emotional state, till I finally discovered l...

Alessandra, Italy: Today, Laughter Yoga is helping me to live my dreams, without too many worries. My dream was to make people laugh and make them feel better by identifying positivity and talking to them and saying that “life is always beautiful”, and Laughter Yoga has fulfilled that for me. Initially, I found many difficulties, first of all to let go of the mental convictions I ha...

Brittany Marie, USA: All of 24, I have a list of health conditions like Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Lyme Disease, Chronic Migraine, Fibromyalgia, Depression, Anxiety, Irritable Bowel Syndrome and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. I had been homebound and quite isolated for eight years, but Laughter Yoga is one helped me to cope with my problems and learn to keep a positive mental attitude towards life...

Emily Burchell, UK: Laughter Yoga Helped Me Discover Myself . While attending a mindset event in 2018, I met a lady who told me of her experience of Laughter Yoga, which inspired me to attend a Laughter Yoga leader training and that was the best thing that I ever did. At the training, they found me very serious and said I needed to laugh and have more fun. But this was not always the case with ...

Karin Lesiak, Poland: There was a time in my life when I experienced a lot of challenges in my personal life. From a joyful, optimistic person under the influence of trouble and stress I became more and more depressed, sad, I lacked energy and the will to live. Everyday activities were getting more and more difficult. The situation was threatening my health. I had to think about my children, who I...